Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Year 2 end of SATs treat! 🍭

  Fri 26 May 2023 Miss Bartlett

  Year 2 end of SATs treat! 🍭

  The children were very relieved to have finished their 'showing off work' on Friday. They were also very excited to take some time to sit in the sunshine, chat with their teachers and enjoy a very special ice lolly treat! Well done Year 2 you have all worked so hard!

  

• Outdoor library 📚😎

  Wed 24 May 2023 Miss Bartlett

  Outdoor library 📚😎

  The children across the school have enjoyed engaging with the outdoor library on the field at lunchtimes. Mrs Rose has been working hard to promote a love of reading in our school and has given our library a 're-vamp' in order to make it more inviting and purposeful. Every Wednesday at lunch, Mrs Rose sets up the outside library with cushions, blankets, beanbags and of course books for the children to enjoy and share with friends and adults. The children enjoy reading to their friends, writing book reviews and even writing their very own stories! 

   

  Here are some of the children across the school enjoying our lunchtime outdoor library!

  

• Foxes Colchester zoo trip 🐘🐯🦒

  Fri 19 May 2023 Miss Bartlett

  Foxes Colchester zoo trip 🐘🐯🦒

  Foxes had an amazing day at the zoo on Thursday. The teachers were a very proud of how the children represented the school, as they were all fantastically well behaved! Everyone listened carefully, stayed with the group, helped each other, showed ACE manners well as being very good at walking around the whole zoo and carrying their bags.

  Foxes explored the enclosures such as the rain forest walk through and iguana forest. They also had an education session called ‘we’re going on a safari’ where they learnt about Africa, the different landscapes within Africa, the big 5 (elephants, lions, rhino, leopards and buffalo) and their habitats as well as what they like to eat. During the session everyone listened to the instructor, showing a keenness to show off  animal knowledge from this term using key vocabulary that we had learnt. Once this had finished we enjoyed eating our lunch at a lovely picnic spot. We very so excited to see lots of animals including:
  - lions
  -tigers
  - monkeys (orangatang, chimpanzees, tamarins and lots more!)
  - elephants and zebras
  - giraffes and rhinos (and a baby rhino)
  - meerkats and fish
  - Pygmy hippos
  - crocodile and bears
  - penguins and sea lions
   

  

• African animal facts 🐅🐘🦒

  Tue 16 May 2023 Miss Bartlett

  African animal facts 🐅🐘🦒

  Hedgehogs were very excited during their English lesson this morning, learning and sorting African animal facts! Hedgehogs were able to talk about fiction and non-fiction texts and used their reading skills to learn new facts and to sort them under animal headings! The children learnt lots of new facts which they shared with their friends and teachers all morning! 

  

• New orchard treasures! 🌳🦉

  Fri 12 May 2023 Miss Bartlett

  New orchard treasures! 🌳🦉

  EYFS and KS1 have been really lucky to receive some new treasures for our much loved orchard space. The logs, mushrooms and owls were donated by one of our Foxes parents and his tree surgeon company. We are so grateful for your kindness - they really have made our orchard area an extra special place to be! 

  

• Coronation Celebrations! 👑🎊🎉

  Fri 05 May 2023 Miss Bartlett

  Coronation Celebrations! 👑🎊🎉

  Today we came together as a school and a community, to celebrate King Charles' coronation.

   

  Our parents and carers came into school to help us to complete lots of activities to help us to celebrate. There was welly throwing, King Charles stamp hunting, table top board games, mindfulness colouring, crown making and a scavenger hunt! We even had a photobooth opportunity to dress as a king ourselves!

   

  Of course it wouldn't be a celebration without cake, so there were lots of lovely treats for sale in the hall that had been donated by the children themselves.

   

  To mark this special day, everybody received a special coronation envelope with some wild flower seeds to plant, along with a british biscuit!