Classes

Kingfishers Sharing Session

by | 11 Nov 2023 | Kingfishers, Parents, School Events

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 were fantastic. Well done everyone!

Afternoon Tea for some Special Visitors

by | 11 Nov 2023 | Design Technology, History, News, Swans, 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 experiences. We have had an amazing half term learning all […]

Learning about Hinduism

by | 11 Nov 2023 | Religious Education, Swans

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 salutes the Divine Spirit in you.’ […]

Online Safety

by | 11 Nov 2023 | Computing, Kingfishers

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 about Digi Duck who had a difficult decision to […]

Prehistoric Art

by | 10 Oct 2023 | Art & Design, History, Woodpeckers

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 collected mud to create our background, then used charcoal […]

Computing ‘Packets’

by | 10 Oct 2023 | Computing, Woodpeckers

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 the internet to the […]

Fire and Bread

by | 10 Oct 2023 | Environment, Kingfishers

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 the sticks. The children listened […]

A Visit From the Vets

by | 10 Oct 2023 | Kingfishers, Visitors

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 to their own heart […]

Katie the Fire Fighter

by | 10 Oct 2023 | Kingfishers, Visitors

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 challenged the children to match the […]

Mechanisms – Fire Engines

by | 10 Oct 2023 | Design Technology, Kingfishers

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.  

Food Bank Donation

by | 10 Oct 2023 | Community, Fundraising, Kingfishers, Owls, Swans, Woodpeckers

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 grateful for the 58.80kg of items donated.  

Art – Pudding Lane

by | 10 Oct 2023 | Art & Design, Kingfishers

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 explored and experimented with different drawing mediums. The children had a […]