News About Our School
The Curious Polar Bear
The children joined Miss Jones for another book club session. This week's story was ‘The Curious Polar Bear’. The children made polar bear biscuits and enjoyed putting a polar bear puzzle back together, which was a bit tricky!!! The polar bear biscuits were...
Road Safety Week
During the week of Monday 20th – Friday 24th November 2023 the children participated in Road Safety Week. The JRSOs encouraged parents and children to walk to school during this week. On Friday 24th November 2023 the children and staff wore their brightest socks...
Winter Snowflakes
The children became artists and created their own snowflakes. Mrs Clark and the children talked about snowflakes and how they are made, the way they look and the fact that they are symmetrical. The children were given three pipe cleaners and asked to lay them on top...
The Boy who Harnessed the Wind
The Swans have been learning about William Kamkambura and how he harnessed the wind to create electricity for his village in Malawi. They were then set the challenge to create a windmill that could lift a small bucket of marbles! The classroom was full of excitement...
Woodland Fun
The children enjoyed another ‘Forest Schools’ session with Mrs Martin, Mrs Gage and Mrs Clark. The children got changed into their outside clothes and headed out to the Forest Fun area and sat on a log in the log circle. The children listened to Mrs Martin as she...
Autumn Wreaths
This afternoon the children became artists. Today, the children went on a nature hunt to collect leaves, pine cones, tree bark, evergreen stems and other signs of autumn. The children used the items they had collected to create a wreath using a paper plate. The...
Owls’ Sharing Session
On the afternoon of Thursday 16th November, the Owls class were joined by their family members for the first family sharing session of the year. The children worked with their family members to design a poster advertising for the perfect friend. It was lovely to see...
Owls and Birds of Prey Talk
On Friday 10th November the children were very excited to welcome Stephanie and her birds. Stephanie introduced the children to lots of different types of owls. She told the children about the different owls - Barn Owl, Tawny Owl, Little Owl, Short eared owl, Long...
Book Club
This half term the children in Year One, Two and Three have had the opportunity to participate in Book Club with Miss Jones. Miss Jones reads the children a story and then they enjoy doing an activity relating to the book. This weeks story was 'Sparks in the Sky'. The...
Kingfishers Sharing Session
On Monday 6th November the children in Kingfishers Class took part in their sharing session with their adult. The children and adults were challenged to work together to create an animal using recycled materials. The children and adults had lots of fun! The animals...
Afternoon Tea for some Special Visitors
The Swans had a lovely time providing a WW2 themed 'afternoon tea' for the elderly members of their community. They had really enjoyed sharing information about life in the village during WW2 and wanted to say 'thank you' for coming into school and sharing their...
Learning about Hinduism
The Swans have been learning about the Hindu belief in Atman. The Atman refers to the real person inside an individual. It is made of part of the spirit of Brahman. They Hindus use the saying 'Namaste' to greet each other. This translates as 'The Divine Spirit in me...
Online Safety
The children in Kingfishers class have been learning about how to keep safe online. The children thought about the enquiry question - Can we understand how to treat others, both online and in-person? Miss Jones read the children the story of Digi Duck. The story was...
Prehistoric Art
In Art we have been looking at Prehistoric cave drawings. For our final piece in this unit, we tried to keep the materials we used as natural as possible as we know that materials such as paint and colouring pencils were not available for Stone Age people! We...
Computing ‘Packets’
Did you know that every image you send, document you write or video you see has to be sent across to you in packets? We looked at packets in our recent Computing lesson and learnt that packets are when documents online are broken up into lots of pieces and sent across...
Fire and Bread
Mrs Martin told the children they were going to help make a fire. They discussed the fire triangle and how they need fuel, they needed to ignite the fire and they needed air. The children were asked to sort the sticks they had collected last week by the thickness of...
A Visit From the Vets
The children had a visit from Tim and Vicky from Penrose Vets. They told the children all about what they do and the animals they look after. Tim showed the children how he uses he is stethoscope to listen to the animal’s heart beat. The children had a go at listening...
Katie the Fire Fighter
The children had a visit from Katie the Fire Fighter. She told them all about her job. She told us fire fighters go to floods, traffic accidents, fires and animal rescues. She told us about her uniform and what fire fighters have to have to keep them safe. Katie...
Mechanisms – Fire Engines
This half term in Design and Technology the children have been focusing on Mechanisms - Making Fire Engines. The children investigated, designed, made and evaluated their Fire Engines. Great work Kingfishers. [gallery...
Food Bank Donation
On Thursday 5th October, we held a Harvest Assembly in the school. Families were incredibly generous and brought in some non-perishable items which were sent onto the Colchester Food Bank. Thank you all so much for the contributions. The Food Bank was incredibly...
Art – Pudding Lane
The children became ‘artists’ and thought about the question can we draw in the style of Kandinsky using different media to create a picture of Pudding Lane? The children learnt about the artist Kandinsky and used his artwork to inspire their work. The children...
Hot Colours
The children became ‘artists’ and thought about the question - Can we make a print of The Great fire of London using 2D shapes and ‘hot’ colours? Today the children created foam flames. They watched Miss Jones as she demonstrated how to do it. The children followed...
Henry Moore ‘Shelters’
The Swans have begun to use the art skills they have learnt in order to create their final pieces based on Henry Moore's Shelter Drawings.
Conker Caterpillars and More…Forest Fun
Mrs Martin talked with the children about the season and sent children on a leaf hunt around the area collecting different coloured leaves. The children worked together to sort the leaves by colour and size. The children were introduced to the activities - mud...