Harvest Festival Sophie and Imogen were pleased to give their harvest festival donations to Colchester Food Bank in lieu of bringing them to school. New Phase 3 member! A rather inquisitive new ‘pupil’ has been paying visits to Mrs Gupta’s maths classroom and the library. Mr Jeffries, Mrs Bradbury and 5PJD enjoyed Sammy the Squirrel’s…
In English, Year 6 pupils are currently studying the novel ‘Stormbreaker’ by Anthony Horowitz. This week, pupils were challenged to create their own spy gadget, and then convincingly pitch their product to the class. All pupils used a variety of self made videos and visual effects, and created fantastic speeches full of persuasive devices! Miss…
Year 6 drawings extended to a compositional drawing this week. Reflecting upon shape and tone from previous weeks to be used in this drawing, they studied depth and overlap, also considering the negative shape between the objects. Please see our Photo Gallery for more photos.
Year 3 have been experimenting with a Brusho ink ‘wash’ effect to create the backgrounds, and the body of the volcano was made with a tissue paper collage. To enhance this mixed media composition, we spent time experimenting with both paint and collage, to choose their favourite method in order to make their volcano appear…
Year 3 Rocks! This week Year 3 have been having fun making edible models of rocks and creating their own fossils as part of their Extreme Earth topic. Year 4 make ice-cream The Year 4 scientists this week have investigated the effect of salt on ice temperature then used this idea to make ice cream. Yum!…
Year 7 pupil, Jamie S, led by example by doing a litter pick around where he lives for the ‘Great British Beach Clean – Source to Sea’ campaign last week. Jamie picked around 10kg of rubbish, with a great deal of this being cigarette butts. The oddest thing he found was a coffee machine capsule….
Continuing the theme of Promoting Connectedness, we asked all pupils to bring in a pebble to paint in school. We discussed with the children that sometimes the challenges we face feel really difficult, but we can reach out to others for support when we need it. We can also be a source of help and…
Babies Babies have loved exploring the secret garden again this week, feeling the different textures of bark, moss and leaves. We were all very excited to find a ladybird! Bluebells This week Bluebells have continued to explore autumn activities. We have enjoyed cutting spikes into Hedgehogs and threading Squirrels. Leaf printing is also something we…
We are delighted that the Library is up and running at full speed again, having had to work out how to ensure our loaning system would be COVID compliant and ‘bubbles’ round the school maintained. Years 4, 5 & 6 have been making full use of the library resources at break and lunch times, with…
It was lovely to receive photo entries for this year’s virtual produce show; the children were clearly busy over lockdown and the summer tending their crops. We hope to return to a full show next autumn, but in the meantime hope you enjoy the pictures in our gallery. The winners for this year: Best in Show…
