Classes

Dissecting an egg

by | 12 Dec 2025 | Owls, Science

As part of our topic on Living Things and Habitats, Owls class were looking at the life cycle of birds. We dissected an egg. We studied the outside of the egg with a magnifying glass. Then we carefully cracked open the egg to identify all the parts inside. We used cocktail sticks to separate the […]

Art – 3D Sculpture

by | 12 Dec 2025 | Art & Design, Woodpeckers

Woodpeckers have been busy this term creating 3D sculptures; here are their final pieces!  

PE – Gymnastics

by | 12 Dec 2025 | PE, Woodpeckers

Take a look at some of our fantastic balances!    

Geography

by | 12 Dec 2025 | Environment, Geography, Visitors, Woodpeckers

We had a wonderful workshop delivered by Harper’s mum this week; linking in with our geography topic. Does the River always meet the Sea? We learnt lots about the causes of flooding and the dangers flooding can pose.

Embedding the vocabulary of ‘migration’.

by | 12 Dec 2025 | Geography, Swans

The Swans are coming to the end of their topic on migration. In order to embed the meaning of some of the terminology, we played ‘Headbandz’! Headbandz’!

Sweeting Swing Band

by | 12 Dec 2025 | Classes, Community, Visitors

On Friday 5th December, we were very pleased to welcome the ‘Sweeting Swing Band’ into the school. They played a variety of instruments such as the saxophone, clarinet, trombone, electric piano, drums, bass guitar  and ‘wowed’ the children and playing songs from the 1940’s, from films and some modern pop tunes too.  The children were […]

Christingles!

by | 12 Dec 2025 | Parents, Religious Education, Woodpeckers

Thank you to all the family members who made it to our sharing session today. We made Christingle’s because it linked nicely to our RE topic this half term; Christianity. The Christingle is used in churches as each element represents an idea symbolic to Christian beliefs. The orange represents the world, the red ribbon is […]

Colchester Zoo Christmas Reindeer Experience

by | 12 Dec 2025 | Kingfishers, Trips

The children in Kingfishers class enjoyed a trip to Colchester Zoo. They took part in a wonderful Christmas educational experience at Colchester Zoo today! The children were greeted by a festive elf called Boots. She was new at the zoo and needed help to learn all about reindeers and she needed the children’s help to […]

Forest Fun

by | 12 Dec 2025 | Forest Schools, Kingfishers

The children enjoyed another Forest Fun session they had the opportunity to explore the area and were able to do den building, potion making, colouring, whittle sticks (stick person) and make a Christmas decoration for the Christmas tree. Mrs Martin also built swings and a balance bridge which the children enjoyed using. Well done Kingfishers.

Fire Safety Workshop

by | 12 Dec 2025 | Kingfishers, PSHE, Visitors, Woodpeckers

The children in Kingfishers and Woodpeckers Class took part in a fire safety workshop. The children welcomed Richard and Alf into school and they told them they were Fire Fighters. They were told that fire fighters do lots of jobs – put out fires, climb ladders, rescue people and animals. The children were shown a […]

Woodland Animal Workshop

by | 11 Nov 2025 | Kingfishers, School Events

The children took part in their sharing session with their adult/s. The children and adults were challenged to work together to create a woodland animal using recycled materials. The children and adults had lots of fun! The woodland animals were fantastic. Well done everyone! A big ‘thank you’ to all the adults!  

Tasting Pomegranates in Year 6

by | 11 Nov 2025 | English, Swans

In English we have been reading the novel: ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class’ which is about a Syrian refugee child who comes to the UK.  One of his school mates, wants to try and make him feel at home so asks his mum if she can buy him a pomegranate as this […]