Latest News
Latest News
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Chingford CofE Fireworks Display 2021
Thu 21 Oct 2021Sunday 7 November
Chingford CofE Primary School junior site, Cambridge Road
Gates open 5pm and close 6.15pm
Display starts 6.30pm
Tickets are £6 per person (free for age 2 and under). Tickets* must be pre-purchased and are now available to buy at: https://www.pta-events.co.uk/ccofe/index.cfm?event=event&eventId=40183#.YWGMESV4UlR
*Hot dogs and Crispy Kreme donuts will be available and must also be pre-ordered with your ticket.
Enter our Fireworks Raffle!
1st prize = chance for your child to push the button to start the display!
2nd prize = your choice of name (up to six letters) in fire at the display!
Thank you and we look forward to seeing you at the Fireworks!
Your PA
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Celebrating Black History Month
Wed 20 Oct 2021To celebrate Black History Month the children enjoyed a Caribbean flavoured dinner menu including Jerk chicken, rice, peas, plantain, cooked pineapple and ice cream.
During the morning Year 5 pupils, Tia, Millie, Lola and Coco presented a special PowerPoint assembly to the rest of the school focussing on the achievements of Nelson Mandela, Mary Seacole, Rosa Parks and Arthur Wharton, the world's first professional black footballer
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Author Visit
Mon 18 Oct 2021We were very pleased to welcome the author William Gallagher to work with some of our Y5 pupils, along with Y5 pupils from other local schools. After his visit, he sent the following message in an email, “It was fantastic. Just so invigorating, those young writers are sharper and faster than many adult groups I’ve run workshops for and I bounced out of your school.”
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Local Rabbi visits Year 2 pupils
Thu 14 Oct 2021The school was delighted to catch up again with Rabbi Odom Brandman from the Chabad Lubavitch of Buckhurst Hill following the upheaval of the Covid-19 pandemic. Rabbi Odom came to school to support the teaching of Judaism to our Year 2 pupils with a particular focus on shabbat, the Jewish day of rest.
After his visit Rabbi Brandman sent the school the following message, "It is always a pleasure to come into your school, the children are always so well behaved, well informed and engaging, last week was no exception, they were a great class."
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Winning Bread Makers Make Bread!
Mon 11 Oct 2021The winners of our Harvest bread making competition, William and Chloe, got to make bread in the school kitchen with Tracy our cook.
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Year 6 First Aid Training
Fri 08 Oct 2021Year 6 pupils received first aid training today organised by Shelley from the school's Parents' Association who funded the sessions.
Year 6 pupil, Erika, thoroughly enjoyed the experience saying, 'I learnt how to save someone's life today which is amazing!' Classmate Zac added, ' I practised CPR on a model human torso, it was scary at first but I enjoyed it.'
Edwina, from Ms Efreme's class,was just as enthusiastic commenting, 'I already knew some of the first aid covered but this training has allowed me to build upon my knowledge.'
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#Hello Yellow
Fri 08 Oct 2021Together with thousands of schools, offices and communities across the UK, pupils and staff at the school took part today in #HelloYellow helping to raising vital funds to support mental health awareness. Please visit the following link to support this worthwhile cause:
https://www.youngminds.org.uk/support-us/fundraising/helloyellow/
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Harvest Festival
Fri 08 Oct 2021This year's Harvest Festival was led by Luke Lowrie from the Red Balloon Foundation. Donated food items have been passed on to a local food bank and Christian Kitchen, a charity helping to provide warm meals for the Borough's homeless..
As is our tradition, a Key Stage 2 pupil bread making competition was held which produced a fantastic response from the children. Congratulations to William who won the Year 3/4 competition and to Chloe who won the Year 5/6 competition.
In addition to receiving prizes from the school, William and Chloe have been invited by our cook, Tracy, to work in the kitchen one morning to help bake bread to go with that day's dinner!
