20th September 2013

Reception 

This week in Reception we have been looking at the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.  The children have talked about the story and then started to tell their own stories. 

We have been learning lots of songs to help us with our learning... If you haven't heard our 'days of the week' song.. Ask your child to sing it for you! :0) 

On Tuesday we had a visit from an author... Jeremy Strong. He talked to us about the funny books he writes. 

We had our picture taken for the Echo on Wednesday... We will let you know when it will be in the paper. 

Thank you to those parents that have made an appointment for parents evening next week. We are looking forward to talking to you about how your child has settled in to school. 

Have a good weekend. 

Year 4

4L and 4E have had a very exciting week, participating in lots of wonderful activities. 4L have been searching for bugs and their habitats during their outdoor learning session and were excited to talk about the fox den.  The school was very lucky to have a visit by the famous children’s author Jeremy Strong. He read an extract from his book ‘Cartoon Kid’ and the children were able to ask lots of interesting questions.

In year 4 we have now started to read ‘Stig of the Dump’ by Clive King. The children thoroughly enjoyed building a den on the school field. Everyone took part and worked together as a team. It was great sitting inside the den after it was made! 

Year 5

Year 5 have had a fun week in science, it started with a big BANG! We have weighed air, think about how you might weigh air then ask us about it. We have started reading our class books. It has been lovely to see lots of children reading beautifully out loud to the class. We have been learning lots of new and unusual words. In P.E we played our first game of lacrosse, the teachers were impressed by how quickly we learnt the new skills. It has been a good week for everyone!

13th September 2013

Nursery

With lots of new children starting in nursery it has been a very busy week.  The children are settling  well and especially enjoyed PE when they got to use the crash mats.  Please remember to label all your child’s clothing.  Our ‘Stay and Play’ sessions will commence Friday 27^th Sept and will be for girls.  Next week we shall looking at our names and rolling dice. 

Year 3

This week year 3 have had a lot of fun writing poems. We have been looking at list poems and have been stretching our imaginations to come up with the most unusual and individual ideas as we could. We have begun our project on The Romans and have found out lots of disgusting facts. Did you know that the Romans used to eat flamingo tongue and afterwards would brush their teeth with mouse brains! Eugh! In maths we have been learning about place value and partitioning numbers. The children are becoming very confident with place value now and some children were thinking about numbers with millions! In science we were looking at light and shadows and the children are really looking forward to experimenting with the torches and other equipment. Next week we will be visited by the author Michael Rosen so the children could look at books written by him over the weekend.

Year 4

Welcome back to Year 4 children and parents! 4E and 4L have had a great start to the new term and have already learnt a lot and had some fun. The term has started with a ‘Poetry Week’. The children have been busy reading and writing poetry. Some of their favourites were by the fantastic poet ‘Michael Rosen’ who visited our school last year.

Year 4’s new science topic is ‘Habitats’ and this week and next week Year 4 have had the chance to go out into the school grounds to explore the wildlife we have there. Some of 4E have already discovered a red ant’s nest, a bee’s nest and even two slow worms!

We can’t wait to discover what 4L will find next week!

12th July 2013

Nursery

A busy and exciting week in the land of nursery.  Having visited our new classes the children suddenly seem very grown up.  They have especially liked listening and dancing to our carnival music.  We made our own healthy snack for our scooter fun day.  What fun we had!!!   Sympathy to Mrs Farrer who fell of her scooter and grazed both knees!!

4CA

This week we have been revising 2d and 3d shapes. For English we have continued to work on a poem about The Demon Headmaster. We looked at The Spanish Armada for History. For Science we looked at water resistance and had fun trying to find what shape would go through the water slowest. We have also been to visit Miss Crumbie for 3 mornings this week.

4E

4E have had another good transition week and have enjoyed the chance to work in their new class with their new teacher. In 4E this week we have been doing some more Science experiments and have explored water resistance. The children made different shapes and explored which ones would float and which would sink. We made some surprising discoveries!

The children are looking forward to visiting The Village Green festival tomorrow. We are looking forward to a fun morning in the sun! It’d hard to believe there is only 1 weeks left at school- where has the year gone?!

28th June 2013

Nursery

In nursery this week we were visited by policewoman Jan and policewoman Lisa.  They told us all about the different vehicles the police use.  We even got to try on a police hat and coat.  The children have enjoyed this week’s story The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister and especially liked his shimmering scales.  Then to help get us ready for transition we have been going for walks around school and now know where all the dinners get cooked. 

1B

Hello Everybody,

This week has flown by even quicker, I think that it is because all of Year 1 had a great trip to Shoebury East Beach on Monday.

The focus of the trip was to fire up the children's imaginations for our "Under The Sea" topic. They collected lots of different types of shells and we had a competition. Each type of shell was worth a certain amount of points and each added their points up to see who had the most. The group who won had over 1000 points!!

Each also created their own sand sculptures and decorated them with shells and other found materials. They were really amazing , the children really thought carefully about their ideas.

Well done to all of Year 1 for being so well behaved .

Here are some of the activities that the children have particularly enjoyed this week:

Reanna- I liked throwing bean bags in the hoops in our PE lesson.

Macy- Going to the beach was fun. I liked making the sculptures because I like making stuff.

Camren- I liked my Maths assessment because I like learning.

Bailey- PE was good because I like doing things to make me better at throwing.

Jack- I liked PE because throwing helps me to do other things.

Leo - I like throwing bean bags that's why PE was fun.

Thanks for your contributions children.

Have a great weekend.

Miss Bernard

4CA

We have been very busy doing end of term tests this week. But we have still managed to do some work on adding money, discussion texts and starting a science topic on Friction. So there is not much to say this week.

5J

This week got off to an exciting start for Year 5 with a visit to Chase High for an Enrichment Day.  During the visit our pupils had the opportunity to experience art – printing patterns on bunting; drama; math; English; food technology – tasting biscuits; technology- making monster torches; media – using Photoshop to create a video cover; science –exploring the fat content of a variety of foods; textiles – using sewing machines to make bookmarks and  history – the history  of video games.

During the rest of the week the class have worked hard completing their end of year  assessments – today we are working on our art entries for Southend in Bloom. 

21st June 2013

Reception

This week we have been reading The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson and all of our activities have been based on this story. We have made up our own stories about the characters, we have been re enacting the story with puppets and have had a wonderful visit to Thorndon Country Park to look for the Gruffalo with the help of the park rangers. We have also been thinking about time, using clocks to make hour and half hour times

1B

Hello everybody,

We have had a very good and busy week in 1B, as always. In Maths the children have been practising using numberlines to solve addition and subtraction problems. Some children have even begun to use blank numberlines which is really grown up! In English we have continued to explore the story The Smallest Whale by creating our own fantasy pictures based on the story, role playing different characters and creating questions about the text. The children also had lots of fun investigating sea sides now and in the past with Mrs Dennis.

Here are some of the activities that some of the children have particularly enjoyed this week:

Leo – I have enjoyed adding and taking away in Maths.

Mercedes- I liked adding and taking away on Education City.

Camren- When we roled playe The Smallest Whale story I really liked it. I played the whale.

Amantha- I liked learning about the seaside and how it was a long time ago an we danced to “I do like to be beside the seaside.”

Zoe- We made “Under the sea” pictures using different materials. In my picture there was a cave, some sharks and fish.

Thanks for your contributions children.

Have a great weekend,

Miss Bernard

4CA

This week has been very busy in 4CA. For maths we have been looking at time in terms of counting forward and back using word problems and a blank number line. Everyone is so much better at time now. The class are now on to writing up their discussion text after spending time on planning it. History took on a new look this week as we visited Southchurch Hall. The class really enjoyed it, had fun and thanks to Richard at the museum have increased their knowledge on Tudors. They thoroughly enjoyed making candles and writing with a quill. On Thursday everyone tasted the butter we made. We also wrote up our Science experiment from last week and were tested on solids and liquids.

5J

Exciting news in 5J!  One of our caterpillars has emerged from its chrysalides – we now have a beautiful Painted Lady butterfly.  We are now waiting for the other two.

We have been honing our skills in reading scales this week in order to solve problems relating to capacity, length, weight and temperature.  Please give your child every opportunity to continue this at home or when you are out and about e.g. weighing fruit when out shopping.

Please remember we are at Chase High on Monday for an Enrichment Day – everyone needs a packed lunch.

Year 6

Year 6 are having a great time and are all looking forward to all the fun events coming up.

If you haven’t already heard, we held our Business Enterprise Day last Thursday, which was a roaring success. Can you believe we raised over £450 from all our sales? We are extremely happy and proud of our achievements. Here’s what some of us had to say:

“My favourite part was finding out the total money raised!” Lachlan 6N

“Erona and I got loads of customers who wanted their nails painted. It was quite difficult, but we managed to keep going!” Melanie 6N

“I enjoyed running the stall where we played a card game to win a prize.” Liam 6N

Mrs Blatcher and Miss Niemann were stunned by our efforts and felt enormously proud. Well done us!

As well as working hard during lesson time, we have more activities coming up. Stay tuned to hear about todays trip to Rollacity!

14th June 2013

Reception

This week we have had fun learning more about the life cycle of butterflies and watching our class caterpillars growing from being tiny to getting much longer and fatter. They will go into the cocoon stage soon! We have thought about our own life cycles and the changes we go through from being a baby to being grown up. In maths we have been using different objects, like hands and feet, to help us measure how long things are. We have also been very lucky to have two important visitors talking to us about their jobs: on Tuesday Maureen Friday talked to us about being a farmer in Kent and told us all about the different foods and animals on her farm, on Thursday Trevor Cox told us about being a fireman and how we could keep ourselves safe by testing out fire alarms once each week.

1B

Hello Everybody,

In class 1B we have been having so much fun with our learning this week. Our topic is “under The Sea” and we have been listening to and learning the story “The Smallest Whale”. There are some excellent readers in our class and we had a little competition where the boys and girls read to see who could work as a team the best when reading the story. This time the girls won. We are going to have a return match next week to see who wins then.

                                   In Maths, we have been comparing, ordering and rounding numbers to the nearest 10. All of 1B have done very well; but found rounding up and down a bit of a challenge.

Tomorrow we are having our Philosophy Morning and we are looking forward to parents coming in to observe how good we are at thinking in 1B.

Here are some of the activities that the children have enjoyed in particular this week:

Camren- I liked doing PE because I have never done something like that before.

Reanna- I liked when we did Stacking Cups in PE because I liked making a 3 sided pyramid.

Evie- I liked my Holiday Timeline because it was fun.

Jacob- I enjoyed the PE lesson stacking pyramids because I enjoy sports.

Mercedes- I have liked making Father’s Day cards because I enjoyed decorating it.

Leo- When we did the pyramids in PE I really enjoyed it.

Joseph- I enjoyed the Year 6 Enterprise Day because it was full of exciting things.

Ashley- I enjoyed reading “The Smallest Whale” because it is fun.

Amantha-  The Year 6 Enterprise Day was really fun.

Zoe- I got my nails painted at the Year 6 Enterprise Day. It was fun and ai got them done for free.

Thanks for your contributions children.

Have a great weekend,

Miss Bernard

4CA

As always this has been a very busy week. For maths we have been working on coordinates both in the four quadrants and also on Ordinance Survey maps. For English we have been looking at discussion text linked to The Demon Headmaster. In Science we all completed an experiment on what happens when we add solids to liquids and if we can filter them. Some children may want to try this at home. In ICT we finished our bee posters and then went onto the maths zone to further improve our understanding of coordinates. For History we looked at Mary Tudor and her reign and then in groups made up a song to include as much history as possible.

Year 6

Thank you to everyone who supported year 6  we raised over £300 towards our year 6 outings . Business Enterprise Day was fantastic and the children had the best day ever!

7th June 2013

Nursery

Nursery have been here, there and everywhere within the school grounds for science week.  We have used the viewfinders to look at snails, plants and mud.  We explored the wild area on the field and collected different size sticks and used our investigating skills relating to forces in the playground pushing cars.  So we are all budding scientist.  A big welcome to Grace and Warren who have recently joined afternoon nursery.  Thank you to those of you who have supported your children with the home learning .  It was lovely seeing all  the different activities.  Next week we are starting our seaside topic and will be looking at seasonal clothing.

4CA

We have had lots of fun in Science week. We have been outside every day. Some of the activities we have done have been, looking at friction using various surfaces around the school, shaking trees and collecting what has fallen out to make a pictogram, doing a bird watch, a guest speaking talking about bees, using coordinates following a map of the school grounds, identifying tress in the school grounds, making a fantasy creature and a visit from Essex wildlife trust.

4E

We have been having a brilliant time in Science Week this week. Some of our activities have included bird watching, tree rubbings, friction experiments and creating senses poems.

The children have really enjoyed the opportunities to work out side in the lovely weather and have shown some great team work skills. We hope the good weather stays with us so we can get outside even more!

On Tuesday the children completed in some 4Sports activities and have learnt an exciting new team game. Ask them to tell you about it!