On Friday, we completed our STEM Week with an exciting visit from Subject Revolution. KS1 and EYFS travelled around an amazing new world working together in practical maths challenges to help Prince Lunimo tidy up for the Queen. The children worked to pass through each maths challenge zone, undetected by the invading […]
Year 3
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In Year 3 we are designing and making a marble maze. Our ideas are based on the inside of one of the pyramids of Egypt.
Today the children were put into mixed-age groups named after scientists, and worked together on a range of STEM-related activities. During the course of the day the children learned about how to care for the chicks, created a house of cards, made pictures out of perfect squares, built towers from […]
It started with Booky Breakfast – thank you to everyone who was able to join us! And then Toucan Class visited Halsead Library and WHSmith. They learnt all about what the library does and how we can use it. At WHSmith they spent their World Book Day tokens. They all […]
The children in Year 3 have created these Christmassy images for you using 2Paint-A-Picture in Purple Mash.
Stonehenge is a real historical mystery. There are many theories about why and how it was built, but nobody really knows the answer. This afternoon Octopus Class enjoyed recreating Stonehenge from biscuits!
The Stone Age activities continued into the afternoon. Here are some of the photos of our time travellers learning all about life thousands of years ago.
We’ve stepped back in time and become hunter gatherers for the day… Will they survive? Watch this space! Half of the class are inside building a shelter in the style of ‘Stig of the Dump’. Meanwhile outside…all of the tribes are busy learning to track animals, grind oats, light fires, […]
Year 3 have spent the afternoon exploring ‘Holy Trinity Caves’. They have recreated artwork formed by Neolithic people during the early Stone Age.
Year 3 became archeologists this afternoon, investigating the diet of early Stone Age people. They delved into ‘poo’ and found fruits, nuts and seeds. Just look at their faeces!
This week we were delighted to welcome poet Matt Abbott to school to write poetry with children across the school. On Wednesday he worked with Year 6 and they have written a collaborative poem which will soon be shared in video form and be put on display in the school. […]
Our friends from Hedingham and St. Andrew’s Churches have spent the day with Years 3 and 4 making and decorating a selection of Christian crosses from around the world. The children have learned about the different representations and the history behind Christian crosses from places including Italy, Ethiopia and Jerusalem. […]
A fantastic effort at Hadleigh Park, Southend today for the cross country county champs, well done girls! An amazing achievement!
Well done to the High 5 netball team for successfully competing at the Level 1 tournament at Ramsey. And well done to all the cross country runners for competing in the Level 2 competition at Tabor Academy. Superb performances all round.
For Red Nose Day 2019 the children did funny things for money and came to school dressed in red! There was also a parent-led cake sale after school. You were all amazing! Sponsorship is still coming in (all back by Monday 1st April please!) so we’ll not have a total […]
Well done to all the children in Key Stage 2 who competed in the Level 1 cross country competition at Ramsey Academy today. Amazing performances throughout, and a particular well done to the Year 3 and Year 4 girls and boys teams who all qualify for the finals later this […]
Yesterday Octopus Class had a great time finding out about and experimenting with magnets and many different types of metal. They all enjoyed meeting ‘Spider Magnet’ who did whatever a spider magnet does, and clung on to the underside of the table…
What an eventful end of term! There was Christmas lunch where our amazing kitchen staff managed to produce three times as much food as usual all within the same time frame and to as high a standard as ever. Thank you! Thanks also to the PTFA who provided the festive […]
Take a bowl and throw in candy canes, marshmallows, smarties, biscuits and chocolate. Mix in the Christmas cheer and you have a festive tray bake! Happy Christmas from Octopus Class! (A reminder from Mrs Day that it is Octopus Class party on Monday 17th December…bring in your party clothes & […]
Thank you to everyone who supported our Children In Need events last week. Together we have raised over £300 which will go towards supporting 2,400 projects all across the UK. The projects Children In Need fund help children facing a range of disadvantages for example poverty and deprivation; children who […]
This afternoon Year 3 made Stonehenge out of a variety of biscuits. They needed all of the Trinity Street qualities to help them, especially resilience! Miss Todd played the part of head judge and gave the children feedback about their creations. We then all enjoyed a biscuit. Well done Year […]
Octopus Class would like to say a big thank you to everyone who was able to make it to our a wonderful dinner date.
To mark tomorrow’s Royal Wedding we held a special ‘Wedding Breakfast’ at lunchtime, hung bunting across the playground, and spent the afternoon playing traditional British playtime games outside. The weather helped, of course, but it was lovely to see children from across the age groups mixing together to enjoy games […]
