Langham Parish Council

Primary School

http://www.langham.essex.sch.uk

The present Primary School was built as a British School in 1848 and enlarged in 1872. In that it was a "British" school it was a non conformist school as opposed to "National" schools which were Church of England schools. It was probably run by the Baptists because in 1841 the C of E school only had 22 pupils but the Baptist school had 70.The Education Bill of 1870 said that all children should receive education and so it became Langham County Primary, for up to 150 boys and girls.

Langham Primary School News June 2010

The pupils at the school have continued to excel in the many summer sports they participate in, Tennis, Rounders, Football, Netball, Athletics and Kwik Cricket.

A quarter of the school are having recorder lessons and a recorder concert assembly in front of parents and the rest of the school was very successful.

A choir from Mildene Primary School has visited Langham to take part in an all day singing workshop and this singing initiative will be continued through to the end of the summer term. Class 2 went on an all day educational visit to Marsh Farm and a Non Uniform day raised money for St. Helena Hospice. Key Stage 1 SATS were successfully completed and the Friends of Langham School(FOLS) are busily preparing for their Summer Fete on the 4th July from 1.00p.m. until 3.00p.m.

The Governors of the school are considering the a Site Development Initiative for the school and grounds.

Ian Sutherland

Langham Primary School News May 2010

Friends of Langham School (FOLS) A new Committee has been formed under the Chairmanship of Michelle Percival with the retiring Chairman, Jane Morton, (after an excellent three year period as Chairman) agreeing to remain as Vice Chairman.

The committee has already agreed an ambitious programme of events to assist the School over the coming year. A very successful Easter Egg Hunt for the children has been followed by a School Disco on Friday the 7th May. The next main event is a camp out on the school playing field on the last weekend in June.

Fathers Day is to be celebrated on the 16/17 th of June and a Coffee Afternoon held for the families of new starters will be hosted by the FOLS on the 18th June. The school annual fete will take place at the school on Sunday the 4th July and the annual 10K and fun run is being organised for Sunday the 12th September.

The committee has also agreed to host the Community Centre 100Club Coffee Morning on Friday the 24th September.

Ian Sutherland

Langham Primary School News April 2010

Langham Primary School has received recently confirmation that they have once again been awarded National Healthy School Status. The members of the school community are to be congratulated on receiving this award which is recorded on the National Database.

Sport The school has also continued to excel in Physical Education and School Sport and the following categories have been highlighted for the reasons of winning the Sports Award for the Colchester Blackwater School Sport Partnership:-
Competition. The school has continued to enter all small school competitions and been very competitive in these events. They have progressed to a large number of finals and also entered a number of open events with a high degree of success. The partnership has highlighted the hard work and dedication by the school staff in preparing the youngsters for the competitions.

School Clubs Football, Tennis, Rugby, Dance, Aerobics and yoga are offered to all the children in the school and the National Activemark Award plus a partnership Gold Award was gained to the school for their achievements in PE and School Sport.

Whole School profile has highlighted the fact that the attitudes of the teachers, parents and children have helped dramatically raise the profile of PE and sport to an outstanding level

Langham Primary School News March 2010

The small schools cluster non-pupil day (Friday 12th Feb) was taken up with all the teachers attending a Creative Arts Day at Belstead House in Ipswich. There, they were joined by parallel teachers from the other small schools in the Cluster and attended three sessions in all. These were:

· a story-telling workshop led by children's author : Hugh Lupton.

· an art/ landscape painting workshop geared to the Primary age range

· a "making the most of simple percussion" workshop focussing on pupil group work and composing

All in all, it was a very enjoyable day for everyone involved, with plenty of opportunities for staff to network with their counterparts from the other 9 small, primary schools.

The number of children attending the school is now 101.

Straight after half term the school held a Key Stage 2 Architecture Workshop day, involving Classes 3 and 4 attending specialist sessions in the school hall. The pupils learned a lot about structures and strong shapes, which compliments the whole school topic on "Structures - Seen and Unseen".

The results of a recent Healthy Schools survey of parents show positive outcomes in terms of pupil well-being. Pupil workshops on “recycling” has involved all classes, ending with a "sharing assembly" in the afternoon.

Year 5 Cross-country team have taken part in the Sports Partnership Cross-Country Finals at Abbey Fields and retained the winners shield which they secured last year. –A fantastic result!

Project homework, completed by Class 4 on famous/noteworthy building structures from around the world has been so good that the models and writing descriptions are on display in the school foyer. An exhibition of these models will be held in the school hall on:

· Monday 29th of March - 2:00pm - 3:30pm - Key Stage 1 topic exhibition in hall

· Tuesday 30th of March- 3:00pm - 4:30pm - Key Stage 2 topic exhibition in hall

Langham Primary School News Jan 2010

After a very snowy start, the term is now in full flow with many activities. The whole school, cross-curricular theme for this Spring is called “Structures Seen and Unseen.” Already, Key Stage 2 have been involved in a sophisticated Lego building session. This was part of a Young Town Planners Workshop for Classes 3 and 4 and was very successful.

Last term’s “Dragons Den” project based on the BBC TV programme has resulted in an extraordinary amount of constructive ideas from the year 5/6children and a display of their “inventions” is set out in the school foyer.

Class 4 have also recently embarked on a sequence of Bible Explorer sessions where they learn the Old Testament Story, exclusively using sign language. Key stage 1 and 2, tennis lessons have started as have football, netball, dance and yoga clubs. The cross-country running activities are helping to ensure that each pupil has at least two hours sport and exercise per week.

Guitar, piano/keyboard, and recorder, clubs are also being well supported this term.