We are on the coach and heading back to Maldon. Flatford has been amazing. Lots of new and exciting experiences. Well done everyone. You’ve been awesome!

Flatford parents: everyone has arrived back to school safely and seems to have had a great time. They can't wait to tell you all about it! Your child can be collected from their classroom door at the end of the day as usual.

Super proud of our first two church magazine writers. Today they received their own personal copy of the magazine and got to see their work in print. Well done girls and thanks to All Saints Church for this amazing opportunity for our children.

Our Panathlon swimming team have arrived safely at the Aquatic Centre. All the children are very excited to be there and ready to take part.

Congratulations to our pizza competition winners and thank you to the Detroit pizza company and our PTA for making this possible. Enjoy your pizzas children.

Please come to see our enrichment homework in the hall. We will be here until 7.00pm so please drop in to see this amazing work.

Tigers at the top of the tower!! We are loving our day at Layer Marney Tower!

A little lunch time fun in such a wonderful setting. KS1 are being amazing and having a wonderful time. Super proud of them all.

Leopards are having the best day at Layer Marney Tower!

Thank you to Will from @EssexMusicHub for coming to teach us how to use YuStudio & VIP Studio Sessions CharangaMusic. Our first HipHop beats are really cool.

Thank you to all the parents who attended tonight's SATs meeting. If you couldn't attend and would like the information talked about, I'll put together a pack and pass it onto your child. Please email [email protected]

Years 5 and 6 have really enjoyed doing Road Safety with Lesley this week and have learned some valuable lessons to keep them safe out there.

Today we were lucky enough to have a visit from Anna James Anna James Anna is the author of the Pages & Co series. Our children were so inspired by her visit & will all now be looking for stories hiding everywhere! Her books are available to purchase from Maldon Books

Wishing HM King Charles lll a happy #Coronationday The Royal Family . Our marvellous #SchoolBand playing #GodSaveTheKing using instruments from MYO and @EssexMusicHub

On behalf of all the staff I would like to say a big well done to all our year 6’s. SATS is over! They all worked very hard and we are very proud of them all. They are now enjoying a well deserved break. Well done, huge thanks to all the staff who have supported them this week.

A quick update on EYFS KS1 film night. There was a slight delay in it starting so we are now expecting it to end at 5.30. Please collect EYFS from Cygnets, leopards from the main entrance and lions and tigers from tigers classroom. Thank you.

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Thank you to our visitors for attending our opening ceremony. Well done to our school council too for welcoming our guests and being amazing hosts.