Year 6 took part in their sponsored fun run this week along the Leas. This event was about much more than running. It was a celebration of teamwork and the fantastic spirit that our Year 6's have shown throughout their time at school. We stopped for a lolly on the way back and of course, had to finish off with some water fight fun back at school. A huge thank you to all the wonderful adults who generously supported the children with sponsors! The money will be going towards c

This week, Year 6 took part in the annual Canada Day Service which commemorates the 305 Canadian soldiers who died in WW1 and are buried in the Shorncliffe Military Cemetery. The memorial service takes place each year on or near Canada Day at the Canadian Servicemen's graves, which is attended by local civic dignitaries, representatives from the Canadian High Commission, the local British Army Command, War Graves Commission, Veterans and Old Comrade's Associations. The child

This term, Year 1 have been learning about the seasons as part of our science topic, focusing on the signs of summer. As part of our learning, we looked at Vincent van Gogh's Cypresses. We talked about the colours, shapes and features we could see in the painting and discussed how it reminded us of the summer season, with its bright sky, green trees and warm landscape. The children then used soft pastels to create their own versions of the artwork. They enjoyed experimenting

This term, Year 1 enjoyed a hands-on RE lesson as we learned about challah bread and why it is important in the Jewish faith. We worked together to add and mix the ingredients to make our own challah dough. However, there was a twist! We left out one secret ingredient and challenged the children to work out what was missing. After lots of thoughtful guesses, we revealed that the missing ingredient was sugar. We talked about how sugar gives challah its slightly sweet flavour a

Last term, Year 1 combined our DT and literacy learning by creating our own ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ puppets. Before making our puppets, the children designed their characters, thinking carefully about the features they wanted to include and the materials they would need. They then used their designs to create colourful and imaginative Wild Things, with every puppet being unique.

Our topic this term is Light and Shadow and so we have started to look at items that are Transparent, Translucent and Opaque. The task was to see how transparent different materials are using a torch. The question being, ‘If the light source gets through the material in question, is it still classed as transparent?’ This was a tricky one as you cannot see through a tissue, but the torch shone through it easily!

As the weather was so hot on the day 3 & 4 were due to go to Legoland we had a fun day in school instead. To start the day we had paper aeroplane competitions to see whose team could assemble a plane that would fly the furthest and another that would stay in the air the longest. Everybody worked so brilliantly in a team. The main attraction though was the water fight, where everyone enjoyed cooling down. A great day was had and we all want to do it again!

The themes of change and transition are very important at St Eanswythe's this term. In PSHE Year 2 found a fun way to explore this concept...whilst keeping very cool in the heatwave! We thought about upcoming changes for us this term like new teachers, moving into KS2 and a new classroom. How did these changes make us feel? We then all took part in challenge, in pairs we each had an ice cube - we had to make our cube melt as fast as possible. There were a lot of very ...inter