We were delighted to be able to offer our pupils in Reception to Year 3 the opportunity to spend the day at the beach at Frinton on Thursday 23 June. This is a traditional Holmwood outing that we have had to put on hold for the last two summers and we were thrilled to be…
It was all eyes on French in Year 3! This term in languages, children in Pre-Prep have been learning French. Year 3 have been familiarising themselves with greetings and feelings and have been practising these in their lessons. They have been creating their own mini dialogues independently, with a little help from their “googly eyed”…
Last Thursday Years 1, 2 and 3 had a trip into Colchester on a double decker bus! We looked at the castle and the war memorial before setting off down Colchester High Street in search of more towers, turrets and heroes. Along the way we absorbed the sights, sounds and smells of the busy town….
It has been a joy this week to watch the performances of the two, much anticipated, productions from the Early Years and Pre-Prep. The Early Years put on a sparkling performance of “The Christmas Star” and Years 2 and 3 had us all enthralled with their very entertaining and ambitious production of “The Elves and…
Land Ahoy, but how will we get there! Curious to see what their next challenge would be for their Land Ahoy theme, Year 2 were very excited when they were challenged to design a boat that could move on its own without the children touching it and to stretch them further, be powerful enough to…
Standing at the edge of the classroom at the beginning of the maths lesson was a rather oversized box. In fact, it was taking on the role of an oversized money box, overflowing with oversized coins, which were larger than life! Excitement heightened in the Year Two classrooms as the children selected individual coins and…
All children in Pre-Prep follow a termly carousel of languages during the course of the school year. This term we are learning Spanish. “Land Ahoy!” is the Year 2 curriculum theme this term so we will be using the story of “La oruga muy hambrienta” in our lessons to link in to the theme. The…
Year 3 has had great fun embarking on this term’s new topic, ‘Extreme Earth’. The children watched some natural disaster clips to set the scene, which included hearing a siren and learning the Earthquake Drill…. ‘Drop, Cover, Hold!’ Once their curiosity had been ignited they began with the big question, ‘ What is under our…
On Monday, Year 3 had the first lesson in the continuation of the strings project which they had embarked upon in Year 2. The strings project is a programme designed to support and encourage string playing in the school from which we very much hope that children will be able to gain enrichment, appreciation of…
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It’s Señora Mookherjee’s Flying Saucer Sombrero! Year 2 had a blast last week in their Spanish lesson as Señora Mookherjee’s Flying Saucer Sombrero spun it’s way around the room landing on unsuspecting pupil planets! The only way it could take off again was if the children…
