NEWS - June 2025
Year 1 had a great time at Call of the Wild Zoo. We learnt about different animal habitats and loved seeing the birds of prey flying.
Year 2 enjoyed celebrating National Writing day today by becoming authors and creating stories based on a nursery rhyme or traditional tale.
Year 6 Had a fantastic - but very tiring time away at Hilltop on their residential. They faced the thunderstorm and then the brilliant sunshine. They rode bikes, climbed walls, played team games, hit the high ropes, climbed crates, face their fears on the 'big swing', threw themselves off a high platform and had a disco! Good fun was had by all including the adults!
Huge congratulations to Grace who won the age 9-11 Palmers Colouring Competition....enjoy spending your voucher!
The KS1 Enterprise Fair got off to a great start with 'running the gauntlet', making crowns (Ready for our Queen Covers Band Tomorrow!), biscuit eating and lots more!
Our Year 2 children had an amazing time when they went to Call of the Wild on 30/04 spending lots of time looking at a variety of animals and birds!
Year 6 have enjoyed making collaborative sculptures based on the work on glass artist Dale Chihuly
Reception have had so much fun enjoying their visit from Mini Champs, who came in for their PE lesson this morning.
Grove's Remarkable Refills, the eco-friendly shop set up by our talented Year 5 and 6 students had great fun with their first 'Pop up shop' of the year, last Thursday 23/1!
On Thursday 23/1, Y6 has had two special visitors. Two community police liaison officers, from Essex Police district council, have been speaking to the children about behaviour and what is considered to be antisocial and ALL the groups of people who are affected. We've had lots of good discussions about what is and isn't acceptable; a variety of crimes; how we feel and how our actions can make others feel; what we can do in difficult situations and how to extricate ourselves from them. The children were also quite surprised about the legality of certain things - such as electric scooters!
The children took part in an intense basketball tournament at Waterside. They worked well against a few tough opposing teams and got through to the final. The girls worked hard to score lots of nets while the boys worked hard defending. The final was then taken to extra time and then penalties. The level of basketball was fantastic. Well done Grove Wood on coming second place!
Clothes Bank totaliser - funds raised so far this academic year (May) 2024/2025 £468
£594 in the academic year 23/24
Thank you!
A really MASSIVE thank you to you all.
At the book fair last week, we sold a whopping £3840 in books and extras which means £2304 commission to the school!
This morning Y6 have had a visit from the police on cyber safety - they found some of law on this quite surprising!
Please click the sound bites below to hear the Rock Bands version of some Queen hits....getting ready for Fridays Queen day!
Y6 have had a well earned treat in the park after a week of SATs
Year 2 were lucky enough to enjoy a visit from some baby lambs, that one of our parents brought in to help them learn about animals and living things!
To bring together all their skills of chopping, slicing, cutting, grating and dicing, Year 2 made and enjoyed vegetable Quesadillas!
The children have enjoyed their lunch outside today to celebrate the 80th Anniversary of VE Day, dressed in red, white and blue!
Bike club was full speed ahead last night in the beautiful sunshine - the children had a fantastic time!
Our Year 5s had a fantastic VR experience learning about Ancient Greece and space!
As part of British Science Week, Year 2 have had the opportunity to make their own slime! As you can see the children absolutely loved watching the reaction happen and then playing with their slime.
8 year 6 girls went to Deanes for a badminton tournament. They all played really well and supported each other throughout. The girls came up against some tough teams, however they dug deep, practised their shots and one of our teams came first. Well done to both teams, they all worked extremely hard!
PE Days
Reception - Thursday AM
Year 1 - Friday AM
Year 2 - Tuesday AM
Year 3 - Thursday PM
Year 4 - Monday PM
Year 5 - Wednesday PM
Year 6 - Tuesday PM
Maths and Star Writers
May 2025
Stars Of The Week
06/06/2025
Stars Of The Week
23/05/2025
Stars Of The Week
16/05/2025
The Deanes Community Bike Loan Scheme
This is an initiative in partnership with Active Essex and the Bikeability Trust, whereby The Deanes SSP has been able to create a community cycling hub with a stock of adult and junior bikes for local families to borrow free of charge.
We are ready to take bookings as from today, so contact us directly ASAP!
SCHOOL LETTERS -
There will be opportunities for families to get involved in history trails around the museum, spot hazards in our fire safety room, partake in craft activities and a sit on our fire engines (and squirt water