Blog by James Tibbles

Following on from the glory and delight that was last year's Christmas Video, we've created yet another masterpiece to bring the Christmas joy!

Have a wonderful Christmas everyone and we'll see you in January!

Throughout Term 2, Year 6 explored different ways of exploring different ways of depicting the moving body in their artwork. We looked at and analysed the work of several artists, including those involved in the Futurist art movement. 
 

Pupils considered the proportions of the human figure…

We always welcome news on our children's achievements outside of school and I was really pleased to her about Rosie's weekend.

On Saturday, after five weeks of preparation, Rosie took part in the 'Santas on the Bay' 3K fun run. This took place in Herne Bay and you can see the route she ran…

I've been made aware of a very powerful music video about climate change which is planned to be a contender for Christmas Number 1.

Frankie, who wrote the lyrics for the song is the grandchild of two of our Bridge relatives and his Mum was also a pupil at Bridge School.

All proceeds will go…

Year 6 children have been writing their own Odyssey journeys and Sophie's was particularly impressive.

As part of their Remembrance Work, Year 2 have been studying a War Penny that belonged to a relative of Mrs Dennett.

She was so impressed with Phoebe's design that she was sent to me for a Headteacher Award!

As you can see, Mrs Tomsett was very impressed with Sammy’s writing today. He’s used lots of fantastic sentence openers. 

Year 2 have been writing Firework poems using exciting sentence openers and, this morning, Ira from 2GD came to show me his wonderful poem. 

It’s been a day for excellent work today. Emma and Elsie popped along to my office to show their excellent work on solids, liquids and gases. 

They were able to explain how the molecules within each of these states of matter were different and how to change from one state of matter to…

Rasmus and Alicia (6MB) both came along to my office today to show me their excellent problem solving with fractions in Maths today. I was very impressed with their systematic working and the ease in which they could explain their strategies.

Year 2 have been learning how to use partitioning to add two 2-digit numbers together. This morning, Lorenzo, Polly and Oliver came along to my office to show their excellent work and explain their mathematical strategies.

Last Friday, I spoke to the children about our new Christian Values and asked the children if they could write their own prayers reflecting one of these values.

Over the weekend, it occurred to me that it may be useful for the children to have a 'prompt' in order to reflect upon what these…