Christingle is celebrated in the Oak and Ash today

Oak and Ash both celebrated the Christian Christmas time celebration of Christingle this afternoon. In the story Bishop John made the first Christingle when trying to think of a story that explained God’s love to the children in a nearby village. The orange is symbolic of the world- big, round and full of goodness. The four … Read more

Reception visit the pantomime

Today Oak and Ash class went to Welwyn Garden City, to the Hawthorne Theatre to see the pantomime, Dick Whittington. Although we had read the story in class there were the usual additional pantomime characters which added new dimensions to the story line.   King Rat was a dastardly baddie and everyone was a little bit scared. … Read more

Pine Visit Amey Zoo

We were extremely lucky and had a visit from Amey Zoo. We got to learn a lot about many different animals and we even got to touch them!

A Visit from Amey Zoo

We have been learning all about different animals and their habitats this half term. We started off with a walk to the nature area where we saw the different minibeasts we can find in our school grounds. We used magnifying glasses to have a closer look at what we found. Last Wednesday, we were lucky enough to have a … Read more

The School Council

The members of the School Council for the year 2016-2017, elected by their classes in October, have had a busy term. They were keen to raise money for Children in Need and so organised a cake sale, which took place in school on Friday 18th November. All members of the School Council helped to man … Read more

Beech Class visit the Natural History Museum

Beech Class had a fantastic time at the Natural History Museum in Tring. We had great fun exploring the museum and finding out lots of facts about animals. The museum has six galleries with over 4,000 animals on display.  We found out that the largest animal in the Museum is the southern elephant seal and … Read more

Portrait Painting in Maple Class

In Art, Maple have been looking at lots of different paintings and photographs and thinking about how relationships are portrayed in pictures. We looked for clues in the expressions on people’s faces, their body language and in the background of the picture. The children then moved on to composing and painting a portrait of two friends.  The … Read more

Class Blog by Harry and Roan

Roan and Harry’s Class Blog – This Week in Chestnut Class       This week in Chestnut class we have done many fun activities including: on Monday we did some blog posts for ICT; played a basketball match in PE; on Tuesday we found out what we were doing for the Christmas show ( the idea is … Read more