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Year 4 Fashion and Textiles club are pleased to announce that their butterfly dress is finished and now displayed at Canterbury Christchurch Bookshop!

Our club is being led by one of our Year 6 Art Leaders, Tamsin; we have been designing a butterfly dress inspired by our ‘whole school project’…

Last week there was a definite buzz about Science around the school! A whole school investigation was set called ‘Table Top Glaciers’ where children had to investigate what happened to an ice cube when it came into contact with water of different temperatures. This linked well to a discussion with…

A huge thank you to the lovely students from Simon Langton Girls School who visited Years 2 and 3 this week to run amazing work shop sessions as part of their own development and work towards their Art Award. All the children really enjoyed working with the students who were so kind, patient and…

On Tuesday, some year 5s and year 6s went to Polo Farm to play in a cricket tournament. First, Bridge 2 played Sheldwich 2. We started off with fielding and managed to get some wickets. We won and then faced Canterbury Primary School. We played well, we got 5 wickets and won again.

Our third…

On Tuesday 10th of June, ten children from yr4 went to polo farm to compete in a cricket tournament. Our first game was against Petham – we bowled lots of wickets and did some great batting to win the game. Our next game was against Canterbury. In the first half, the other team batted some great…

This week, Year 5 have visited The Pig for our final sessions of the year as part of their Adopt a School programme. The children made their own vegetable pizzas in their Garden Oven. They learnt how to shape the dough before choosing what toppings they wanted to add on. After a quick fire over…

As a Christian school we wish to strengthen and build relationships with other schools and communities. Last week we introduced a group of our pupils to those of Brabourne Church of England School for the first time; our intention is to build and develop a collaborative relationship within the…

Last week, we were very pleased to welcome a local Fashion Designer to our Fashion and Textiles after-school club. Dulcima is a sustainable fashion designer and creator who works from her studio in Barham village; she is also a musician.

Our small Year 4 club is being led by one of our Year 6…

Year one explored fruit and vegetables last term. Within art, the children used their observational skills to draw and paint red peppers.

 As a class, we discussed scale (drawing the peppers larger to fill their A3 paper); oil pastels and how they resist paint (used for the seeds); highlights…

Welcome back to Forest School Year 6. 

We have made some human pyramids, showing team work skills. Children learned to read flow charts and to identify leaves of plants in our area. Some children chose tool work with saws, others built dens, they loved flowing water down the mound and Jayden…

This term was very short but we had a couple of exciting events happening. One session was our first fire! The children learned to stay safe, have water and adults nearby and they learned how to get close to the fire in the respect position. We toasted marshmallows over the fire and ate them with…

Loo at what we have been up to in Forest School in Term 5. 

In week one there was a challenge of making a rope ladder from scratch. Children learned how to tie the know with the rope - the Marlin spike hitch and they used saws safely to cut the right lengths of wood for their steps. Some chose…