Woodpeckers

Tilly the Tale Spinner

by | 12 Dec 2023 | English, Kingfishers, Visitors, Woodpeckers

On Thursday 14th December the children in Kingfishers and Woodpeckers class were very lucky as they had a story telling session with ‘Tilly the Tale Spinner’. ‘Tilly the Tale Spinner’ told the children lots of Christmas tales. The children interacted and participated in the story telling session. Well done everyone.

The Twinkly Nativity

by | 12 Dec 2023 | Kingfishers, News, School Events, Woodpeckers

The children in Kingfishers and Woodpeckers Class performed The Twinkly Nativity 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 – we are very […]

The Curious Polar Bear

by | 12 Dec 2023 | Extracurricular, Kingfishers, Woodpeckers

The children joined Miss Jones for another book club session. This week’s story was ‘The Curious Polar Bear’. The children made polar bear biscuits and enjoyed putting a polar bear puzzle back together, which was a bit tricky!!! The polar bear biscuits were delicious!!!!

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 […]

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.  

Stone Age Day at Stratford St Mary

by | 9 Sep 2023 | History, Visitors, Woodpeckers

On Wednesday 20th September 2023, a Stone Age man called Sealbit travelled through time to visit the children in Woodpeckers class!  The children spent the day exploring The Stone Age through hands on, immersive experiences. The children learnt how man made fire, how life changed for Stone Age people when they began farming, how they […]

World Book Day Potatoes

by | 3 Mar 2023 | Kingfishers, Owls, Swans, Woodpeckers

On Thursday 2nd March, it was World Book Day.  This year, instead of the children dressing up – they dressed a potato as their favourite book character. The children were involved in reading activities throughout the day and there was the opportunity to share their potatoes in assembly just before the end of the day. […]

Steam Power in Action!

by | 1 Jan 2023 | News, Science, Woodpeckers

As part of their Scientist study on George Stevenson, the children in Woodpeckers class have been learning about steam power.  We learned about how steam is different to smoke because smoke is from something burning, and steam is from liquid boiling. The children were able to demonstrate knowledge of the difference between steam and smoke […]

A visit from a Palaeontologist and Mary Anning

by | 1 Jan 2023 | History, Kingfishers, Science, Visitors, Woodpeckers

The children in Woodpeckers and Kingfishers were very excited to take part in a dinosaur workshop. The children listened carefully to Graham and Sue and were able to explore (hands on) and look at the dinosaurs. Graham explained he is a Palaeontologist and told the children he uses a hammer and brush to find fossils. […]

Green Flag Eco-School

by | 10 Oct 2022 | Eco School, Environment, Kingfishers, Owls, Swans, Woodpeckers

Over the course of last year, the Eco Council together with Mrs Martin worked extremely hard on a number of Eco projects.  These included one about litter and another about waste.   They submitted a portfolio of evidence and were very pleased to hear they had been awarded Green Flag status with distinction. Well done to […]

Harvest Assembly

by | 10 Oct 2022 | Community, Fundraising, Kingfishers, Owls, Parents, Swans, Woodpeckers

On Friday 30th September, we welcomed parents and friends of the school to our Harvest Assembly. The children shared poems, songs and information about Harvest Around the World. Thank you for all the generous donations which will be forwarded on to a local Food Bank.