ETP Blogs - East Tilbury Primary School

A Smashing Celebration of Pupils' Achievements!

29/5/2015

On Friday 22nd May, the last day of the half term, the entire community of East Tilbury Primary School & Nursery celebrated an Alice in Wonderland Equity Action in the glorious sunshine! Children had been enquiring into a number of ideas, using Lewis Carroll's famous story as a vehicle, as well as looking into local heritage through the Bata estates. Friday's event was a Hatter's Tea Party, with performances from children across the school, party food, games and work from the half term on display for parents, carers and other visitors to enjoy. Guests at the event included the Mayor Cllr Liddiard and his Deputy Mayor, MP Stephen Metcalfe, some of our Governors past and present, and representatives from local community groups. Children raised hundreds of pounds through this event to support the work of the Bata Reminiscence Resource Centre, making another positive contribution to the local community as active young citizens. Staff rallied round as usual to support the event and make all of our visitors feel welcome. Well done everybody!

Some people are calling for there to be a prize for the best displays on the day, so watch this space, if they can get us some more evidence, there might just be another prize giving coming up…

Nursery Dress for the Occasion!

29/5/2015

Nursery have recently been learning about seasons as part of their Plants and Growth work. Pippa could tell us what she learnt about the seasons:

‘In Spring everything grows.’

‘In Summer you can wear whatever you want.’

‘In Autumn all the leaves fall off.’

‘In Winter you have to wear something cosy.’

Flynn then talked about how he was dressing his person:

‘I’m dressing him up for the winter snow, because it’s a snowy day. He’s wearing trousers because it’s cold and he wants to play in the snow all day.’

Science Investigations and Much More in Year 3

29/5/2015

In Year 3 the children have been learning about the life cycles of plants. They conducted an experiment using food dye and celery to investigate how plants absorb water. The children are excited to see whether the celery changes colour as a result of absorbing the food dye!

In preparation for the Mad Hatter’s tea party, the children created mood boards as they considered the process of designing, loosely linking this to their enquiry into the work at the Bata factory. The children also created some masks for their Alice in Wonderland performance for the tea party!

6RM are great role models!

29/5/2015

6RM showed great focus during their SATs recently. They worked really hard and should be proud of their efforts. To gain insight into the process of learning we allowed the children to experience the role of a teacher! They were given the challenge to plan, prepare and deliver a lesson based on the curriculum they are currently studying. It was a great success and as well as everything else, the children demonstrated great speaking and listening skills when addressing the class.

In Maths the class have been learning about links between Mathematics and Art, creating interesting tessellations and spirals using straight lines. We were also busily prepared for the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, designing and making Viking-style hats that fit into our Unit of Enquiry learning. Did you spot them at the party?

P.E. Curriculum Update

9/5/2015

PE in our school has been really enjoyable for the children and staff this past term. It has been full, packed with events, productions, awards and exciting competitions within and outside of school. The rest of this term will be even busier for us as a school and hopefully just as rewarding.

We began the summer term sports after the Easter break. All classes are taking part in striking and fielding lessons as well as athletics, with the exception of Year 3 who are swimming this term. Extracurricular sports during lunchtimes and after school have also changed to tennis, rounders, cricket, and athletics.

Competitions for this term are in full swing within the borough for both key stages, including the Borough Olympics at the end of the term. Children from Year 1 to Year 6 will be selected to represent our school in different sporting competitions such as tennis, athletics, rounders and cricket. We have also entered the boys’ cricket, and mixed rounders leagues for this term. The Year 5 and 6 netball team ended last term with great impact, coming second in the borough competition on 25th April, despite beating the team that went on to take first place in the competition in a three way final. The two teams we had entered in the competition did themselves proud and represented the school brilliantly. Details of all competitions and fixtures can be found on the Healthy Schools and Clubs page, here on our school website.

We have had one extraordinary highlight so far this term, with our key stage 1 children being awarded the PE and Sports Active Essex Award. Only two schools in Thurrock received this award. Two young ladies from Year 2 represented key stage 1, by attending the awards ceremony with Miss Taylor to receive the award and give a speech to the other winning schools. You may have seen their speech in an earlier blog.

Inter house competitions this year have really got houses in the competitive spirit, Warwick succeeded in being sporting champions in our last inter house end ball competition, and with inter house rounders coming up next week, it could be anyone’s game. You can find full details of inter house competitions on the Healthy Schools and School House Teams page, here on our school website.

We look forward to seeing parents and carers during our sports days after half term, dates can be found on the school calendar.

Overnight visitors in 1GS...

1/5/2015

1GS have had great fun retelling the story of The Elves and the Shoemaker. First, they retold the story in small groups and then created their own freeze-frames to retell the story in just three parts. Then they had to imagine what their characters were feeling, doing and saying and tell the rest of the class their ideas.

The responses were fantastic. One was when the shoemaker was asleep and was asked, ‘How is your character feeling?’, his response was, “I am poor and very sad and feeling worried because I only have one piece of leather left to make a pair of shoes.“

An elf in their last freeze-frame was dancing. “I am happy because the shoemaker has made us some new clothes. We are dancing to celebrate.”

The next day, a small pair of shoes appeared overnight in the shoe factory role play area with some small tiny footprints next to them. The children imagined they were the shoemaker, writing a letter to find out more about who had made and left the amazing shoes. We then wrote a reply to the shoemaker telling him about who had made the shoes.

Finally, we designed our own shoes and created instructions to make them.

We are really looking forward to going to watch the Elves and the Shoemaker ballet, at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, later this month.

Toys aren't just for playing with in Reception...

1/5/2015

This week in Reception we have been continuing our work on toys. Children have been busy learning about old and new toys and have been writing lots of facts about them. We have used non-fiction to research toys that we are unfamiliar with. Children have used ipads to extend their research further.

Children have all worked really hard in maths this week, we have learnt how to halve an even number. Children have used practical methods, sharing a number of objects between two groups.

We have enjoyed the sunny weather recently, we are working together as a team to improve our outside area and have been enjoying recent improvements.

Whole-school St George's Day Fun!

1/5/2015

On Thursday 23rd April, it was St. George’s day. The whole school got involved to celebrate the day. Each key stage got the chance to make a human England flag. We had lots of fun holding up pieces of red and white paper to represent the flag. We also learnt about the story of St George and the dragon in our classes and its significance as an English tradition.

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