This afternoon the whole of class five with Mrs Reeve, Mrs O’Callaghan and Mrs Paterson walked to the Harvey Grammar School to join Harcourt, Elham, St Peters, Sandgate and Folkestone Primary Academy in a Sing Up Day. We sang songs that we had learnt and listened to other schools perform, including the Harvey Boys. The … Continue reading
Today a new group of Year 6s went to Pelham House to read to the residents. The pupils really enjoyed reading to the residents and the residents enjoyed being read to. Tiki had a really good time as she loves everyone there and everyone is always so pleased to see her.
Today we awarded our first lot of kindness certificates. As part of our 40 acts of generosity for Lent these children wrote super lists telling us what they were grateful for. These can be seen on an earlier blog.
Today in worship we were able to celebrate our guitarists who have won copper and bronze awards. These show just how accomplished they have become at playing the guitar.
Today our worship leaders led us in worship. They told us what it meant to be baptised and showed us a short film about Jesus being baptised by John the Baptist. They told us why baptism is so important to Christians and explained that it is a welcome into Christianity and the love of Jesus. … Continue reading
Today the FESI Choir was in Hawkinge at the Community Centre singing at the Folkestone Symphony’s Christmas concert. The children sang beautifully. There were pupils representing four of the FESI schools, St Peter’s, Castle Hill, Christ Church and St Eanswythe’s. It was amazing to hear them sing accompanied by a full orchestra, equally it was … Continue reading
Today Y4 were lucky enough to be visited by Tania and Emily from the Creative Foundation. They looked at lots of art works from past Triennials and discussed how and why they were created. Then they were able to create their own structures using all sorts of materials, their favourite was definitely modroc. It was … Continue reading
On Monday we were lucky enough to have two artists come in and visit art club. They talked to us about Sintra Tantra and her use of colour and how this can be seen in her design of Folkestone’s cube building. We then listened to music and with our eyes shut drew what we felt. … Continue reading
Today Year 4 took the train to London Bridge and went to discover the South Bank. We saw the Shard, Southwark Cathedral, old Roman walls, St Paul’s Cathedral and ended up at the Tate Modern. In the huge Tate Modern Turbine Hall we ate lunch and then climbed 10 flights of stairs to discover the … Continue reading
Last Sunday Bishop Trevor, who is shortly to retire, addressed his last ever Diocesan Synod and as part of this he spoke about about the confirmation which he did at our church the previous week: On Monday I presided at a service of Confirmation for two of our Church Schools during which twelve young people … Continue reading
Tiki has enjoyed supporting the key worker children over these turbulent times. She has also…
The Key Worker children have sung a song and written prayers for the residents and…
Yesterday evening was the last clap for carers. Therefore, the children at Key Worker School…
You have shown some great examples of kindness this week from tidying your rooms to…
