Every year, the children are invited into the hall to look at the Winter Production backdrop and take a guess at how many stars are on the backdrop. This year was a little different, a blizzard was painted so the children had to guess how many snowflakes. There were a handful of children that came
Reception
John Hampden Walks Like an Egyptian! Artsweek 2021
This year John Hampden had a very different Artsweek experience due to the pandemic and keeping our school Covid safe. We still had Artsweek but at a later date and without our usual army of helpers. Artsweek this year was in class, each class timetabling their own week of artisitic activities ranging from silk painting
Place of the Pyramids: Ancient Egypt
This term our topic has been ‘Place of the Pyramids: Ancient Egypt’. The children started the term with a flight to Egypt, getting their passports stamped! We then found out more about Ancient Egypt; we learnt about the food Egyptians used to eat, about the pyramids, about some of the Ancient Egyptian Gods and in
Ancient Egypt
In Reception this term we are learning all about Ancient Egypt. We started our topic last week with a flight to Egypt. The children all created their own passports in the morning session and then used them to board the Egypt Air flight to Cairo, Egypt. They had announcements from the pilot throughout the flight
Tree of Reflection
Our beautiful ‘Tree of Reflection’ is in progress! Every child has created a pebble – based on their own personal reflection of ‘Lockdown’. Staff and friends of John Hampden have created knitting and crochet to add even more colour. We would love to add some more pebbles, knitting and crochet pieces to our tree over
Receptions Tree of Reflection Pebbles
The children designed their own pebble for the whole school tree of Reflection. They then used acrylic paints to turn their drawn designs into a beautifully decorated pebble. Here are a few to see …