Classes

Easter Assembly

by | 4 Apr 2025 | Classes, Parents

On Thursday 3rd April, we held our Easter Assembly. Thank you to all those who came. It was lovely to share some Easter and Spring time songs and also the Easter story – read by the Owls.

Craft Nursery Visit

by | 4 Apr 2025 | Kingfishers, Trips, Visits

The children in Kingfishers Class enjoyed a visit to Craft Nursery in Ardleigh. The children were shown the planting area and looked at the seedlings and the plants which had been planted. They were shown the potting machine and watched the pots being filled with the compost. The children then followed the instructions given and […]

Forest Fun

by | 4 Apr 2025 | Art & Design, Forest Schools, Woodpeckers

This week in the forest,  we were very busy planting sunflower seeds, recapping our clay skills from Autumn term, building ships and checking the progress of the frogspawn!    

Tallest Sunflower Competition

by | 4 Apr 2025 | Classes, Community, School Events

We have been working with Craft Nurseries in Ardleigh and they have kindly donated seeds for the Forest Fun area and sunflower seeds, pots and compost for the children. So we thought we would hold a ‘Tallest Sunflower Competition’ for all the children to enter. Each child has planted a sunflower seed at school and […]

Easter Wishes

by | 4 Apr 2025 | Art & Design, Community, Environment, Kingfishers

Miss Jones made an Easter display for the residents at BlackBrook Residential Home with the Easter Eggs the children had coloured. Mrs Cousins will deliver the Easter cards the children have made to the older residents in the village. Well done Kingfishers.

Hockey Fun

by | 4 Apr 2025 | News, Owls, PE, Woodpeckers

On Friday 28th March, several children from the Owls and Woodpeckers classes took part in a hockey skills session. The children spent some time at various stations learning some skills useful for playing hockey. Thank you to the adults for taking them and all who came and supported the team.

Icebergs in Watercolour

by | 3 Mar 2025 | Art & Design, News, Swans

In Year 6, we have been learning different watercolour techniques. We then tried to use some of the techniques in our iceberg paintings.

Gymnastics Fun

by | 3 Mar 2025 | Kingfishers, News, Owls, PE, Swans, Woodpeckers

On Wednesday 26th March, several children from across the school took part in a gymnastics competition at Hadleigh Stars. We are delighted to announce that our Under 7s team came first; our Under 9s came first and our U11s teams came second and third. Well done to everyone who took part and thank you to […]

Explanation Writing

by | 3 Mar 2025 | English, Kingfishers

This week in English, the Year One children have been focusing on explanations. The children were asked to write an explanation on how Jack got rich based on the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. They wrote cause and effect sentences using ‘because’ and ‘so’ to explain what Jack found out, what he stole and […]

Textiles – Forest Fun

by | 3 Mar 2025 | Design Technology, Forest Schools, Woodpeckers

This term in Design and Technology we have been working with textiles and creating our own pouches, we finished these last week and thought it would be fun to explore a variety of textiles further in the forest area. The children enjoyed weaving fabric on the large grid and wrapping wool/string around logs, sticks and […]

Year 4 Fractions

by | 3 Mar 2025 | Maths, Owls, PE

Today we used Mrs Harvey’s lemon drizzle cake to help the Year 4s understand equivalent fractions!

Using shade to create a sense of form

by | 3 Mar 2025 | Art & Design, News, Swans

In Year 6, the children have been looking at the artists Aurelie Bouquet and David McEown and their paintings of icebergs. They used shading techniques to try and give a sense of form to their work.