Watervole - Mrs Gurney and Mrs Mooney

We all enjoyed our tie day fashion show, we hope you did too!

Wow! What amazing music from some of our talented water voles this morning!

Our marvellous work about Mary Anning

We had a very special visitor today - Mrs Gupta! She shared lots of her memories of her time at St Mary’s

Tie Dye - we had lots of fun making tie dye t shirts - the designs look wonderful. Children, can you spot yours?

Sports Day!

Our wonderful class assembly about Space - we are so proud of how you performed, we really missed some of our special Water voles - get well soon! Some of these photos are from our rehearsal yesterday. We will always remember how brilliant it was, well done to all of you.

We had a wonderful time during curriculum week ‘reaching for the stars’ - we enjoyed meeting all of our visitors, the assemblies and our fantastic scooter session!

Our magnificent moons!

Moon Landers - for our science lesson we re-created moon landers. We had to ensure they had shock absorbers, probes, doors and antennae. We worked hard to create these.

Mrs Pocock, a local artist, came to speak to our class today, we loved seeing her wonderful artwork - we all learnt a lot

Our Beavers, Brownies and Cubs, wearing their uniforms with pride

Well done to our Water Vole mini marathon runners!

Our stunning starter - rocket balloon racing!

Our delicious Roman feast - a memorable way to end the term.

We were pleased to have a special visitor today - and an enormous loom band chain!

Our wonderful Easter service - We were so proud of Water Vole. You were all diligent in learning your lines, you used expression and were clear and confident. Well done.

Our marvellous magnetic games!

We have been making biscuits today, ready for our Roman feast tomorrow!

We enjoyed reading with Year 5 on World Book Day

Cross country - well done Water Vole

Trumpets!

We have been learning about pneumatics today in DT!

Green screen- amazing imagination and computer skills shown when we made sports commentaries using green screen and I-movie

Our Roman Projects

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Our trip to Colchester Castle

We are starting to plan and make our Roman mosaics

We took part in an exciting dance workshop in PE today

What an amazing performance today in our class led worship on hope.

Thank you for my gifts and also thank you from Mrs Mcdonagh - we are both going to save them for Christmas Day. Thank you also for all of my lovely cards and other special gifts. Thank you for all of your support this term. I am so proud of Watervole and the wonderful class they are. Wishing you all a merry Christmas and a happy and healthy 2024. Mrs Gurney x

Your child has come home today with a spelling test on the 200 high frequency words. The words highlighted in yellow were incorrect and will be tested again in the weeks to come. If you could please tackle a few a week to learn at home then that would be really helpful to their everyday spelling.

Thank you

Our skeleton projects

We all enjoyed our Christmas meal - thank you to the kitchen for working so hard and to Mrs Hall for making all of the Yule logs!

Thank you all so much for my beautiful, generous and thoughtful gift, it will be coming away with me on holiday. Have a brilliant Christmas and I’ll see you in the new year.

from Mrs Mooney x

Our fantastic Christmas party!

We had a wonderful time at Peter and the Wolf

Forest school this week. We enjoyed adding more to our den, experimenting with the hapa zome(flower bashing) and finding worms!

Class reward day!

Making muscles in science

We are so excited for the Christmas Nativity!

We won the Cut your Carbon Award! Well done Watervole!

Autumn Term Curriculum Overview

FOREST SCHOOL CLOTHING - here is a suggestion of what to wear for forest school sessions for the next 3 weeks as we have hit a cold spot.

AUTUMN/WINTER TERMS

During this time of year, your child needs to be prepared for a chilly and often wet session.

On forest school mornings each child should ideally be wearing ;

BASE LAYER

Vest or thermal top

Tights or thermal leggings

MID LAYER

Long sleeved T-shirt top

Fleece top/jumper

Leggings/trousers (preferably a thicker type material for really cold weeks)

TOP LAYER – for really cold weeks

Thicker fleece /jacket

WATERPROOF LAYER

waterproof jacket

Waterproof trousers or dungaree trousers

EXTREMITIES

FOOTWEAR

Tights or socks – would advise two pairs of socks in the colder weeks, feet get cold in wellies, also ensure you have a suitable size that will fit two pairs of socks – if the boot is too tight it will also make the feet colder.

HEAD AND HANDS

Wool hat and scarf/snood

Gloves/mittens