Curriculum News
Computing
The Reception children have been exploring hardware in Computing. The children thought about the enquiry question - Can we explore and tinker with hardware to develop familiarity? The children explored the tinker tray of objects. The children were asked to match the...
Still Life: Year 6
Year six have been using charcoals to draw 'Still Life'. We looked at the famous drawing by Ibere Camargo (Natureza-morta) and some children decided to create their pieces in this style - paying close attention to where the light and shadows fall on the objects....
Computing – Data Handling
The children in Year One have been learning about data handling in Computing. The children thought about the enquiry question - Can we represent data in different ways? The children were asked to sort and categories objects and to explain how items have been sorted...
Roman Invasion
Today we learnt how Britain became part of the Roman Empire, to help the children understand this, we acted it out! The children each took on a role; Emperor Claudius, Roman soldiers and Roman messengers, as well as, Boudica, Celt warriors and Celt villagers. The...
Swans Still Life Art Lesson
Year 6 have learning how to draw 'Still Life'. They focused on proportion, space, line and shading. Some excellent pieces were created.
Immersion Morning – On The Farm
The children began exploring their new topic for this half term. The children received a letter from Farmer MacDonald asking for the children’s help. Farmer MacDonald had woken up to find his animals had disappeared. The children went for a hunt around the classroom...
Computing Digital Imagery
The children in Year One have been learning about Digital Imagery in Computing. The children began by creating a new adventure of the 'Naughty Bus at School'. The children created a story plan, them set up their scenes referring to their planning sheet. When they were...
Drawing
We began our new art unit of 'Drawing' this week! We learnt some techniques of how to sketch using shape and put these to the test in our natural environment! The children created some beautiful artwork.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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....
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...
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...
Music – Chinese New Year
Today we practiced Pentatonic Scales! We have been exploring the musical sounds of Chinese New Year, here are some of our own.