Thursday, 24 March 2011

Year 3 visit to Rainham Marshes

Today all our Year 3 children went to visit Rainham Marshes. News on the trip and photos will appear here soon.

Friday, 18 March 2011

Comic Relief Day Fun





Today we were having fun and raising money for Comic Relief. Our theme was 'Wear Something Funny for Money' and these photos show us doing just that!

Thursday, 17 March 2011

England - US Year 6 - 5th Grade Partnership


Today we joined out partner class via video link, for a Question and Answer session. We learnt a lot about life, particularly school life, in each other's countries. The children at Steuart Weller answered the questions we had sent to them, including 'We don't celebrate Thanksgiving. Could you tell us what it is?'

Both sets of pupils rose to the challenge of communicating via a vc link - they spoke clearly and confidently and were a credit to their schools.

Wednesday, 9 March 2011

Spring Term Partnership Work







The theme for our partnership work this term is 'The View From My Window'. We will be sending off parcels of work to our partner schools around the world, and waiting excitedly for their work to reach us! The photos show some of Class 4M's wondeful work. Many of the children took photos to accompany their drawings. The results are brilliant!

Tuesday, 8 March 2011

Year 4 Tudors Video Conferencing Workshop









Some of our Year 4 children today took part in a National Archives VC workshop, given by Education Officer, Catherine. We were treated to a look at the confession statement of Guy Fawkes, the SOS message from the Titanic and the Royal Seal of Henry VIII. Catherine had to wear gloves when handling some of the documents. Why do you think that was..?

The session was excellent - the children listened really well and gave some brilliant answers to Catherine's questions. We can't wait for our next VC link with the National Archives.

Thursday, 3 March 2011

Year 3 vc partnership with Parklands Junior School

Mrs Fewings and her Year 3 English set will be sharing some work with pupils at one of our local schools, Parklands Junior. We are trying to use our video conferencing kit for a range of activities, sharing work and building friendships on a local, as well as global scale.

World Book Day


Lots of 'literature inspired' activities were taking place in school today, to celebrate World Book Day. Don't forget to spend your World Book Day voucher...

Crownfield - Steuart Weller v.c. link


Today we carried out our test link with our partner school in the United States, Steuart W. Weller Elementary School, Virginia. 6N were involved in the test and waved their England and US flags excitedly throughout! We are now working on a set of questions about school life in the US, which we will email to our partner class. They in return will email us some questions they'd like answered about school life in this country. Our next v.c. link with Steuart Weller is on 17th March.