Well, what a fantatsic first week it has been in Year 3.  We are so proud of the children for making excellent choices. Please keep it up Year 3.  Take a look at some of their learning. 

We have had a great start to Year 4 this week. We have started the year off really well and have already started to show what amazing learners we are. In maths, we have been busy learning to partition and represent different numbers up to 1,000.   

  Thank you all so much for your lovely words, cards and gifts. It is very kind of you. The children have had a super first year at school. We hope you have a great holiday! 

 After deciding upon an intention, planning, designing and then producing a wooden cradle in our D&T morning with Thurstable School's D&T Department Mrs Deller and Miss Scotchford got serious with circuitry and decoration. The results are spectacular and, as you'll know from the Open Evening, really loud! Mr Hopegood :)

 We are coming to the end of the loan period for the camera trap supplied by the Colchester Zoological Society, and our thanks again to them. It has been a lovely addition my day to have the chance to set and choose the locations and see if any animals wandered across the trap's field of vsion. Here are a few of the highlights. And here's a nesting pigeon with a squab in the eaves spotted and photographed by Miss Russel. Mr Hopegood

 Year 5 had a real treat today, the head of D&T at Thurstable School came along with a technician and a whole car full of KS3 resources for a D&T morning. The focus was to make the cradle element of the wire buzzer game that the year group have been designing with the Year 5 teachers. As you can see, it was a very busy morning and our feedback from the Thurstable staff (that our children were engaged, polite, helpful and friendly) was wonderful!