St Teresa's Catholic Primary School

"LET US DO LITTLE THINGS WELL TODAY"
Our vision is to ensure children grow and develop through the love and teaching of Christ,
becoming responsible citizens able to make a positive contribution in society.

Clairmont Road, Colchester, Essex, CO3 9BE

01206508445

office@st-teresas.essex.sch.uk

Sports Week - Day 3

Today we played basketball in our teams. We worked hard to pass the ball and try to get the ball in the hoop.

We had so much fun and enjoyed scoring points.

Sports Week - Day 3

Today we played 3Tee cricket (one of our favourites sports that we have learned the skills for this year) in our house teams. We tried hard to hit the balls as far as we could and run fast between the wickets to score 'runs'. We also worked in our teams to return the 'tees' and balls back to the correct place to stop runners from running.

Sports Week - Day 2

Today we played football in our house teams. We worked hard to defend and score goals for our team.

We were excellent team mates and had lots of fun.

Sports Week - Day 1

Today we played tag rugby in our house teams. We had lots of fun but also worked very hard to pass the ball, run and score tries! 

Our Trip to Walton on the Naze

We went on a trip to the beach at Walton on the Naze. We had fun paddling in the water, exploring key features of the beach, working in groups to build sandcastles and eating our delicious lunches. We were treated to an ice-cream and played in the park before returning to school. 

Our Lighthouses

We followed a special tutorial teaching us how to draw a lighthouse. We thought about the lighthouse from 'Hello Lighthouse' and took part in the tutorial to draw our own version of the lighthouse. We then chose our own medium e.g. colouring pencils or watercolour paints and added colour to our drawings. We thought carefully about blending colours and made sure to take our time!

National Numeracy Day

Our Coronation Banksy's

We explored the unknown artist 'Banksy' and decided to create our own pieces of Coronation art using stencils just like Banksy! 

Our Fire Engines

Paul Perro's Great Fire of London Poem

We worked with a partner to read part of the poem. We then recorded it and illustrated it to show our understanding of what was happening. 

Putting out the fire!

Welcome to Pudding Lane

We created our own house in Pudding Lane. We used a range of materials including wooden sticks, paper and card. We drew an outline of a Tudor house using chalk. We then filled the outline with sticks and then painted it white. We then created a roof using brown materials (scrunching, rolling or layering) and we then added beams.

We thought about what we might have seen, heard and smelt from our Tudor houses during the Great Fire of London. We wrote our thoughts on special paper.

3D Pudding Lane

We were challenged to design our own 3D Pudding Lane.

I had to think about what tools and materials I would like to use.

Fire Painting

We thoughts about the different colours we saw in the fire that Hillary created during our trip to Layer Marney Tower. We explored making shades and tones and then used different coloured paints and straws to create fire pictures in the style of Jackson Pollock.

Book Swap

We had lots of fun looking through the books at the book swap and choosing some to take home.

We had lots of fun at the 'book swap' as part of our World Book Day celebrations. We chose a one or two books to bring home, but we also enjoyed looking at other books and reading them with our friends and family. We are looking forward to coming to the 'book house' to swap our books soon.

World Book Day

For World Book Day we focused on the book 'The Word Collector'. We came to school dressed in characters from books and linked it to a word e.g. snappy, stylish, letters, safety.

We had lots of fun and enjoyed learning lots of new words!

Layer Marney Tower

We went on a trip to Layer Marney Tower for our Great Fire of London Day.

We dressed up in outfits similar to those that might have been worn in 1666.

We were very excited to climb the tower! We walked up the spiral staircase all the way to the top and looked at the view all the way to the sea!

Our Tudor House Drawings

We explored the key features of a Tudor house. Did you know that the structures were made from wood, that the wooden beams were painted with tar and that the walls were made from sticks and clay (wattle and daub)?

We used our sketch pencils, rulers and crayons to create out drawings.

Our Town Cries

We imagined ourselves as town criers in 1666.

We wrote our own town cries to tell people about what was happening in London.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

We have been learning about Giuseppe Arcimboldo an Italian artist who was famous for his self portraits and portraits using fruit and items from nature. We started by taking inspiration from Giuseppe Arcimboldo self portrait and used our sketch pencils and mirrors to draw our own self portraits before choosing one watercolour and painting shadows and shades.

Reverse Advent Calendar

During Advent the children in Year 1 brought in presents for less fortunate children in Colchester. We thought about how lucky we are and how important it is to help others when we can.

We wrapped the gifts we collected and they were then donated to Refugee Action Colchester.

Carol Service

We had a very special Carol Service on the last day of term. Each class sang a special Christmas song and we donated sweet treats for those less fortunate than us this Christmas season. 

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Christingles

We learned about what the different parts of a Christingle represents and shared our knowledge with our friends. We then made our own special Christingles to feel closer to Jesus during this special season of Advent. We took our Christingle's home to light with our families at a quiet time over the Christmas holidays.

Reaching Out

As part of Anti-Bullying week, we thought about our positive attributes and how we would reach out and help our friends if they were upset.

Our Odd Socks

We loved wearing odd socks all week to celebrate 'Anti Bullying Week' and remembering that we are all unique, special and loved in our own way. We then designed and decorated our own odd socks!

Fields of Poppies

We took inspiration from photographs of poppies that had been growing in our school garden to paint our own field of poppies. We used our watercolour paints and thought about the different shades of green and red that we could use. Some of us mixed colours to help us create different shades.

We Will Remember Them

We thought about what poppies represent and how they showed signs of hope at the end of the war, when people were very sad, tired and heartbroken. We used a collage of newspapers declaring the end of the war and practising ripping and rolling tissue paper to create our own 3d poppies.

Rocket Poems

We wrote our own firework poems, using descriptive words to describe our rockets and their journey to the sky.

We loved reading our poems to each other. 

WANTED! Guy Fawkes

We learned about Guy Fawkes and created wanted posters! We were shocked that he tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament and enjoyed being historians. We even made our posters look old with a special mixture and tea bags!

Salty Fireworks

The children used PVA glue to create their fireworks and then sprinkle salt over their masterpieces. They then used paint to add colour to their fireworks. As you can imagine, it was VERY messy, but lots of fun!

Thank you to all those who donated to our Harvest collection for Colchester Foodbank. Some children from Year 1 went to the foodbank today to deliver their donations. They were so grateful and blown away by the generosity of our school. Your donations really will go a long way to help those in need at this difficult time, so thank you. 

Harvest Festival

We invited our families to a special 'Harvest Festival' to celebrate some of our learning this half term. We performed our special barn dances, some of us read prayers and some of us read poems. We shared cakes and thought about how lucky we are to have food. Over the past few weeks we have been donating items for the food bank and we managed to collected a large number of items.

We wrote special Harvest prayers thanking God for the food we have.

Some of us even asked God to help the poor and hungry.

We used similes to describe some of the food that is grown or found at the farm. 

Black History Day

Year 1 and Year 2 enjoyed a vertical day in which the children worked together in small groups to focus on an important individual in Black History. The children worked so hard all day and produced the most amazing work. Click on the video to see some of the learning that took place.

We listened to Aretha Franklin's hit 'RESPECT' and then used different pastels to draw how the song made us feel and what it made us think of. We then cut out the letters to spell 'RESPECT'.

We role played the story of Rosa Parks on the bus. We then thought about how she might have felt and wrote our ideas down, imagining ourselves as Rosa.

We learned about Katherine Johnson and her love for numbers and geometry. We celebrated the important part she played in the history of space travel and decorated her with numbers and number sentences.

Our Trip to Hollow Trees Farm

Our Autumn Self Portraits

We used items that we collected from our Autumn Walk to create self portraits.

We used mirrors and our checklists to make sure we included all of our features.

Our Autumn Walk

Our Self Portraits

We thought about our key features e.g. eyes, eye brows and hair.

We used mirrors to look at our features and a range of paints to create our masterpieces!

During British Values Day we:

worked together to create our classroom rules
•voted for our ‘Your Voice’ and ‘Eco Warrior’ representatives
•thought about what we would like to be when we grow up
•explored the colours of the Union Jack and created our own ‘flags’
•‘filled our friends buckets’ by saying kind and loving things about them