The children celebrated the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in style on a sunny afternoon, enjoying a picnic and dancing around the maypole. We even had children showing off their crowns on the catwalk.
Reception
Arts Week 2022
Arts Week hall Fantastic Books, John Hampden’s Welcome Return to the World of Artsweek Artsweek 2022 – 23rd to the 27th May This year we saw a welcome return to Artsweek in the Jackson Hall for John Hampden School. Parents, carers, local artists and former staff and community members were again drafted in to support
Guess the Snowflakes
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
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