We have all come back from the Christmas break and settled back in well. The children have all enjoyed developing their fine motor skills with some fun activities and have been very creative with arts and crafts. We have all loved being in the garden and making the most of the rain, splashing about in…
Pre-R, Reception and Year 1 gave a sparkling performance of their Christmas Show “Santa’s Hat”. The elves and the reindeer have got everything ready for Santa to deliver his presents, but he has lost his hat! The elves ask the snowmen and the sleepy hedgehogs if they have seen it. It turns out that Santa…
Curious about our bizarre ways the aliens who are watching us from a distant planet decided they want to reach out across the galaxy to us…and so they have planned a visit! They have discovered that we are at our friendliest and most peaceful at Christmastime and decide that this is when they will come….
Year 1 have been having great fun with their new theme ‘Enchanted Woodland.’ We started off spending some time outside looking at trees. We enjoyed looking at similarities and differences in their shape, size, leaves and trunk. We used a tree identification sheet to try and identify the trees we saw and looked to see…
Thank you to all of you that got involved last week with our Children in Need themed week of activities. We raised £114.00 in total. The children produced some wonderful Pudsey Bear pictures and had fun dressing up. The weather has produced some wonderful opportunities to go splashing in puddles, which is always a firm…
The school has celebrated its birthday every year for the last 101 years around the 5 November as it was on this day in 1921, that Mr and Mrs E. F. Duggan secured the lease on Holmwood House, Chitts Hill, Lexden. It was the perfect site with several acres of land to allow them to…
Igniting Wonder – Year 5’s trip to Ely Cathedral sparked their curiosity and developed their understanding of the cross curricular work they are doing about pilgrimage this half term. This spectacular building and particularly the stained glass ignited the children’s wonder and will also be the inspiration for their design work in Art. The aims…
Congratulations to all the Year 8s, who before half term put themselves forward for a position of responsibility. They showed great maturity standing up in front of their Elements and presenting well prepared and thoughtful speeches. The Elements all voted after the Hustings and the results were announced last week, in time for the school’s…
Pumpkins and fireworks have been our inspiration for lots of exploring and creative activities this week. We have had great (but messy) fun carving pumpkins, the Babies added spaghetti hair to theirs! We have created firework pictures and looked at all the different colours fireworks make. We have also spent lots of time outside and…
Year 1 have enjoyed learning about their bodies and senses in science. We started by looking at a picture of our skeleton and talking about what the children could recognise. We identified the skull, ribs and spine and then talked about why these bones and our skeleton as a whole is important. The children shared…
