Lent Lunch
Our Year 6 pupils were invited to enjoy a Lent Lunch at the Kenn Centre, run by members of St Andrew’s Church. They were treated to delicious soup and bread as well as a pudding, which they couldn’t say no to!
World Book Day 2018
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…
Shoe boxes for Moldova
Thank you for all of your kind donations of wrapped shoeboxes full of goodies for children and families in Moldova. In all we had a total of 23 boxes. We know this will be greatly appreciated by those children and families who have so little. Our children helped load the shoe boxes and waved them…
Harvest Celebration
Children sang and danced to remind us all about Harvest and to help raise money for CAFOD. Each Class created art work to represent the hope for unity and sharing around the world. This year £74.70 was raised. Thank you to all of those who were able to join us and contributed to this total….
Year 5 & 6 High5Netball Festival
This was the second High5Netball festival laid on for the Dawlish primary schools by the Dartmoor School Sport Partnership. The festival was aimed at year5/6’s both girls and boys. Kenn, Westcliff and Kenton were the schools that bought squads to the event. The festival was meant to be on the astro turf at Dawlish Community…
Trip to We are Curious
Class 3 joined Class 4 and the children in Ks2 from Kenton on a trip to ‘We are Curious’ in Bristol last week. Here is some of the children’s reviews! “It was amazing, because we could explore the scientific world.” “There were so many different devices and loads to learn, best trip ever!” “it was…
Forest School
Year five and six took part in their first Forest School sessions on Monday and had a thoroughly enjoyable time. They took the minibus to Bickham Farm and enjoyed the (long!) walk across the fields and up into our special woodland site after saying hello to the goats. Both groups took part in games to…
£5 Virgin Money Enterprise Challenge
Richard Branson gave each child in Class 4 £5 to use towards setting up their own business. The children organised themselves into teams and made their own exciting products which they have sold this week during playtimes, lunchtimes and after school. They needed to consider their product, do market research, think about how to promote…
Sports Day 2017
The sun shone and the rain stayed away for our Sports Day. The children took part in a carousel of sporting activities to score points for their house team. This year the St David’s team were victorious. The team carousel was followed by running races and novelty races including the sack race, the three legged…
The power of music and dance
As part of Mental Health Week children have been learning about the positive impact singing and dancing can have on our well being. The whole school learnt about what happens to our brain when involved in song and dance and then put this to the test. They sang and danced and it all ended with…