On Monday 30th January 2017, Mike Farley, a Henry VIII impersonator came to visit Kenton Primary School. He worked with Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 to teach them all about life in Tudor times. The children learnt about how the Tudors came to power as well as learning about Tudor food, hygiene (or…
Our Reception children have been learning to write using lots of different resources and inspirations. All the children in the school are learning how to write their letters in a cursive style, which will help children with their joined writing and presentation. To help the Reception children learn these tricky letter formations, our amazing Year…
Here are some photos of Chestnut class making and testing parachutes. One group tested how changing the material of the parachute would affect the speed, another how changing the length of the strings would affect the speed and the last group how changing the size of the parachute would affect the speed. We dropped them…
Cherry Class and Class 2 from Kenn School, had a super day at Killerton House at the ‘Grimm Tales’ exhibition. We took part in lots of activities within the house, heard some of the tales told by a storyteller and followed a trail within the grounds. We found out a lot more about the tales written by the Grimm Brothers…
Chestnut class have been making electrical quiz boards this week. They have had to work out their circuits and do all the wiring so that only the correct answer on the quiz boards will light up. The children then shared their quiz boards with Oak, Cherry and Willow.
Children in Oak Class have created a dance linked to the book ‘Viking Boy’ by Tony Bradman, which we have been reading in class as part of our topic on Vikings. In the section the dance is created for, Gunnar and his family wake up and find their home is on fire. After a desperate…
Chestnut class recently enjoyed a very informative session with the fire service. They learnt all about the role of fire fighters in preventing and stopping fires from happening. The children were involved with a role play of an emergency telephone call to 999 which helped to teach them about the vital information that they would…
In Willow Class, our Foundation children have been doing lots and lots of super maths! In adult led and child initiated learning, the children have been developing their understanding of number using a range of resources, including Numicon, counters, Multilink and other concrete representations of number. We are really pleased with how the children are…
On Wednesday 9th November 2016, children from seven schools across the Dawlish Learning Partnership took part in the annual DLP Swimming Gala, held at Dawlish Leisure Centre. Each school had a team of 12 children from years 4, 5 and 6. Firstly, the children had to compete in individual events, including breaststroke, backstroke and front crawl, later followed by…
Schoolchildren at Kenton Primary School have received a boost to their computing skills learning, thanks to three Exeter businesses. Amos Lighting, Devondale Electrical and Oneserve joined forces to sponsor the purchase of robots based on Crumble programmable software, to help the children gain a better understanding of coding. Learning to code is part of the…