St Alphege CEI School

Our incredible Year 2 Performing Arts Club truly shone in their production of The Magic Box at the Playhouse Theatre last night. It is easy to forget how young these children are as they commanded the stage with such confidence! This production was written alongside the children and it is always such a pleasure to perform on a real stage in this gorgeous theatre! We hope this is a memory that lasts a lifetime for them all and they will continue their journey in theatre for many years to come! We are so proud of them all!
Huge thanks as always to The Playhouse, Whitstable for making this incredible experience possible!

After it's premier screening yesterday, we wanted to share this gorgeous little film that was created by our Year 2 Technical Team, alongside Tim Leek: a professional film maker and photographer from our arts partners Animate Arts Company. The film was created for our Year 2 Performing Arts Club production of The Magic Box, inspired by the part of the script where the children get transported to an enchanted forest after they discover a Magic Box inside their teachers cupboard!

The Enchanted Forest This gorgeous little film was created by our Year 2 Technical Team,...

Yesterday, a few of our children visited St Alphege Church to participate in the blessing of the new wildlife garden. Reverend Rachel led a wonderful blessing, celebrating nature and wildlife and led reflections and thanks for the new space created. The children joined in with songs and the planting of seeds to add to the space. It was wonderful to join together to celebrate this new space within our community.

Huge congratulations to our winner of the Tesco colouring competition! Sam came today to present his prize and to deliver a big box of apples to share with all the children in Year 1! Thanks Tesco!

Huge congratulations to this little ray of sunshine, who never fails to bring joy to those around her! A worthy winner of the Bailey Yanik Cup for this term! 🏆

Today the whole school experienced a Surf school workshop! Here are some of the photographs from Year 1 and 2! We learnt about water safety and different signs and symbols we might see at the beach, especially if we were going surfing. The children all had their own surfboard mat and balance board which they used to learn and practice different surfing skills. The instructors put on fun music for us to move to which made the session loads of fun!

To celebrate an amazing term of learning about Textiles in Art, our Year 1 children completed their T-Shirt designs. Retrieving their knowledge of DT, they explored different styles of printed t-shirts before creating their designs thinking carefully about what technique and material they would use in their final piece. The children used textile paints, fabric crayons and textile pens to complete their final designs... the results are STUNNING! We hope you love these bright, colourful keepsakes as much as we do!

In their Maths this week, Year 1 have been learning how to find a quarter of an object, shape and quantity. Today they made their own Pizzas! Once the Pizzas were made and cooked, the children worked with a partner to cut them into 4 equal parts to represent a quarter. Then they "removed" a quarter when they got to eat them! They were delicious.

Please see the attached flyer for the School-Based Resilience workshops for parents