The Pre-Reception children have had a busy couple of weeks. Last week the children were very concerned about the Queen because she had Coronavirus, so they all decided to send a letter and made some wonderful ‘Get Well Soon’ pictures to send to her as well. We also spoke about the Royal family. This week…
The children at nursery have enjoyed participating in book week, to celebrate World Book Day on Thursday. The children across all three rooms have enjoyed dressing up, sharing books from home and lots of craft activities based around well known stories have also been taking place. Babies Babies have enjoyed some baking. Recently we made…
Dear Parents, This week we have had two visitors to the school to work with us on two key elements of our strategic plan. One spent two days with the Year 1 to 4 teachers enjoying the hard work they have put into planning some exciting and engaging topics (e.g. Claws and Whiskers in Year…
Today is Water Charity Day and the Charity Reps have been busy planning and organising a fabulous fun-packed day to raise money for Colchester & Ipswich Hospitals Charity including: Stalls – a variety of stalls, including a cake stall and ‘Guess the name of the Bear’. Teacher Soaking Quiz – the main event for our…
The Egyptians have really sparked Year 4’s curiosity this term, so much so they have been mummifying tomatoes and are very excited to see what will happen to them over the next few weeks. Whilst in Science to tie in with their Egyptian topic Year 4 have been looking at organ systems. Making our own…
Year 1 have thoroughly enjoyed their theme Bright Lights, Big City. They have learnt about the differences between the countryside, towns and cities and about our capital city London. They loved learning about the Queen, particularly some fun facts. Our favourite one was that the Queen has nine thrones! To finish off our learning in…
This week has been Children’s mental health week so we have been using masks, books, mirrors and role play games to talk about feelings and have even enjoyed some yoga to relaxing music. We have also been celebrating Chinese New Year learning this year was the year of the tiger, they had great fun copying…
On Monday 31 January, the Holmwood House Chamber Choir participated in the Haileybury Choral Competition. As well as having had an absolutely fabulous day, a wonderful lunch and participating in a mass choral item alongside other schools, our choir’s performance of the Evening Prayer from Humperdinck’s opera Hansel and Gretel won the competition with the…
Dear Parents, It is always good to see the grounds team hard at work maintaining our large site, but it has been particularly good to see the Verti Drain machine encouraging drainage and to observe the huge amount of work that has gone into the woodland areas of the site, stripping them back for the…
Dear Parents, It has been great to catch up with so many people on the driveway over the last few days – and most importantly to see the children bouncing into school at the end of a long cold month. If you happen to be in the front hall outside my office, you will be…
