Memories of 2020-2021
Have a look at everything we've done this year (so far!)
- 14/12/20
Arctic Wolves Build Lighthouses
Arctic Wolves have been designing and building their own lighthouses in D.T. this week.Read Full Story - 09/12/20
Year 1 Christmas Production
The Year One children performed their Christmas production this week.Read Full Story - 09/12/20
Christmas Sewing by Arctic Wolves
Arctic Wolves have been learning how to sew in their art lessons this half term.Read Full Story - 27/11/20
Year 5 Greek Day
Bengal Tigers, Jaguars and Orangutans had an excellent day this week, with a visit from Master Xeno. The Junior Hall became the Agora of Ancient Athens, along with a temple of Athena.Read Full Story - 20/11/20
Arctic Wolves Make Electric Circuits
On Thursday, Arctic Wolves were set the challenge to make a bulb light up. WRead Full Story - 18/11/20
Flame Robins Visit Forest School 17.11.20
Flame Robins had their second Forest School session on Tuesday 17th November.Read Full Story - 13/11/20
- 09/11/20
Year 1 Topic Launch
What brilliant fun we had for our launch! On Thursday, the children arrived to find that their teachers had turned into museum curators.Read Full Story - 04/11/20
Year 1 Topic Land
What a fantastic land to our topic! The children all came prepared for Superhero day wearing capes, cloaks, and disguises galore.Read Full Story - 04/11/20
Red Squirrels Visit Forest School
On 20th October 2020 Red Squirrel class had an extremely exciting and muddy time at Forest School.Read Full Story - 04/11/20
Year 2 History Detectives
Year 2 were history detectives as part of our topic launch.Read Full Story - 04/11/20
Year 2 Land "What a Wonderful World"
Year 2 landed their ‘What a Wonderful World!’ topic by writing our own ‘invented animal’ information text.Read Full Story - 19/10/20
EY Woodland Adventure
As part of our English learning, we innovated the text of Goldilocks and the Three Bears to Goldilocks and the Three Bunnies.Read Full Story - 16/10/20
- 14/10/20
EY Make Baby Bear Chairs!
To cheer Baby Bear up the children decided to make him a new chair.Read Full Story - 14/10/20
KSJ TAKE PART IN National General Knowledge Finals
Friday 8th October was a huge day for Katherine Semar’s quiz team, as they were invited to take part in the National General Knowledge FinalsRead Full Story - 14/10/20
Early Years Learning about the Number 5!
The children are enjoying learning all about the number 5.Read Full Story - 14/10/20
- 14/10/20
EY Goldilocks Performance
The children in early years have been learning a short,oral version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. !Read Full Story - 07/10/20
Year 5 Planetarium Visit
Friday 2nd October was really exciting for Year 5 as they got a day of Space and engineering activities.Read Full Story - 07/10/20
Skylarks Visit Forest School 6.10.20
What a wonderful (muddy!) visit to forest school.Read Full Story - 07/10/20
Charlie Visits Year 1!
Wow! We were so lucky in year one to have a visit from the main character from our book!Read Full Story - 05/10/20
- 02/10/20
Skylarks Visit Forest School 30.9.20
What a wonderful, and muddy, trip to the forest. The children loved the rope swing, sliding in slightly muddy puddles and jumping in puddles.Read Full Story - 23/09/20
Skylarks Visit Forest School 22.9.20
We had a wonderful time on Tuesday at Forest school.Read Full Story - 23/09/20
Early Years Topic Launch
Someone’s been up to no good at Katherine Semar School... As part of our topic launch, the children turned up to school this morning and were completely shocked by the state of our hall. The children couldn’t believe the mess and wondered who had caused so much havoc in their school...Read Full Story - 21/09/20
Year 2 visit colchester zoo
Year 2 had an ‘Amazing African and Antarctic Animal Adventure’ visiting Colchester Zoo on Friday 18th September.Read Full Story - 16/09/20
Year 1 Topic Launch
Following a superhero treasure hunt - Year One had a zoom call with the author that has written their key text - Charlie's Superhero Underpants - Paul Bright. He read his story to us before allowing us to ask him some questions about him as an author, and his inspiration for his book. It wa...Read Full Story - 15/09/20
- 14/09/20
Year 5 volcano launch
Year 5 have started the year with a bang by creating modroc volcanos to help launch their topic. A bit of vinegar, food colouring and bicarbonate of soda helped create the lava! Please enjoy the photos.Read Full Story - 14/09/20