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On Tuesday Year 2 visited the Barbican Centre for another concert with the London Symphony Orchestra, this time presented by the conductor Tim Redmond.  The theme was Musical Mechanics. Through this, the children have been learning that making music is a bit like fixing a car -  we can take it all apart, identify the problem, improve it and put it back together again.  The children sang the songs they had practised at school beautifully and enjoyed jumping in their seats every time they heard the boom of the bass drum during 'The infernal dance of the firebird', composed by Ivor Stravinsky.

On Monday 18^th March, Year 5 went on an exciting trip to the Barbican theatre to watch the London Symphony Orchestra play a concert. They performed songs about heroes, outlaws and villains like William Tell, Treemonisha, the Sultan from Scheherazade, The Montagues and the Capulets and many more. They also learnt how to do the Hoedown as they learnt about Billy the Kid. Everyone loved the music, but particularly loved bouncing on their chairs during the William Tell Overture, pretending to ride their horses!

On Saturday 16th March after a very rainy week the sun came out and 62 selected runners from CCofE competed in the Cross-Country race on Chingford Plain. We were racing against other primary schools in Waltham Forest. While the sun shone down, the ground was very muddy! Our team did so well!

For the girls, Lulu came 2nd out of 198 runners! The Girls' A team came second overall, missing out on first place by just 1 point!

The boys got the team medal for the quickest 8 runners.

Thank you to all parents/carers and staff who came along to support and a huge thank you to Shona for organising it. It was brilliant to see ex-pupils acting as hares and chasers to support the runners.

National Science Week has been a great success! This year’s theme was ‘Time’ therefore the children considered time in our everyday lives and the world around us. The children have identified the characteristics of a successful scientist and those who have demonstrated many of these traits have been nominated as ‘Scientist of the Week’ and awarded Gold!  A number of investigations and activities have taken place throughout the week from constructing and testing parachutes and straw planes; engaging with national live lessons and challenging their observation and curiosity skills through Explorify.  In addition to this, the children have been ‘Smashing Stereotypes’ by researching scientists from a range of backgrounds and their achievements - ask your child who they learnt about this week! 

Selected Y5 pupils were even lucky enough to be invited to a science fayre at Bancroft’s school. They were wowed by the rocket making and launching; the explosive experience of entering the chemistry lab and, of course, the opportunity to make some glow-in-the-dark slime!