Although the ‘Nativity’ this year did not go quite as planned due to a range of unfortunate circumstances, the children still managed to pull off a wonderful performance on Friday. Dressed in their Christmas best, they danced and sang beautifully, with several festive readings and poems scattered throughout the performance….
The girls have made these super hats using a knitting loom. The technique requires skill and concentration and the ability to master just the right amount of tension to create a beautiful knitted creation. Their designs displayed both colour contrast and balance and students really enjoyed the experience.
This year, pupils at Braeside have been asked to make a festive chemical lava lamp. They were offered a selection of household ingredients and asked to plan how they could achieve the classic rise and fall of coloured blobs of a lava lamp in a glass beaker. The students developed…
We have explored colour, shape, perspective and movement whilst producing these delightful winter scenes. Students thought carefully about how to use colour and contrast and loved the idea of using collage to do this. Brilliant work pupils, a big well done!
Year 3 and 4 have made these lovely moving Christmas cards. We have used a range of materials including paint, split pins and stencil work. A great job pupils. Well done!
Year 10 students tried their hands at an investigative technique called Titration this week. This is a high precision method used to deduce the concentration of an unknown solution. By carefully adding small amounts of two reagents, students must watch for an indicator to change colour and note the proportions…
The students in year 9 used a Bayeux Tapestry approach to learning about the history and structure of the atom today. Armed with a fact file, key points and an ipad, they arranged themselves in teams, allocating tasks and craft resources to record the findings from the early Greeks, through…
The annual House Drama Competition really was back with a bang this year. Our Senior pupils pulled out all the stops to create a wonderful event, with four very different, but equally entertaining, short plays, one by each school House. The event took place in Lopping Hall in Loughton. As…
What a week Kindergarten have had! They spent lots of time outside in the autumn sunshine collecting and jumping in leaves then using them to make beautiful hedgehogs. They climbed on the big slide taking turns and being considerate of each others feelings. Using doctors role play to learn that…
What a fantastic afternoon of netball! All pupils in years 3,4,5 and 6 took part in a highly competitive house netball tournament. Special mentions must go to; Georgia, Chloe, Ava M, Diya, Leah and Freya who were outstanding throughout the afternoon. Fry were the winners of the event- they were…
