Congratulations are in order again, following the results of the 'Maurice Broomfield Photography Competition'.

Children from three local schools were invited to enter the competition. The students were asked to use their imaginations and take photos of  any subject that caught their interest. The judging took place over the Easter holidays and the results were announced following the break.

Yet again Emsworth Primary School pupils eagerly rose to the challenge, and we are delighted to announce that Ebony Marsh (Year 4) won the competition with her fantastic photograph, pictured above, entitled ‘In Your Face!’. The two runner ups were Hannah Robins (Year 6) with ‘Amelia & Taffy’ and Elizabeth Clouting (Year 6) with ‘Seagulls’. Ebony Marsh and Hannah Reece also received Highly Commended for their pictures ‘In Your Face!’ and ‘Robin’.

Copies are of all the pictures are displayed inside the school by the front office. You can also take a look at them on our gallery pages.

Well done to all the pupils who took part from each school, and a big thank you to the Slipper Pond Preservation Society for arranging the competition.

Friday 20 April 2012

Last December the children in Year 6 entered a ‘Young Writers’ competition where they were asked to write a poem based on an historical event. The children decided to write a poem on World War 2 as they had enjoyed the topic they had learned about in the Autumn Term.

Can you imagine how thrilled the children and staff were to learn that during the Easter break 18 of the children had been sent ‘Congratulation’ certificates had been sent to them together with the news that their poems have been published?!

We are very proud of the children and have celebrated their enormous success in an assembly.

Well done to each member of Year 6 that produced a poem!

Please bear with us while we are in the process of updating the photo gallery.  Our previous viewer was causing problems in the form of error messages, and whilst this has been replaced, we now need to reformat our photos to fit!

7 March 2012

 

Year 5 and 6 had an enjoyable and educational trip to HMS Warrior where they joined other schools at a science fair. The children got to participate in several workstations, which included various topics such as palaeontology, engineering, physical fitness, and the dangers of smoking. The children were also able to visit Action Stations, where they explored the interactive science exibits - and even had a go on the climbing walls! Following the trip, Mrs Newton has set the children a challenge to work together in teams and create evaluations of the day which will be fed back to the science fair organisers.

Please check out our gallery pages for more photos of the day.

1 March 2012

 

What a lovely day!

Practically every child came dressed in costume related to books or festivals and other cultures, which made a wonderful array of colours when they all met together in the hall.

Several parents contributed towards the assembly with their ideas, PowerPoint, photographs, books, spare costumes, Russian hat and dolls and even a Hungarian Kezer model. One of the pupils from Year R thrilled everyone with a recital in Hungarian of a verse which welcomes the spring and celebrates the end of winter accompanied with other children beating the percussion instruments to frighten away the ‘spirit of winter’. Our assembly finished with the oldest children in the school walking the Chinese Dragon onto the playground followed by the rest of the school.

During the rest of the day, the teachers swapped classes to read multicultural stories and those who contributed were able to swap books with one another. WH Smiths provided a stall at the end of the day so that children were able to use their £1 voucher or buy other books.