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Y5 Residential
Thu 26 Jun 2025The Hive – formerly known as Suntrap is nestled deep in Epping Forest .It offers outdoor educational activities for schools, families, adults and community groups. It provides an opportunity to learn about our natural environment first hand finding out about positive actions that tackle our climate and ecological emergencies. Y5 spent 2 nights and 3 days there and had a fantastic time!
The children behaved beautifully and a big thank you goes to staff for organising it and giving up their own time to make it happen!
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A week of concerts!
Fri 20 Jun 2025This week years 2 and 5 visited The Barbican Centre where they listened to performances by The London Symphony Orchestra and sang songs we have been practising at school.
The orchestra took year 2 on a whistle stop tour of landscapes that have inspired composers. We visited Mexico with Arturo Márquez and his 'La Conga del Fuego Nuevo', Phyllis Tate took us for a spin around 'The Maze at Hampton Court from London Fields', we journeyed to the Czech Republic with Bedřich Smetana's Vltava (The Moldau) from Má vlast (My country) and listened out for the nocturnal whippoorwill bird in William Grant Still's work Whippoorwill's Shoes from Wood Notes. The children sang beautifully and their impeccable behaviour was remarked on by members of the public both on the journey and at the venue.
The year 5 concert was all about the concerto, a conversation between the soloist and the orchestra, this was presented and conducted by Tim Redmond alongside piano soloist Alexandra Dariescu (your child may delight you with a song about Miss Dariescu!). We listened to compositions spanning over 300 years including some by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Rachmaninov, (Clara) Schumann and James Lee iii. The children were very patient when our journey back was affected by a power cut on several of the lines at Liverpool Street station.
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Year 6 Activities Week
Fri 06 Jun 2025Year 6 have had a fantastic week out and about exploring London! On Tuesday they visited London Zoo. London Zoo, previously known as ZSL London Zoo or London Zoological Gardens and sometimes called Regent's Park Zoo, is the world's oldest scientific zoo. It was opened in London on 27 April 1828, and was originally intended to be used as a collection for scientific study.
On Wednesday, they toured the Tower of London. The Tower of London, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic citadel and castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London. There is currently a new special commemorative display of ceramic poppies installed inside the Tower of London to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
On Thursday they went to a trampoline park and on Friday they visited the London Aquarium. The Sea Life London Aquarium is located on the ground floor of County Hall on the South Bank of the River Thames in central London, near the London Eye. It opened in March 1997 as the London Aquarium and hosts about one million visitors each year!
