Latest News
Latest News
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Important update regarding the Coronavirus
Tue 17 Mar 2020We are continuing to keep you updated about the latest guidance for educational settings in relation to novel coronavirus.
The Department for Education has now launched a helpline to answer questions about COVID-19 related to education. Staff, parents and young people can contact the helpline as follows:
Phone: 0800 046 8687
Email: DfE.coronavirushelpline@education.gov.uk
Opening hours: 8am to 6pm (Monday to Friday)For the latest information from London Borough of Waltham Forest please follow link below:
https://walthamforest.gov.uk/content/coronavirus-latest-information
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World Book Day
Mon 09 Mar 2020On Thursday 5th March the school celebrated World Book Day with children coming to school dressed up as book characters.
To carry on our celebrations, the school staged a 'Stay and Read' session for parents, carers and grandparents the following day.
The school also held a Book Fair during the week which raised nearly £900 in commission to be spent by the school on books for the new Infant and Junior libraries.
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Year 3 Synagogue Visit
Thu 05 Mar 2020Year 3 recently visited Sandy Row Synagogue, near Liverpool Street Station, as part of their RE module on Judaism.
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School Council Trip to City Hall
Fri 28 Feb 2020Members of the school council visited City Hall home of the Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
The councillors discovered about how London is governed and had a tour of the iconic building.
Year 6 councillor, Isobelle, commented, "The debating chamber was vey spectacular with a spiral staircase leading up to the top of the building. The views of London from high up in City Hall were amazing."
To view a video of our visit made by Year 6 pupil, Arthur, please click on the link below:
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Qualiteach Year 5 Football Tournament
Fri 28 Feb 2020Our 5 a-side team reached the semi-final of the Qualiteach Tournament at Goals narrowly missing out on earning the chance to play at Leyton Orient's ground before the League Two team's home game against Exeter in April - the prize for the finalists.
C of E easily won their qualifying league winning two games 9-0 and another 12-1! Hopes were high when we qualified for the semi-finals but the team fielded by the New Wave Academy Trust from Hackney proved tougher opponents beating the boys 4-1 in a ferociously competed match.
Midfielder, Max, commented, "I am gutted that we lost out on the chance of playing at Leyton Orient's ground but think we have a strong team which could go all the way next season."
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Ash Wednesday Service
Thu 27 Feb 2020Year 6 pupils attended an Ash Wednesday service at the Parish Church led by Mother Katherine and Luke Lowrie from the Red Balloon Foundation.
During the service 63 bibles, donated by members of the congregations of Ss Peter & Paul with All Saints, were blessed by Mother Katherine.
The school would like to thank the donors for their generosity in supporting the school with its Religious Education programme.
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Rabbi Visit
Fri 07 Feb 2020Rabbi Odom Brandman from the Chabad Lubvitch Centre in Buckhurst Hill recently visited the school to talk about Jewish prayer, and Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest. Commenting on the visit, Headteacher, Lindsey Lampard recently wrote in a school newsletter :"Y4 welcomed Rabbi Brandman on Thursday to talk about his Jewish faith. We are very lucky that he is willing and able to come to school, giving his time freely to share his knowledge. By walking down the street of any major city, you are likely to see more diversity than an 18th-century explorer did in a lifetime! People with very different ideas of how society should function must live together, and there is no idea more divisive than that of religion. Many of the most important moral disagreements break out along religious lines. Indeed, differing religious views on freedom, sexuality and justice threaten social cohesion. That must not be allowed to happen. One crucial way that people can best learn to live with one another is by increasing their religious literacy. We do this by visiting a range of places of worship and inviting visitors from a range of faiths."
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Year 3 Mosque Visit
Wed 05 Feb 2020Pupils from Year 3 recently visited the Jamia Mas Jid Mosque in Leyton as part of their studies on Islam. The children focused on looking at wudu - a type of ritual purification which Muslims perform before prayer.
Esme, a pupil in Year 3, wrote in her journal, "First we went inside the mosque and met Irfan who told us about the 5 Pillars of Islam and that one of the Pillars is prayer (salah). Later we did some activities including the order of how wudu is set out."
Esme's classmate, Charlie, who also went to the mosque described the visit as 'a great experience'. He added, "It was brilliant to actually experience how to make wudu rather than read it in a book or see a video about it."
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Qualiteach Year 3 Football Tournament
Fri 31 Jan 2020A squad of eight Year 3 footballers recently took on local schools in the Qualiteach Cup, a tournament that offers the finalists chance to play at Leyton Orient's ground prior to the kick off of an EFL2 game later in the season. Unfortunately for us, our dreams of stepping out onto the hallowed turf of The Breyer Group Stadium were dashed in the qualifying stages following defeats against Hillyfields and Newport.
However, the boys managed to win two and draw two games to finish with a respectable tally of points.
Squad captain, Jamie, commented, " I am over the moon to have been chosen as captain but was as sick as a parrot about not getting to the final."
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Superwriter winners January 2020!
Fri 10 Jan 2020Superwriters: The Super Writer awards are nominated each half term for the most improved girl and boy in each class. Anyone can win the award as EVERYONE (however good) can improve. You can win the award several times over as long as you are continuing to improve!
In the award winner’s assembly on Friday, I was explaining to the children that there are two jobs to do when you are writing at school. The first job is the author-the ideas person who has to get the story/facts told. The second job is to be an editor-to go back through it and correct spellings, vocabulary choices, the organisation of ideas, the presentation and punctuation. In the adult world these are two distinct jobs-author and editor and are usually done by two separate people. At school we ask children to do both jobs and often it is the editing job that is hard after children have invested time, energy and their emotions into their writing to then pick it apart and try to improve it further.
All the winners of the most improved writer awards have been working so hard on improving their work. The winners this time are: Maria and Hayes from YRD. Isabelle and Alfie from YRS. Dulcie and Edward from Y1B. Katie and Jack S from Y1S. Emmeline and Jack from Y2M. Noor-Fatimah and Tommy from Y2N. Julia and Dexter from Y3B. Toby and Khloe from Y3P. Alexandra and Alexander from Y4B. Kristal and George from Y4E-H. Lexie and Joseph from Y5H. Caspar and Alannah from Y5B. Darcey and Jack B from Y6D. Marcel and Summer from Y6P. Very well done to all of them!
