'Words have power. Power to build others up or tear them down. Be a builder'. 3A have thoroughly enjoyed World Book Day!  They have shared stories with Miss Lucas' class, read the book, 'The Word Collector', where they learnt about the importance of words, and even became word collectors themselves through a scavenger hunt!

 Today for World Book Day, the Year 3 children came and read a book to us.  The children have had a fantastic World Book Day. They have made their own bookmarks and wrote their own stories. 

 Class 4H played a matching adjectives to textures game before choosing an adjective to decorate. Fantastic results!

 Yesterday in PE, we focused on gymnastics. The children were using the apparatus to climb and jump. The children were taught how to jump in a safe way.  

 Today, we went on a double-decker bus all the way to Walton!  When we arrived, we met the Essex Wildlife Trust volunteers who would our guides, before we started the day with a snack! We headed down the cliff path to the beach where we went on a hunt for fossils, shells and sharks teeth! Our guides told us that some of the shells we were finding were millions of years old! We didn't find many shark teeth, but the excitement and enthusiasm didn't waver! After that, we worked in teams to create mini towns from things we could find on the beach. We had to include human and physical features!  We learnt about coastal erosion before finding ways to protect our towns from 'Storm Charlotte' (A bucket full of sea water!) As the tide started to come in, we headed up the steps to look at the cliffs in more detail and learnt why the cliffs are eroding so quickly.  We drew the cliffs and labelled the rock types.  We then went further along the coast wall to look at the sea...