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Easter Service 2026

On the final day of term, our school community came together for a very special Easter service at St Eanswythe's Church. Over the past few weeks, the children have been busy preparing songs, poems, artwork and readings to help retell the Easter story. It was a truly collaborative celebration, with every class contributing something unique and meaningful. The service began with a joyful reflection on Palm Sunday, with Ducklings waving palm leaves and singing, setting the scene

St Eanswythe's Easter Bonnet Parade 2026

This week, the children of St Eanswythe’s took part in our much-loved Easter Bonnet Parade, bringing a wonderful splash of colour and creativity to our local community. After some careful crafting at home, the children arrived at school proudly with their spectacular Easter bonnets. Each one was unique, decorated with bright spring flowers, chicks, eggs and ribbons, a real celebration of the season! We then set off on a special parade around The Bayle and the churchyard of St

🌍 Rivers of the World - Owls Class Geography

Today in Owls Class, we became geographers as we explored the fascinating world of rivers! We began by learning that a river is like a long, winding road made of water. We discovered that every river has a source, where it begins high up in the mountains, and a mouth, where it ends in a sea, ocean or lake. The children quickly became confident using new geographical vocabulary. We also explored some of the world’s most famous rivers, including the Nile, the Amazon and the Riv

PSHE in Owls Class 🦷

As part of our Healthy Me topic in PSHE this term, today Year 1 have been learning all about how to keep their teeth clean and why this is so important for our overall health and wellbeing. With Mrs Semple, the children explored the role of the dentist and how they help us to look after our teeth. We shared our own experiences of visiting the dentist, helping to build confidence and understanding around these important check-ups. During our class discussion, the children dre

D&T Day in Owls Class - Making Smoothies 🍓🍌

Year 1 had an amazing day making their own fruit smoothies! They started by learning how fruits grow and how flowers turn into tasty fruits. 🌱🍎 Next, the children became smoothie designers, choosing their favourite fruits, using a class word bank, writing ingredient lists and creating bright, colourful labels for their cups. After learning about knife safety and chopping their fruit carefully, each child added their ingredients to a blender to make their very own smoothie.

Little Heroes to the Rescue!

In PSHE this term our Key Stage One classrooms have been full of little heroes learning big life skills! We have been learning all about how to call for help and how to use simple first aid if someone needs us. We have explored what an emergency actually is and when we might need to ask an adult for help or call 999. To help us remember what to do, we did lots of fun role plays. Some children pretended to be helpers, some were callers and some were the emergency services. We

WBD Hat Competition

Last week, to celebrate World Book Day, sixty of our children took part in our Hat Competition. It was wonderful to see how much care, time and creativity had gone into each and every hat. The entries showed fantastic effort from the children, with each one designing a unique hat inspired by a favourite story or book character. Today we announced the winners and took time during our celebration worship to recognise and celebrate every single hat. The display was truly breath-

Book Day Costumes

A big thank you to everyone who provided costumes and props for your children on World Book Day.

World Book Day in KS1 and Ducks

Take a look at all our fantastic costumes!!

World Book Day Buddies!

What a fantastic World Book Day we have had! We walked up to WH Smith with our buddies and carefully selected a book. The variety was very good and they each chose something that they are very excited to read. We came back to school and shared our new books. It was so nice to be able to spend time with our buddies again!

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Dear Parents/Carers of Owls,

I hope you had a lovely Easter break.

Literacy:

We continue to use Talk for Writing in our literacy lessons. Talk for Writing is a fun approach to Literacy, which enables children to read and write independently for a variety of audiences and purposes within different subjects. This term our class text is ‘Where the Wild Things Are’.

Maths:

Our focus this term is Multiplication and Division of numbers up to 50 and Fractions of numbers and objects.

Science:

Our science topic this term is seasonal changes: spring and summer!

Geography:

In Geography, we will be learning about our local area – fascinating Folkestone!

Art:

In Art, the children will be working in 3 dimensions with Miss Hayward on a Friday.

Design Technology:
In Design and Technology, we will be making our own wild things puppets.

Computing:

The Computing unit this term is technology around us with Mr O on a Friday.

Music:

In Music, the focus is on musical vocabulary with Mrs Hume on a Friday.

Physical Education:

The PE focus this term is Striking and Fielding.

PSHE:

In PSHE, the children will be learning about well-being and British values with Mrs Semple on a Friday.

Religious Education:

For the next two terms we will be moving onto a new religion, Judaism! Our big question is Who is Jewish and what do they believe?

Phonics:

Phonics is taught daily in school and is an essential part of learning to enable pupils to read and write. If you are unfamiliar of the sounds the children learn please watch this video to allow you to support your child at home too: https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/reading-owl/find-a-book/read-write-inc-phonics--1/phonics-pure-sounds-video

Home Learning:

Thank you for your continued support with Home Learning.

Reading at School:

Please continue to read daily with your child at home and record this in their reading record. Next term we will be shifting focus over to phonics and will be working with children 1:1. Our aim is to read with your child once a week at minimum however books will be changed once they have been read at least once.

REMINDERS:

P.E is on a Monday and Friday; the children need to wear their kits into school on both these days.
Please ensure all uniform and belongings are clearly labelled.
Children should come to school with a coat, blazer, school headwear (cap or beret) and a tie.
Please send a water bottle every day.
Continue supporting your child with phonics.
You are welcome to send your child in with fruit each day for their snack, however, the school does provide a piece of fruit every day for your child during their morning playtime.
No items from home should be brought into school

If there are any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to ask.

Best Wishes,

Mrs Laidlow