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What a wonderful time was head this morning during our very popular Golden Morning. This Half-Term’s activities were organised by our school council. They listened to their friends voices and came to me with a wish list of enrichment activities that they’d love to see at Golden Morning. Therefore, we had Fun Science, Cheerleading, African Cooking, Tag Rugby, Autumn Crafts, Bird Feeders, Sewing, Coding, Forest and Weaving. What a fantastic morning was had by all, including the staff and our wonderful helpers! Thank you to all the adults for all your hard work- they loved every minute of it!

These last couple of weeks at Little Hadham, our subject leaders have performed pupil voice to gather our pupils’ opinions about their subject. Our Pupil Voice is carried out to support subject leaders to implement changes or to evaluate current practice. The questions asked are related to the School Improvement Plan or to the Subject Action Plan. Subject Leaders conducting pupil voice have specific questions to complete to ensure consistency across the school.

Our children love having the opportunity to discuss their learning and go into great detail about their lessons and how they learn. This is so helpful and helps us as teachers to evaluate our subjects and to make changes to our practice where necessary.

All pupils have a chance to take part in lots of Pupil Voice throughout their time at Little Hadham, giving a good overview of pupils’ views about the school. Negative opinions are taken seriously and children are met with to investigate their concerns or feelings in more detail.

We were so lucky to have a fabulous Skip2Bfit Skipping Workshop this week. The music and positive vibes echoed across the school hall and playground as each class took their turn with the workshop.

Skipping is a fantastic activity for young people; it develops heart and lung fitness, coordination, balance, concentration – the list goes on! Skip to be fit is completely unique as they use their own specially designed skipping ropes with counters. The ropes are also adjustable so each rope can be personalised to the child, unlike other ropes.

One of the most positive aspects of a skipping programme is the massive improvements that our children can make in a short space of time – from being incapable of completing a couple of turns to competence can generally be achieved by regular practice. Skipping also encourages healthy habits and shows children that keeping fit can be fun.

The children felt very motivated, I am not sure if that was to beat the adults too! It was definitely a close competition and we will say no more about that Adeline!!

Four weeks in at Little Hadham Primary and it is fabulous to see the children embark meaningfully on their new curriculum content. The children seem generally happy and keen to settle into their routines and there has been fantastic engagement from learners, challenging activities for everyone and tailored learning for all.

The school is alive with the sounds of autumn… the children love learning a new song about autumn; I’m sure you all have the song in your head when they come home singing!

In the last couple of weeks, I met with our new captains, our school council members and the Green Team and they are on a mission to help make the school even better. In the next few weeks, they will be creating some surveys to get your opinions and involvement. The Green team have had a meeting with a local company called Immature Gardens and each class will have the joy of growing microgreens!

Our Learning Together Mornings have started back and the classrooms were bustling with parents learning with their child. The children certainly love sharing their learning and challenging you all.

I look forward to meeting with the Friends @2:00 pm on Friday the 6th of October in the school hall, please join us if you can- the school captains will be there to help with teas and coffees!

A warm welcome back from myself to our whole school community. I do hope you had a wonderful summer break, enjoying some lovely family time, wherever you were. I am pleased to say we’ve had such a positive first days, despite the playground fiasco,  welcoming the children into their new year groups. It is an absolute delight to see them smiling, happily bounding back into school. And I can’t believe how much some of them have grown! Everyone has come back refreshed, eager, ready to learn and excited about the new year.

The new children in the Ash and Saplings have settled in so well. This is a big step for them but they are making many new friends and learning the routines! We have also been joined by children in other year groups throughout the school. We are proud of our wonderful school and pleased that parents have chosen to join us and we hope that they will all be very happy at Little Hadham.

You will see from the website in the class page that there are many activities planned for this term. Do look out for your class updates where you will receive information about what the children are learning and any updates.

Kind regards

Ms Connolly

Friends of Little Hadham Primary held their first ever fun run today and it was super successful. They have raised… drum roll please… £3342!! WoW!

A huge thank you to the Friends for making this day so very special for everyone. The sun was shining, sprinklers were out and after about 10 mins the children all looked the same- covered in colour!!

The Friends  and all of us here at Little Hadham  would like to thank the incredibly generous community we have for all their support. We are so lucky to have such supportive families at our school.

Day 2!

Today we learned something new…once one is awake, they’re all awake! But the sun was up with them and there was excitement as they got ready to head off for a lovely breakfast before tackling some new challenges. Today we had ‘Gauntlet’ – this is an extremely wobbly high rope activity with rope ladders and tyres thrown into the mix. Did this stop Willow Class, nope, they harnessed up and off they went each one setting themselves a challenge! With challenges achieved, they set off for the next ones, zipping off a high pole with smiles and determination and tackling the ‘Leap of Faith’ – rather them than us!   It definitely was a day filled with thrills and fun and lots of chattering and giggling along the way. We finished off with very loud ‘repeat after me’ songs and lots more that I am sure they will share with you tomorrow. Well done, Willow Class, you have certainly impressed us with your skills and determination once again.

Greetings from Willow Class. We have arrived safe and sound, and have done 3 exciting, energetic activities where climbing, pedaling and team work were involved. You’d think they’d be worn out, but a shower and a hot chocolate has re energised them – the night is very young! They are loving their new abode and have made themselves at home already! Tomorrow is another busy day with zipping around the place and tomahawk throwing – we hope we find a good hiding place! We hope you all are enjoying the peace and quiet and not missing us too much!

Another week has flown by… that probably has something to do with it being a 4 day week for some of us and a 3 day week for others. However, a short week doesn’t stop us from doing lots of fun learning!

Today the whole school celebrated the Coronation of King Charles III as he becomes our new monarch this weekend. We celebrated by wearing something red, white and blue and some of us even wore crowns. We were delighted to be met this morning by King Charles himself- who knew he would come all the way to Little Hadham. Thank you Mrs Battle for lending the cardboard cut-out, we loved it!

Unfortunately, the weather stopped us from having our planned picnic but we had had a fantastic coronation lunch ‘street party style’ indoors. We had so much fun even… if we did reach a fair few decibels above normal!

The children have been learning all about the King’s coronation and making fantastic crowns and wreaths. Here are 10 facts for you:

1. The coronation takes place at 11.00am on Saturday 6^th May 2023.
2. The official dish of the coronation is a coronation quiche!
3. We get an extra bank holiday day for King Charles’ coronation.
4. The coronation will take place in Westminster Abbey, London.
5. The coronation procession route is much shorter than Queen

Elizabeth’s.

6. During the ceremony, Charles will sit in an old wooden chair called the Coronation Chair, which was made in 1300!
7. King Charles will wear the St Edward’s Crown and Queen Camilla will wear Queen Mary’s crown.
8. The King has asked for 12 musicians to create music for the coronation.
9. There are 2,000 people attending.
10. King Charles III has a special coronation emblem