Our final Nature Club of the year saw the children checking their bug-houses and looking at the places that mini-beasts choose to over-winter. Mr Hopegood

 Yesterday, we all attended our annual Christmas Carol Service. We were entertained by a variety of musicians, a poem from our poet laureate and a talk led by Reverend Tasha. Our Year 6's read from The Bible and had written their own prayers to read. This was topped off by some festive carols. Thank you to both Father Simon and Reverend Tasha for hosting us! A special thank you to our photographer!

Today, we had a visit from Reverend Tasha. We talked about Christian traditions at Christmas and in particular, the story of the Nativity. Reverend Tasha introduced us to the 'Posada'.   The word posada means  inn or lodging , and traditionally posadas are a celebration of the Christmas story.   In Year 2, we get the chance to have our very own Posada in the run up to Christmas and watch it travel to different homes on a journey around our village (it comes home with the children for the evening), just as Mary travelled on a donkey to Bethlehem. Because of the short time we have between the 1st December and the end of term, not all children will be able to bring the posada home.  We will therefore draw a name from a hat each day to decide who will take it home for the evening before returning it the next morning for it to travel to another child's home! We thoroughly enjoyed seeing Reverend Tasha and had lots of thoughtful and interesting questions for he...

 Today, the children competed in the Canonium Learning Trust Tag Rugby Tournament.  The children did themselves proud and finished second.   

 The Nature Clubbers used the material colected last week to make mini-bug houses which we have put inside one of the ivy hedges where they will stay dry and provide over winter shelter for our tiny friends.

 On Monday 11th November,  Year 6 walked to Kelvedon War Memorial to hold their service of remembrance and to lay a wreath on behalf of all of the adults and children  at Kelvedon St Mary's. They shared poems and prayers that they had written, observed a two  minute silence and Reverend Tasha officiated. 

 What an amazing example of resilience, risk-taking and respect!  Our team has made us all so proud!   The morning started with our Year 3 children taking on a 1000m run around the course against over 100 other competitors!  They ran with power and strength to begin our first cross country event. As the morning continued, years 4, 5 strived for the finish line! Year 6 added to the amazing attitude expressed by running 1500m accompanied by a whole lot of team work and support. We are still awaiting the final results, but regardless, the children should be incredibly proud of themselves!  What an awesome team!