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

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

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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

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, 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

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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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

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

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

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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

Good morning As Hockley have cancelled the match this afternoon, if your child was playing in the team please collect your child as normal or, if they have permission to walk, expect them home at the normal time. On behalf of Hockley we apologise for any inconvenience.

Dear parents and carers, Some notes on spellings for next week: Spellings Due to the INSET day this week, we will do our weekly spelling test on Monday 8th with the following words: pamphlet graph photo physical pheasant phone dolphin sphere alphabet elephant Then, the new spellings for next Friday's test will be: according awkward conscious dictionary familiar individual neighbour profession sacrifice system Wishing you a lovely weekend, Mr Wade & Mr Bird

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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. 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 February

The 2 Johns will be back on Thursday 11 December, 8.00pm with one of their popular online sessions. This is your chance to hear the latest insights, tips, and must-know updates to help keep children safe online — just in time for the holiday season. Save the date and register now by scanning the QR code via  this link ONLINE SAFETY - An area of huge concern for parents, particularly in KS2. If you've been to a '2 Johns' workshop or roadshow before, you'll know how valuable t

Morning everybody - happy Friday! We have had a fun-packed week this week with lots of exciting activities dotted throughout! On Monday, the children were completing their printing projects in art, as well as getting festive with our Christmas hoop creations! On Wednesday, we used augmented reality to explore the Great Exhibition in our history lesson and then yesterday, we had our exciting DT Workshop, where Bricks4Kids came in and led the children through the process of cre

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