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FORTNIGHTLY NEWSLETTER  ISSUE 5:                                                              16.11.18 Parent Forum Meeting Our Parent Forum meeting took place last week.  Representatives shared homework strategies that have been collated.  These are outlined below and a copy of... Continue Reading

Reception Class really enjoyed exploring the wood during their first visit to Forest School last week. They voted for their forest school name – Happy Hedgehogs!  We learned the rules to keep us safe and had lots of fun mixing potions as they had been reading the book... Continue Reading

Yesterday Class One had two special visitors, Tommy the Tortoise and Rosie the Hen, to support our English work on the story of ‘Dear Zoo’ and thinking about perfect pets. We learnt about how to care for them, particularly what they eat and how to touch/ hold them- especially the... Continue Reading

Years 3 & 4 had a fabulous time at Colchester Castle on Wednesday.  We saw lots of interesting Roman artefacts and had fun building roundhouses and a Roman temple.  We went beneath the castle where it was dark and smelly!  We were told lots of stories about the Roman... Continue Reading

On Wednesday 31st October years 2, 5 and 6 went to JFAN for a cross country event.  Everyone ran their hardest and represented the school well.  The years 5 and 6 boys’ and girls’ teams all got through to the next round of the tournament in 2 weeks’ time. Everyone ran extremely... Continue Reading

FORTNIGHTLY NEWSLETTER  ISSUE 4:                                                              2.11.18 Year 6 Bikeability Year 6 had a valuable and informative week on their Bikeability course with Mrs Wright and Mrs Palmer during the week leading up to half term.  The children... Continue Reading

Year 4 attended a multi-sports activity afternoon at JFAN on Wednesday. We travelled there and back by coach. We had lots of fun trying out the equipment, including archery and rebound nets. There were two other primary schools who also came along.  Some sixth formers helped us... Continue Reading

On Thursday 4thOctober eight KS2 members of our School Council, accompanied by Mrs Hall and Miss Allsop, went to the Uttlesford conference at Henham and Ugley School.  Along with other primary schools we discussed our role as school councillors and how we could work together to... Continue Reading

Children listened, read, told and wrote their own fantasy stories in their classes during book week last week. Year 6 illustrated myths, which they then told to their reading partners in Year 2. Thank you to parents for all your work with creative costumes. It was lovely to see... Continue Reading

On Wednesday 3rdOctober, a lady from Cambridge University came in and talked to us about archaeology.  We learnt that archaeology isn’t just about digging! It is about science and history too.  People work in laboratories and decide when finds are dated from by the architecture... Continue Reading