Our Wonderful Skeletons What a wonder – the children have been learning about how incredible our bodies are. We have been talking all about our skeleton and what each bone in our body is called. We put together our very own skeleton called Max and we labelled his bones. We then moved onto our organs…
Nursery News The children have all enjoyed learning about Chinese New Year, the traditions surrounding it and they have loved getting creative – making lanterns, colouring pictures of dragons, making beautiful streamers and enjoying some energetic dancing to lots of festival music. We have also all been enjoying reading our favourite stories and then extending…
Year 1 had great fun exploring ice balloons in their science lesson this week. After using our senses of touch and sight, we shared our ideas about what we thought was in the balloons and how they were made. After agreeing that they were made out of ice we talked about what would happen to…
Admission to Essex grammar schools relies on the pupil’s performance in the CSSE 11+ exam. In this article, you will learn about the CSSE 11+ exam and how we prepare students to enter grammar schools in Essex. Most Essex and Southend grammar school admissions are managed by the Consortium of Selective Schools in Essex (CSSE),…
This week the Reception children made a very curious discovery. Whilst out in their garden they stumbled across some eggs in a nest! The children shared their ideas about who the eggs might belong to, what might be inside the eggs and what they should do? They agreed they should leave the eggs, find out…
Much Ado About Nothing is the play that Year 6 have been studying in English this term, so to extend their understanding further they headed off to the Globe Theatre. The aim of the trip was to spark every pupil’s enthusiasm for, and engagement with, one of the most influential writers in the world. In…
At the beginning of term and their “Land Ahoy! theme, Year 2 were challenged to carry out some research into an explorer of their choice and find out more about them. For “Explorer Day” they all came dressed up as their chosen explorer and had made a poster about who they were and what they…
With the beautiful frosts this week and Christmas fast approaching, we are definitely getting into the Christmas spirit at Nursery. There has been lots of fun Christmas crafts (involving plenty of glitter!) and the children have loved doing some Christmas baking and of course decorating the tree. We’ve all wrapped up warm and enjoyed our…
The Christmas season got off to a flying start last Friday with the Prep School Christmas Concert. It was wonderful to see so many children involved in the evening. They all did fantastically and must be congratulated on all the hard work that had evidently gone into creating such spectacular performances. Congratulations to all the…
We were very excited to be welcome our Year 9 Pioneers to a fun and informative evening on Tuesday 22 November. This group (currently in Year 8) will be our first cohort of Year 9s into our new Senior School as we expand our provision up to 16 (Year 11) from September 2023. This exciting…
