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• Sunday 9 March 2025 Firecrest: Practical science - reptiles, fish and mammals! Miss Allen brought in an amazing box of fascinating animal artefacts, including a pufferfish and its bladder, shark eggs and a very large shark tooth!
• Friday 7 March 2025 Cuckoo Class Term 4 Week 2
• Friday 7 March 2025 Potions Club - Playdough This week we made playdough - it wasn't quite as messy as the silky playdough we made with hair conditioner and cornflour!
• Friday 7 March 2025 World Book Day - Kingfishers We have had a fantastic day celebrating World Book Day! We looked incredible in our costumes and took part in lots of World Book Day themed activities, including: the poetry slam, the BBC live lesson, independent reading (inside or outside), writing our own stories, and having stories read aloud to us.
• Friday 7 March 2025 World Book Day Celebrating World Book Day - "I opened a book and in I strode..." (Julia Donaldson)
• Monday 3 March 2025 Forest School - Term 4 (Kingfishers)
• Friday 28 February 2025 Cuckoo Class Term 4 Week 1 We have completed our first week back of Term 4 in Cuckoos and have been very grateful for the lovely sunshine towards the end of the week, making most of our outdoor space again. We have enjoyed tasting exotic fruits as part of our DT unit as well as starting our first dance lesson with Mrs Mileham. In Maths, we have explored subtraction within 20 using the rekenrek, number lines and a tens frame.
• Friday 28 February 2025 UK Indoor Athletics Championships 2025
• Friday 28 February 2025 UK Indoor Athletics Championships 2025
• Thursday 27 February 2025 Measurement - Weight
• Friday 21 February 2025 Potions Club - Foaming potions In the last couple of weeks of term 3 we made foaming potions. We created the first potion by mixing lots of different ingredients (water, food colouring, paint and washing up liquid). Then we blew into our potions using straws, which made lots of bubbles!
• Thursday 20 February 2025 Forest School with Y6
• Monday 10 February 2025 Chinese Writing - Numbers To celebrate the Chinese New Year Barn Owls had a go at writing the numbers in Chinese! They did a great work.
• Friday 7 February 2025 Cuckoo Class Term 3 Week 5 This week, Cuckoo Class went to The Maidstone Museum and took part in the toy workshops. We started by creating a human timeline of toys, looking at yoyos, skipping ropes, spinning tops, puppets and jacks. We spoek about how toys have chnaged now to become more colourful, to be able to play with friends and are mostly made of plastic. We then created our own peg dolls and enjoyed takin ga private tour of the museum afterwards. The skeleton, tudor writing stencils and the mesolithic fashion definitely featured as highlights from the trip.
• Thursday 6 February 2025 Forest School Fun The Usual Suspects!
• Thursday 6 February 2025 PE Week 5
• Thursday 6 February 2025 Combining 2 groups to find the whole
• Thursday 6 February 2025 Printing Workshop Firecrest Class enjoyed a fantastic printing workshop with Anna Saunders, inspired by this term's artist Edward Bawden.
• Thursday 6 February 2025 Mental Health Week - Kingfishers This week we have taken part in range of activities linked to the theme 'Know yourself, Grow yourself'. Here are some of the things we have done:
• Wednesday 5 February 2025 Wealden Partnership Girl's Football 2025
• Monday 3 February 2025 Rockets (shapes) We explored arranging, matching and rotating 2D shapes to make a rocket.
• Monday 3 February 2025 Junk Modelling W4 Our imagination does not stop!
• Sunday 2 February 2025 Cuckoo Class Term 3 Week 4 In Cuckoo Class, we have enjoyed continuing with our collage and got technical this week by thinking about all of the different ways we could shape materials before sticking. We loved brining the tuff trays inside for our Maths continuous provision, thinking about number sequences and counting using number lines. We have also added verbs to our understanding of word classes and went on a verb hunt around the classroom before starting to use in our own writing.
• Saturday 1 February 2025 Forest School - First session What an amazing day we had in our first Forest School session!
• Thursday 30 January 2025 Potions Club - Silky playdough This week we were joined by art club. We mixed conditioner and cornflour to make a silky playdough mixture. We had great fun and got very messy!
• Wednesday 29 January 2025 Wakehurst Rainforest Trip 29.1.25 Rainforest study
• Tuesday 28 January 2025 ABC Club Nature Walk 28.1.25 On Tuesday, Alphabet Club were on letter n, so they went for a nature walk! They had a fantastic time exploring the school site in their coats and wellies. Here is a list of all the things they enjoyed about our walk:
• Tuesday 28 January 2025 Art inspired by Henri Matisse "Creativity takes courage" - Matisse
• Sunday 26 January 2025 Cuckoo Class Term 3 Week 3
• Thursday 23 January 2025 Potions Club - Lava lamps This week we made lava lamps - we were amazed when the bubbles started rising!
• Thursday 23 January 2025 Forest School - Term 3 (Kingfishers) Despite the wind and the rain, we had a great time playing in the mud!
• Thursday 23 January 2025 PSHE Workshop - Bouncing Back
• Thursday 23 January 2025 Junk Modelling Corner - Week 3 This week we have continued to be really busy building lots of fun creations:
• Thursday 23 January 2025 PE Week 3 PE this week has been so much fun! On Monday we had the chance to play in the adventure playground and on Wednesday we did Large Apparatus with Mrs Mileham. THE BEST WEEK EVER!
• Tuesday 21 January 2025 SCARF (PSHE) Workshop - Kingfishers Today, Kingfishers participated in a SCARF workshop learning all about their brains and bodies.
• Monday 20 January 2025 PSHE SCARF - Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience, Friendship
• Friday 17 January 2025 Cuckoo Class Term 3 Week 2 With Forest School on Thursday, drumming on Wednesday and a visit from Mrs Reed on Friday, we had a very fun week in Cuckoos. We have also enjoyed looking at how we can move and shape our bodies in gymnastics and making collages inspired by Megan Coyle.
• Friday 17 January 2025 Junk Modelling Corner We have had so much fun in our Junk Modelling Corner. Look at our creations:
• Friday 17 January 2025 Pantosaurus and the powerful pants As part of your PSED/PSHE today we read 'Pantosaurus and the power of pants'. The children then had the chance to design their own pants. These have been put in display in our toilet.
• Thursday 16 January 2025 Potions Club - Week 1
• Tuesday 14 January 2025 Forest school in the snow
• Tuesday 14 January 2025 Final DT project on trains DT - Trains
• Friday 10 January 2025 Cuckoo Class Term 3 Week 1 Our first week of 2025 in Cuckoo Class and the snow couldn't even stop us cracking on with lots of new learning! We loved playing dice games in Maths to think about our number bonds, using the large apparatus in PE and enjoyed writing on the tables to group data in computing. We did our first Friday show and tell and focused this week on using our key question words as well as talking with our hands away from our mouths.
• Friday 10 January 2025 First week back! What a great first week back we had! The children were very excited to be back and to talk to us about their Christmas adventures.
• Saturday 4 January 2025 Launching our Science Fair at the 10:10 Federation for 2025! On Tuesday 18th March, we will host our inaugural science fair, to tie in with British Science Week 2025.
• Friday 20 December 2024 Cuckoo Class Term 2 Week 7 Wow! What an amazing end to our Autumn Term. We started the week by finishing our DT Christmas cards and creating snowman art using 2D shapes. We then had the most amazing time watching Snow White at the pantomime, followed by an afternoon with our teddies for our Cuckoo Cube treat. The following day started by interviewing the Year 6s for History and then we had our Christmas Dinner, a Christmas party and a Christmas disco... I think that we were all ready for the holidays after that afternoon!
• Friday 20 December 2024 Kingfisher's Christmas celebrations 2024
• Thursday 19 December 2024 Author Visit
• Wednesday 18 December 2024 Doctor Visit
• Wednesday 18 December 2024 Coach Visit
• Wednesday 18 December 2024 Baking Gingerbread men
• Tuesday 17 December 2024 Santa Dash 2024
• Tuesday 17 December 2024 Puppet Show No strings attached
• Monday 16 December 2024 A visit from Stagecoach
• Friday 13 December 2024 Interview with David & Peter
• Friday 13 December 2024 Cuckoo Class Term 2 Week 6
• Thursday 12 December 2024 Forest School - Term 2 Mud pies galore
• Wednesday 11 December 2024 KS1 Fashion Club - creating our own polo tops For our final fashion club session, we used our designs from the previous week to inspire our own polo top creations. Our different design briefs were to make either a top representing our house colour or classroom or a Christmas design. They
• Wednesday 11 December 2024 Design & Technology "Pivot!"
• Tuesday 10 December 2024 Walkabout - 4th December 2024 Following the leader...
• Tuesday 10 December 2024 Healthy Me Workshop - 22nd November 2024 Kingfishers learnt about how to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
• Tuesday 10 December 2024 Forest School - 21 November 2024 In the deep, dark woods...
• Friday 6 December 2024 Cuckoo Class Term 2 Week 5 This week really felt like Christmas. We met our elf, Smarties Florence Bitsy and had so much fun exploring our new Santa’s workshop role play corner. In Maths, we continued with 3D shape, building cubes and guessing the wrapped shape and in English, we wrote stories about our cheeky elf’s arrival. Friday was definitely a day of festivities with nativity rehearsals, Santa Dash and our Christmas fayre. Thank you for all of the support we received to help put together the fantastic Christmas Bonanza.
• Friday 6 December 2024 Roman sculptures "Experience is the teacher of all things" - Julius Caesar (c. 100 BC – 44 BC / Reigned 46 – 44 BC)
• Thursday 5 December 2024 29th November - 5th December 2024 That was the week that was!
• Friday 29 November 2024 Cuckoo Class Term 2 Week 4 This week Cuckoo Class made their own jam all ready to sell at the Christmas fayre. We loved touching, tasting and smelling the ingredients and then helping to prepare the jam but our favourite part by far was testing out the final product on toast! We have also enjoyed taking on 3D shape construction challenges and was very excited to receive a postcard from an elf, inspiring this week's writing.
• Friday 22 November 2024 PE - Target This term Barn Owls are doing a PE unit on target. So far we have:
• Friday 22 November 2024 OT Visit A big thank you to Laura Blakiston for coming in to talk to the children about her job as an OT.
• Friday 22 November 2024 Snow We really enjoyed the 10 minutes of snow! We even made snow angels!
• Friday 22 November 2024 Healthy Me Roadshow "Let them eat cake" - NOT!!
• Thursday 21 November 2024 Cuckoo Class Term 2 Week 3 With the Winter fast approaching, Cuckoos made the most of one of our last Autumn welly walks on Monday. We were on the hunt for signs of Autumn and made checklists of things to look out for, the squirrels were by far our proudest spot! We have also spent lots of time doing number line work in Maths this week to help us with subtraction and started to developed our mouse skills in computing this week with a 'drag and drop' game on the chromebooks. In PE, we have been thinking about balances and how we can use our arms and our core to help us balance and finally, a huge thank you to Yala for bringing in lots of Christmas crafts for the whole class, we loved creating decorations that incorporated symbols of Christmas.
• Wednesday 20 November 2024 Sharing our skills in Green House - Day 3, Tennis On Wednesday this week, KS1 members of Green House helped to run a tennis match for the school as part of the Green House skill sharing week. It has been fantastic to see so many children sharing skills and having fun at lunchtime thanks to Green House.
• Wednesday 20 November 2024 Canterbury Roman Museum "Carpe Diem"
• Monday 18 November 2024 Sharing our skills in Green House - Day 1, Netball At the end of Term 1, the whole school participated in a house afternoon to share our individual and group strengths. After recognising that we are passionate and skilled in a variety of sports in Green House, we decided to share this with the rest of the school by leading a week of games and tournaments on the playground. We hit the ground running on Monday with a very popular game of netball.
• Sunday 17 November 2024 Visit - Met Police Officer
• Sunday 17 November 2024 Exploring Shapes
• Friday 15 November 2024 Cuckoo Class Term 2 Week 2 We started off this week in Cuckoos by joining the rest of the school outside to show our respect during the two minute silence and then joined the whole school again in the week to show our solidarity in standing up against bullying for anti-bullying week. In class, we role-played what to do when we saw someone being treated unkindly and wore our odd socks to school. Separate to this, we loved our day at Forest School making honey glue art, building fairy houses and building dens up in the trees. In RE, we retold the story of the nativity and found it very exciting in History when we explored artefacts from schools in the past.
• Thursday 14 November 2024 Wealden Partership Netball 24
• Friday 8 November 2024 Cuckoo Class Term 2 Week 1 Welcome back Cuckoos! This week we really threw ourselves back into the new term with a week packed full of subtraction to 10 using bowling, sensory trays and counter challenges. We wrote questions to Sunny the Meerkat in Meerkat Mail and have been developing our capital letter recognition and formation in English. In DT, we have been looking at sliding mechanisms in picture books and then had a go at creating our own slides and guides but top of our list this week, we absolutely loved welcoming so many of our parents in on Wednesday to share a PSHE lesson looking at all of the things that make us the same and different... the parachute was VERY exciting!
• Friday 8 November 2024 Vets Role Play Corner On their return from the half term holidays the children found out that our Home Corner became a Veterinary Surgery.
• Wednesday 6 November 2024 Open Afternoon - Barn Owls It was an absolute pleasure to have many of you in this afternoon.
• Wednesday 6 November 2024 Reading to our buddies And just like that this morning we grabbed our Monster Phonics books and we read them to our buddies!
• Wednesday 6 November 2024 Open Afternoon Welcome to Robin Class
• Friday 1 November 2024 Writing captions On the last day of term Barn Owls had a look at a photo on the board and wrote a caption.
• Friday 25 October 2024 Cuckoo Class Term 1 Week 8
• Friday 25 October 2024 Year 4 Forest School - Autumn Term 1
• Friday 25 October 2024 Robins in the Forest "Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree" - Emily Bronte
• Friday 18 October 2024 A day in Barn Owls Look! This is what a day in Barn Owls looks like:
• Friday 18 October 2024 Fit Fence "En garde"
• Friday 18 October 2024 English - Freeze Frame Freeze Frame stills using the class book - The Stone Age Boy
• Thursday 17 October 2024 Fit fence Taster Day
• Thursday 17 October 2024 Cuckoo Class Term 1 Week 7 Can you believe that we have nearly completed our first term in Year 1?! This week we continued to develop our knowledge of number bonds to 10, using a variety of resources both in independent play and on the carpet. We also created our final artworks inspired by Piet Mondrian and were so excited to peel off the masking tape creating the parallel lines.
• Wednesday 16 October 2024 Roman Food Fortuna favet fortibus.” (Fortune favors the brave.) - Pliny the Elder
• Tuesday 15 October 2024 International Infection Prevention Week 13-19 October 2024 Germs never take a sick day
• Sunday 13 October 2024 Cuckoo Class Term 1 Week 6 Cuckoos have been very creative this week in all of their subjects. We started the week with looking at physically representing our part-whole models to support us in writing number sentences to use the plus and equals symbol, some of us even tried exploring with our whole being greater than 10! In Geography, we walked up to the church collecting pictures of things on our way to record our route on a journey stick and then in Art, we explored secondary colours by mixing frozen cubes of red, blue and yellow. To finish off our week, we had the best time at The Cuckoo Kino, watching Ratatouille as our treat for earning 100 Cuckoo Cubes!
• Friday 11 October 2024 Junior Scholars' Concert 11.10.24 Robins class had the fantastic opportunity to visit Benenden School to listen to their Junior Scholars' Concert this afternoon. They had an incredible time listening to the pieces performed by girls from the school and were so incredibly quiet and well behaved. The scholars performed on piano, violin, voice and marimba. It was an absolute joy to watch Robins class faces as they heard the range of music.
• Friday 11 October 2024 Robins FitFence 11.10.24 Robins Class absolutely loved their fencing taster with FitFence today. They learnt many key skills and drills including salut, en garde, parry and advance. Below are some photos of their session.
• Friday 11 October 2024 Year 6 Forest School 10.11.24
• Thursday 10 October 2024 Toast Toast can never be bread again!
• Thursday 10 October 2024 Rawlinson Run October 24
• Wednesday 9 October 2024 Sound Investigation Strength, vibrate, volume
• Wednesday 9 October 2024 Alphabet Club - 8th October 2024 Design, dream, doughnuts, decorating...
• Sunday 6 October 2024 KS1 Fashion Club This week at fashion club we made African Cape Collars, exploring traditional African patterns and designing our own.
• Sunday 6 October 2024 Cuckoo Class Autumn Term Forest School
• Sunday 6 October 2024 Cuckoo Class Term 1 Week 5 Wow! This week was definitely our best yet with a whole day at Forest School making fairy houses, forest wands and counting poems. We also loved creating our own part-whole models and have started to explore split digraphs in phonics.
• Friday 27 September 2024 Cuckoo Class Term 1 Week 4
• Friday 27 September 2024 s, a, t, p, i, n - writing and reading! We have been busy bees this week practising the sounds we have been learning over the last couple of weeks. Look at us:
• Friday 20 September 2024 Barn Owls T1 W3
• Friday 20 September 2024 What have Robins been up to recently? Work, work, work
• Thursday 19 September 2024 Cuckoo Class Term 1 Week 3 We have really settled into our routine now in Cuckoo Class and have been working very hard all week. We have taken our continuous provision outside and have been engaging in Maths fluency tasks set up in the tuff trays as well as using bowling to test our understanding of one more and one less. In English, we have also used the tuff trays to help retell the story of Rosie's Walk on the farmyard and in Geography we looked at why we use maps and how a map of the big buddy playground can help us decode a secret message. With Mrs Mileham, we practiced football skills and even managed to incorporate some of our phonics words from this week into the games.
• Sunday 15 September 2024 Cuckoo Class term 1 Week 2
• Friday 13 September 2024 Spending time with our buddies This week we have enjoyed spending time with our buddies in Y6. We have loved reading stories, having lunch with them and we have started our buddy journals.
• Thursday 12 September 2024 Yr6 Start of term 2024
• Wednesday 11 September 2024 Year 6 Autumn Term Football
• Friday 6 September 2024 First Week in Barn Owls What an amazing start to their school journey Barn Owls had this week.
• Friday 6 September 2024 Cuckoo class first week back
• Wednesday 4 September 2024 Pet Detectives To Serve & Protect
• Tuesday 9 July 2024 Firecrests Campfire 9.7.24 Firecrests had an amazing time last night at the campfire. They played many games, performed campfire entertainment and even put on a fashion show! The highlight of the night was clearly George's dance moves, which even Miss Ashton couldn't beat. What a great evening, I'm sure they all slept well.
• Saturday 6 July 2024 Cuckoos - Forest School Term 6 Our last session of the year was a BLAST!
• Sunday 30 June 2024 Colour Dash 2024
• Sunday 30 June 2024 Wealden Partnership Swimming Gala 24
• Friday 28 June 2024 Cuckoos Term 6 Week 2, 3 & 4 The last few weeks have been extremely busy for Cuckoos.
• Thursday 27 June 2024 Firecrests Explorers Day 27.6.24 Firecrests had an amazing day, dressed up as explorers, finding out about new countries on different continents.
• Monday 24 June 2024 Bedgebury Trip 24.6.24 Cuckoos and Firecrests had an amazing time on their trip to Bedgebury this week. They got to explore the conifers and their cones, make forest potions and listen to the sounds of the forest. They used frames to pick out views they thought were beautiful and also learnt about the animals and plants that live there.
• Monday 24 June 2024 Bedgebury Trip 24.6.24
• Thursday 20 June 2024 Firecrests Forest School 20.6.24
• Saturday 15 June 2024 Art Workshop with Anna Saunders Cuckoos have been extremely lucky this week and had Anna Saunders came in to do an Art workshop, based on Joan's Miró work.
• Friday 14 June 2024 Final Forest School From little seeds grow mighty trees.
• Saturday 8 June 2024 Term 6 Week 1 What a busy first week Cuckoos have had! One Monday we went on a trip to Folkestone. On Wednesday we had Sports day in the morning and an Open afternoon making smoothies. On Thursday we finished our Cricket PE block. Although we are all super tired we had an amazing week.
• Wednesday 5 June 2024 Open Afternoon Kingfisher parents were treated to a lovely afternoon learning all about the Ancient Egyptians. There was a carousel of activities; an Egyptian game, clay cartouches, designing a death mask and learning more about pyramids. I am sure the parents who attended came away with lots of information about this civilisation.
• Tuesday 4 June 2024 Firecrests Position and Direction 4.6.24 Firecrests have been learning about position and direction. They looked at how careful instructions have to be and used the words left, right, forwards and backwards to give directions to a partner. They have also started using clockwise and anticlockwise to describe turns. We went outside to use the number squares as markers for our directions. They were amazing at it! Some of them even challenged themselves to find more than one way of giving the directions.
• Thursday 23 May 2024 Kingfishers School Trip to Maidstone Museum Walk Like An Egyptian
• Thursday 23 May 2024 Lego Club Term 5 I am happy to report that, although it seemed a bit crazy to open Lego Club to the whole school, everyone was sharing, happy, excited, and working together with no issues. Seeing everyone happy, playing with the Lego, and helping each other has been amazing and is a reminder of why I chose this career.
• Friday 17 May 2024 Wellbeing Day "The key to a healthy life is having a healthy mind."
• Friday 17 May 2024 Glorious Mud - Part 3 The mud will wash off, but the memories will last a lifetime.
• Thursday 16 May 2024 Cuckoos Term 5 Week 5 Another busy week for Cuckoos. This week they have been doing loads of maths, they had their colour run trials, had a go at drawing with charcoal and made plant mazes!
• Tuesday 14 May 2024 Firecrests Leeds Castle Trip 14.5.24 Firecrests had such an amazing day at Leeds Castle. They travelled by coach and had a workshop covering all of the owners and caretakers of Leeds Castle which included lots of dressing up! This was followed by lunch and a quick trip to the playground. They were then taken on a guided tour of the castle and got to see all sorts of amazing scenes as well as finding out about the places Henry VIII loved when he was there. They were absolutely exhausted by the time they came home.
• Friday 10 May 2024 Robin Class Trip to The Imperial War Museum Robin's had a BRILLIANT day exploring the IWM in London on Wednesday 8th May 2024. W travelled up by train (with our own reserved carriages, which was very exciting), walked through London and got to experience the amazing exhibits at the museum. We also had a workshop with an army veteran and a lady who was a child during WW2. A truly unforgettable day for all who attended. The children had great fun, learnt a lot and were awesome.
• Friday 10 May 2024 Cuckoos Term 5 Week 4 What a busy a hot week Cuckoos had this week! Not as many pictures pictures as usual but still a great amount of learning.
• Thursday 9 May 2024 Firecrests Supermarket Letters 9.5.24 Firecrests have been learning about environmental issues from their book Somebody Swallowed Stanley. They wrote letters to supermarkets to persuade them to use less plastic packaging so that the sea can be less polluted and the animals are not harmed. They were very worried about turtles easting carrier bags because they confuse them with jellyfish.
• Wednesday 8 May 2024 English National Opera "Voi che sapete" The Marriage Of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Tuesday 7 May 2024 Hotshotz Taster Day 2024 On Friday 26th April the children were all treated to a taster session from Hotshotz tennis club.
• Tuesday 7 May 2024 Cricket taster with Benenden girl's school coach On 30th April years 5 & 6 were treated to an excellent Cricket taster session with Liam from Benenden Girl's school. Liam is the head of Cricket at the school and also the head coach for the Brazilian ladies Cricket team.
• Friday 3 May 2024 Firecrests Time 3.5.24 Firecrests started learning to tell the time today. With the help of an ENORMOUS clock, they learnt how to tell the time to the hour and the half hour. They picked up very quickly on the link between our fractions topic and half on the clock and some were even asking about how we can show quarters on a clock. They made their own times on their clocks and explained what sort of things might be happening at different times during the day. Their favourite was half past 10.... break time!
• Friday 3 May 2024 Cuckoos Term 5 Week 3 Another full and fantastic week for Cuckoos we have been:
• Thursday 2 May 2024 Firecrests Sketching Botanicals 2.5.24 Firecrests used their new sketching skills out in the wellbeing garden today. They each chose a plant which interested them and sketched the outline. They then used shading to show which areas of the plants were lighter and darker. Some of them chose to add a new perspectives to their work by showing the buds in different stages of development. They really enjoyed sitting outside in the beautiful weather and found lots of amazing plants in the wellbeing garden to use. Look at their amazing work!
• Thursday 2 May 2024 Firecrests Meet Olive 2.5.24 On Thursday we had a very exciting visit from Olive and her lovely triplets. Darren and Hannah were very kind to bring Olive the sheep and her three incredibly cute lambs in for us to meet. We had a fantastic time stroking them and feeding Olive digestive biscuits as well as having many of our questions answered, from asking their names to finding out what happens with their wool. We were joined by Swallows who popped out to see them and even Mr Emmett snuck out of his class for a peek!
• Monday 29 April 2024 Mini London Marathon 29.4.24 Wow, what an incredible event!!!
• Thursday 25 April 2024 Term 5 Week 2 What an amazing week Cuckoos had!
• Thursday 25 April 2024 End of Term Performance It was lovely to see all the hard work the children have been putting into their drumming lessons.
• Wednesday 24 April 2024 Firecrests Botanical Drawing 24.4.24 Firecrests have been looking at flower and plant forms and trying to draw their outlines. They looked at the techniques of line drawing and sketching and have tried drawing the same flower a few times to see which versions they prefer.
• Monday 22 April 2024 Firecrests Pancake Fractions 22.4.24 Firecrests have been exploring fractions and how we can split a whole into different parts. Obviously we had to use something tasty, so pancakes it was! They used the pancakes to show halves and quarters as well as comparing half to two quarters to see that they are equal.
• Friday 19 April 2024 Firecrests Environmental Debate 19.4.24 Following their learning from the book Somebody Swallowed Stanley by Sarah Roberts, Firecrests had a debate about whether or not we should use plastic packaging. They wrote their points down and some chose to present these to the class as counter to each others points. They spoke really clearly and made some very interesting observations about our use of plastic.
• Friday 19 April 2024 Term 5 Week 1 Well done Cuckoos, week 1 done and dusted!
• Friday 19 April 2024 Adverbs Relay Race Quickly, slowly, hurriedly, urgently, leisurely...
• Wednesday 27 March 2024 Term 4 Activities Another busy term!
• Tuesday 26 March 2024 castles, Knights and Princesses day!
• Tuesday 26 March 2024 Lego Club term 4
• Friday 22 March 2024 Firecrests PE Activities 21.3.24 Firecrests have worked hard this term to earn all of the stars in their jar. As their treat, they chose to have all of the PE equipment out to make their own games with. They tried Netball, Large Apparatus, Gymnastics and even used their skills from our PE lessons with Tennis. They had a lot of fun on what turned out to be a very lovely, sunny day!
• Wednesday 20 March 2024 William Morris Art "Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be beautiful or believe to be useful" - William Morris
• Monday 18 March 2024 Firecrests Coil Bowl Making 18.3.24 Firecrests have been using their new clay skills to create coil bowls. They are part of their kintsugi topic of finding the flaws in bowls and fixing them with gold. They learnt how to roll, shape and build with clay and will get to apply their kintsugi skills once they are dry.
• Thursday 14 March 2024 DT Project T3 and T4
• Thursday 14 March 2024 World Book Day
• Saturday 9 March 2024 Wealden Partnership Hockey 2024
• Friday 8 March 2024 World Book Day We had lots of fun celebrating world book day! We all came in spectacular fancy dress! In the morning we had a talk from an author, then we made some books with our buddies. In the afternoon we enjoyed lots of book related provision such as making our own bookmarks and gruffalo crumble!
• Friday 8 March 2024 World Book Day "You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me" - C S Lewis
• Friday 8 March 2024 Treating Our Mums Kingfishers threw open their doors and welcomed some VIP visitors in. The children's mums came in to help decorate the clay trinket box they had made earlier in the week. They were treated to some scones, with jam and cream and a hot beverage of their choice.
• Thursday 7 March 2024 Computing T4 L1 L2
• Thursday 7 March 2024 Dance with Mrs Mileham
• Thursday 7 March 2024 Science T4 - Straw Planes
• Thursday 7 March 2024 Egg Box Dragons This term we are reading ‘The adventures of Egg Box Dragon’ by Richard Adams. We have finally read ALL our book. Ask the children about it, it has been a great journey.
• Thursday 7 March 2024 Mather's Day afternoon It was lovely to see so many of you today. The children loved having you in the classroom. Thank you :)
• Thursday 7 March 2024 Dodgeball Taster Day
• Thursday 7 March 2024 Year 5- Flower Arranging and Quilling (Mother's Day Afternoon)
• Tuesday 5 March 2024 Firecrests Easter Activities 27.2.24 Firecrests took part in a collection of activities related to the Easter story.
• Tuesday 5 March 2024 Firecrests Restaurant Reviews 5.3.24 Firecrests tried a range of Italian food today in English to practice using their adjectives in their writing. The pretended to visit an Italian restaurant and wrote a review of the food they tried. They had pizza, mozzarella and salami. Look at the reviews they wrote too!
• Wednesday 28 February 2024 T4 Geography - Walk around the village
• Wednesday 28 February 2024 Tennis L1 and L2
• Wednesday 28 February 2024 T4 Art 3D Form - Clay
• Monday 26 February 2024 Firecrest Arrays 26.2.24 Firecrests explored arrays and how we can lay out our numbers in rows and columns. They looked at how our multiplication number sentence has the same answer whether we use rows or columns as our groups. They also learnt the word commutativity. Don't tell Mrs Roberts we drew on the tables!
• Monday 19 February 2024 Painting with Scissors Kingfishers looked at Henri Matisse collages. He described this type of art as "Painting with Scissors." The class have made self-portraits based on this style.
• Monday 19 February 2024 UK Indoor Athletics 2024
• Monday 19 February 2024 Silver for Kent boys Many congratulations to Harry Lau and the Kent boys team for winning the silver medal at the Regional finals for the Sportshall Athletics decathlon.
• Friday 9 February 2024 Firecrests Inspirational People
• Friday 9 February 2024 Wet & Wild in the Forest Water, water everywhere!
• Thursday 8 February 2024 SPACE DAY! We have spent Term 3 learning about SPACE! It has been so much fun. We ended the term by having a space day! We all came dressed up and took part in some fun activities!
• Thursday 8 February 2024 PSHE Workshop
• Thursday 8 February 2024 Wellbeing Week Yoga, Wordsearches, colouring and singing. This is how we have have promoted Mental Health week at Cuckoos.
• Thursday 8 February 2024 Science T3 Marble Run
• Thursday 8 February 2024 Science T3 L4
• Thursday 8 February 2024 DT T3 L3
• Thursday 8 February 2024 Firecrests Wellbeing Poems 8.2.24 As part of Mental Health Week, Firecrests explored 'Sad Poem' by Joshua Seigal. They used the format to adapt a poem for their own ideas of things they can do to make them feel happy. You can see the original poem at the end of the page. Look at the gallery to see all of the lovely ideas they came up with!
• Thursday 8 February 2024 Firecrests Lego Zip Lines 8.2.24 Firecrests were set the challenge of helping a stranded Lego man get down from the top of a mountain. They used zip lines to rescue him and experimented with the angle of the slope to see if they could find the fastest way to get the minifigure down safely. We had a lot of fun seeing the issues with sliding too fast, Lego everywhere! They discovered that a medium angled slop was best as gravity made the minifigure move far too quickly on a steep angled zip line.
• Thursday 8 February 2024 SVPS Girl's Football
• Tuesday 6 February 2024 Firecrests Internet Safety 6.2.24 For their Internet Safety Day activity, Firecrests thought about what sort of technology we will see in the future. They designed a future technology and explained what it can do. Have a look at some of the ideas that they suggested, we think some of these are not far off being made!
• Monday 5 February 2024 Rocket making We have been inspired by our space topic and during our provision we decided to make rockets! We were working as teams and got very creative.
• Sunday 4 February 2024 Read-a-thon
• Sunday 4 February 2024 Events
• Sunday 4 February 2024 Money Raised
• Friday 2 February 2024 Computing T3
• Friday 2 February 2024 Lego Club KS2 T3 Every Wednesday I set the children a challenge that they can complete if they wish or they can just play with Lego and set their own challenges.
• Friday 2 February 2024 Science T3 L1 L2 L3
• Friday 2 February 2024 Phonics T3
• Friday 2 February 2024 Gymnastics T3
• Friday 2 February 2024 Large Apparatus - T3
• Friday 2 February 2024 Forest School T3
• Thursday 1 February 2024 Marble Run Creations 1.2.24 Firecrests explored the force of gravity and how it works. They thought about the different effect gravity has when on Earth and in space. They made their own marble runs and had to think about how they slowed down the marbles.
• Thursday 1 February 2024 Art T3 - Collage
• Thursday 1 February 2024 History - Toys - T3
• Thursday 1 February 2024 Year 5 Macbeth Rehearsals
• Tuesday 30 January 2024 Firecrests Algorithm Design and Debugging 30.1.24 Firecrests creating beebot routes and coding them.
• Monday 29 January 2024 Glorious Mud Part 2 Very muddy footprints!
• Monday 29 January 2024 Term 3 activities All the latest news!
• Friday 26 January 2024 Healthy Me workshops - KS2 On Friday 19th January the children in years 3,4 & 5 took part in Healthy living workshops run by TWKSSP.
• Friday 26 January 2024 Kent Sportshall Athletics trials On Sunday 14th January Penny, Issy, Harry, Tabitha, Blake, Billy, Jordan and Harris all competed in the Kent Trials for Sportshall Athletics. They were joined by over 150 children from all round Kent, including many Athletics clubs. The children competed in 10 track and Field events which were timed and measured. I was timing the Balance event but did manage to watch the children compete in some of their events. They all performed with skill and determination. Well done to all the competitors. A huge congratulations to Harry who won the Gold medal in the boy's competition and will now be representing Kent in the regional competition, training starts this weekend.
• Friday 26 January 2024 Scotland Hockey Success Mr Roberts, Hamish is the son of our very own Mrs Robert's son.
• Friday 26 January 2024 Year 5 Rockets
• Friday 19 January 2024 Science T3 L4
• Thursday 11 January 2024 Map reading around Benenden Following the leader....
• Friday 15 December 2023 Healthy eating workshop
• Friday 15 December 2023 Forest School T2
• Friday 15 December 2023 Christmas Party
• Friday 15 December 2023 Phonics T2
• Friday 15 December 2023 Computing and art T2
• Friday 15 December 2023 DT T2
• Friday 15 December 2023 Maths T2 Children have the opportunity across the week to embed their maths knowledge through independent challenges. The use of maths resources in Y1 is key for their learning. We are also asking the children to take pictures of their own evidence of challenges, hence the quality of the pictures or lack of them - but they are getting much better. Building independence and perseverance is also a key aspect in Y1.
• Friday 15 December 2023 Christmas lunch
• Friday 15 December 2023 Science T2
• Wednesday 13 December 2023 TWKSSP Sportshall Athletics 2023 On Wednesday 13th December a team of children from years 5 & 6 travelled to The Angel Centre in Tonbridge to compete in the TWKSSP Sportshall Athletics Competition.
• Tuesday 12 December 2023 Pantomine 2023 The children enjoyed their trip to the Pantomine-a first for Benenden.
• Tuesday 12 December 2023 Roman Statues "Experience is the teacher of all things" - Julius Caesar
• Tuesday 12 December 2023 Andy Goldsworthy inspired collages "Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality" - Andy Goldsworthy
• Tuesday 12 December 2023 Van Gogh Art "Great things are done by a series of small things brought together" - Vincent Van Gogh
• Tuesday 12 December 2023 Canterbury Roman Museum Veni, Vidi, Vici - "I came, I saw, I conquered"
• Friday 8 December 2023 Kingfishers in the Forest Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud
• Friday 1 December 2023 Christmas Market 2023 We are looking forward to seeing you at our forthcoming Christmas Market.
• Friday 1 December 2023 Monet Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies
• Thursday 30 November 2023 TWKSSP Team Building 2023
• Wednesday 22 November 2023 Open Morning Welcome to Kingfishers
• Friday 17 November 2023 Super Movers Kingfishers are Super Movers
• Monday 13 November 2023 Sewing Project Sew far, Sew good!
• Saturday 11 November 2023 Treat - Playing in Barn Owls Cuckoos had a challenge during Term 1. We have a jar and every time that a child reads 5 times we put a star in the jar. We had to get 100 starts to get out treats and they did it.
• Friday 10 November 2023 Crazy Hair Day
• Wednesday 8 November 2023 Wealden Partnership Football 2023
• Friday 3 November 2023 Jason Pollock art We have been looking at bonfire night. We found an artist called Jason Pollock who used a method of dripping the paint. So we had a go to make some fun firework pictures!
• Friday 3 November 2023 Quiz Night Come if you can.
• Friday 3 November 2023 Crazy Hair Day Fun was had by all, crazy hair in return for a hamper item.
• Friday 3 November 2023 Crazy Hair Day Crazy hair, don't care!
• Monday 30 October 2023 Pumpkins! we have been reading the story of pumpkin Jack and exploring pumpkins. There are lots of different types. We even tried some pumpkin soup that Mrs Herbert made us!
• Friday 27 October 2023 Lego Club Term 1 Lego club benefits with turn taking, sharing, joint problem solving and general communication and social communication skills.
• Thursday 26 October 2023 Buddies - Year 5 and Year 1
• Thursday 26 October 2023 Science Lesson 6 (Chocolate rice crispy cake) A lot of cooking involves chemistry and is essentially a series of chemical reactions. Knowing about this kitchen chemistry can help you to understand much more about what’s happening – and why your recipes sometimes go wrong!
• Thursday 26 October 2023 Rugby Term 1 (2)
• Thursday 26 October 2023 Owls Visit
• Thursday 26 October 2023 Mastery Maths Term 1 (2) Children have the opportunity across the week to embed their Mastery Maths knowledge usging our maths resources. We are also asking the children to take pictures of their own evidence of challenges, hence the quality of the pictures or lack of them - but they are getting much better. Building independence and perseverance is also a key aspect in Y1.
• Thursday 26 October 2023 Geography T1 (2)
• Thursday 26 October 2023 Mixing Shades - Drip painting
• Thursday 26 October 2023 Forest School Term 1
• Thursday 26 October 2023 Science Baking Cookies Y1&Y2 (T1) A lot of cooking involves chemistry and is essentially a series of chemical reactions. Knowing about this kitchen chemistry can help you to understand much more about what’s happening – and why your recipes sometimes go wrong!
• Thursday 26 October 2023 Computing - Term 1
• Thursday 26 October 2023 Crystals (It worked!) The final result!
• Monday 23 October 2023 Wealden Partnership Hockey 2023
• Friday 20 October 2023 People who help us! We have been thinking and looking at people who help us. We had a think about what we’d like to do when we grow up and why!
• Friday 20 October 2023 People who help us! We have been thinking and looking at people who help us. We had a think about what we’d like to do when we grow up and why!
• Friday 13 October 2023 Owl Visit What A Hoot!
• Monday 9 October 2023 Autumn welly walk We had a little walk around our local area to see what signs of autumn we could see.
• Sunday 8 October 2023 Crystals in the making (or not...) - Cuckoos "Being a scientific is so exhausting! Plus we have to wait for soooooo long to see if it actually works" - Child aged 5
• Sunday 8 October 2023 Captain Wonderweb (Barn Owls and Cuckoos) This week Captain Wonderweb came to see us and taught us how important is to look after our body and mind. We loved dancing and singing along with them.
• Sunday 8 October 2023 PSHE - Body language In PSHE we have been talking about our feelings. We have also learnt the term 'body language'. The children that were keen on doing so decided a feeling and pulled a face, later on as a group we decided which feelings were our friends showing and why it is very important to respect them.
• Sunday 8 October 2023 Rugby Cuckoos (1) This term Cuckoos are doing Rubgy with Miss Sanchez.
• Sunday 8 October 2023 Geography Term 1 (1) This term Cuckoos have been very busy. We have been learning what a bird eye view is, what do we use maps for and how to use a map. We started looking at a classroom map to then look at a school map. The next challenge will be for them to draw their own school maps. How exciting!
• Sunday 8 October 2023 Mastery Maths (1) - Cuckoos Children have the opportunity across the week to embed their Mastery Maths knowledge usging our maths resources. We are also asking the children to take pictures of their own evidence of challenges, hence the quality of the pictures or lack of them - but they are getting much better. Building independence and perseverance is also a key aspect in Y1.
• Sunday 8 October 2023 Maths - Independent Challenges (2) Children have the opportunity across the week to embed their maths knowledge through independent challenges. The use of maths resources in Y1 is key for their learning. We are also asking the children to take pictures of their own evidence of challenges, hence the quality of the pictures or lack of them - but they are getting much better. Building independence and perseverance is also a key aspect in Y1.
• Saturday 7 October 2023 Rawlinson Run - October 2023
• Saturday 7 October 2023 Sports Leader Training 2023 Our year six children have now begun their journey to be Young Sports Leaders. The class have received training from TWKSSP and MM. They will now start to support Sport and PE throughout the school with duties such as keeping the PE equipment tidy, running Active Lunchtime clubs and supporting with the running of the Summer Sports Day.
• Saturday 7 October 2023 Cheerleading Taster Day Sept 2023
• Saturday 7 October 2023 Rei Judo Taster 2023
• Friday 6 October 2023 Rawlingson Run 6.10.23 Today, 6 teams from Years 2, 3 & 4 went to Dulwich to compete in the Rawlingson Run. Many thanks to the parents and helpers who went along to help make this happen. Also thanks to Rachel Tinker for this lovely video of them all taking part. Well done everyone!
• Thursday 5 October 2023 Science, Sport & some VIP Visitors 25/09/23 - 02/10/23
• Monday 2 October 2023 Co-op Funding Thank you to the Co-op for an amazing £3,698.81 which has been put towards our wonderful Well-Being Garden.
• Friday 29 September 2023 Special to me As part of our PSHE we have been thinking about what is special to us. We bought in an item from home and showed our friends and also stood in front of everyone and told them about them. We were all so brave!
• Monday 25 September 2023 Science 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, LIFT OFF!
• Monday 25 September 2023 Forest School "If you go down to the woods today..."
• Thursday 21 September 2023 Maths - Independent Challenges Sorting objects, writing numbers... Any opportunity is good to practise our maths skills independently. Check us out! More to come :)
• Thursday 21 September 2023 Artists in the making... What a busy start of the term we are having. We made self-portraits, explored the primary colours through collages like Piet Mondain and made secondary colours painting with the 'Colour field' technique that Mark Rothko used.
• Thursday 21 September 2023 Science - T1 Lesson 1 and 2 From making clay tiles to exploring if we can bend, twist, squash and stretch all the material - of course exploring the properties that play doh has was our favourite part!
• Thursday 21 September 2023 Football with Mrs Mileham
• Wednesday 20 September 2023 Judo Taster Day
• Wednesday 20 September 2023 Bodiam Train Trip 20.9.23 Firecrests had a very exciting day visiting Bodiam Castle. They travelled by steam train as we have been learning about Transport Through Time and found out lots of new information about how trains work. They asked brilliant questions and even found out that you can cook breakfast in the fire pit!
• Wednesday 20 September 2023 Taster Cheerleading Session "When in doubt, cheer you heart out!"
• Monday 18 September 2023 What have we been up to so far? 05/09/23 - 15/09/23
• Sunday 10 September 2023 Marshmallow Challenge For their first day in Kingfishers, Miss Snelling challenged the class to build the tallest tower using marshmallows and spaghetti. As you can see, the strongest towers had a pyramid shape.
• Friday 8 September 2023 Our first week at school! We have been settling in well to school, getting to know our environment, new routines and exploring all the exciting areas of the classroom!
• Friday 8 September 2023 Taster Judo Session Judo Taster Session - 08.09.23
• Friday 14 July 2023 Delicious Wraps & Fruit Kebabs Robin Class have designed and made their own wraps and fruit kebabs. They also had the opportunity to enjoy these outside today.
• Wednesday 12 July 2023 Colour Dash 2023
• Wednesday 12 July 2023 Hillview 2023
• Wednesday 28 June 2023 National Fruit Show An apple a day...!
• Wednesday 7 June 2023 Year 5 Sports Day On Wednesday, we had a fantastic time competing in a variety of events including competing as a class in the wheel relay and a 'plogging' race.
• Thursday 25 May 2023 Year 5 First Aid To conclude our PSHE topic, Being my best, Year 5 have been using the British Red Cross primary resources to learn about the importance of first aid. We have been practicing the DR ABC approach in partners to remind ourselves of what to do in an emergency.
• Sunday 21 May 2023 Dulwich Athletics Festival 2023
• Friday 19 May 2023 Dulwich Cricket 2023
• Friday 19 May 2023 Kent Life - Stone Age Day "Yabba Dabba Doo"
• Monday 15 May 2023 Year 5 Evacuee Experience
• Friday 5 May 2023 Kings Coronation The children enjoyed a while school tea party with live entertainment to mark the King's Coronation.
• Friday 5 May 2023 Living Land What a wonderful day Robins and Kingfishers had at the Living Land event. They learnt about different types of food and even tasted some. They also enjoyed looking and stroking the animals and even managed to view some "Dancing Sheep!" Look out Strictly!
• Thursday 4 May 2023 Designing and creating wormeries in Year 5 For Science this week, we conducted an experiment about the preferred conditions for a worm's habitat and used our data to inform our wormery designs. We then used these to create our own wormeries.
• Thursday 27 April 2023 Year 5 Shakespeare Festival 2023 On Wednesday 29th March, the children in Year 5 at both Benenden and Goudhurst & Kilndown performed an evening of Shakespeare. Benenden performed Shakespeare's comedy, The Tempest and absolutely astounded us all as they put on a show fit for Shakespeare's Globe, displaying all of our school values.
• Tuesday 25 April 2023 Uplands Primary Maths Match 2023 Six children from Swallow Class attended an exciting Maths competition hosted by Uplands Academy. They took part in a variety of tricky problem solving activities and did an amazing job!
• Thursday 20 April 2023 "Let there be light" The class really enjoyed creating and making their lightboxes. Hopefully, they are getting good use of them at home.
• Wednesday 19 April 2023 West Kent Football Success Huge congratulations to Alfie Hicks, Blake Day and Harris Maclintock for successfully trailing for the second stage of West Kent Football selection. They will now begin a few weeks of intense training before the ultimate squad is selected. It is a huge achievement to get this far. Well done boys and Good Luck
• Thursday 30 March 2023 Castles, Knights and Princesses!
• Thursday 30 March 2023 Deforestation letters Robin Class have written letters to President da Silva of Brazil urging him to help stop deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest.
• Tuesday 28 March 2023 Easter Story
• Thursday 2 March 2023 Swallow Class World Book Day This year, we enjoyed another fun-filled World Book Day bringing to life exciting fictional characters or cosying up with our favourite books and pyjamas. We joined lots of other schools across the country to find out 'how to be funny' with Helen Rutter and also loved taking part in a 'drop and read', where we had to stop everything and read every time we heard the reading alarm.
• Thursday 2 March 2023 World Book Day - 2nd March 2023 Robins dressed in some amazing outfits for World Book Day. Roald Dahl characters were popular with The BFG, Mr & Mrs Twit and Violet Beauregard (courtesy of Mrs Williams!). During English we had a Zoom call with the author Helen Rutter and The Comedy Club 4 kids.
• Wednesday 1 March 2023 Year 5 Forest School We have enjoyed making mud cakes, building camps, orienteering and creating tree dragons at Forest School this term.
• Friday 24 February 2023 Year 5 Pancake Race To celebrate pancake day, we combined two of our favourite things: PE and eating pancakes! It was a delicious way to end the week.
• Friday 24 February 2023 Dulwich Hockey Afternoon 23.2
• Tuesday 21 February 2023 Pancake Day! We had lots of fun on Pancake day learning all about them! We had a little look at why we celebrate Pancake day and found out that it is infact called Shrove Tuesday!
• Friday 10 February 2023 Rainforest Diorama Robin Class are really enjoying their Amazon Rainforest topic. We have had some wonderful dioramas brought in already and they are certainly giving our classroom a real jungle feel.
• Thursday 9 February 2023 SPACE DAY! We had SO much fun on our space day! We all came in dressed up and we looked FANTASTIC!
• Thursday 9 February 2023 Fire Lighting Fire Starters!
• Thursday 2 February 2023 Year 5 First Shakespeare Workshop To prepare us for our performance of The Tempest at the end of the term, we had our first drama workshop with the drama team at Benenden School. We started by exploring different the different levels and facial expressions to create our opening tableaux as well as creating the soundscape for a shipwreck. Next week, we will be travelling up to Benenden School to meet our showcase team and practice voice projection techniques on the stage.
• Tuesday 31 January 2023 Firecrest Cookies 31.1.23 Firecrest class have started looking at recipes this week and so obviously we had to use one! They followed a simple recipe to make their own chocolate chip oat cookies. With a little bit of grown up help with the ovens, they made lots of delicious cookies and then got to try them. They found the quantities in the recipe as well as checking for bossy verbs and the order of the steps.
• Monday 30 January 2023 PSHE - SCARF Life Space Life Space
• Friday 27 January 2023 Year 5 Chinese New Year workshop A huge thank you to Benenden School for hosting a very exciting workshop to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year.
• Friday 27 January 2023 Dragon Lion Dancing! This week we have been looking at the Lunar New Year! We discovered we were either a Dog or a Rooster! We learnt about the story of the animals and how it is celebrated. We tried some fortune cookies and prawn crackers!
• Friday 27 January 2023 Crazy Hair Day
• Tuesday 24 January 2023 Year 5 endothermic reactions As a part of our irreversible changes chemistry topic, we explored endothermic reactions using bicarbonate and vinegar. We were surprised by the results when the temperature started to decrease as the reaction consumed so much energy.
• Monday 23 January 2023 Year 5 Change4Life Today, we took part in a workshop ran by Change4Life. We took part in several activities reminding us of our different food groups, exercises to keep us healthy in our daily lives but our favorite by far was the smoothie bike! We used the energy from pedaling on the bicycle to power the blender, making yummy, homemade smoothies.
• Monday 23 January 2023 Change for Life Robin Class had a lovely morning learning about the values of a good, healthy diet.
• Monday 23 January 2023 Science - Irreversible Changes We have been learning about irreversible changes. In this experiment we learnt:
• Thursday 19 January 2023 Planet fun! We have been looking at the planets! We were naming the planets and then learning a fun fact about them! Once we had done this, we had a go at paper mache so we can hopefully turn them into planets!
• Thursday 19 January 2023 Jack and the Beanstalk We have been learning the story of Jack and the Beanstalk this week.
• Thursday 19 January 2023 Barns Owls in the snow! Here are lots of pictures of us having fun in the snow at school!
• Thursday 19 January 2023 Positioning Elfred! Our naughty Elf has been up to his tricks again! Elfred left us some pictures showing him sitting on one of our chairs in different positions! We had a think about describing these positions and what words we use. Then we played a game where Mrs Reed called out a position and we had to sit in that position on the chair!
• Thursday 19 January 2023 PANTO! A lovely company came today to put on a panto for us! We had lots of fun joining in and laughing at the funny characters!
• Thursday 19 January 2023 Church! We went on a little walk up to the church to visit Rev David!
• Thursday 19 January 2023 Our trip to the Post Office We have been changing our role play areas and this week it was a Post Office!
• Thursday 19 January 2023 The Nativity Story With our Nativity approaching. We have been learning what happened when baby Jesus was born. Today we had a go at retelling the story. Some of us dressed up as the characters and then together we told the story.
• Thursday 19 January 2023 Advent Our topic this term is Celebrations. This week we have been looking at Advent and what it is. We made an advent display with the 5 candles in it. They stand for: Love; Hope; Joy; Peace and Jesus.
• Thursday 19 January 2023 MONSTERS! This morning Mrs Reed recieved a letter telling us "they were here". But who
• Thursday 19 January 2023 Open Morning Our grown ups came to see what we do in school so we showed them how fantastic we are at our phonics. Then we had a play inside and out with them!
• Thursday 19 January 2023 Our trip to the Post Office We have been changing our role play areas and this week it was a Post Office!
• Wednesday 18 January 2023 Firecrest Interviews - The Great Chocoplot Firecrests have been working on their interview skills by asking questions to the people of Chompton-de-lyte. They have used their knowledge of our book 'The Great Chocoplot' to ask interesting questions and role play as people who are living through the chocopocalypse.
• Wednesday 18 January 2023 Gymnastics 16.1.23 and 18.1.23 Firecrests have been working on their balancing skills and using their bodies to make shapes. They have worked on their own and in groups to make shapes. Can you see the word we made with our bodies
• Friday 13 January 2023 Opera Singer
• Wednesday 14 December 2022 Intra House New Age Kurling This term's Intra House event was New Age Kurling.
• Tuesday 13 December 2022 Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!
• Friday 9 December 2022 Firecrests Snow Fun! 9.12.23 Firecrests had great fun playing in the 'snow' in our outdoor area. Look at those hairstyles! It must have been our own version of a snow dance as when we came back to school on Monday there was lots of real snow too...
• Thursday 8 December 2022 Firecrests Drumming and Guitar Performance 8.12.22 Firecrests performed their djembe skills to the other pupils. Two groups of Firecrests (plus a special Kingfisher guest) also performed on guitar and ukulele. Here are the videos to enjoy.
• Thursday 8 December 2022 A Victorian Christmas Swallow Class loved exploring Victorian Christmas traditions at Kent Life on Thursday. We met Charles Dickens, made our own candles, found out about Christmas in the workhouse and we played with some of the toys that rich Victorians may have received from Father Christmas.
• Wednesday 7 December 2022 Year 5 shadow puppets In Science this term, we have been exploring Earth, Light & Space and as a part of this we have been looking at shadows. We have explored how the strength of the light source impacts the shadow and how the proximity of the object to the light changes the size of the shadow. To link our learning in Science to English, we have created our own shadow puppets to re-tell the story of A Christmas Carol. Can you guess who they are
• Wednesday 7 December 2022 Science - Up Periscope! In Science Year 4 learnt that a periscope lets you look around walls, corners or other obstacles. Submarines have periscopes so that people inside can what is on the surface of the water.
• Tuesday 6 December 2022 KS1 Nativity 6.12.22 Firecrests, Cuckoos and Barn Owls put on an incredible show (or three!) this week with their fantastic performance of The BIG little Nativity. A huge well done to all of the pupils for the effort they put in, both on the day and in preparation. Thank you to all of the parents and carers who supported this by providing costumes, learning lines and coming to watch, the children loved being part of it. An additional thank you to Joel Tinker for filming, what an exciting opportunity to be able to share this with everyone!
• Tuesday 6 December 2022 KS1 Nativity 6.12.22 Firecrests, Cuckoos and Barn Owls put on an incredible show (or three!) this week with their fantastic performance of The BIG little Nativity. A huge well done to all of the pupils for the effort they put in, both on the day and in preparation. Thank you to all of the parents and carers who supported this by providing costumes, learning lines and coming to watch, the children loved being part of it. An additional thank you to Joel Tinker for filming, what an exciting opportunity to be able to share this with everyone!
• Tuesday 6 December 2022 Jingles bells We have worked really hard with Mr Reid this term to perform Jingle Bells on the trumpet. The first video shows you how much progress we've made in just a few weekly sessions. Thank you very much Mr Reid!
• Thursday 1 December 2022 30.11.22 Woodpeckers Christmassy Forest School! Woodpeckers had lots of fun on their last week at Forest School for the Winter! We very much enjoyed the mud and the mud slide. Lots of us also had a go at using the tools to finish off some reindeers. As well as this, some of us had a go at cooking a cake in an orange over the fire. Jury is still out on how good they are...
• Thursday 1 December 2022 30.11.22 Barns Owls Christmassy Forest School! Barn Owls have had lots of fun in the forest this week! We had a go at making reindeers using twigs and we had our very first experience of toasting marshamallows and making smores!
• Monday 28 November 2022 Diwali Dancing! We learnt some Hindu dancing that they might do during Diwali!
• Friday 25 November 2022 Schools Linking Project Robin Class have been linked with Cavell Class from the Wells Free School in Tunbridge Wells.
• Wednesday 23 November 2022 TWKSSP Team Building 2022
• Tuesday 22 November 2022 Recycled Paper 22.11.12 Firecrests made their own recycled paper using newspaper, water and cornstarch. They ripped it into tiny pieces and then blended it. They squished the mixture onto foil and left it to dry. They discovered that it was very smooth afterwards and you could still see pieces of the old paper.
• Wednesday 16 November 2022 16.11.22 - Barn Owls at Forest School We managed to just about miss the rain!!
• Tuesday 15 November 2022 Firecrests UK experiences 15.11.22 We have been learning about the countries of the UK in practical ways. We had an English tea party where we tried cups of tea and scones with jam. We heard some brass band music and thought about other things we know are popular in England like fish and chips and football.
• Monday 14 November 2022 Swallow Class - Carol Of The Bells On Monday 14th November, the children in Year 5 joined five other schools to record the traditional Christmas carol, Carol of the Bells. At the same time, a choir in Ukraine sang the carol and both versions will be merged to create a single track to raise both money and awareness of our support.
• Monday 14 November 2022 Diya lamps! This term we are looking at celebrations - who celebrates and how they celebrate.
• Monday 14 November 2022 Design & Technology - Levers & Linkages We had to generate our ideas before making our designs. Once we had finished, we evaluated the outcome.
• Thursday 10 November 2022 RE - The story of Jesus' birth This term we have been looking at the story of Jesus' birth and being introduced to the characters. This week we had a go at acting out the story.
• Thursday 10 November 2022 Upper Key Stage 2 Football Festival 2022
• Monday 7 November 2022 Our wet trip to St Ronans! On Monday 7th November we took a trip to St Ronan's! It did not quite go to plan because it was so wet! But we still had a lovely time having a walk in the woods. We talked about our senses and then looked out for things we could see, hear, feel and smell. When we got back to school we did some super writing about what we saw in the woods!
• Friday 4 November 2022 Copy of: Forest School - 02/11/22 In the deep dark wood...
• Friday 4 November 2022 PTFA Firework Feast & Bonfire Bake Sale Another fantastic homemade food sale with families taking home delicious homemade meal deals! Chili bowls with freshly baked bread, pumpkin mac n cheese, leek & potato bakes as well as tasty apple crumbles and cookies were just some of the offerings to take home for the firework weekend.
• Friday 4 November 2022 Forest School - 02/11/22 In the deep dark wood...
• Thursday 20 October 2022 Girl's Football at Dulwich The rain finally abated and we enjoyed a glorious afternoon of football in the sun. The girls battled and hard and attacked throughout their games. The played four games, losing one and winning three.
• Thursday 20 October 2022 Intra-House Cross Country Well done Issy (Red House) and Alfie H (Yellow House) for their 1st place positions.
• Wednesday 19 October 2022 Copy of: Firecrest Forest School 19.10.22 Firecrests had an incredible time at Forest School last week. They brought their science learning into the forest to make potions with natural materials. Some Firecrests came up with magical powers for their potions too! They tried fire striking with Mrs Reed and Mrs Tompsett and showed great commitment to the challenge. We also had time to explore the forest: trying on the hats, making bows and creating some beautiful face paint too.
• Wednesday 19 October 2022 Firecrest Forest School 19.10.22 Firecrests had an incredible time at Forest School last week. They brought their science learning into the forest to make potions with natural materials. Some Firecrests came up with magical powers for their potions too! They tried fire striking with Mrs Reed and Mrs Tompsett and showed great commitment to the challenge. We also had time to explore the forest: trying on the hats, making bows and creating some beautiful face paint too.
• Wednesday 19 October 2022 Firecrest at Forest School! At Forest School this week we have been having a go at fire lighting with Mrs Reed. We had a go at using a fire striker and lighting a cotton wool ball. We showed great perseverance and team work!
• Wednesday 19 October 2022 Intra House Cross Country 2022 What a gorgeous day for a run around the field. Year R ran 1 lap, year 1, 2 laps, years 3 & 4 - 3 laps and years 5 & 6 a whopping 4 laps. Lots of the year six children ran many more laps as they acted as hares for the younger classes. All the children running showed determination and great resilience. A huge thank you to the year six Young Sports leaders who were working as scorers, photographers, hares and marshals, we would not be able to run the event without them.
• Wednesday 19 October 2022 Year 5 step back in time to a Victorian classroom! After lunch, we stepped back in time and entered a Victorian classroom. Miss Jackson rang the bell and we were very shocked to see that she had a cane, which we found out was a real Victorian punishment. We had our hands inspected before we entered the classroom and had to wash them in a bowl of water if they were too grubby. Once we were inside, we had to sit in neat rows as we were read out the rules. Unfortunately for the left handed children, everyone was told to write with their right hand and stand before speaking - we couldn't do this without laughing as you can see from the pictures. On our tables, we found a slate and piece of chalk for writing and an abacus to help us with our arithmetic but we had to be careful to not make any mistakes otherwise we were forced to sit in the corner wearing the Dunce cap or even worse, copy out lines!
• Tuesday 18 October 2022 Firecrest Animal Visit 18.10.22 Our Amazing Animal World visited Firecrest class and brought some of their wonderful animals with them. We got to meet a Pygmy Hedgehog, 'Skinny Pig', Giant African Land Snail, Bull Frog, Panther Chameleon and a Royal Python. We learnt what nocturnal means and got to hold and stroke the animals. A HUGE thank you to Mark & Kate for their lovely session with all of the rescued animals. We had such a good time, even with a chameleon on our heads!
• Monday 17 October 2022 PTFA 2nd Hand Uniform PTFA 2nd Hand Uniform available to everyone anytime. Please get in touch.
• Friday 14 October 2022 Swallow Class Week 6 This week we have been busy both in class and out of class with a trip to the Forest on Wednesday and fantastic music performance at Benenden School on Thursday. We particularly enjoyed creating our own Hetty Feather inspired 'squirrel houses' at Forest School and loved learning about the different instruments making up a professional orchestra, our personal favourites being the crazy kazoo drummer and the Star Wars theme tune being played on the trumpet!
• Friday 14 October 2022 Kidenza Robins had a lovely time at Benenden Girls School learning about the different parts of the orchestra.
• Tuesday 11 October 2022 People who help us: Occupational Therapist Emily's mummy, who is an occupational therapist, came in to speak to us!
• Monday 10 October 2022 People who help us: Police We had some policeman come to visit us! One of them was Rohan's daddy!
• Monday 10 October 2022 Quidditch Harry Potter
• Friday 7 October 2022 Year 5 Quidditch This morning, Swallow Class loved taking part in a Quidditch taster session with Premier Sports. We had our own broomsticks (hockey sticks) and were assigned a house from Harry Potter. Some of us moved so fast, you may have even thought we were actually flying!
• Friday 7 October 2022 Quidditch! We had some friends from Premier Sport come in and play quidditch with us!
• Thursday 6 October 2022 Lullingstone Roman Villa What did the Romans ever do for us
• Thursday 6 October 2022 Swallow Class Week 5 Happy National Poetry Day! This year's theme was the environment, which inspired our own acrostic poems about nature. We also celebrated by performing a poem written by our very own Milo Pollard (Year 5 child and published poet!) about what life may be like waking up in the Victorian era as a poor child. We have loved learning more this week about the lives of Victorian children and the influential figures who helped to change them so this was a great way to share our learning!
• Sunday 2 October 2022 Rawlinson Run 2022 What a fantastic afternoon for us all at Dulwich Prep School on Friday 30th September. The children from years 2-4 took part in some very competitive cross country races and showed huge determination and resilience. There were many top 10 finishes in races with 40-50 children taking part. A special mention to Issy Morgan who just missed out on a Bronze medal with a fantastic fourth in her race.
• Sunday 2 October 2022 TWKSSP PE & SPORT CONFERENCE 2022 On Thursday 29th September I attended the TWKSSP PE & Sport Conference in Tonbridge.
• Sunday 2 October 2022 Commonwealth Games 2022 What an amazing week I had at the Commonwealth Games this summer. The weather was glorious and the athletes were amazing. I was lucky enough to see netball, hockey, gymnastics and several sessions of athletics. The joy of watching such fantastic athletes compete in such a range of sports was a real treat.
• Thursday 29 September 2022 PTFA Apple Pressing Following our Produce Sale the children in Cuckoo's class got to make fresh apple juice with some left over apples. They used a hand crank apple press and blender and then all got to enjoy a taste of delicious local apples.
• Thursday 29 September 2022 PTFA Autumn Produce Sale £225 Raised in our first fundraising event of Term 1. With thanks to our parents and local community who donated fruits, vegetables, flowers and herbs from their gardens Benenden Primary was transformed into a mini farmer's market for the day!
• Thursday 29 September 2022 Seekers Eggs 29.9.22 Seekers had an eggstraordinary time this afternoon learning about the fruits of the spirit from the Bible. We eggsplored the theme of gentleness through all sorts of eggciting activities. We are hoping that eggventually they will make their way back to school next Thursday in one piece.
• Thursday 29 September 2022 Swallow Class Week 4 Another busy week in Swallow Class with trips to the church for Harvest Festival and the celebration of European Languages Day 2022. We also had our first 'proper' trumpet lesson which you can watch a sneaky preview of below using the QR code.
• Thursday 29 September 2022 Steam Train Trip 27.9.22 Firecrests had an amazing time on their trip to Bodiam. We travelled from Tenterden to Bodiam on the steam train and thought about how different it is to the trains we use for journeys now. We even managed to fit in a walk through the castle. Firecrests found all sorts of lovely activities: dressing up, climbing the tower and they even spotted a dragon! Although it rained a little on our walk back to the train, it was a fantastic day and we loved our adventure.
• Wednesday 28 September 2022 Barns Owls go to Church We joined the rest of the school for a ‘Whole School Harvest Festival’ at St George’s Church. We joined in with hymns and listened beautifully to the service. We even performed a dance to the ‘Dingle Dangle Scarecrow’. The entire school were not only really proud of us, but really impressed.
• Wednesday 28 September 2022 Consolidating numbers to 4! The Barn Owls worked hard to understand the value of number to 4. Firstly counting groups of objects using one:one touch correspondence then moving on to subitising. Children then used the digital ‘five frame’ to place counters. Then we played a game involving throwing beanbags to numbers called out and finally practiced number formation using chalk.
• Tuesday 27 September 2022 World Languages Day 2022 We loved wearing our red and yellow clothes to school for World European Languages Day on Tuesday. In the afternoon, the whole school celebrated the Spanish language and culture, we even enjoyed a bit of flamenco dancing, which you can check out using the QR code below!
• Tuesday 27 September 2022 Creating Our Solar System What a wonderful world!
• Friday 23 September 2022 Swallow Class Week 3 After a busy week at Bewl Water, we have enjoyed continuing to explore our first place value unit and even took our learning outside to create our own number system, just like Roman Numerals! We created our birth dates out out green leaves (1), stones (5), sticks (10) and brown leaves (50).
• Wednesday 21 September 2022 Number work Thank goodness for the amazing Barn Owls and their incredible counting skills. Mrs Newman got herself in a real pickle ordering some numbers and the fabulous children were on hand to put her right. They even demonstrated some incredible one-to-one touch correspondence skills when matching the numerals with counting bears. Nice one Barn Owls.
• Wednesday 21 September 2022 Fine motor skills We’re always keeping busy in Barn Owls class, and as soon as the children step through the door in the morning there are a range of fine motor skills activities available for them to choose from- strengthening those tiny hand and finger muscles all in preparation for them to write their socks off!
• Wednesday 21 September 2022 PSED A lovely session with the children exploring ‘what makes me special’. The children shared a special item with other children from the class- explaining why the item was special to them. This brought about a huge opportunity for discussion and for the children to find out a little more about each other.
• Wednesday 21 September 2022 PE- balances After a number of listening and attention activities, Barn Owls worked hard producing a range of beautiful balances. A number of the children were keen to show off their best moves, and we even discussed how pointing toes and fingers and stretching limbs would make our balances more appealing.
• Wednesday 21 September 2022 Sugar Cube Experiment 21.9.22 Firecrests and Cuckoos worked in groups to investigate the properties of sugar cubes. They tested how many could dissolve in hot water and how many could dissolve in cold water. They compared their results to see if there was a difference.
• Tuesday 20 September 2022 Firecrests Debate 20.9.22 Firecrests are learning about persuasion this week. Today they had a debate on the topic 'School dinner or Packed Lunch: Which is Healthier' They prepared their thoughts in groups and presented their arguments to the rest of the class. Very persuasive thinking already!
• Sunday 18 September 2022 Year 5 Residential Swallow class had a fantastic time during our three day residential break to Bewl Water activity centre. The children loved having the opportunity to partake in axe throwing competitions, archery, rock wall climbing, giant SUP and canoeing. What a great start to the year!
• Wednesday 14 September 2022 Rei Judo Taster Day On Thursday 8th September the children in years 1-6 were all lucky enough to take part in the Rei Judo Taster day. They had a fantastic time learning about the discipline and even managed to throw the coach down. If your child is interested in starting the Rei Judo Club please find the details and the link on the clubs list.
• Monday 12 September 2022 Rawlingson Run Trials Last week we held trials for the Rawlingson Run Vross Country. Lots of children attended to try out. A huge congratulations to the selected squad who will be representing Benenden at the Rawlingson Run at Dulwich Prep on Friday 30th September.
• Monday 5 September 2022 Our First Day! We had an awesome first day at school!! We focused lots on our construction play as well as exploring the outdoors!
• Tuesday 19 July 2022 Hillview Festival & Dancing through the Decades Wow, what a busy time we have had. The federation took four groups to the Hillview Festival of the Arts and two groups to the Dancing through the Decades Performance.
• Saturday 2 July 2022 COLOUDASH What a fantastic day we had at the COLOURDASH event run by TWKSSP at Dunorlan Park in T wells on Friday 1st July.
• Sunday 29 May 2022 Intra House Assault Competition On Wednesday 25th May all the children at Benenden took part in an Intra House Assault course. The course was designed and led by our Year 6 Young Sports leaders. They also ran the sessions by timing and supporting the children as well as re setting the course and taking photographs. Well done to the Young Leaders and to all the children for showing great spirit and determination.
• Saturday 14 May 2022 Ancient Greece comes to Year 6
• Friday 8 April 2022 Intrahouse Skip On Wednesday 30th March the children in KS2 took part in an Intrahouse skip. The children all took some time to work on their technique and stamina before counting how many skips they could do in one minute. Congratulations to Green house for winning the event with the highest average skip.
• Thursday 10 March 2022 #LETGIRLSPLAY On Wednesday 9th March the girls of the 10:10 Federation took part in the #LETGIRLSPLAY Biggest Ever Football Event.
• Thursday 24 February 2022 Kent Sportshall Success for Oscar What a superstar.
• Tuesday 8 February 2022 TWKSSP Sportshall - year 3/4 On Wednesday 2nd February a large squad of year 3s and 4s travelled to The Angel Centre in Tonbridge to take part in the TWKSSP Sportshall Athletics festival. They all competed in a number of track and field events, including hurdles, relays, jumps, and throws. There were 16 schools entered over the course of the day and Benenden performed very well, ending in 8th position.
• Tuesday 8 February 2022 Dulwich Hockey Festival On Thursday 3rd February a team of year 3 and 4 children travelled to Dulwich Prep school for a Hockey Festival. The team played 6 games, they won 2, drew 2 and lost 2. Medals were awarded to outstanding player - Harry , Most improved - Tabitha and Sportsperson - Penny
• Wednesday 19 January 2022 Dulwich Football Festival The thumbnail has been assigned to the news item, and for convenience also added to the body here:On 9th November a team of children took part in the Dulwich Football festival. The children all played well and thoroughly enjoyed their afternoon.
• Wednesday 19 January 2022 Intra House New Age Kurling On Wednesday 15th December the children from throughout the school took part in an Intra house New Age Kurling competition. The children all had great fun and the year 6 Young Leaders did an excellent job of leading and managing the competition.
• Wednesday 19 January 2022 Kent Athletics Success We are so very proud of Oscar who has been selected to represent Kent at the Southern Counties Sportshall Athletics competition. Well done Oscar !
• Tuesday 18 January 2022 One Run Global Relay On Friday 15th November the whole school took part in the One Run Global Relay along with children from schools all over the country. Well done to everyone for running and dancing for an active 15 minutes.
• Tuesday 18 January 2022 Rawlingson Run On 17th September a team of children from Benenden competed in the Rawlingson Run at Dulwich Prep school. The children all ran well and enjoyed competing against lots of other pupils from lots of different schools. Thank you to parents for all your help and support.
• Tuesday 18 January 2022 Active 30 Festival On 6th November a group of children from Benenden took part in the Active 30 Festival at The Angel Centre in Tonbridge. The children had a fantastic afternoon taking part in taster sessions of a number of sports including boxing and Balloon volleyball. Well done to Jackson, Lilly O, Jacob, Molly, Hollie, Jake, Summer and Finn.
• Monday 17 January 2022 Kent Sportshall Athletics Trial https://benendenchurchofenglandprimaryschool.greenhousecms.co.uk/admin/pages/page-add.asp?PageTypeID=1001#/
• Monday 17 January 2022 Epiphany -A Bundle of Joy In case you missed it, the KS1 Nativity is now on video. Didn't they do well!
• Monday 13 December 2021 Amazing Mural A few months ago, we asked children, staff, parents and Governors one question: What is special about Benenden Primary School?
• Monday 15 November 2021 Remembrance Sunday This week the children have been remembering all the people who fought in the First and Second World Wars and in more recent wars and conflicts. As a mark of respect our Year 6's attended the memorial service in the village on Thursday 11th November at 11 am and Mrs Dignan was very pleased with their impeccable behaviour and thoughtful questioning. The rest of the school gathered outside on the playground and we were delighted that Miss Maynard played the 'Last Post' before we began our 2 minute silence. Well done everyone.
• Wednesday 10 November 2021 Welcome to our brand new website! We hope you like the new look and find it easier to navigate and engage with. Whilst the news blogs and galleries are currently looking a little empty, rest assured we will be filling them up very soon!

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