Kingfishers

This week the children celebrated the Lunar New Year. Miss Jones shared a PowerPoint and a story about the Lunar New Year. The children learned that red envelopes with coins are presented as gifts at family gatherings such as weddings or holidays such as Lunar New Year. The children created their own red envelope and […]

  The children all enjoyed games and construction club. They enjoyed playing and socialising with their friends.

This half term the children in Year One have been focusing on the book ‘Traction Man’ during their literacy lessons. The children have been re-enacting and illustrating scenes using small world. The children have created their own scenes, characters and missions for Traction Man.

This week the reception children have been learning about the season Winter . They have been finding wintery objects outside while completing Maths challenges. They have been on a winter hunt looking for different items and completing a checklist. They have also been painting snowmen. Great work Kingfishers.

The children in Kingfishers and Woodpeckers Class performed A Miracle in Town to a packed audience in Stratford St Mary church. The children had lots of fun entertaining the audience with their version of the nativity and were in good voice singing the fun songs. Well done to all of our children – you were […]

Kingfishers Class took part in a wonderful Christmas educational experience at Colchester Zoo. The children were greeted by a festive elf who helped them learn all about penguins. The children observed two real penguins up close to test what they had learnt. Father Christmas joined the children to see how much they knew about one […]

This half term, the children are creating 3D Art. The children have investigated the possibilities of working with clay. The children were introduced to the story of Henry the Pebble and his Family. Miss Jones told the story and the children followed the story manipulating a small piece of clay. The forceps of each part […]

Mrs Martin and the children went in to the outside classroom area and did some gardening. The children dug and planted bulbs. They had great fun. Well done Kingfishers.

The year one children continued being artists this week, focusing on 3D art. The children used different coloured clays to decorate 3D forms. They manipulated clay to produce balls and coils. Great work Kingfishers.

Thank you all so much for your generosity towards the 2021 Poppy Appeal.  Your contributions raised £169.40 for this worthy charity.  

The children have been very busy creating fireworks. The children chose the colours they wanted and dripped the paint on to the circle tapping it on the side of the spinner. When they had selected the colours they put the lid on top and spun the spinner. When they took the top off they were […]

This half term the children in Kingfishers Class have be investigating different textiles and learning new skills. The children have learnt to weave, mark – make, knot, take rubbings and fabric peg. The children have also enjoyed working with Brusho and seeing the effect it has when paining over oil pastels. The photographs show the […]