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Cherry Orchard Primary Academy
Cherry Orchard Primary Academy
International Mother Language Day
International Mother Language Day
In celebration of the many different cultures in Cherry Orchard Academy, we organised International Mother Language Day on 28th February 2024.
Children and staff were invited to come into school dressed in their home country's national costume or to wear the colours of different world flags.
The children engaged in a variety of multicultural activities, taking their learning around the seven continents of the world. These activities included workshops run by staff members and parent volunteers: reading stories in Lithuanian; Turkish and Indian traditional dances and hand gestures; learning about Ukrainian and Greek culture; making Bulgarian amulets; and exploring the Arabic alphabet and script.
Oaks Primary Academy
Oaks Primary Academy
Science Week
Science Week
Throughout the week of the 11th March, pupils at OPA celebrated Science Week. Mrs Truman started the week off with an engaging science assembly where we carried out some investigations; it was pupils versus teachers to test: the older you are, the more star jumps you can do, followed by: how far can you stretch a curly-wurly in one minute which was met with great cheering and surprise!
All classes from Nursery to Year 6 took part in live farming lessons hosted by the National Farmers’ Union where we learned all about life on a farm, following a vet and their daily jobs and some of our pupils’ questions were answered during the live broadcast!
During lunchtimes outside, our learning support assistants set up investigations around the playground to the delight of pupils.
Classes also worked collaboratively on a joint science investigation.
Year 3 and 5 had a visit from a STEM ambassador who brought science alive and we can’t wait to welcome them back for future visits.
We rounded off a brilliant week with a final science demonstration assembly where pupils were wowed by what looked like magic as well as workshops for all classes from Nursery to Year 6.
World Book Day / Week
World Book Day / Week
Across the week of 4th March, Oaks Primary Academy celebrated World Book Day. We connected with Shepway Library, invited in an author, ran story and illustration competitions, invited parents in for a reading workshop and held the customary dress up day.
It was fantastic to see so many children passionate about reading and writing their own stories.
Molehill Primary Academy
Molehill Primary Academy
Careers and Aspirations Week
Careers and Aspirations Week
We have been delighted to host Careers and Aspirations Week, followed by a Career Dress Up day, where the children were invited to dress up as a career they aspire to undertake in their successful future lives.
Across the week, we explored different careers and the skills which are required for them. We investigated what inspired people to make their career choices as we want all children within our school to feel empowered by the world of opportunities that await. We strongly believe it is very important to raise the aspirations of our children and provide opportunities that will enable the children to find out more about the wide range of careers that are available to them in the future. The highly informative week introduced children to a broad and balanced range of careers and future job prospects and across the school, children enjoyed listening to guest speakers and taking part in a plethora of different activities to showcase and extend their learning. We were delighted to welcome a number of our parents and members of our wider community to take part in this memorable occasion.
Through our Careers Education we want to ensure that pupils:
become self-assured, confident and optimistic about their futures, increasing their motivation to learn;
develop the resilience to take calculated risks, dealing appropriately with disappointments, setbacks and challenges;
are prepared for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life;
are able to make decisions and manage transitions as both learners and workers;
understand the basic skills and attitudes needed to be successful in the world of work;
challenge all forms of stereotype (by background, gender or diversity groups) and preconceptions;
further develop emotional intelligence and self-evaluation skills allowing them to make plans for the future;
increase their knowledge of post-11 and post-16 opportunities
understand employment-related vocabulary;
are provided with experiences filled with meaningful interaction regarding a range of different careers; and
are provided with high quality information from a wide variety of sources.
Every pupil deserves high-quality career guidance to make informed decisions about their future. We provide children with a range of meaningful experiences to teach them about the world of work and provide accurate, well-judged information about future careers. We recognise the important role that we have in ensuring our pupils have high aspirations about their future.
Tree Tops Primary Academy
Tree Tops Primary Academy
It has been an exciting and busy term here at Tree Tops, with World Book Day events, a visit from The Guide Dog Association, our Year 4 receiving their swimming badges, and incredible music lessons with the talented Rock Steady team, which our children have loved.
Students dressed up for World Book Day.
World Book Day
World Book Day
Across the week of 4th March, everyone at Tree Tops threw themselves into our whole school theme of the world of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. As part of the week the children engaged in the sharing of the story, through texts, visuals and roleplay, while also linking the text to maths, science, art and more. The children went on a Mad Hatter Riddle Hunt around the school and on Thursday 7th March, Tree Tops Primary turned into Wonderland, with children and staff dressing up as characters from the story. We even had a special visit from the Mad Hatter himself!
It was fantastic to see our children’s enthusiasm, passion and creativity throughout the week.
Visit from The Guide Dog Association
Visit from The Guide Dog Association
Another highlight of this term was the opportunity for our children to meet a representative, Paul and his guide dog Pasha, from The Guide Dog Association and gain an insight into what it means to be without sight, the challenges this brings and the resilience needed to overcome such a barrier. Our children were encouraged to ask questions and were even given permission to stroke and greet Pasha, before leaving the assembly!
It was a wonderful and humbling experience for our children, which again highlighted the compassionate hearts of our Tree Tops pupils.
Eastcote Primary Academy
Eastcote Primary Academy
World Book Day and The Adventures of Tango
World Book Day and The Adventures of Tango
Thursday 7th March was of course World Book Day. Mrs Brown planned a wonderful surprise with Mr Brocklehurst and ‘Tango’ the orange alien being introduced in assembly! He had been doing good deeds all week just so he could earn a ‘Gold Pass’. His efforts inspired a whole school book ‘The Adventures of Tango’ which you can read here: The Adventures of Tango By Eastcote Primary Academy. The whole school got creative and used paper plates to recreate their favourite books and characters. See if you can work out which books these designs came from! The day was packed with book swaps and buddy reading, inspiring all children to read.
Watch a video of Tango's adventures here.
Can you work out which books these designs came from?
Peninsula East Primary Academy
Peninsula East Primary Academy
NSPCC Number Day
NSPCC Number Day
We had a brilliant day at Peninsula East celebrating maths and raising money for a worthy cause. All children and staff came in dressed as numbers and in number themed clothing and we had lots of exciting maths activities taking place throughout the morning. In the afternoon, parents from every class came in to support children in completing maths investigations in their classes and enjoyed understanding what their children were learning about in this subject. The children had a great day speaking about maths, pushing themselves with some challenging investigations and raising money for charity!
The Hundred of Hoo Nursery
The Hundred of Hoo Nursery
The preschool children have begun to visit the library in the HOH Secondary Academy now it has reopened. This is incredibly enriching for the children and supports their continued communication and language, literacy and personal, social & emotional development.
As a group, they all enjoy the librarian reading a story to them before they are collected by a Year 7 pupil to be read to on an individual basis. It is a real highlight of the week!
The whole nursery celebrated mental health week where the children have begun to learn about their and others emotions. We have started to read The Colour Monster story book to support this process as it allows children to identify how they are feeling by selecting a colour - pink: I feel loved, red: I feel angry etc. Opening up these conversations has created the opportunity to speak about early identification in an age appropriate way, thinking especially about how our actions may impact our friends and how they may feel if we say that someone cannot play or they are not our friend. The children have been using puppets and props to retell the story in their own words supporting dialogic reading. Dialogic reading helps support children to make connections between stories and their own lives and helps them build vocabulary and use language. This is a key priority throughout the nursery and through observations of practice we are pleased it is becoming well embedded.
Bearsted Primary Academy
Bearsted Primary Academy
Science Week
Science Week
Science Week is always a highlight on our calendar at Bearsted Primary Academy and this year it started with a bang as our Year 5s had the privilege of taking part in some explosive science next door at Snowfields Academy. Mr Hancock planned some fantastic activities, investigating the properties of materials, and the children enjoyed burning different metals and setting fire to bubbles in his hand! The children were absolutely enthralled by the experience and are hoping that they might be invited back again!
Learners across the whole academy enjoyed a wide range of activities based around the enquiry type of observations over time. Every class enjoyed experimenting with a crystal making set and there was much excitement every morning as the children came in and went straight to check on their crystals to see if they had grown overnight! The children also planted a selection of seeds and came up with their own excellent questions to investigate, such as ‘Do the smallest seeds grow into the smallest plants?’ and ‘Will the biggest seeds germinate first?’ There were some other great activities involving Skittles and gingerbread men and the children enjoyed predicting and observing what happened to them as they were submerged in water.
We also looked at the links between science and engineering as we welcomed Steve from Transcover to talk to us about STEM related careers. The children were very interested to learn how long the process of designing and building an aeroplane takes from start to finish and Steve was suitably impressed with the level of questioning from the children, asking him some rather probing questions about gravity and aerodynamics!
The children all had a chance to put their engineering skills to great use with a fort building workshop. They demonstrated great communication and problem solving skills as they worked together to build some great creations.
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