Hamstel Infant School and Nursery held their annual Remembrance service on Monday 11th November 2019. We commemorated this special event by holding a service which involved the sounding of the Last Post as played by Mrs Snashall on a trumpet and a march past from membe...

On Monday 14th October the Year 2 children at Hamstel Infants were excited to have some special visitors for the morning. Some stunning Owls came to visit and carried out a fantastic display and informative chat with their carers Erika and Olivia from Nite Owls.

The ch...

On Friday 5th July we welcomed Julia, an NSPCC volunteer and her mascot,
‘Buddy’, a friendly green speech bubble, into our Monday afternoon assembly.
Classes in Years 1 and 2 learned that the NSPCC believes that children should be
able to speak out to someone if they a...

On Thursday 4th July Hamstel had visitors to the school. No, not Gemma’s farm or Ofsted but a team of cricketers from our partner schools Friars and Porters.
We had arranged a 3 Tees friendly tournament for after school, you may even have spotted us on the field.
We fi...

The schools across Portico Academy have come together this term to create a mobile exhibition – The Portico Art and Design Festival. This project has been created to showcase the incredible talent and creativity of the children across all of the year groups within our...

The children have enjoyed a variety of Science experiments and activities designed to
develop their skills of scientific enquiry. They have been encouraged to make predictions
about what might happen and then observe closely to discover what actually happens,
finding o...

Our More Able Mathematicians in Year 2 enjoyed an amazing day on Thursday 27th June when Nick from JuniorSTEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) came to visit us and carry out some fantastic Lego Robotics workshops.  The children had a great time develo...

On Monday 13th May 8 year 2 children went to Garons Park to compete in the Southend Primary Sports Association Quad Kids Competition, a multi-skill athletics event.

There were 8 schools competing to become top team (boys and girls) and top individual (boy and girl).

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