Following our deep dive into Peter Bunzl’s Cogheart , the children have turned into master inventors. We are currently busy drafting our explanation texts  on "How to Build a Mechanimal Fox." The classroom is buzzing with talk of silver-plated fur and clockwork tails! This week, we officially began our new unit on Fractions . We have been mastering the "art of the conversion," learning how to navigate between improper fractions  and mixed numbers . In Arithmetic , the childre

Mr Bird's morning football club Friday 6th February has been cancelled due to the weather! Your child should attend school at the normal time or be booked into breakfast club.

We are still fully immersed in the world of Peter Bunzl’s Cogheart  as we prepare to write our own explanation texts . To help us sound like true experts, we have been mastering several sophisticated grammar features: Passive Voice:  Shifting the focus onto the action (e.g., "The gears are turned by the clockwork heart"). Modal Verbs:  Expressing degrees of possibility (e.g., "The mechanimal could  malfunction if over-wound"). Conjunctions:  Using both subordinating  and caus

Please accept our apologies as the club has been cancelled this afternoon. If your child attends the club, please collect at the normal time or book into Night Owls https://www.westerings.com/book-online. Children in Year 5 or 6 with parental permission to walk home at the end of the day will leave school as usual unless we are advised otherwise. A refund for the session will be issued via Arbor.

Following payment of the non refundable deposit, if your child will be attending the residential please find attached details with final costings and minimum monthly payment schedule. All payments must be made via your Arbor account. We apologise for the earlier issues with seeing the payment item on your Arbor account., this has now been rectified..

While we are still immersed in the wondrous world of Peter Bunzl’s Cogheart , our focus has shifted gears. The children have moved on from descriptive writing to exploring explanation texts . It has been fascinating to see them break down the "how" and "why" behind the intricate mechanical inventions in the story. We are working on using causal conjunctions and technical language to explain exactly how a mechanimal might function! In Maths, we have put our shape classificatio

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Weather isn’t looking good this morning so netball club for years 5 and 6 today is cancelled.  Indoor halls are both in  use.

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Following payment of the non refundable deposit, if your child will be attending the residential please find attached details with final costings and minimum monthly payment schedule. All payments must be made via your Arbor account.

After a week of careful planning and immersion into Peter Bunzl’s Cogheart , today is the big day! The children have been busy writing their Hot Task - a detailed setting description of the busy, clanking mechanical workshop. It has been wonderful to see them using expanded noun phrases and atmospheric vocabulary to bring the sounds of whirring cogs and hissing steam to life on the page. In Maths, we have shifted our focus to the properties of shapes. The children have been

If your child is attending the dance festival on Thursday 22nd January, a reminder of the arrangements: All children need to be collected from school at 11:30am and transported to the Palace Theatre either by their parent or a named adult already confirmed by their parent. All children need to be collected from the Palace Theare at 2:45pm  either by their parent or a named adult already confirmed by their parent.  Children should bring a packed lunch and water bottle with t

If your child is taking part in the dance festival, and further to our letter dated 16th December, a reminder that tickets went on sale at 12noon on Wednesday 7th January. They can be booked via phone at the box office for the Palace Theatre, or via this link. https://trafalgartickets.com/palace-theatre-southend/en-GB/event/dance/primary-dance-festival-tickets PM session - 12:15-12:30 estimated finish time of 2:45. Thank you

Dear Parents and Carers, Thank you for the strong level of sign-up already for the Year 6 residential trip in 2027 – an incredibly positive uptake, as expected.  As you may be aware, our school term dates have changed slightly since the residential was first booked. As a result, the trip now takes place during the final week of term. Please be assured that we will ensure all end-of-year events and celebrations for the children take place in the week prior to our departure. Th

It has been an action-packed week as we transitioned from local history to the mechanical world of Victorian London. Here is a summary of our learning: This week, the whole school took part in our Trust Day: Time and Place . We spent time exploring our local area of Hockley , comparing what life and work were like in the past versus today. It was fascinating to see how the jobs in our community have evolved over the generations! We have officially begun our new unit on Coghea

Please ensure deposits are paid by Friday 16th January, so that a final costings and payment schedule can be sent your way. Any further questions or queries, please do not hesitate to email and we will get back to you.

If your child is taking part in the dance festival, and further to our letter dated 16th December, a reminder that tickets went on sale at 12noon on Wednesday 7th January. They can be booked via phone at the box office for the Palace Theatre, or via this link. https://trafalgartickets.com/palace-theatre-southend/en-GB/event/dance/primary-dance-festival-tickets PM session - 12:15-12:30 estimated finish time of 2:45. Thank you

Please ensure deposits are paid by Friday 16th January, so that a final costings and payment schedule can be sent your way. Any further questions or queries, please do not hesitate to email and we will get back to you.

If your child is taking part in the dance festival, and further to our letter dated 16th December, a reminder that tickets went on sale at 12noon on Wednesday 7th January. They can be booked via phone at the box office for the Palace Theatre, or via this link. https://trafalgartickets.com/palace-theatre-southend/en-GB/event/dance/primary-dance-festival-tickets Thank you

What a brilliant first week back. We have just begun working on our new text for the Spring term - Cogheart. Diving into the world of Steampunk! We have spent a lot of time this week learning and using new vocabulary. In maths, we have been revising angles from Year 4 ready to move into Year 5 learning. Our science unit this half term begins with a study on Sir David Attenborough and history begins with locating the Maya civilisation from Meso America. We also have been