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• Year 1 pupils partake in Archbishop of York's Youth Trust Young Leaders Award Scheme

  Fri 11 Feb 2022

  Year 1 pupil have recently completed the Archbishop of York's Youth Trust Young Leaders Scheme for Key Stage 1 pupils. The KS1 training utilises a fully resourced leadership and character education programme allowing pupils pupils to consider the needs of their local community and build habits of helping others.

   

  Year 1 pupil Greta said she enjoyed the course with fellow Year 1 student, Finlay, adding, " I learnt that it's important to be kind and help people."

   

  Teacher Mrs Thomas was equally enthusiastic about the scheme commenting, "The pupils really enjoyed doing this programme. It has lots of lovely resources explaining values clearly at the children's level. There are social stories as well as links to Bible stories. It really helps make the children think about our school's Christian values. They also really loved the song they learnt which we sung during one of our class assemblies."

  

• PA - Our School Lottery

  Wed 02 Feb 2022

  As we approach our first anniversary of running "Your School Lottery", we realise that the majority of those who initially signed up have dropped off the weekly ticket draw.  We envisage the rest could drop off in a couple of weeks when the first full year is up.  This is such a fantastic way to help raise money for our school PA very very easily.  We are suggesting that you sign up for £1 a week because we've noticed that at that amount, it's barely, if even, noticeable.   If we can get 100 parents or friends or neighbours signing up at £1 a week then we are back to ensuring that the weekly prize pool is above £30 each Saturday.   It's so easy to sign up- you can do it via direct debit or in lump sums for x number of months at a time, 1 month being the least. 40% of the ticket sales come straight into the PA bank account.  30% make up the prize pool.  Please have a look at this if you've never done so before.  Please consider joining in the fun.  And if you've joined before and dropped off, please consider signing up again.  The more people who sign up at £1 a week the better.  If you have any queries please e mail us at the PA e mail  cofeschoolpa@gmail.com

  
  Here is the link for our school lottery.   Please have a look, sign up and share the message.  We really need to get the numbers up in the next 2 weeks.  Thanks in advance. 

  
  https://www.yourschoollottery.co.uk/lottery/school/chingford-cofe-primary-school

• Forest Schools

  Wed 02 Feb 2022

  Did you know our school is currently working to gain Forest School status? Forest Schools is an initiative designed to provide pupils with regular opportunities to achieve and develop confidence and self-esteem through hand-on learning experiences in an outdoor setting. It is hoped theses sessions will encourage our pupils with a lifelong connection and curiosity with the natural world as well as developing the following aptitudes:

  • enhanced self-regulation skills
  • being able to cope with and learn from failure
  • building resilience (the skill of coping with risk and failure)
  • gaining a sense of achievement
  • increase motivation and concentration
  • Improve problem solving

  

• Infants site children enjoy drama workshop

  Fri 28 Jan 2022

  Pupils from Reception and Years 1 and 2 found themselves over the at the Junior site this morning participating in a Drama4All workshop with a rainforest / jungle theme called 'Brave Jungle Explorer'. 

  Using drama, dance and singing, the children went on a fascinating improvisation around the African Jungle. Having completed some rigorous jungle training, the children got on their elephants and set off into the bush to help rescue Snow, the last remaining White Lion, with a little help from a cheeky monkey called Boo!

  

• Poet Visits School

  Fri 28 Jan 2022

  On Tuesday, Year 4 had the privilege of working with Karl Nova, who is one of the UK’s leading poets and hip-hop artists. They had the opportunity to see Karl in action performing his own work, and to create, compose and perform some of their poetry too! They children reported that they had had a great day and were cheerfully reciting the poetry/rap that they had learnt as they entered their classroom the next morning too! You can find out more about Karl Nova and hear some of his work at : https://clpe.org.uk/poetry/videos?f%5B0%5D=poet%3A20431

  

• Mayor of Waltham Forest Visits School

  Fri 14 Jan 2022

  Following a visit to the Town Hall by our Rights Respecting School Council to meet the Mayor back in November, Cllr Elizabeth Baptiste, the Worshipful Mayor of Waltham Forest, came to visit the school today to say thank you to the children for supporting the Sickle Cell Society charity which is one of the chosen charities she is supporting during her time in office.

  After hearing about sickle cell during their visit to the Town Hall, the councillors thought it would be a good idea to raise funds for the charity by holding a Pyjama Day which duly took place today.

  The Mayor, accompanied by fellow local councillors, Cllr Roy Berg and Cllr Emma Best, was delighted to hear that at the time of writing approximately £500 had been raised to support the Sickle Cell Society!  

  

• Traffic Ambassadors' Campaign attracts attention of ITV News

  Thu 13 Jan 2022

  The school's Traffic Ambassadors' campaign to improve road safety outside the Junior site in Cambridge Road attracted the attention of ITV News who sent a reporter and camera operator to report on the situation on the morning of Tuesday, 11th January.

  The item was covered in the channel's evening local news slot and attracted a lot of attention from children, parents, local residents and even people from further afield. A viewer from Chadwell Heath contacted the school saying, "I was watching the ITV London news on Tuesday evening and saw the article about the school and how the children were concerned about the effect of the parents parking their cars when so many could easily walk their children to school. I thought the children were absolutely amazing, they were so grown up and mature in the way they were communicating with the motorists."

  Year 5 Traffic Ambassador, Tia, commented, "Having the TV news channel cover the story is great because it tells motorists that you shouldn't be endangering lives by parking on double yellow lines and driving too fast outside a school."

  Fellow Year 5 Traffic Ambassador, Alice, added, "Getting the TV coverage is  a great way of spreading awareness of the need for common sense when driving or parking outside a school."

   

  

• Friday 14th January 2022

  Wed 12 Jan 2022

  Friday 14^th is our wear your pyjamas to school day in aid of Waltham Forest’s mayor’s chosen charity for Sickle Cell. On Friday children and adults may wear their pjs or onesie’s to school. Please wear school shoes no slippers! You can donate on line, or we will have buckets for cash donations on the day: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/chingford-cofe-primary-school

  

• Please see the letter about the return to school January 2022 in the letters section!

  Wed 05 Jan 2022

• Recordings of YR and Y3 Nativity plays by Red Balloon Foundation

  Fri 17 Dec 2021

  We are delighted to be able to direct you to Red Balloon Foundation's website www.rbf.org.uk/chingfordvideo

  to watch the recordings of our Christmas Nativity plays that reception and Y3 performed so joyfully.