Curriculum

Live Session from the Space Centre

by | 3 Mar 2026 | Science, Swans

To kick Science Week off, the Year 6 children took part in an interactive lesson about space travel. They learnt lots of interesting things about space and what plans there are for the future with regards to landing on Mars and living on the moon.

Mountfitchet Castle

by | 3 Mar 2026 | History, News, Owls, Trips, Visits

On Tuesday 17th March, the Owls class went to Mountfitchet Castle, which is a recreated Norman castle and village. The trip followed on from last half term’s History topic on the Norman Invasion. The children enjoyed looking inside all the different buildings and interacting with the artefacts there. They enjoyed trying to find or remember […]

British Science Week – Boats

by | 3 Mar 2026 | Kingfishers, Science

The children had their ‘Forest Fun’ session with Mrs Clark and Miss Jones. The children began with a materials scavenger hunt. They had to look for different objects made from different materials. Miss Jones reminded the children of the forest fun rules and spoke to the children about British Science Week and gave the children […]

Year 3 Maths

by | 3 Mar 2026 | Maths, Woodpeckers

Year 3 have had a great time exploring and comparing mass, looking at the equivalent of kilograms and grams!

World Book Day

by | 3 Mar 2026 | Classes, Reading, School Events

The children celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as their favourite book character. The children joined everyone in the hall to see everyone’s costumes and they found out the winners of the story jar competition. The winners were awarded a £5 gift to spend at Dial Lane Bookshop. The children also took part in […]

Geography – Mud Mountains

by | 3 Mar 2026 | Environment, Geography, Woodpeckers

Today we have been learning about mountains in India and their mountain ranges; we learnt that there are 5 types of mountains and created a catchy rhyme to help memorise these. We focused on fold mountains and plateau mountains. To make our learning even more interesting and creative we built our own mountain ranges in […]

Rainforest Dioramas

by | 3 Mar 2026 | Geography, Swans

Year 6 have been learning about the Amazon rainforest and thinking about why the Amazon matters. We started off the topic by looking at the difference between a temperate rainforest and a tropical rainforest. In Science, we looked at the different layers of the rainforest and the different types of plants and animals that live […]

Kingfishers Toy Museum

by | 2 Feb 2026 | History, Kingfishers

To finish this terms topic the children welcomed their family members to Kingfishers Toy Museum. The children took on the role of tour guide. The children showed their family member around the toy museum. Thank you for coming,  the children really enjoyed showing their visitors around the toy museum.

Derrick Thomas (Windrush Elder) visits our school

by | 2 Feb 2026 | Curriculum, History, Owls, Swans, Visitors

Year 5 and 6 had a wonderful afternoon listening to the life story of Derrick Thomas, a Windrush Elder. Not only did they learn about the Windrush Generation, they also learnt about the core values of resilience, self-belief and determination.  The children had an opportunity to hold the Olympic torch and learnt about how he […]

Instructions for Making Tea

by | 2 Feb 2026 | English, Woodpeckers

Here is some of our published work from our instruction writing this half term. We used imperative verbs, adverbs ending in -ly, the simple present tense and some of us also used adverbials of time.

Year 6 Art

by | 2 Feb 2026 | Art & Design, Swans

As part of our Evolution topic, we have been looking at how different artists portray monkeys and have begun to explore ideas in preparation for our final piece.

Traction Man

by | 2 Feb 2026 | English, Kingfishers

In English the children in Kingfishers Class have been focusing on the story ‘Traction Man is Here’ written by Mini Grey. The children have been writing their own adventure for Traction Man, deciding on what would happen when he visited school. Great work Kingfishers.