Classes
In PSHE, Year 3 and 4 worked on being good listeners. We looked at how difficult it was to have a conversation when we could not see the person or use our hands. We learnt to ask open questions to encourage the person to talk more and practised showing good listening behaviour.
In DT, the Owls are designing and making pavilions. So far, we have built the frame structures. This week, our adults will come in to help us add the cladding.
In DT the children in Reception thought about the question – Can we practise and apply threading skills with specific materials e.g. hessian and wool? The children listened to Mrs Clark, Mrs Jones and Mrs Vogel as they explained what to do. The children followed the instructions and tried hard to thread the needle. The […]
The children in Year One continued focusing on Cooking and Nutrition: Smoothies. The children thought about the question – Can we practise food preparation skills? The children were asked to speak like an expert and tell their friends everything they knew about fruit and vegetables. Miss Jones showed the children the equipment they would be […]
On Tuesday 21st January, the Owls took part in a Natwest Bank Money Sense Workshop. They learnt about financial fraud and scams involving identity theft. They had to solve clues to find out how a person had had their identity stolen. They then had to prepare presentations to warn people of how to avoid financial […]
The children in Kingfishers Class enjoyed a trip to Colchester Zoo. The children enjoyed looking at the animals and travelling on the train. The children also enjoyed exploring the dinosaur park and the palaeontology lab. The children engaged with the education session – Fastest, Biggest, Strongest – Who’s top in the animal world? The children […]
This week in Woodpeckers, we have started looking at multiplying numbers together. Learning our times tables through TT Rockstars, or playing Hit the Button (which is a website you can find by googling!) is so important to all areas of mathematics. We will use our times table knowledge to solve longer word problems at the […]
On Friday 24th January, we took 21 children from Years 4, 5 & 6 to the O2 in London to perform in the Young Voices Choir of 2025. They performed many songs from a variety of genres of music alongside approx. 8000 other young people, to a packed audience. Thanks to everyone who was involved […]
On Wednesday 22nd January, the Swans class visited Colchester Zoo. As well as having plenty of opportunities to look at all the different animals, the children took part in a workshop about Charles Darwin. They learnt about the life and work of Darwin. They were given field journals and had to identify bugs and their […]
In English, we have been using our senses to imagine what Victorian London may have been like. We thought about what we could see, hear and smell if we were there. In our writing we tried to use adventurous adjectives and some expanded noun phrases. After editing our work in our English books, we published […]
The children in Kingfishers Class took part in a money sense workshop provided by NatWest. The workshop was called Super Smoothie Shop. The children were shown slides to get them thinking about: what money is, where we get it, how we can spend it and what a ‘business’ is. The children worked in groups to […]
This half term i History the children in Kingfishers Class will be focusing on the question – How was Mary Anning’s trip to the beach the start of a ‘new beginning’? The children thought about the enquiry question – Why do we remember Mary Anning? The children were shown a picture of Mary Anning and […]