World Book Day 2023
Celebrating World Book Day, young readers delved into their favourite stories with a day of fictional fun! Dressed as their favourite bookish characters, the whole school showcased their costume efforts in a year by year parade, before heading to the Headmaster’s lawn to join together in a full school photo!
Read MoreThe Art of Reading
The Art Room has some new exciting tools to extend the children’s creativity, develop new artistic skills and expand their knowledge. These inspiring new additions to the Art Room’s hive of activity, are some wonderful, magical and informative... books!
Read MorePrefect Piece: Something New
In her Prefect Piece, Diya S (Year 6) writes about learning a new instrument and new positions in Netball. She also talks about what she is excited for in the upcoming year.
Read MorePrefect Piece: Football
In his prefect piece, Finlay B (Year 6) talks about his love for Chelsea Football Club and their performance in the premier league.
Read MoreChampionship Qualification
Our Show Jumping teams were competing at Duckhurst Equestrian Centre in Staplehurst over the February half term and we have brilliant news to share. In the 60-centimetre class, Albert S (Year 5) placed fourth and Charlotte L (Year 6) placed sixth, and in the 50-centimetre, Albert again placed fourth.
Read MorePortrayed in Portraits
Pupils in Year 5 had the pleasure of drawing real-life models in the Art Room. The children dusted off their portrait drawing techniques from Year 4 with a quick recap of facial feature proportion, drawing one another as a warm-up to reinforce observational and shading skills.
Read MoreMarvellous Mathematics
What a fraction-mad week the mathematics department has had! Pupils in Years 4 to 6 have been going fraction crazy in the classroom. Those in Year 4 have been cutting up bread to help identity, compare and find equivalent fractions whilst Year 6 pupils have been simplifying and converting fraction Smarties into decimals and percentages.
Read MoreInspired by Hockney
Children in Year 2 have been busily preparing for their Arts Showcase, which takes place on Wednesday 8th March. They have been making a large-scale art piece, based on the work of David Hockney. Six teams are each replicating a section of one of his iPad paintings, A Closer Winter Tunnel, February-March 2006.
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