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Year 6 Weekly Update (2/2/26)
Dear parents and carers, Here is our usual weekly update information for you: Spellings Spelling for next week (not this Friday!) are: excellence silent silence different evident convenience excellent evidence difference convenient Parents evening reminder Year 6 Parents consultations are open to book, for our early Year 6 data and target sharing. Please log in to Arbor to book your slot if you haven't already; this 10 minute meeting gives teachers a chance to discuss and exp
C Wade
2 days ago1 min read
Year 6 Sealyham residential trip Sunday 12th July 2026 to Friday 17th July 2026 - instalment payment reminder.
A polite reminder of the minimum payment schedule below. Including the initial deposit of £50.00, a total of £440.00 should have been paid by 28th November. A further £97.50 is due by 27th February 2026 and the final payment of £97.50 is due by Friday 1st May 2026 via Arbor. Thank you for your attention to this. £97.50 by Friday 28th February 2025 £97.50 by Friday 30th May 2025 £97.50 by Friday 5th September 2025 £97.50 by Friday 28th November 2025 £97.50 by Friday 27th
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2 days ago1 min read
Hockley Schools Cross Country 28th January 2026 has been cancelled.
Please see letter.
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4 days ago1 min read
Morning Netball club Tuesday 27th January
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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4 days ago1 min read
BMX Academy visit Friday 13th February.
Unfortunately due to injury Mike Mullen former BMX Halfpipe champion, will no longer be able to visit as planned and has had to cancel the visit. We apologise for any disappointment.
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5 days ago1 min read
Year 6 Weekly Review (wb.19.1.26)
Morning everyone! We hope you had a lovely weekend. Year 6's had an excellent last week, smashing their Mock SATs week; Mr Wade and I are incredibly proud of all the children - their progress has been exceptional! This week, we are feeding back the children's scores from these papers, planning next steps and addressing common errors. These papers will be fed back to you at parent's evenings on Wednesday 4th February and Monday 9th February - please ensure you have an appoint
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5 days ago1 min read
Hockley Schools Cross Country 28th January 2026 - reminder.
Please see details.
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5 days ago1 min read
A reminder for parents of children in the dance festival Thursday 22nd January.
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
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Jan 201 min read
Year 6 Weekly Update (16.1.26)
Dear parents and carers, A phenomenal week for Year 6, tackling tricky multi-step problems in Maths, drafting our own thoughtful (and thought-provoking) poems in English, beginning to look at proportion and sketching in Art, our first Science lesson on the circulatory system and more! Spellings Spellings this week are a mix of Year 5/6 Statutory spellings: attached community desperate excellent hindrance mischievous physical restaurant sufficient yacht Mock SATs Next week is
C Wade
Jan 161 min read
Parent Evening Consultations - Year 6 - February 2026
Please see details
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Jan 161 min read
A reminder for parents of children in the dance festival Thursday 22nd January - tickets went on sale at 12 noon Wednesday 7th January.
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
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Jan 151 min read
A reminder for parents of children in the dance festival Thursday 22nd January - tickets went on sale at 12 noon Wednesday 7th January.
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
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Jan 121 min read
Year 6 Weekly Update (9/1/26)
Dear parents and carers, What a first week back! Children have begun their next English unit of Poetry, begun high-level work on written division in Maths, undertaken artist research on Edgar Degas in Art, acted as settlers choosing ideal settlements sites in Geography, beginning to look into the beliefs and history of Buddhism in RE and, to top it all, planning, creating, rehearsing and delivering a 'Find your Superpower' themed PSHE group project to every other class in the
C Wade
Jan 91 min read
A reminder for parents of children in the dance festival Thursday 22nd January - tickets went on sale at 12 noon Wednesday 7th January.
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
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Jan 91 min read
Hockley Schools Cross Country 28th January 2026 - reminder.
Please see details.
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Jan 81 min read
To parents of children in the dance festival Thursday 22nd January - tickets on sale 12 noon Wednesday 7th January.
If your child is taking part in the dance festival, and further to our letter dated 16th December, a reminder that tickets go on sale at 12noon today. 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
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Jan 71 min read
Year 6 Sealyham residential trip Sunday 12th July 2026 to Friday 17th July 2026 - instalment payment reminder and move to ArborPay.
Following the move from ParentPay to ArborPay, effective from 6th January, all payments for the residential trip have now been transferred to ArborPay with immediate effect. To date, including the initial deposit of £50.00, a total of £440.00 should have been paid by 28th November. We appreciate your support in ensuring that payments are bought up to date. A further £97.50 is due by 27th February 2026 and the final payment of £97.50 is due by Friday 1st May 2026. Thank yo
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Jan 51 min read
Year 6 - Welcome back!
Dear parents and carers, We hope you and your children have had a wonderful winter break, and the team look forward to welcoming students back to school tomorrow! Wrap up warm, it's due to be a cold week! Spellings Spellings this week are words with the '-ably' suffix: reasonably comfortably considerably noticeably adorably valuably dependably believably changeably tolerably Homework As usual, homework is due this coming Friday - tasks were set over the break, but we apprecia
C Wade
Jan 51 min read
Hockley Schools Cross Country 28th January 2026.
Please see details.
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Dec 17, 20251 min read
Year 6 - Weekly Update (12/12/25)
Dear parents and carers, Year 6 have had an exciting second-to-last week of the Autumn 2 term. Alongside heading towards our Dutch Resistance Newspaper Report writing in English, and our work on volume of 3D shape in Maths, we've also had the opportunity to watch the EYFS Nativity dress rehearsal and had an engaging and thought-provoking presentation from PC Hill & PC Lamb on anti-social behaviour, and ways to stay safe in the community. Really powerful! Some notes below for
C Wade
Dec 12, 20251 min read
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