Memories of 2023-2024

December 2023

  • 19/12/23

    Christmas Around the World

    On Friday, the infant school celebrated ‘Christmas all around the world’. The children spent the day flying around the globe to learn about Christmas traditions from different countries. Many of these countries were special to children within the school as their family members are from t...
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  • 18/12/23

    Santa Visits KSS!

    The children had a fantastic time visiting Father Christmas today.  Father Christmas always enjoys coming to this school so that he can meet our amazing children and spend some time in his Christmas grotto, which is so stunningly created by Dan Vinson.  Thank you, Dan, it is amazing...
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  • 18/12/23

    Katherine Semar Composers

    We love composing in our music lessons at school, but this year, eleven budding composers took part in the Katherine Semar Christmas Carol and Song Challenge. They worked singly or in pairs to compose and perform a song or carol to share with Mrs Cass and Mrs Wheeler. It was wonderful to listen to s...
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  • 15/12/23

    Junior School Christmas Production

    The Year 3, 4 and 5 Christmas production this year was “How Christmas Came to Be” by Andrew Oxspring and Ian Faraday. This festive and entertaining production was fun to perform and gave the children lots of opportunities for acting and singing.
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  • 15/12/23

    Infant School Christmas Production

    The Infant School children performed their Christmas production last week, “Born in a Barn”.  They absolutely astounded us with their brilliant singing, energetic dancing and superb acting. A special mention to our Early Years children who performed amazingly in their first eve...
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  • 08/12/23

    Flame Robins Enjoy Forest School

    Flame Robins had a wonderful time at an even muddier Forest School. They ran, slid, skidded, swung, whittled, used flints for making the fire, chased, explored and built dens.  They even had the opportunity to shape and cook some 'stone age' oat cakes.  Well done, Flame Robins, you...
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  • 08/12/23

    Spirit of Christmas

    On Saturday 2nd December, Katherine Semar Junior Choir performed at the annual Spirit of Christmas celebration in St Mary’s Church, Saffron Walden. The choir of Y4, 5 and 6 pupils, under the direction of Mrs Wheeler, performed beautifully. They sang with sensitivity, expression and well-contro...
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  • 04/12/23

    KSS Christmas Fayre

    We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who helped at or attended our Christmas Fayre last week. We hope all the children had a wonderful time – it was fantastic seeing their excitement and happy faces. We were amazed when we totalled up our Christmas Fayre takings to discover we...
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December 2023