On Wednesday 4th May 2022 children from Years 4, 5, and 6 went to the O2 in London to perform in Young Voices. They worked incredibly hard in the run up to the event to learn all the words and actions, and they did themselves proud on the night with […]
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Somewhat belatedly, here is a short video showing the volcanoes that Squirrel Class designed and made erupting! There was a lot of fun, and a lot of learning, in this activity. ?
After lots of concentrating on throwing with accuracy in their PE lessons today, Hornet and Squirrel Classes showed off their skills by throwing their tennis balls at their teacher. One slightly bumped nose later, here are some fun photos for you.
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 […]
Here are over 300 photos taken during today’s Sports Day, The weather was good for us and, just as on Monday, the children were amazing! We are, again, incredibly proud of them all.
Last Friday Urban Strides visited Holy Trinity and worked with all of the Key Stage 2 classes. We first came across Urban Strides when they were performing at Young Voices last year and they were spotted by the choir. A year later than planned (due to the pandemic) they came […]
Year 4 are learning to play music on the glockenspiels, and are doing some singing too! They were fabulous today and sounded great! In R.E. we were learning about the parable The Lost Sheep, and how to find it in the Bible.
Y4 have kicked off their art lessons by learning about different artists. We looked at Matisse, David Hockney, Rousseau and Dali. We are going to use Dali and surrealism as a focus since our theme is ‘Dreams’. We have also been learning about fractions in our maths lessons, using the […]
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. […]
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 […]
Y4 have been using Google Drawings to create Warholesque images of themselves… They had to create at least three different versions of their faces using the formatting options available to them, and then move and crop the images to make them into a neat block. I’m really pleased with how […]
The children in Year 4 have created these Christmassy images for you using 2Paint-A-Picture in Purple Mash.
What an amazing day! We had a lot of fun trying to hold up the extremely heavy chain mail tunic, ground some flour, tried on clothing and helmets, played Hnefatafl and Nine Men’s Morris, learnt some Viking commands for battle and so much more!
Year 4 have been creating graphics using Google Drawings, and Year 5 are about to start creating stop frame animations, so to mark Bonfire Night, here are some fireworks pictures by Jaguar Class & some firework animations (put together as a video) by Panther Class.
Today, Year 4 investigated complete and incomplete circuits by first predicting which circuit would work. They discovered what a circuit needs to be complete in order to allow the current of electricity to flow.
Year 4 have been outside today creating their own angles using sticks and chalking on the playground whilst identifying obtuse, acute and right-angles.
Year 4 have been learning to tell the time to specific minutes, converting 12hr to 24hr time and solving time related problems. Many have realised how important it is to be able to tell the time – especially, analogue!
This week we were delighted to welcome poet Matt Abbott to school to write poetry with children across the school. On Wednesday he worked with Year 6 and they have written a collaborative poem which will soon be shared in video form and be put on display in the school. […]
Year 4 were asked which chocolate will melt the fastest. They investigated dark, milk and white chocolate by first creating a prediction then analysing their results to compare. They found that most people said the white chocolate was the quickest to melt and that the dark chocolate melted the slowest. […]
Our friends from Hedingham and St. Andrew’s Churches have spent the day with Years 3 and 4 making and decorating a selection of Christian crosses from around the world. The children have learned about the different representations and the history behind Christian crosses from places including Italy, Ethiopia and Jerusalem. […]
A fantastic effort at Hadleigh Park, Southend today for the cross country county champs, well done girls! An amazing achievement!
Well done to the High 5 netball team for successfully competing at the Level 1 tournament at Ramsey. And well done to all the cross country runners for competing in the Level 2 competition at Tabor Academy. Superb performances all round.
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 […]
Today Year 4 have been adding fractions using Numicon. They have also been learning how to convert a mixed number to an improper fraction.
Well done to all the children in Key Stage 2 who competed in the Level 1 cross country competition at Ramsey Academy today. Amazing performances throughout, and a particular well done to the Year 3 and Year 4 girls and boys teams who all qualify for the finals later this […]
Tag Rugby – Well done to the tag rugby team competing in the Level 2 Finals at Witham Rugby Club. A brilliant and hard fought effort from all the players, Well done! Athletics – Well done to the indoor athletics team who finished 2nd at the Level 2 Finals held at New […]
