Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Advent

  Mon 02 Dec 2019 Mrs Burlton

  What a wonderful way to start the month of December. As the village awoke and came to life on Sunday, hundreds of knitted angels were scattered around for families to enjoy. Each handmade angel was labelled with 'A Gift of Love, Take me Home'. It was such a thoughtful way to start the period of advent and kick start to village Christmas celebrations. 

   

  We also welcome Mary and Joseph to our school on 3rd/4th December- these wooden statues are passed around the village before ending up back at the Church on Christmas Day. 

   

  https://www.kentonline.co.uk/tenterden/news/500-angels-discovered-in-kent-village-217641/

   

• Autumn Trail

  Tue 05 Nov 2019 Mrs Burlton
  A big thank you to all the families that supported our first ever autumn trail. The children went exploring, trying to find scarecrows hidden in the school grounds and church yard. It was a lovely afternoon, which was thoroughly enjoyed by all, even the teachers!

  

• Pond Restoration

  Mon 28 Oct 2019 Mrs Burlton

  Over the half term break, our pond at the bottom of the field was renovated as part of Natural England's District Level Licensing Scheme for Great Crested Newts (a European Protected Species).

   

  The project is funded through housing developers who are paying for pond creation/restoration work in areas with known records of Great Crested Newt to mitigate for the destruction of habitat on their development sites.

   

  High Halden Primary School is within a core area – in other words Great Crested Newts have been found here at some point in the past.

   

  Natural England like to create or restore ponds in clusters (usually within 250m of each other) so they can provide stepping stones for these newts to move around more easily and breed. Although Great Crested Newts are not rare, their suitable habitat is becoming more and more depleted; they also prefer deeper, larger ponds compared to Smooth and Palmate newts.

   

  The work was carried out by a local company based between High Halden and Woodchurch:FGS Pilcher

   

  The partnership officer, Sarah Harrington-James will be returning in the Spring to help the children plant the pond area and learn more about Great Crested Newts. 

  

• Harvest Festival

  Fri 04 Oct 2019 Mrs Burlton

  On Friday 4th October, we gave thanks for the harvest at our annual service in St Mary's Church. Our Year 6 Worship Leaders, ran the service with the help of Bumble Bees who sang and danced to Dingle Dangle Scarecrow. Butterflies sang 'Fruitas', in Spanish. Grasshoppers wrote a class prayer and Dragonflies explained the importance of harvest and how we should share with other. The church was decorated with the children's art work, which looked stunning. 

   

  Following our service, our Year 6 children prepare harvest hampers which they delivered to members of our local community. Due to the generous donations of our families, we will also be donating produce to the Family Food bank in Ashford. 

  

• Cool Milk

  Tue 20 Aug 2019 Mrs Prebble
  To view information on Cool Milk click here

  

• New hall displays

  Fri 26 Apr 2019
  Have a look at these fantastic hall displays. 

  

• Eco Day

  Wed 13 Mar 2019 Mrs Burlton
  What a brilliant day we had outdoors! 

  The children in each class worked on a variety of outdoor tasks within the school grounds, as follows:

   

  Bumble Bees - Woodland Area: Making a hedgehog house, bird feeders and doing some planting.

  Butterflies - New Wildlife Garden: Making a bug hotel, butterfly feeders, designing the area and planting.

  Grasshoppers - Reflection Area: Making wind chimes,  bird feeders, planting and creating a willow structure.

  Dragonflies - Allotment Garden- Researching local produce, making a scarecrow and upcycling a bench for the area.

  

• Potato Book Characters

  Mon 25 Feb 2019 Mrs Burlton
  We've had a fantastic response to our creative homework project! Do you recognise any of the characters?

  

• Learn Together

  Tue 18 Dec 2018 Mrs Burlton
  A huge thank you to all the families who attended our 'Learn Together' sessions. It was wonderful to see you all enjoying a range of Christmas crafts and learning new skills. We've received a lot of positive feedback on the sessions and will let you know when the next ones will take place. 

  

• The Christmas Truce

  Mon 17 Dec 2018 Mrs Burlton
  Here are a selection of photos from The Christmas Truce performance.