The food donations collected at Harvest Festival were taken to St Petrock’s over half term. Mrs Tetlow’s car boot and back seats were crammed with boxes and big shopping bags full of groceries. St Petrock’s were hugely grateful. Thank you for your Harvest donations.
Thank you to all who supported our #Hello Yellow day at school Everyone wore yellow to raise awareness of the importance of talking about our mental health and understanding it better. The school was a sea of bright and cheery yellow! We will continue to work at maintaining this awareness as an ongoing part of…
Class 3 enjoyed investigating Roman Numerals using lolly sticks to create the letters the Romans used to count. We also really enjoyed problem solving and writing the date using Roman numerals.
Year 3 and 4 from Kenn and Kenton had an epic trip to the Roman Bath’s in Bath. We had two sessions, one where we explored the Baths using handsets that gave us lots if interesting information. The other session was in a classroom where we had three activities, we had to use our mathematical…
The sun shone for our Sports Day this year! The teams put their all into a carousel of activities and then threw themselves into the individual races. The children took part in running races, egg and spoon, sack races, skipping and the good old three-legged race! The Friends of Kenn kindly provided some most delicious…
As part of Plymouth Universities Children’s University programme of events, Class 3 had their Art in Nature session on a wonderful, warm, sunny day. (rearranged from one of the snow days last term). They had to explore the gardens, using whatever they could find lying on the ground, to create a 3D piece of work….
Class 3 & 4 took a trip to Plymouth Aquarium and experienced four different activities, including a virtual reality session which took us to the deep depths of the ocean, a guided tour of the aquarium through the Great Barrier Reef and Atlantic Ocean exhibits, an exploration of buoyancy, and an interactive talk on why…
This week is British Science week. The children have all have been doing lots of science and discovering how amazing and fun it can be! We have had workshops with Ruth, from Sciencedipity, demonstrating explosions and chemical changes. All children made a potion that erupted and then made some fabulous slime! We also had an…
A group of Class 3 children went along to a Fairtrade event at Westcliff Primary school, along with several other local schools, to find out all about tea. There was a visitor from overseas who talked to the children about the whole tea production process.
It might have been a week late, due to the impromptu snow days last week, but everyone at Kenn had a great time dressing as one of their favourite book characters. We had everything from Roald Dahl and David Walliams characters through to fairy tale characters, and we even had to hunt for a Wally…