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

• Fundraising Team Update

  Thu 28 Mar 2024

  Fundraising Team Update

  Since last Spring our 'Endowed Fundraising Team' have raised an outstanding amount to go towards the school to enhance the learning of our children.

   

  Summer & Winter Terms 2023 we raised £2,566 - Please see poster or click on the below link for more details.

  https://www.whitstable-endowed.kent.sch.uk/endowed-fundraising-team/

   

  Since January we have raised £894.25, that includes two cakes sales and the School Disco which we raised an amazing £654 (profit).

   

  We will be arranging a Fundraising meeting in Term 5 to discuss spending ideas to enrich the children's school experience.  If you would like to be part of our team of parent/carer volunteers, please do contact the school office.  

   

  We are hoping to plan more events during Terms 5 & 6, keep an eye out for Happy Bag collection, Summer Fun Day, Quiz Night, Disco and more cake sales

   

  

• Easter News

  Thu 28 Mar 2024

  Easter Gardens

  I wanted to extend a personal thank you to all our wonderful Endowed children for their Easter Garden entries. They have amazed and impressed me with their creativity, flair, imagination and skill. This is a record-breaking year with 63 entries, including Lego models, nature inspired gardens, video animations, computer generated images and dioramas with lights and moving parts. Judging this year is going to be so tricky! Winners will be announced later today. Mrs Gilbert

   

  Eggs-cellent

  EGGS-CELLENT! Well done to our school cooks Mrs Flahaut and Mrs Rigden who put on a lovely Easter roast dinner on Wednesday, with delicious mini-egg cheesecake for dessert. They also decorated the canteen with a special Easter theme.

   

  Easter Service - From Pharoah to Freedom

  Well done to our fantastic Year 4 dancers who performed at the Easter Service arranged by Rev Rachel at St Alphege Church on Wednesday evening. We hope everyone who attended had a wonderful time.

  

• Letting their Light Shine

  Wed 27 Mar 2024

  Hockey Award

  Well done to Mariama who ended her hockey season last weekend, by being presented with a special achievement award. The award was presented by GB hockey goalie James Mazarello. Fantastic!

   

  Good Luck to Beamo who has entered an art competition run by the Royal Academy of Art.

  Title: Recycle of Life, Acrylics on recycled cardboard 360mm x 370mm
  Artist Description: One day my dad came home with a new Henry vacuum cleaner. I realised a bit of packaging on it looked very much like a face, the face of an animal! So I painted it with bright, glowing colours which represent lots of different animals, each of which could be saved from more of us
  recycling. Hence Hence the theme of my art is to shout out 'recycle!'

  

• The Race to Space

  Fri 22 Mar 2024

  The Race to Space

  We enjoyed a special MATHS DAY 2024 with The Race to Space
  today. Following an assembly where children learnt some of the tasks the astronauts undertake to go to space, they then had to use their maths knowledge to rank 6 different British Astronauts to find out the most suitable person to go to space.
   

  We loved all your space themed outfits!

  
  MR BAKER

  

• Community News

  Fri 22 Mar 2024

  Ambassadors: Bradbury Grange Visit

  Some of our Vision Ambassadors and Mrs Perry visited Bradbury Grange Nursing home this week. They read Easter poems, a bible reading, a quotation and a prayer. They took the residents some daffodils and an Easter card. The children chatted to the residents and enjoyed their interactive table.

   

  Shore crab class

  PE on Thursday was a little different as Shore Crab class visited the Whitstable Junior School and joined another Y3 class for PE. Lots of team spirit and games played together and they were all delighted to see some familiar faces from their old infant schools. 

  

• Poetry workshop

  Fri 22 Mar 2024

  Poetry Workshop

  Reni & Honey represented our school, alongside Sylvia and James from Starfish class, at a Schools’ Poetry workshop with local poet, CharlotteCornell. She was the winner of Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year 2021, and is a creative writer and educator. The workshop was based around this year’s National Poetry Theme ‘COUNTING’. The children explored poetry through different activities and were inspired to explore their own creative writing together through editing techniques, imagery and collage, before finishing the workshop by writing their own poems.
  Mrs Gilbert

  

• Crazy Hair for Red Nose Day

  Mon 18 Mar 2024

  Crazy Hair for Red Nose Day 

  We LOVED seeing all your creative crazy hair on Friday. Thank you to all those that donated to Comic Relief, you can still donated by credit of debit car at 

   

  https://donation.comicrelief.com/?cartId=rnd24-ppc&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=rnd24_rednoseday_donate_donate___uk_____cr0002100&utm_content=ppc_brand_RND&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwzN-vBhAkEiwAYiO7oJXjFx0H99FkJhfEQ2ZSNa5L0gQFGvJTOWCrRTL5ygE6-XtbDgkFpBoCeukQAvD_BwE

  

• Going Wild at Wingham!

  Thu 14 Mar 2024

  Going Wild at Wingham!

   

  Our year 3 trip to Wingham Wildlife Park on Tuesday was a brilliant day out - if a little soggy!

   

  We began with a talk in the Education Centre with Alice who spoke to us about the jungle - the layers of the trees and the millions of creatures you would find there. We compared our hands to a cast of an orangutan's huge hand, handled an eagle's claw and felt the skin of a massive alligator!

   

  We were even lucky enough to visit soon after the birth of two beautiful new babies, a giraffe and a chimp!

   

  Despite the weather, the children were beautifully behaved and had a lot of fun!

   

  For more pictures, please click on the below link

  https://www.whitstable-endowed.kent.sch.uk/lower-school-gallery/

   

  

• World Book Day

  Fri 08 Mar 2024

  World Book Day

  We had a wonderful WORLD BOOK DAY on Thursday. We held ‘Share a Story’ during the morning where children got to sign up and listen to different stories across school being read by staff members, they played Kahoot, had fun reading inspired classroom activities and children could bring in a book to share with their class.  Please click on the below link to view more photos.

  https://www.whitstable-endowed.kent.sch.uk/picture-gallery/

   

  Thank you to everyone who came along to our BOOK FAIR after school this week. We hope you enjoy your new reads.

  

• Disco Fever! Fundraising

  Fri 01 Mar 2024

  DisCO Fever

  The children all had an amazing time at the school disco on Thursday evening with lots of bubbles, dance offs, disco moves, laughs and even a giant conga!

   

  Thank you to all the staff and parent volunteers for giving up their time and organising a fabulous event for the children. A huge thank you to the parents and for those that very generously donated above and beyond with the 'Pay it Forward'.

   

  Please click the below link to view more pictures.   

   

  https://www.whitstable-endowed.kent.sch.uk/picture-gallery/