The annual Christmas Carol Service is always a popular event in the school calendar, and this year definitely lived up to expectation. The pupils sang beautifully, and entertained the large crowd of friends and family with a number of Christmas songs including ‘Mary had a Baby’, ‘Midnight’, and ‘Silent Night’….
We were treated to a wonderful performance by our Infant and Early Years pupils last Friday as they told us the story of Babushka. Babushka is a story that is often told in Russia at this time of year, it tells the tale of an elderly woman who is visited…
Last Thursday pupils eagerly tucked into their delicious Christmas lunch. It was a very festive affair with everyone getting into the Christmas spirit, donning their cracker hats and telling jokes. Everyone cleaned their plates it was so good!
A huge congratulations to Freya in Year 5 who was the winner of the Epping Forest Constituency Christmas Card competition! This year the theme was ‘Big Ben at Christmas’, and was open to children from all primary, junior and infant schools in Epping Forest. On Friday Epping Forest Dame Eleanor Laing MP…
Well done to Elizabeth for winning the Buckhurst Hill Christmas Card Competition this year. The theme was the ‘The Magic of Christmas’ and Elizabeth’s entry was absolutely delightful. Buckhurst Hill Parish Council will be using the design as their official Christmas Card and it will be included with the Christmas…
In Art, Year 7 have made some gorgeous needle-felt Christmas decorations. The idea is to create a ‘Keep me’ decoration that can be brought out every year to be loved and admired. The class really enjoyed making robins, snowmen, gingerbread men and Father Christmas himself. Well done everyone!
Last week, Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 paid a visit to Queen’s Court Nursing Home to entertain the residents with a range of Christmas carols. The children sang beautifully, and certainly put a smile on some faces.
Year 10 have completed their 6th required practical: “Investigating the effect of light intensity on the rate of photosynthesis”. Year 10 have been looking at the rate of photosynthesis when a light source is moved closer or further away from a plant. The class found that when the light source…
Year 6 have produced these lovely needle felt snowmen. They used a range of materials and techniques to produce these cute little characters that will site quite comfortably on the mantelpiece and watch all the fun and chaos that Christmas brings! Well done to everyone.
Year 11 have been looking at materials cycling in nature. As part of their lesson on the carbon cycle they created models and acted out the carbon cycle using props. It was a lot of fun to see how each team could make their presentation different from the rest and…
