Notice Board
Easter Worship
 It was wonderful today to see so many families attend our Easter Service at St Stephen’s Church. The children’s readings and singing were superb and we thank the Reverend Lorraine forhosting and leading us in prayer. As we come to the end of an incredibly busy and very exciting term, all of us at Kendall would like to wish our children and their families a very happy Easter! |
Year 2 Mercury Theatre Visit
 Year 2 were really excited to go to the Mercury
Theatre to see Dermot O’Leary and find out all about the books he has written
based on two of his own cats, Toto and Silver. He told us all about his books
and where he got the ideas from for the plots and characters. |
Yr 3 Colchester Zoo Visit
 On the 27th March, Year 3
enjoyed a trip to Colchester Zoo as a 'fabulous finish' to their ‘Rainforests’
topic. They were able to see many animals they had learned about up close
including orangutans, monkeys, anacondas and lizards! |
Colchester School's Music Festival
 The Colchester
School’s Music Festival took place on the 26th March in the evening
when our brilliant school choir sang their socks off in the seven songs they
had to learn for the occasion during weekly choir club. |
Trip to Waterstones
 The
winners of our Book Week “Book in a Box” competition got to go in to town this
week and choose a book of their choice as their prize. The children enjoyed
having the opportunity to browse the children’s section in Waterstones. |
School Dinners and Breakfast Club from September 2019
 Please
note as from September 2019 breakfast club will increase to £2 per
session and school dinners will increase to £2.20 per meal. There is no charge for school meals for EYFS,
Year 1 and Year 2. |
Car Park Reminder
 We would like to
remind everyone that unauthorised vehicles on site will receive a penalty
notice. |
Commonwealth Games Mascot Designing Competition
 After
requesting the mascot for the upcoming Birmingham Commonwealth Games that is
happening in 2022, the committee informed me that they do not currently have a
mascot and will be designing it this year.
They have asked that we send them ideas from our school, these could
help inform them and so we have decided to run a competition to help design the
Birmingham 2022 mascot. |
Beijing delegates visit Kendall
 On Wednesday 13th March two teachers
who work for the Bureau of Education in Beijing visited three schools in Essex,
including Kendall, for a study visit to discover good practise in the UK
and to help them inform education policy for young people in their
province. They were particularly interested in our policies for outdoor learning
and the way we use drama, not just in our musical theatre performances,
but also as drama-based enquiry that we use when we teach. They left with many
positive things to say about the school and our young people and commented on
what a happy school we have with a wonderful atmosphere. |
Fabulous Book in a Box entries
Our
Book Week culminated in an exhibition of all the “Book in a Box” entries which
had been submitted for our competition. We were overwhelmed by the sheer volume
of entries which we received, 95 in total which has been by far our most entered
competition so far. The creativity and imagination shown was amazing. Every
child visited the exhibition in the afternoon to vote for their favourite box
in each year group and then after school parents, grandparents and friends were
invited to view the boxes and cast their votes. In total 1456 votes were
counted and verified and the winners were announce in assembly on Monday. The
winners are looking forward to going to Waterstones next week to choose a book
of their choice as their prize. |
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