Welcome back to Spring II term.  The children have started well.  We are learning more about Charles Darwin and his work on evolution.

We have now finished our swimming block.  PE days from next week  WB 3rd March 2025 will be Wednesdays and Fridays.  We have seen a huge improvement in PE kit this week. Thank you. 

In maths, we are working on addressing some of the misconceptions and errors from the recent mock tests.  

The new homework menu is now on the website and paper copy is being sent home via the children.  Nearer the end of term, I will be sending home  some revision booklets with short 10minute activities  to help the children prepare for the SATS.

We are continuing to send home the children's paper from our weekly arithmetic test.  Please take some time to go through these with the children.  It will help to improve their scores, week on week.

Any help and support that you can give the children with reading, maths and homework tasks will make a huge difference to their progress.  Thank you in advance.

Miss Hagan

Science Week  - Making ice cream in a bag

Making Lava Lamps - Science Week 

Beach Afternoon

On Friday we had a great afternoon on the beach.  We completed a science week task of making sand slime.

Beach Art

We used shells and stone on our local beach to create snowflake patterns, that should be symmetrical.  

Beach Fun 

On Monday we were revising area and perimeter and began with a session using biscuits to help with our calculations. 

Valentine Paper Craft

Fun valentine paper chains 

Roots to Food

On Tuesday  11th February we were visited by Darren, from Roots to Food.  He helped us to create our own version of a Chicken Rogan Josh.  Here is the recipe for you to try at home.

Darwin's Dragons

During our reading of this class book we heard about the main character Sym, who is shipwreck in the Galapagos Islands.  He is only a young boy and he known by the other soldiers for playing the fiddle for them to sing along to.  We listened to some different sea shanties and then created our own group versions of the song 'Chicken on a Raft'. 

https://youtu.be/abMxA_2_8hI?si=jGum5Z1cbEHn-PP_

William Morris

As part of our learning  about The Victorians, we looked at the art of William Morris.  He was famous for his colourful prints and patterns, that were often turned into fabrics for upholstery and wall paper.  We created our own designs in his style and then had a go printing some more simples designs that we had marked on polystyrene tiles. 

We coloured these with felts, then reduced the size and copied it 6 times to recreate our wallpaper.

We then made printing tiles using a William Morris style design, before printing on to paper.

The Work of Frida Kharlo

Frida was a famous South American artist.  We looked at some of here famous works and used pastels to tried and create our own version of her self portrait.

The work of Henri Rousseau - Our versions of his Tiger in a rainforest painting.

PHSE Week One 2025 - Showing Self Control

We looked at the work of Kandinsky - we created this class piece of work based on his circles pictures, using pastels. 

Then we created  small designs to use on our calendars

Christmas Celebrations

Christmas Jumper Day - Origami Boats

World War Two - Cooking and Food Tasting

               Banana Surprise Pudding Chocolate Potato Muffins  Woolton Pie 

Making Carrot Biscuits

Anti Bullying Week 

Tendring Ambassadors Celebration Event  - 12th November 2024

We had a great day at the town hall with the other schools, celebrating the work that we had been doing in schools.  Thanks to those parents who came along to watch the final performance and well done to those children who stepped up on stage to read their Chinese Zodiac poems.  You were very brave. 

     Our Rememberance Day display

We have now had our final visitors in from the Tendring Ambassador Project.   

Tom a local cartoon artist came in to work with us on designing and drawing comic strips.  

Then on 5th November,  we had a visit from Anita Belli a local author, who helped us to write some poems about animals from the Chinese Zodiac.  ( Post to follow) 

Our World War Two topic

This term, we have been learning all about the key events in WWII and the impact that this had on the lives of people living on the Home Front here in Britain. 

We created our own 3d models of a WWII garden, including and Anderson Shelter.

We studied the events of The Blitz in cities like London and Plymouth and created these collage picture of The Blitz over London. 

Tendring Ambassadors

Over the last 3 weeks we have had visit from 4 workshop leaders as part of the Tendring Ambassadors Programme.  Firstly a visit from Colchester United for a session on hate crime and how to try not to judge people by their appearance.

Then we were joined by Lera, a local lady from The Ukraine, who now lives in Tendring. She told us all about the history of Ukraine, their customs and tradition. We then talked about the impact that the war is having on the people in Ukraine. We made some sunflower cards - the sunflower being  a symbol of Ukraine.

Next we took part in Chinese Calligraphy  Workshop.  We learnt a little about the history of china, their beliefs and language. We then got to try some of our calligraphy.

Our third sessions was  visit from a local musician from Sierra Leone.  He told us all about growing up in Africa. He brought along his Djembe drum and taught us some African songs. 

Naze Tower Trip 

We had a lovely day out at The Naze Tower. The weather was amazing and we learnt lots about the Naze and its use a military base during World War Two.  We started by walking along the beach, collecting  shells and rocks

Once we arrived a the tower the lady spoke to us about it's history since it was built in 1720. 

Then we climbed up to the top of tower to see the clear views of Walton and The Backwaters.

Finally we completed the World War II trail to find the remaining Pill (lookout) boxes.