Encouraging the love of reading
Encouraging, nurturing, and supporting a love of books and reading for pleasure can increase empathy, reduce the symptoms of depression, improve relationships with others and improve wellbeing throughout life. We are trying to ensure that our school library reflects...
Decorating the Classroom
The Lower Juniors decorated the classroom with beautiful flowers to celebrate their spring poetry topic.
The Juniors went to the zoo.
The Juniors visited Colchester Zoo in family week. We had a lovely day wandering around and spotting lots of different animals as well as learning from one of the keepers about how we are affecting the earth and what we can do to make it a better place. Everyone...
Field Trip to Stratford
"Fieldwork is an essential ingredient of geography because it provides a 'real-world' opportunity for students to develop and extend their geographical thinking; it adds value to classroom experiences" (Geographical Association www.geography.org.uk) With this in mind,...
Junior Poetry Trip
The Junior Poetry Inspiration Trip was a great success. The weather was fair, the riverside walk, bubbling stream and golden rape field were exhilarating and the children were inspired. The magical garden I walk into the magical garden of nature, and I can see ...
Flitch Way Presentation
The Upper juniors have been studying the Stortford to Braintree Railway (now The Flitch Way) for their local history topic. A Victorian gentleman, by name of Charles Wall, has been writing to us by means of a Time Travel Box! Living in 1860, just before the railway...
Urban Tree Festival
The Upper Juniors have been involved in a project run by the Royal Parks in which they have been researching the English Oak. We have learned about this species of tree and used various resources to research the environment in which it thrives, threats it faces and...
Dominoes
The Lower Juniors enjoyed playing dominoes this morning. They practised their maths skills by adding up the left-over dominoes.
Keeping children safe…
Upper juniors were asked what they would like adults to do in order to keep children safe.
Chapel History
Emlyn came to visit the Junior school this week as part of our Local History project. He brought along some very old documents detailing the history of our chapel. We all enjoyed the opportunity to view these precious documents close-up.
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