Our first week back after the summer holidays

After the Summer holidays, the children returned to school this week looking extremely smart and with a positive attitude to their year ahead.

On Wednesday, the children settled in to their new classes. We discussed their holidays by completing an alphabet linking each letter to something they did over the six weeks. We also discussed their Rights as a child and used these Rights to support in making our Class Charters (an agreement between Rights Holders and Duty Bearers to follow within the classroom).

Next week at school, the children will continue learning about numbers and place value (focusing on Roman numerals, negative numbers and rounding) in Maths; we will start our English genre of writing which is on Myths and Legends (linking it to our Project on Ancient Greeks) and continue our Geography-focus in our Project lessons, interpreting maps on Greece and Ancient Greece.

Goodbye and Good Luck Year 6!

On behalf of all the Year 5 and 6 staff we would like to extend a huge congratulations for all your hard work. We wish you all the very best for the future.
Enjoy your Summer. Have fun!

Essex Schools Food and Farming Trip

Yesterday,years 5/6 went on a trip for a Food and Farming day.

At 9:30am, we all got a coach to get to the Essex food and farming trip at the Writtle University College. On that day 3,000 children had attended from all different schools and all submitted a scarecrow into a competition. Ours was Henry the eighth and his six wives.

45 minutes later,we had finally arrived. As we walked into the green field, I could see five humongous white tents dotted around the field.

We had four leaders;the actual leader was called Cristine who showed us around. The first place we went to was the Countryside tent and in that there were different things to do. For example, one was making a mini-beast out of clay, sticks and leaves -I made an ant. It is a shame because I would of liked more time in this tent.

After we went to the Crop zone which had some edible seeds we could try and we could of got up close to some that we had never seen.

Next,we had to get into our groups to move onto the Live-stock.

When we reached the Live-stock, we all sat down and watched a man teach us on how to shear a sheep. I found it quite weird because I had never seen it before.

Our time was up at the Live-stock, so then we all moved to the food zone and in it was where we learnt how crops turn into real food.I found that quite interesting because it shows what seeds we actually eat.

Finally, we got to the last place which was the Machinery zone. There were two men explaining to us about how farmers get rid of their seeds and how they plant their seeds. Everyone who stood there had to stand behind a silver barbed-wire fence.

At the end, we finally found out who won and we came third

; our prize was a £50 voucher and a watering can.

At 1:45, we walked back to where our two coaches were and left to come back to the school.

Overall,I enjoyed the day there and I learned a lot more new things.

by Leila (Year 6)

Who dun'it?

Today during Celebration assembly, a suspicious incident occurred in the 5/6 classrooms.

Upon returning to each class, we were shocked to see what had happened.

We are currently gathering a list of suspects!

Could it be Mrs Hurley? She was seen leaving the assembly early.....

Miss Sharman? She left to get her whistle...

Miss Hedges? Did she arrange someone to do it?

Mr Richards covering for Mr Webb? His assembly went on longer than usual....


Was it a pupil?


The plot thickens!

Maths at the Movies - Monday

This week in school we are taking part in 'Maths at the Movies'. 

In Year 5 and 6 we chose the film Sing!

On Monday, the children planned a dance routine using their mathematical knowledge of position, direction and angles. 

They then gave their instructions to others to follow, practise and perform during their P.E lesson. 

Over the week, the children will be doing different activities related to the film. 

Stay tuned...

Celebration Assembly

Last week, Mrs Nelson was unfortunately losing her voice. Therefore, speaking in celebration assembly was not easy so she needed someone to assist her.

Emily (being Mrs Nelson's assembly helper) stepped in and did a fantastic job of announcing and handing over the 'Pupil of the Week' certificates.

Traditional Stories and Playscripts

On Friday the 19th of January,  the Year 5/6 classes (Ruby, Sapphire and Topaz) walked to Amethyst (for Ruby), Emerald (for Sapphire) and Diamond (for Topaz)  classes - which are one of the three Year 1/2 classes - to share our writing with each other; Years 5/6 had been doing playscripts based on traditional stories (with a twist) and Years 1/2 had been doing traditional stories with a twist also.

When we arrived, we found a partner of a different age and started to discuss our work. After, we read one-another our writing and the year ⅚ tried to teach the Year 1/2 what a playscript was. Once we had finished, we went back to our classrooms. I found this very interesting because we get to learn all about the people around the school’s work. The Years 1/2 work was very good and they wrote a lot - one to one and a half pages.

by Seren and Emily