Latest News
Latest News
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Black History Month
Fri 21 Oct 2022Children from all our KS1 and KS2 year groups participated in our assembly this morning as we celebrated Black History Month. A live video link was set up between our two sites so that the children's experience could be shared.
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Black History Month
Thu 20 Oct 2022Three Year 6 pupils, Coco, Millie and Tia led assemblies today across our Infant and Junior sites focussing on Black History Month.
Millie commented, "We focussed on important people in our modern society including the long-distance athlete Mo Farrah, Diane Abbott who is a politician, and the footballer, Marcus Rashford."
Coco added, "We wanted to do a Black History assembly to the other children in the school to raise awareness that people from all ethnicities make important contributions to the society we live in and to support the struggle to end racism."
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Boys' Football Tournament
Tue 18 Oct 2022C of E entered two teams into the annual Waltham Forest School Sport Network 6 a-side football tournament held at 'Goals' in Morrison Avenue. This year there were two competitions running contemporaneously - one for Year 3 & 4 pupils, the other for Year 5 & 6 pupils.
The Year 5 & 6 team struggled to find any real form during their 4 games gaining a solitary point in their league courtesy of a 1-1 draw with Handsworth Primary. The younger boys had a better time of it winning three of their league games and qualifying for the quarter final stage of the competition before being eliminated at the hands of Parkside Primary.
The Year 3 & 4 team captain, Louis, who thoroughly enjoyed representing his school commented, "My team managed to hit the back of the net quite a few times, which was pleasing. Although both teams failed to win any trophies, we all had a good experience. I was really pleased with my own performance as I scored 5 goals!"
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Harvest Festival
Fri 14 Oct 2022The school held a harvest festival today at the Junior site. Pupils at the infants joined in the occasion via a live video link.
We we’re overwhelmed by the donations of tinned and packaged food products despite the difficult economic times we are all facing. The donations will be passed on to a local food bank to help those in the community who are struggling to make ends meet. The generosity of our families supports our school’s Christian vision which encourages our stakeholders to ‘not only look after ourselves but to think of others, too.’ (Philippians 2:4)
As is our tradition, Key Stage 2 pupils took part in a bread making competition with the winners being presented with book tokens.
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#Hello Yellow
Fri 14 Oct 2022On Monday 10th October, we wore yellow to raise awareness of the importance of good mental health in young people. YoungMinds, the charity, whose camera crew spent the day with us, interviewing children and staff and observing the activities that we took part in, wrote this to Ms Lampard after their visit,” I’m just reaching out to show my gratitude to everyone at your school involved in the #HelloYellow filming from earlier this week ❤ you were the perfect school! We can’t thank you enough for your flexibility and understanding around the day, and especially for all the organised yellow activities and plans – we can’t wait to see the footage! With your help, we’ll have a video and other footage to promote #HelloYellow to other schools next year and long into the future. It’s so vital to grow the campaign and in-turn supporting more young people with their mental health.”
In addition to raising awareness, we raised £296.18 in donations to YoungMinds, thank you! We look forward to sharing the film with you when we get it!
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Diwali Dance Workshop
Fri 14 Oct 2022Year 3 pupils attended a Ramayana Dance workshop today as part of their RE studies on Hinduism.
The Ramayana is the most well-known story from Diwali and one of the most influential works in world literature and concerns the great Hindu epic about Prince Rama and his wife Sita.
Pupils were given the opportunity to learn about The Ramayana through dance allowing them to improve their cultural understanding and their confidence in self-expression.
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Collective Worship Club
Thu 13 Oct 2022A new collective worship lunch time club has started for Key Stage 2 pupils run by staff from the Red Balloon Foundation. The club which is open to pupils from Year 3-6 aims to provide pupils with a platform to have greater involvement in participating in the school's daily acts of collective worship.
Presently the children are learning some new songs to add to the school's repertoire as well as planning future acts of worship which will include student led bible stories and prayer.
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AIM High Writers’ Day
Wed 12 Oct 2022Selected Year 5 pupils from Chingford C of E, as well as pupils from St Mary's RC, Chase Lane and Downsell, recently joined together in the junior hall to take part in a biography workshop run by Seth Burkett, the youngest person to be shortlisted for the British Sport Book Awards.
Following the publication of his debut title, The Boy in Brazil, Seth has gone on to publish ten other books, including children’s fiction titles and several ghost-written books, including for two of the world’s biggest YouTubers. Most recently he has collaborated with Matt Oldfield to write Play Like Your Football Heroes, published by Walker Books.
Emma and Emmeline from 5 Bronte class, who both attended the workshop, were very enthusiastic about the sessions Seth led. Emma commented, "Seth was very inspirational and taught us many skills about writing biographies." Emmeline added, "Aside from learning about biography writing we also were taught about fact-files and the importance of research when writing books."
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Y4 Girls football team at Peter May
Fri 07 Oct 2022
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Year 6 pupils receive First Aid training
Mon 03 Oct 2022Year pupils recently received some excellent first aid training from Danny Hyde, a fire fighter stationed at Bethnal Green. The children were instructed upon how to deal with someone who is unconscious, giving CPR and using a defibrillator.
