Latest News
Latest News
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From C of E to Premier League
Thu 21 Jul 2022Congratulations 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.
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Marvellous Men
Tue 19 Jul 2022Thank 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.
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Year 6 Award Ceremony 2022
Mon 18 Jul 2022The annual Year 6 Awards ceremony took place in the Junior school hall on Monday 18th July. All the children received medals and certificates commemorating their time at Chingford C of E Primary. Additional awards were given to pupils who were perceived to excel in certain areas of school life:
Science award
Daniel
Leadership Award
Reece (for PE)
Volunteer of the Year
Liam
Spring Shield for Performing Arts
Romeo
Evan Cup for Excellence in Mathematics
Navai
Musical Award
Lara
Literacy Award
Herbie
Rights Respecting Award
Micah and Tommy
Award for Art
Edwina
Darlow Good Egg Award
Oliver
Computing award
Bobby
The Ruth cup for exceptional progress
Trae
RE cup
Zaavier
Humanities Cup
Darius
Sporting Talent
Kaden
Headteacher’s Awards
Alexander
Revin
Grace
Tayler
Zac
Zakariyah
Koray
Taya
Erika
Teddy
Ms Lampard – Headteacher All Rounder Award
Evan
Governors’ Awards (for effort and achievement throughout Primary school)
Harry
Rose
George
Jack
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French Day
Thu 14 Jul 2022Coinciding with Bastille Day, the school celebrated all things French with a red, white and blue tricolore day. Our cooks provided the children with a delicious dejeuner menu Francais whilst the teachers focussed their lessons on French culture.
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Talent Contest
Wed 13 Jul 2022The school's annual talent contest final, 'The T-Factor' showcased some fantastic performances from children in Years 4, 5 & 6. Eventual winner, Luca, who performed an amazing Cossack dance routine, nearly didn't make it to the final having badly hurt his leg the previous weekend on a bouncy castle!
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Year 6 Play
Mon 11 Jul 2022With the summer holidays fast approaching, Year 6 pupils entertained pupils and family members with their tribute to holiday camps called 'Poplins - where dreams become reality!'
Year 6 actor, Eduan, who played the role of a 'green coat', thoroughly enjoyed being part of the production commenting, "It was great to be involved in the play, especially as it was one of the last chances the Year Group will get to work together before we go to secondary school."
Zak, who played the part of a waiter, also enjoyed participating in the play. " The songs were really amusing," he said, "my favourite being the 'HAPPY OAP' song which made me laugh every time I sang it."
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UNICEF UK Silver: Rights Aware School
Mon 11 Jul 2022We are delighted to announce that the school has been awarded a Silver “Rights Aware” level accreditation for the work that we do at school to ensure that children’s rights are at the heart of our ethos and culture, to improve well-being and to develop every child’s talents and abilities to their full potential. As a Church of England school we have a Christian vision that promotes the philosophy of “Don't look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too." (Philippians 2:4) This inclusive vision permeates every aspect of our school life encouraging excellence, aspiration, care and empathy in all our stakeholders; of looking out not only for our interests, but also the interests of others; in short, of taking care of each other underpins all that we do. A big thank you to Mrs Nicholoau for co-ordinating this work and to the children who spoke to the assessor via zoom.
To achieve the award, the school was assessed by one of UNICEF's Professional Advisers who looked at the whole school’s rights respecting work.
Achieving Silver: Rights Aware means there is evidence that:
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Our school is explicitly embedding the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in its policy, practice and culture.
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Our school promotes knowledge and understanding of the Convention throughout the school community.
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Our school is putting into action and developing the plans outlined in our Action Plan for Silver, which we submitted to achieve Bronze: Rights Committed.
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Our school is beginning to see the positive impact of these actions on children and young people, staff, and on the school’s ethos, practice and environment.
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Children and young people are beginning to see themselves as rights respecting global citizens and advocates for fairness and children’s rights, both locally and globally.
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Mini World Cup
Thu 30 Jun 2022With a nod to the impending Women's UEFA Euros and Men's World Cup finals in Qatar in November, for the past 3 weeks nearly one hundred boys and girls from Years 4,5 & 6 have been battling it out in a 9 a-side mini World Cup football tournament held at lunchtimes.
Tournament organiser, Liam from Year 6, has written the following overview of the tournament:
The early stages of the tournament saw 10 teams covering all the continents of the world, placed in two groups. Group A consisted of Italy, Ukraine, Japan, Argentina and Brazil. Group B consisted of France, New Zealand, Canada, Uganda and England.
Italy and France both topped their respective groups with both Ukraine and New Zealand edging a second place finish. Early tournament favourites from Group B, Canada, surprisingly failed to qualify besides having some of the school's finest players.
The stage was now set for two tense semi-final matches. Ukraine were pitched against a formidable France led by the boys' school U11's team vice captain, Teddy, whilst outsiders New Zealand, were paired with the mentally strong Italians who featured top girl player, Taya.
France easily breezed past Ukraine 2-0 in the first semi-final but Italy almost came unstuck against a stubborn Kiwi team who took the Italians to a gripping penalty shoot-out. Fortunately for Italy, Year 6 hotshot, Micah, converted the winning penalty firing his shot low into the bottom right corner of the onion sack!
With nearly 250 pupils and staff watching, the final took place on a rain battered pitch. Following a tense, goalless first half, the game came alive in the second period when the Italian striker, Micah, opened the scoring with a goal that took a wicked deflection off the French keeper, Oliver.
However, within a minute the French team levelled when Year 5 pupil, Sebastian, struck the back of the Italian net with a thumping shot from the edge of the 6 yard box.
At the final whistle there was nothing to separate the two teams so the outcome could only be decided by the feared penalty shoot-out. After goal after goal and miss after miss, the pressure weighed heavily on the shoulders of Year 4 pupil, Cody, who stepped up to the spot firing his unreachable penalty into the top corner of the net. France were champions of the world, well at least the school!
Player of the match: Oliver (France - Year 5)
Photography by Toby ( Year 5 )
Spreadsheet by Liam ( Year 6 )
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Parents' Association Camp
Mon 27 Jun 2022Once again the PA's weekend camp on the Junior school field proved a great success and included a special visit from a real life Harry the Hedgehog (the school's mascot). Year 5 pupil, Lola, who is pictured with Harry, commented, 'When my parents first heard a noise coming from out of the bushes they thought it might be a rat but were delighted to discover it was a hedgehog. They woke up me and my brother to come and meet the cute little thing. It made our day!'
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Waltham Forest Commonwealth Games Day
Fri 24 Jun 2022Inspired by the upcoming Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the ‘Friendly Games’, Year 2 and 3 children from schools across the borough were invited to attend the Waltham Forest Commonwealth Games Day on Thursday. 30 of our Year 3 pupils attended this celebratory festival of sport, held at the Peter May Centre, and were able to participate in a range of sporting activities. This event was made even more special by the fact that Year 5 and 6 pupils, from a number of schools, led every one of the activities! 24 of our Year 5 pupils led sessions in archery, rugby, seated volleyball and lacrosse demonstrating fantastic teaching and leadership skills, inspiring younger pupils. It was a huge event, with 550 pupils attending in total! Thank you to Shona Gordon for organising such an amazing event.
