Well done to everyone that entered our decorate an egg competition. We were extremely impressed with everyone's creativity and effort.
Each class was awarded with an Easter Egg prize for the winner and runner-up. The judging was very difficult!
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On Wednesday 29th March Class Antarctica participated in the Year 1 Teddy lympics. They had to complete lots of different sports activities including running, jumping and skipping. Albert won the award for the throwing the furthest launcher and Harry C won the award for the most skips in two minutes. Well done boys! The children represented the school brilliantly and had lots of fun!
On Friday 10th March Class Antarctica competed in the international song contest at Newlands Spring Primary School. They sang a wonderful version of head, shoulders, knees and toes in Portuguese. They were the youngest class competing and did the school very proud!
There is still time to join Karate club which takes place on Fridays between 3.15 - 4.00pm.
The children have been learning different techniques each week.
Please see the attachment below for information on signing up.
iRock school of music lessons have been taking place for the last 2 weeks. We have enjoyed hearing the rehearsals taking place on a Friday afternoon. We seem to have some budding musicians amongst our pupils! We look forward to seeing them perform in their concert in a few weeks time.
A fantastic team of year 5 and 6 went to Writtle College to compete in a series of races. All the children tried their best and entered into the spirit of working as a team. They were brilliant!
Classes Asia and North America were set the task of making a model of a river.
This morning they had a showcase to share their fantastic work with each other.
To celebrate children's mental health week this week, we had a wellbeing afternoon.
The children rotated between classes participating in a range of activities based on the theme 'Lets Talk About It'.
The friends of Great Waltham School held two discos for the children on Wednesday. The children of KS1 got to boogie first and later KS2 wowed us with their dance moves. Party games and snacks were provided at each disco, along with a dance off between the boys on girls, on each occasion the girls won!! The children had a great time. A big thank you to FOGWS and all the volunteers for helping to make the afternoon such a fun experience.
Our year 4's enjoyed a morning out on Wednesday at the Chelmsford Sports & Athletics Centre for the superstars event. They took part in various different sporting activities and all worked well as a team.
We came 4th overall and also came away with 2 silver medals - well done to Sadie & Hatty.
This week class Australia have been learning about Chinese New Year.
We danced as Chinese dragons visiting each class.
This week KS2 children enjoyed a wonderful morning of Yoga and Mindfulness workshops.
They looked at Yoga flows, different Pranayama (breathing) techniques and even a bit of meditation using positive mantras.
Rachel wanted to thank the children for their energy and enthusiasm, and making her feel so welcome. She is looking forward to meeting KS1 next week!
