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God and the Big Bang!
Thu 07 Nov 2024During RE lessons this term, Year 5 have been exploring the question; ‘Why do some people believe God exists?’
During this unit we have been learning about atheist, agnostic and theist viewpoints, particularly focusing on their beliefs about how the world was formed. To support their learning, the children had the opportunity to explore how science and faith can work together through the God and The Big Bang team from the University of Durham and the Diocese of Manchester.
Some of the fantastic questions the children asked were:
- Is God a natural or mental being?
- How was God created?
- Why is the world so complicated?
- Is there life on other planets?
- What started life and evolution?
- What were we made for?
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Y6 learning First Aid!
Mon 04 Nov 2024A Huge thank you to the Parent's Association (PA) who organised for all Y6 to have First Aid Training today. It was really informative. The main focus was CPR but with some discussion of anaphylaxis at the end.
D - Danger
R - Response
A - Airway
B - Breathing
C - CPR
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Stay and Play Maths Games
Fri 01 Nov 2024Thank you to all the parents/carers who joined us from Y3/4 and Y5/6 this week to play Maths Games with their children. The aim of the sessions was to introduce parents/carers to some games that they can play at home to help children's mathematical understanding and fluency with number knowledge. It is important that parents/carers and pupils recognise that we learn more when we step out of our comfort zone to tackle something more challenging. Miss Bruford and Mrs McMurray were reflecting on some research conducted by James Nottingham about "The Learning Pit". This describes the learning process that occurs when we overcome challenges, developing key skills including persistence, resilience and recall, and reaping better long-term rewards. While it’s tempting to stay in our comfort zones, it’s crucial to push ourselves and take on something more challenging. It can lead to better learning, a vital step to achieving our goals. For more videos like this visit: https://www.ukcoaching.org/resources
We hope that you enjoyed the activities and that you and your child found yourselves feeling challenged, curious, enthused and possibly spent a moment or two in the 'pit of uncertainty' on the journey to a 'eureka!' moment.
We know that some of you are keen to continue solving one or two of the problems/puzzles, so here are the links to each of the tasks, games and challenges used throughout the morning. By following each link there are further details about each task, a few clues to point you in the right direction, possible solutions and, in some cases, an interactive version of the task.
Problems and puzzles:
https://nrich.maths.org/problems/four-colours
https://nrich.maths.org/problems/nine-colours
https://nrich.maths.org/problems/seven-flipped-poster
https://nrich.maths.org/problems/penta-place
https://nrich.maths.org/problems/two-and-two
https://nrich.maths.org/problems/add-3-dice
Strategy games:
https://nrich.maths.org/games/pentanim
https://nrich.maths.org/games/twinkle-twinkle
https://nrich.maths.org/games/online
https://nrich.maths.org/games/fifteen
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Reception's trip to Pimp Hall
Wed 30 Oct 2024Reception had their first school trip this week. They very sensibly walked to Pimp Hall Nature Reserve. Their teachers were very proud of their excellent behaviour and focus.
This hidden gem in Chingford sits at the top of Friday Hill and is accessed via Kings Road, E4. For such a small site, it offers a great range of wildlife habitats, including meadows, scrub and a pond.
In 2015, the reserve was given funding to create a large, colourful wildflower meadow. This has since flourished. There is also a small pond by the railway, and the area attracts a variety of butterflies, dragonflies and dragonflies. Birds include song thrush, blackcap, chiffchaff and blue tit.
There is also a historic dovecote, which used to house doves, pigeons, and other small birds. The reserve is on the former land of the C16th Pimps Hall, gardens and farm - hence its name.
While they were there they even rescued a baby hedgehog that they subsequently named Harry!
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Scouting Chess success!
Mon 28 Oct 2024We were delighted to welcome everyone back for the start of the second half of the Autumn term this morning with the news that Finlay from Y4 EH, had won the Scouts District Chess Championship in the under 10's category! Finlay was unbeaten in all his games and even won some games against some players who were over 10 year old! He was joined by Alfie from Y5 who came second in the Championship!
Finlay and Alfie thanked Mr Osbourne for introducing them to the rules of chess and said that our lunchtime chess matches have helped them to practice and improve their game to this high standard!
Very well done to both boys!
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Cross Country race!
Thu 17 Oct 2024On Thursday 17th October, as part of our preparation for the Cross Country race on Chingford Plain on Saturday 9th November, children from Y3-6 raced against each other on the junior field! The sun shone and everyone who took part raced to the best of their ability!
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Hello Yellow! World Mental Health Day.
Thu 10 Oct 2024We were transformed into a sea of yellow as we participated in World Mental Health Day and raised both money and awareness for the charity Young Minds. Here's the link for the Just Giving donations, to support Young Minds Charity:
https://www.youngminds.org.uk/support-us/fundraising/helloyellow-resources/#Fundraisingpacks
If you haven’t already seen it, please watch the video that was made showing the work that we do with Young Minds and why it is so important: https://www.chingfordcofe.org.uk/mental-health/
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Bread making competition for Harvest Festival
Tue 08 Oct 2024We had so many wonderful entries for our Bread Making Competition as part of our Harvest celebrations! Congratulations to Flora and Joseph from Y3, Rufus and Ben and Zac from Y4, Lulu and Izzy B-F from Y5 and to Sophia and Josh from Y6 who were the winners! A hard task of tasting fell to Laura, one of our cooks and to Mr Burrell, our SSO. A special mention goes to Ana from Y4 for her Gluten Free bread!
We also had a record amount of food donated to the Food Bank. The organisers at the Food Bank at South Chingford Congregational church, 161, Chingford Mount road, E4 8LT were delighted by everyone's generosity. The food will help lots of families in our local area.
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Boys Football Success!
Tue 08 Oct 2024Our boys A team, won the Y3/4 Borough competition. Mr Blake was blown away by the fact that our team didn’t concede a single goal, and scored 27 goals across the different matches they played!
All the children who took part in the competition were commended by the organizers for their sporting attitudes. Very well done everyone!
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DIY day was a huge success!
Sat 05 Oct 2024Thank you to all the parents/carers and children who gave up their time to make the infant site look glorious! We have beautiful new plants, everything has been tidied, trimmed, cut back or jet washed! It looks super!
Thank you to all those who donated plants.
Here are some photos of the day in action and afterwards!
