Ash and Saplings were very busy preparing for our exciting track opening ceremony today. We wrote a thank you card to Mr Graham McAndrew from the council, for giving our school some money in order to make our track design come to life! Also, they decorated bunting with their favourite vehicles, practiced their cycling and scooting skills, and wrote supportive messages to help cheer their friends on. Thanks to those of you who were able to make it to celebrate with us. The children really have enjoyed making use of our track and they cannot wait to develop the space further with additional signage, to support the children in making links between their real-life experiences and their play. A HUGE THANK YOU  to Mr Hutt our Chair of Governors for making this happen-what would we do without you!

Each year, the 11th of February marks an international celebration of women and girls in science and STEM and the contributions they make in their field. As you may know, there is a huge gender gap between men and women in Science! Also, there are even less girls and women across sciences such as Physics, Chemistry and so on. These subjects are really important because they affect every aspect of our lives and the world around us. As a school we are committed to ensuring that gender should not be a barrier to participating and contributing to the world of scientific research or any other subject.

Therefore, today at Little Hadham we celebrated International Women and Girls in Science Day with some female sixth formers from Hockerhill School. In an assembly they discussed the different science subjects they are studying and the area of science they wish to study at university. An ex pupil of ours Una, did a very exciting WOW experiment. It was a huge success and we also discovered a few potential future scientists amongst us! One of the quotes from the ‘Hockerhill Steminists’ was, ‘It was a brilliant opportunity to meet some of the minds of the future and though we set out to inspire the next generation, their enthusiasm inspired us to continue being curious about all our fields of study. #steminism’

Applications to our Nursery  for children to start in September 2023 are now open!

Nursery Dates for Sept 2023

Monday 16th January 2023 – Applications open via schools websites

Friday 10th March 2023 – Application system closes

Monday 20th March 2023 – Offer places directly to parents by email

Monday 24th April 2023 – Deadline for parents to accept places

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A fabulous way to spend an afternoon. Don’t forget to check Seesaw to hear them singing so beautifully.

Wow! What a fabulous lunch was had by all. Noisy…well…  maybe a few decibels louder than your average lunch time! It was so lovely to be all back together celebrating and sharing food. Thank you to our wonderful chefs and to all our governors and staff for helping make this day such a wonderful memory.

Watch this space Simon Cowell because Little Hadham Primary definitely has got talent!  The rest of the school and Judges were treated to an awesome talent show that included; magician, pogo stunts, solo singers, musicians, dancers, footballers  and gymnasts.  A tremendous amount of effort had gone into creating just the perfect performances.  Well done to all who gave it their very best  and entered- you were super brave and did brilliantly. And an enormous THANK YOU to our judges, Mrs Nicklin, Mr Edwards, Zoe (our dance teacher) and Lauren and Isla, you were all very professional. As you can imagine, there was added excitement to see the return of Mrs Nicklin and Mr Edwards to the school. I am sure you heard the squeals of delight from home!

This morning our Lime, Maple and Willow took part in our humanities table quiz. Children enjoyed working with members of the different class to tackle lots of questions from their topics and some general knowledge ones too. Thank you to Mrs Courtman-Stock for organising- it really was brilliant fun. We had joint winners who were very happy to receive a prize too!

Golden Morning this half-term certainly was golden. It’s fabulous to be able to offer such a wide range of different enrichment activities to ensure we are equipping our children with the knowledge and cultural capital to succeed in life.  Children were concentrating learning to knit, cheerlead, watercolour craft angels,  and so much more. It was lovely to see and hear them socialising with children from different classes and to see how helpful and wonderful Willow class were with the younger children. A huge thank you to all our staff who organised such brilliant activities, and a huge SHOUT OUT to our parent and grandparent helper we certainly couldn’t have done it without you.

These pictures clearly tell the story. Here are a few soundbites from the children…

This is very tricky… 10 mins later, I can do it!

We had so much fun, I had never done cheerleading before!

We did the Twits, it was so much fun!

The whole school watched Jack and The Beanstalk at Southmills Art Centre. It has become part of our tradition each year. The children loved watching the various characters, they giggled, cheered, sang and even booed at some of the characters. Thank you to the Friends for donations towards the coach to make these memorable experiences happen- they loved it.