The Friends of Holy Trinity Church have organised an exhibition of art work from the children of Halstead schools. The title of the exhibition is “70 Years on the Throne” to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee. At Holy Trinity, the children looked at the Queen from the beginning of her […]
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On Thursday the children in Hornet and Penguin Classes got together and shared books and magazines. This is going to be a new regular feature of Thursday afternoons. Here are some photos of from the classes reading together. As we do not have permission to feature all of the children […]
On Tuesday all the children in KS1 and EYFS took part in a performing arts workshop run by Diane, the owner of the local theatre school Rascals. Thank you to the PTFA for funding this activity. Here are some photos, and a short video (when playing, click on the cog […]
Today to mark Remembrance Day each class marked the occasion individually at 11am. In addition, for this afternoon’s whole school assembly, Miss Todd took Raven Class to the memorial in the Public Gardens and lead our daily virtual assembly from there. A wreath was laid, a minute’s silence held, and […]
Miss Todd: On Friday in assembly I had the pleasure of announcing the jaw dropping total of the fundraising from the Sponsored Walk. I am thrilled, humbled and stunned to share with you that we have raised £4825.65 with a number of families telling me they still have money to bring in. […]
During STEM Week we completed an experiment to find out how to make the egg float. We added salt to water to make a solution, this made out eggs float! We are thinking about trying this with flour and sugar to see what happens.
On Friday, we completed our STEM Week with an exciting visit from Subject Revolution. KS1 and EYFS travelled around an amazing new world working together in practical maths challenges to help Prince Lunimo tidy up for the Queen. The children worked to pass through each maths challenge zone, undetected by the invading […]
Today the children were put into mixed-age groups named after scientists, and worked together on a range of STEM-related activities. During the course of the day the children learned about how to care for the chicks, created a house of cards, made pictures out of perfect squares, built towers from […]
It started with Booky Breakfast – thank you to everyone who was able to join us! And then Toucan Class visited Halsead Library and WHSmith. They learnt all about what the library does and how we can use it. At WHSmith they spent their World Book Day tokens. They all […]
The children had a fantastic time at Brightlingsea until the rain came. Well done to all the children who were wonderfully sensible and well behaved throughout the day, and thank you to all the adults who went along to make the trip possible.
This morning, after a break of six months due to it being too cold to give the rest of the class a go in late-January, the other half of Giraffe Class roamed around the school grounds taking photos of absolutely anything they wanted. It was the first time they’d used […]
This afternoon we welcomed the children who will be starting at Holy Trinity in September, and so Giraffe Class teamed up with Raven Class for a joint computing lesson. It was lovely seeing the two year groups working together – such patience, kindness and enthusiasm from them all. Our children […]
For Red Nose Day 2019 the children did funny things for money and came to school dressed in red! There was also a parent-led cake sale after school. You were all amazing! Sponsorship is still coming in (all back by Monday 1st April please!) so we’ll not have a total […]
It was great to see so many family and friends of Giraffe Class at our class lunch. Thank you for sharing a meal with us. Yum yum!
This morning another quarter of Giraffe Class roamed around the school grounds taking photos of absolutely anything they wanted. There were also some photos taken inside because it was quite cold… It was the first time they’d used the school cameras and they were very excited about it! Aside from […]
This morning a quarter of Giraffe Class roamed around the school grounds taking photos of absolutely anything they wanted. It was the first time they’d used the school cameras and they were very excited about it! Aside from actually using the cameras, there was the need for a lot of […]
What an eventful end of term! There was Christmas lunch where our amazing kitchen staff managed to produce three times as much food as usual all within the same time frame and to as high a standard as ever. Thank you! Thanks also to the PTFA who provided the festive […]
Fresh from being YouTube stars in the Summer, our British Sign Language Club put on a special signed performance of A Very Hungry Caterpillar to Giraffe Class this week. What will they do next?
Thank you to everyone who supported our Children In Need events last week. Together we have raised over £300 which will go towards supporting 2,400 projects all across the UK. The projects Children In Need fund help children facing a range of disadvantages for example poverty and deprivation; children who […]
The children in Giraffe Class have had a wonderful day of learning. Pirates arrived in our classroom this morning and asked the children to read messages in a bottles. The children then engaged in a range of pirate activities, including writing maps, writing messages in a bottle, pirate role play […]
