Nursery children enjoyed making ‘rainbow slime’. They worked in pairs to make yellow, pink, green, blue and purple slime. The children noticed the changes in the mixture as they added different ingredients to it. They mixed the slime until it was malleable and no longer sticking to their fingers. The children had a go at stretching the slime as far as they could across the table. They used words such as ‘slimy’, ‘slippery’ and ‘cold’ when asked how the slime felt.
Year 2 visited Braintree Museum to take part in a Victorian day. We dressed up in Victorian costumes. Many boys were 'chimney sweeps' and many girls were Victorian maids. During the visit, we became detectives and explored Victorian artefacts. We also took part in a scary Victorian lesson. In the lesson we chanted times tables, practised our handwriting on slate boards and the teacher was very, very strict.
The teacher told us all about Victorian punishments like the back straightener, the cane and dunces hat.
We all got the chance to look around the Museum and play Victorian games in the afternoon.
Year 1 took part in an exciting 3D art project where we created a castle and knights themed wall display. Many parents came in to help us. First, we made pebbles or flat plates with newspaper, then we covered our shapes with newsprint and finally we used coloured tissue & metallic papers to add to colour to our artwork. Art Solutions then put all our artwork together on an amazing display in the lower school hall. We are very proud of our work.
In February half term, we ran our fourth Sports and Activity camp in school and twenty-six children attended.
The children completed fun activities including: Dodgeball, football, fencing, New Age Kurling, blindfolded painting, paper aeroplane making and team games.
Throughout the day, all of the children worked in teams to win prizes.
We are looking forward to the next one!
This week a coach from Essex Cricket Club came into school to run a FREE session for a year 1, 2 and 3 class.
The children participated in lots of different activities, which helped to improve their agility, speed and batting.
They showed great desire to learn new skills and work as a team.
On the 5th of February, 18 KS2 Children went to Braintree hockey club to play in a tournament.
We split them into two teams - one team drew two games and lost one; the other team won three and lost one.
Overall, both teams showed great teamwork and were great ambassadors to our school! Well done!
Last week we took two teams of year 5/6 to Braintree Rugby club to play in a tournament. One of the teams played three games but unfortunately did not win any of them. The other team played five games, winning four and losing one. All of the children showed great sportsmanship and were brilliant ambassadors to our school - Well done!
On the Wednesday, the 12th January 4 children went to Ramsey Academy to play in a curling competition. They played two games winning one and losing the other. They showed great teamwork and were outstanding ambassadors to the school - Well done!
On the 27th of November, 10 year 5/6 children went to Ramsey Academy and played in a Basketball tournament. They played 3 games winning them all! This meant they got through to the next round and received a gold medal each. The children were extremely proud of themselves!
On the 12th of December, the basketball team went to Rickstones Academy to play in the next round of their competition. They were up against some very competitive schools but managed to come second out of six teams! The team showed great desire, teamwork and sportsmanship during the tournament!
The girls recently played in a football match against John Ray primary school. Unfortunately, they lost 2-0 but even in defeat, they showed great sportsmanship and teamwork! They are looking forward to their next match!
On Tuesday 14th of November, 10 year 5/6 children went to Notley High School to play in a dodge ball tournament. The children played a number of games against very tough opposition. They came 7th out of 8 but showed great team sprit and were brilliant ambassadors to the school!
Well done!
The whole school came together on Friday to commemorate 100 years since the end of the first world war. We all gathered in the KS1 playground with some special guests from the British Legion and Father Tim. Year three and the dance club showed us some dances they had been working on. Year four sang a melody of war time songs. Some children read out some poems and Oaks class sang a song one of the children had written for their homework. The bugler sounded the last post and we stood for two minutes silence. The children from each class then placed a reef on the stage underneath the thank you sign (which had been decorated with poppies the children had made in their classes). The children behaved impeccably and it was a very moving service.
On the 31st October John Bunyan hosted a boot camp event on the school field. We welcomed four different schools who brought ten year 3/4 children; we also had three teams ourselves. The children participated in a number of different exercises, which needed a lot of teamwork, determination and grit!
We would like to thank Mii Bootcamp who run the event and gave the children some new experiences.
On Wednesday 10th of October eight girls went to Witham Town Football Club to play in a tournament.
They played extremely well and came 4th out of 8, showing off all their skills they have been practicing in training!
Last week eight KS1 Children went to Beckers Green Primary school to participate in a Teddy Bear run. There were some outstanding individual performances.
All the points from each race went towards a team score; we came 2nd out of seven schools. Well done!
Bunyan Bear also enjoyed his day winning his race against the other teddies!
This term our topic has been the Vikings.
We have studied their way of life and looked at the human and physical geography of the Scandinavian countries they came from.
Year 5 have also been drawing Viking faces and artefacts, which we created as a model and clay face.
We had a Viking celebration to our parents, showing our work and the Viking bread we made.
The music celebration to our parents showed off our progress in performing a brass instrument.
Farm day - Gemma's Farm visited us in the summer term; there were a number of different farmyard animals to see and there was even a pink chicken! We were able to hold and groom some of them animals and although it was very hot, it was lots of fun.
A Royal Picnic - Year 1 celebrated the Royal wedding in style.
We all sat together on the field in a great big circle and had a picnic together. We had sausage rolls, salad, crisps and a cake. It was lots of fun; we really enjoyed our celebrations!
Tennis Festival - We took part in a Year 1 tennis festival. We were able to practise a number of different skills. These included: accuracy, balance, speed, agility and hand-eye co-ordination. It was lots of fun and we learnt many new games, led by our super Year 5 helpers!
Oaks class have made a video to show all the work they have completed in the summer term.
The Scrapstore Playpod was officially opened yesterday (Tuesday 3rd July). Here are some children playing with the Playpod contents.
