Many thanks to parents who came to the meeting last year about the New National Curriculum 2014 and the new assessment systems that schools will now be using. If you were unable to attend this meeting please take time to read the documents given out on the evening, which are linked below. It is important…
The Governors would like to congratulate Kenn school on its recent highly successful Ofsted inspection visit. The staff and pupils gave the Inspector a really memorable time with great lessons and extra- curricular, community activities. He was delighted with being able to meet so many people, including governors, all giving the same message – that…
For those parents and carers who were unable to attend our successful maths evening for parents we have a guide to the stages involved in written calculations available to download. Please click here to download our guide to written calculations in Maths. We hope you find it useful. It takes you through the concepts and…
On a very hot and sunny Thursday morning six schools from across the Partnership gathered together at St Lukes Science and Sports College in Exeter for the annual DLP Key Stage 1 Athletics tournament. Each school sent along a team of two girls and two boys from reception, year 1 and 2 to take part in a…
How lovely it is to be back in school with such eager children ready to learn! This week we launched our new topic; Gardens and Growing. We made a list of all the jobs that need to be done in a garden; ‘weeding, tidying, raking, hoeing, planting, watering, digging, mowing.’ We have also started to…
On Friday Class 2 were really excited to learn another Shakespeare Play. Before the session began Phoebe (Yr1) told us that she really loves Shakespeare, this was the fourth one that the Year 1’s have done, and the 2nd that the Year 2’s have done. Emma’s daddy kindly, with the children’s help, retold King Lear….
Class 2 have worked hard as a team to build up a class Undersea painting- To create the effective ocean colour washes for the background for our display they developed an understanding of how to create shades of a colour. The children then decided which sea creatures they wanted in their Under the Sea world….
Class 2 were completely absorbed last Friday when Mr Jinks came in to tell us the story of Romeo and Juliet. Everyone had a part, acting out all the key scenes, displaying some fantastic dramatic ability. We all learned alot about the play and hope to engage with other Shakespeare plays in the future.