News About Our School
KS2 Easter Art Afternoon
KS2 had a lovely afternoon making Easter Bunnies - it's amazing what you can do with a few egg boxes, old cereal packets and scrap pieces of card!
Live Session from the Space Centre
To kick Science Week off, the Year 6 children took part in an interactive lesson about space travel. They learnt lots of interesting things about space and what plans there are for the future with regards to landing on Mars and living on the moon. [gallery...
Mountfitchet Castle
On Tuesday 17th March, the Owls class went to Mountfitchet Castle, which is a recreated Norman castle and village. The trip followed on from last half term's History topic on the Norman Invasion. The children enjoyed looking inside all the different buildings and...
British Science Week – Boats
The children had their ‘Forest Fun’ session with Mrs Clark and Miss Jones. The children began with a materials scavenger hunt. They had to look for different objects made from different materials. Miss Jones reminded the children of the forest fun rules and spoke to...
Year 3 Maths
Year 3 have had a great time exploring and comparing mass, looking at the equivalent of kilograms and grams!
World Book Day
The children celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as their favourite book character. The children joined everyone in the hall to see everyone’s costumes and they found out the winners of the story jar competition. The winners were awarded a £5 gift to spend at...
Kingfishers Class Assembly
The children in Kingfishers performed their class assembly. The children were confident to stand up and speak to the audience. The children told the audience about Mothers Day and sang a song. A great assembly Kingfishers!
Geography – Mud Mountains
Today we have been learning about mountains in India and their mountain ranges; we learnt that there are 5 types of mountains and created a catchy rhyme to help memorise these. We focused on fold mountains and plateau mountains. To make our learning even more...
Rainforest Dioramas
Year 6 have been learning about the Amazon rainforest and thinking about why the Amazon matters. We started off the topic by looking at the difference between a temperate rainforest and a tropical rainforest. In Science, we looked at the different layers of the...
Community Speed Check
The JRSOs joined the Community Speed Check Team to carry out their weekly speed checks in the village. The Community Speed Check Team carry out the checks in different locations around the village encouraging drivers to drive carefully and to keep to the speed limits....
Y5 Photo Day
On Wednesday 25th February, the Year 5s took part in a Photo Day. They went outside to create their own natural images and photographed them with professional cameras. They then developed their own cyanotype prints. The children really enjoyed the day and spoke...
Immersion Session – Transport
The children began exploring their new topic for this half term. The children went for a walk to the village sign to see what vehicles came through the village. The children were given a clipboard and pencil and they listened and looked waiting for the vehicles to...
Kingfishers Toy Museum
To finish this terms topic the children welcomed their family members to Kingfishers Toy Museum. The children took on the role of tour guide. The children showed their family member around the toy museum. Thank you for coming, the children really enjoyed showing...
Derrick Thomas (Windrush Elder) visits our school
Year 5 and 6 had a wonderful afternoon listening to the life story of Derrick Thomas, a Windrush Elder. Not only did they learn about the Windrush Generation, they also learnt about the core values of resilience, self-belief and determination. The children had an...
Instructions for Making Tea
Here is some of our published work from our instruction writing this half term. We used imperative verbs, adverbs ending in -ly, the simple present tense and some of us also used adverbials of time. [gallery...
Farmer James and Tractor Visit
The children were very excited to see the tractor arriving at school. They went outside to see the tractor and met Farmer James. Farmer James spoke to the children about his tractor and about what he does on his farm. The children were able to answer questions that...
Year 6 Art
As part of our Evolution topic, we have been looking at how different artists portray monkeys and have begun to explore ideas in preparation for our final piece.
Forest Fun – Birds
Today the children had their ‘Forest Fun’ session and Miss Jones and the children talked about birds. The children played What Am I? The children tried to work out the What Am I clues to guess the bird. Miss Jones reminded the children of the forest fun rules and the...
Traction Man
In English the children in Kingfishers Class have been focusing on the story ‘Traction Man is Here’ written by Mini Grey. The children have been writing their own adventure for Traction Man, deciding on what would happen when he visited school. Great work Kingfishers....
Woodpeckers – Bird Feeders
In Forest School this week, we used toilet roll holders to create our own mini bird feeders. We smothered out toilet roll in lard, then rolled them in the oats and seeds to cover all the lard up. Some of us added cocktail sticks so the birds can land on our feeders....
Science Investigation
Year 6 have been learning about Charles Darwin and his Theory of Evolution. We looked at how different finches on the Galapagos Islands have different shaped beaks and thought about what this told us about their diet. We carried out an investigation to see which type...
Penguin Awareness Day
Miss Jones and the children talked about Penguin Awareness Day in their forest fun session. The children played penguin pairs. The children had to find the match half to make a complete penguin. Miss Jones reminded the children of the forest fun rules and the children...
Book Club
The children enjoyed another book club session. They listened to the story called ‘Supertato' and then created their own 'Supertato'.
Young Voices 2026
On Friday 23rd January, several of our children from Years 3-6 took part in the Young Voices choir concert at the O2 in London. Our children joined over 8500 other children to sing a range of songs to a packed audience. Thanks to Mrs Marshall for preparing the...