Year 3’s Fantastic Finale to their work this term on Heroes and Villains was a magical visit the Warner Brothers Studio Tour. They went on a tour where the children learnt about how the Harry Potter was filmed, saw the famous sets and costumes from the heroes and villains from the films! The children then…
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…
Years 3 and 7 are currently receiving lessons on mindfulness from Mrs Katie Seaman, a parent at Holmwood and a trained mindfulness teacher. There is a large and rapidly growing body of research to evidence the benefits mindfulness can provide. For children in particular these include improvements in wellbeing and mental health, concentration and cognition,…
Year 3 had great fun making pancakes as part of their English lesson this week. They discovered all about Shrove Tuesday and why we traditionally make pancakes on this day. They then carefully read and followed the Pancake Recipe instructions in order to make their pancakes.. After a tasty feast of pancakes the children’s final…
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…
The Year 3’s Extreme Earth topic was brought to life recently with an exciting Global Studies lesson involving a Zoom call to Melbourne in Australia! Eivissa’s Auntie Laura is a nurse in Melbourne and on the 22 September an earthquake measuring 6 on the Richter Scale hit the city causing damage to buildings. This was…
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…
