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Year 3 had an enjoyable practical lesson involving money.  They were working out how to give change using the fewest notes and coin possible. Well done Year 3, a very useful life skill!

Both years 3 and 4 wrote some book reviews, detailing their opinions of a book they have read, their favorite part in the story, what they may change about the book if they had the opportunity to and their rendition of the best plot twists in the story.  Year 4…

Year 2 had an amazing trip to the Discover Storytelling Centre in Stratford where they visited the Box Rocket exhibition. They travelled to the incredible Planet Nan on a Box Rocket and helped collect missing words to create their stories and save the planet!

Year 3 Biddle have been finding fractions of a number with coloured counters. Everyone put their counters into an array and then they manipulated the counters to show the fraction amount that Mrs Biddle requested. Everyone enjoyed using the counters and found it interesting and a helpful way to help…

Reading buddies on Friday 26th April was a wonderful time where the children from different year groups read to each other. It was lovely to see children of all different ages engaging in stories together and supporting each other to read tricky or new words. This also allowed the opportunity…

Some of  boys in UKF and our Year 6 prefect and Head Girl worked together with the Lego bricks to see how tall they could build a tower without it toppling over. They managed to make it taller than themselves. Great team work!    

Y2 enjoyed a special Ghana day to start their Africa topic this week. They learnt about the Geography of Ghana, created intricate Kente designs which are used to make traditional clothes and took part in a drumming workshop. They were also lucky enough to have Mrs Caliph, Olive’s mum, join…

We were delighted to invite Catherine Hammond from Epping District Museum into our Year 3 classrooms for a workshop on WWII. The children were very engaged with learning how this effected the lives of the people in our own county. Within the workshop Catherine shared with us a picture of…

The children in UK Hogg enjoyed waving their flags today to celebrate St George’s Day.  They made their flags using a collage method. After the children watched a short video on the story behind St George’s Day, they settled down to enjoy a very traditional treat of scones and jam…

We were delighted to submit the work of Jackson and Amelia for the ISA Digital Art Competition. They kindly give us their thoughts and inspiration on their work:   Amelia – Year 7 My intention was to create an old, poor man who wasn’t able to do much, but was…