Essex has started a club called ‘Bangladeshi Ma’ (Bangladesh Mothers). This club has just been running for a few weeks and we wanted to share our successes so far. The mothers attending these club sessions have already built a strong relationship with each other. This has had a great impact on their social and …
Category: School Events
Mother Tongue Day
Mother Tongue Day – A Celebration of Culture On Thursday 27th February, we celebrated Mother Tongue Day. The children and staff wore traditional clothing that celebrated and embraced their cultural heritage. The whole school was transformed into a sea of vibrant colours and beautiful prints. The children shared songs and poems in their mother …
Dinosaur Visit at Essex Primary
On Thursday 13th February, Children in Reception had a thrilling visit from the Education Group. They brought their fossils along for the children to experience paleontology. During the morning, they got the chance to enhance their learning of their current Dinosaur topic. During this workshop the children worked alongside a dinosaur expert and they had …
Bikeability – (Road and Travel Safety)
Year 4 On Monday 14th and Tuesday 15th October, 20 pupils from Year 4 were invited to participate in level 1 cycle training provided free by Cycle Confident. The lead instructor for the 2 days, Michael Striesow, has been to Essex before so knows how our school works. As part of the level 1 training, …
Maths Day – Summer 2019
Maths Day at Essex Primary School is all about promoting a love of maths and enabling children to see maths as a practical and fun subject where to process of solving a problem can be as important as the solution itself. In order to embrace geometry, we held a maths …
London History Day
On Friday 24th May children at Essex Primary School took part in London History Day. It was an event endorsed by the Mayor of London. We had a whole school assembly in which we discussed the importance of looking at our local history and advised children on places they could visit with their families for …
Great Fire Of London workshop (Year2) 2018
Great Fire Of London Experience! What an adventurous journey year 2 took, to learn about the Great fire of London! The year 2 children attended an engaging and practical workshop in the school where they learned about the events of the Great fire of London. They were transported to the challenging, but vibrant, streets of …
Royal Wedding Day 2018
On Thursday 17th May, Essex Primary collectively embraced the spirit of the nation, by celebrating the Royal Wedding. Children from every year group prepared for the ‘big day’ by creating many wonderfully symbolic pieces of work. They tried to replicate all the important aspects of the Royal Wedding, to emphasise the enormity of the occasion to …
Election Special from Essex Primary School
Election Special! As the 2017 General Election took place across the whole of the United Kingdom, Essex Primary School was busy with its own smaller (but just as intensely fought) version. Who would be the winning party and which leader would take on the role of School Prime Minister? Excitement Builds Children had spent the …
Essex in Touch: ‘good neighbours’ intitiative
Essex in Touch is our new school initiative built around kindness, sharing and being good neighbours, run in partnership with the Manor Park Community Neighbourhood Scheme. This programme of events hopes to encourage cross-generational links in our local community by offering older people a chance to share their wealth of knowledge with children. In return, …