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…
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…
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…
It was standing room only as Songfest returned to its usual place in the Holmwood calendar. There was a buzz of excitement during the Element rehearsals, where each Element was given just an hour and a half to rehearse their previously unknown song. The theme this year was the noughties and the songs chosen were:…
What a brilliant start to this term! The children have done extremely well in all our activities, especially Swimming. We have loved seeing them grow and develop into such confident, friendly children and they have all shown great determination with their independence. Over the last few weeks we have been engrossed in the change of…
