Latest News

Sports Day 2015

Tue 30 Jun 2015

A beautiful day was had in the sunshine!!

The team results are:

1st blue

2nd green

3rd red

4th yellow

Year 3 visit to British Museum 23.06.2015

Mon 29 Jun 2015

Year 3 visited the British Museum last Tuesday as part of their work on Egyptians. The children especially enjoyed looking at the mummies.

Yr 4 visit to Barbican 29.06.2015

Mon 29 Jun 2015

On Monday 29th June, year 4 were fortunate enough to go to the Barbican to see the London Symphony Orchestra perform in concert.

They performed several pieces by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky. After having spent the previous half term performing 'Baba Yaga', we were able to join in with the performance of this piece.

Value Games 26.06.2015

Mon 29 Jun 2015

On Friday, 26th June, Mrs Rhys and Mrs Smethurst went with a part of 28 pupils from Y5 to the Value Games held at the Peter May Sports Centre. Here are some photographs from the event.

Yr 4 Football Competition 19.06.2015

Mon 22 Jun 2015

Eight year 4 boys were invited to take part in a tournament at Leyton Orient on Friday 19th June competing against schools both in and out of our borough.

Winning three and drawing two of the six matches, the results were:

Cofe 1 - Mayville 1

Cofe 2 - Hillyfield O

Cofe O - Curwen O

Cofe O - Ilford Jewish School 2

Cofe 4 - South Grove 0

Cofe 4 - Chase Lane 0.

Special mention to Alessandro who scored twice! Thanks go to Mr Winspear and Mr Bloomfield who accompanied the children as well as parents who supported.

Following these impressive results, the children have been invited to another tournment in October .

Yr 3/4 Football Tournament 18/06/2015

Fri 19 Jun 2015

Six children were selected from years 3 and 4 to compete as Barcelona in the borough's Champions League competition held at Goals in Chingford on Thursday 18th June. Competing against 35 other teams the results were as follows:

Draw first match 1:1

2nd match won 3:0

3rd match won 3:1

quarter finals won 2:0

semi finals won 2:1 and.....

final we won 2:1!!

Congratulations to our fabulous girl and boy footballers and of course to Mr Winspear who once again dedicated his time to train the team and was as proud as punch when they won!

M&G Visit 04.06.2015

Wed 17 Jun 2015

Five pupils each from 5R and 5B visited M & G Investments in Laurence Poultney Hill, in the City on 4th June with Mrs Hall and Mrs Smethurst. The visit was part of the Enabling Enterprise program.

The children were split into three teams and their first task was to build a tower made up from the team's shoes. Having done that each team was then told that they had a theoretical sweet shop to run. The teams (having come up with a team name) then had to think of a theme for their shop.

Once the shop name and theme had been decided upon, the teams were asked to think about how they were going to ask the "bank" for a loan. If the "bank manager" was happy with each team's pitch then they were given a "loan" of £20,000. After a little while each team was informed that they had been in business for a year and had to repay their "loan" and inform the "bank" of any profit.

Finally each team had to do a presentation in the auditorium (using a live microphone) to volunteer employees of M & G, plus the adults who had been helping them throughout the day.

Here are some quotes from the children as to what they thought of the day:-

"I was very nervous. I had a great time, also I conquered my fear of talking in front of a crowd." - Lorenzo

"I worked with Steven and Corin and we got the Professional Award. I overcame a phobia of speaking in front of people I don't know."

"... it was a very enjoyable day."

".....we chose a celebrity theme. This went very well, we had a lot of crazy ideas. This boosted my imagination.

At the end of the day the Professional Award was given to Steven, Corin and Sam, the Innovation Award to Molly, Mia, Alec and Jared and the Profit Award to Lorenzo, Mahrosh and Eylsia.

University of Arts Visit 11.06.2015

Mon 15 Jun 2015

On 11th June, five pupils from 4RH and five from 4W visited the University of the Arts, Central St Martins in their new premises in Granary Square, just up the road from Kings Cross station. This was the second of our Enabling Enterprise program visits.

The whole of this area is being redeveloped and Central St Martins how occupies the old granary works. The exterior of the building retains most of its original character and the inside has been sympathetically developed, incorporating the new with the old.

Our ten pupils were split into five teams, working along side pupils from William Tyndale Primary School in Islington. Like the previous Engaging Enterprise session, the teams had to think of a team name. However, this time their brief was to design an interactive structure, suitable for all ages and all weather conditions. To help our teams complete their brief they were taken on a walk around the local vicinity to see what was there already and to gain inspiration.

Once back in the Granary Square building the teams drafted a plan of what they wanted to include around their chosen theme.

At the end of the afternoon each team did a presentation as to why their design should be chosen over the others.

The Fantastic 6 won the Stay Positive Award, Dedicated Designers won the Working as a Team Award, Building Bros won the Sharing Ideas Award and the Avengers won the Imagination Award. The overall winners were Dedicated Designers.

Girls Kwik Cricket

Thu 11 Jun 2015

Mr Winspear and Mrs Smethurst recently took eight girls (7 girls from Year 6 and 1 from Year 5) to the Leyton Sports Ground (previously Leyton Cricket Ground) for a Kwik Cricket tournament.

There were schools from all over the Borough and our girls represented our school extremely well. Unfortunately we did not reach the semi-final, which took place later in the afternoon. However, the girls showed maturity and a sense of fair play and sportsmanship throughout all of their matches.