Latest News

• Rabbi spends time with Year 2 pupils

  Thu 29 Sep 2022

  Fresh from celebrating Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, Rabbi Odom Brandman visited the school today to talk to Year 2 pupils about Jewish beliefs and practices.

   

  Rabbi Brandman from the Chabad Lubavitch in Buckhurst Hill is a regular visitor to the school who gives freely of his time to help us deliver part of the Judaism module of our RE curriculum.

   

  Dev from 2 Morris class said he enjoyed the Rabbi's visit and discovered the rabbi works very hard doing such things as reading the Torah scroll, marrying people and blessing new born babies.

   

  Eloise, also from 2 Morris commented, " The best part ot the visit was when the Rabbi blew the rams horn!"

   

  2 Nightingale pupil, Amelie added, " I learnt that the Rabbi takes funerals and sometimes when Jewish people die their funeral can take place within a day!"

  

• Maths Stay and Play Day

  Fri 23 Sep 2022

  Parents, carers, grandparents and older siblings flocked to the school on Friday, 23rd September to play maths games with pupils across the two sites.

  

• Classroom Door Decoration Competition

  Fri 16 Sep 2022

  This week the school held a classroom door decoration competition with the doors being judged by two of our governors, Mrs Hillier and Mrs Torrie, The decoration is based on the theme of each classes 'Great Briton' for whom they are named after. Included in the displays are references to the school's Christian values and the UNICEF Rights Respecting Article each class is focussing on this term.

   

  Three winning classes were given £20 to donate to a charity of their choice. The result of the competition were as follows:

   

  Infant site: Year 2 Morris

  Junior Site: Year 3 Bowie (Lower KS2) and Year 6 Pankhurst (Upper KS2)

   

  

• Become a Well-Being Ambassador!

  Mon 12 Sep 2022

  Message from Mr Blake:

   

  This year I have taken on the role of Wellbeing within the school and part of that role is choosing the Wellbeing Ambassadors for each class. 

   

  Each child has been asked to write a letter explaining why they think they will be best suited for the role. They have been asked to link it back to the Christian Values and the school vision statement and how they best show them within school. 

   

  The Wellbeing Ambassadors can have a huge positive impact on the children and I hope this can continue so please encourage your child to write a letter! 

   

  The deadline for writing a letter is Tuesday 20th September 2022. 

   

  Thank you and take care. 

   

  Mr Blake

• The State Funeral for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

  Sat 10 Sep 2022

  Monday 19 September will be a bank holiday to coincide with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s State Funeral. School will be closed to allow the CCofE Primary community to pay its respects to Her Majesty and commemorate Her reign.

   

  

• School Gains Arts Mark Silver Award

  Thu 21 Jul 2022

  In the wake of receiving the prestigious UNICEF Rights Respecting School Silver Award, Chingford C of E Primary now finds itself proudly in receipt of another coveted Silver Award, this time for the Arts!

   

  Artsmark is the only creative quality standard for schools and education settings, accredited by Arts Council England. Artsmark’s flexible framework is designed to help schools embed arts, culture and creativity across the whole curriculum, celebrating a commitment to cultural education. 

   

  The feedback from the assessors commended the school for its commitment to the Arts and how innovation and implemented changes have had a positive impact on our pupils: 

   

   "You adapted your plans during the Covid pandemic to ensure the arts momentum would not be lost by creating a different focus (the use of sketch books) and not allowing a lack of funds to get in the way of providing new opportunities such as using the local recycle centre, creating a mural using plastic bottles and CDs and working with a spray artist to design a mural in the playground. It was great to read of the improved attendance for individual children and the increased participation in the Arts of the Pupil Premium and / Looked After Children groups."

   

  "Your Culture Day to promote diversity, self-worth and equality and arts Enrichment Events e.g. 'Who are artists?' are providing new and fun learning experiences. Children clearly enjoyed working with and learning from working with a professional make-up artist."

   

  "Staff are well supported by leaders and most staff feel confident in delivering art lessons and where they do not, they are given the appropriate support." 

   

  "Well done on all that you have achieved, and we look forward to reading of your next Artsmark journey."

   

  A big thank you to Miss Greenberg for all the hard work she has put into helping the school gain this award

   

  

• World War Two Day

  Thu 21 Jul 2022

  As part of their World War 2 studies in history, Year 6 pupils spent today dressed in period costumes. During the week the pupils have been involving themselves in all manner of WW2 related topics including toy making, sending morse-code messages and re-enacting air raid warning scenarios.

  

• Planet Earth Rock

  Thu 21 Jul 2022

  Pupils at the Junior site recently had a visit from Project Earth Rock, a musical climate change combo who came to school to encourage pupils to reduce waste, save energy and walk to school.

  Passionate Year 4 Climate Change supporters, Issy and Cody, found the presentation really interesting. Issy said, "It's really important kids learn about climate change so they can begin to bring about change at an early age." Cody added, "I agree with Issy, this is a really important subject, particularly for the younger generation." 

  

• From C of E to Premier League

  Thu 21 Jul 2022

  Congratulations to former C of E pupil, George Murray-Jones, who has recently signed a professional contract with Premier League champions, Manchester City. George was the school's goalkeeper when the boys' football team went on to represent Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League 2016 Schools Tournament held at Goodison Park, home of Everton F.C.

  

• Marvellous Men

  Tue 19 Jul 2022

  Thank you to all the “marvellous men” who came to spend time in Reception recently as part of our Father’s day celebrations. It was lovely that so many dads and grandads could join us.