Latest News
Latest News
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Pupil led Collective Worship
Thu 09 Oct 2025Huge congratulations to Gillian, Penny and Charlotte who wrote and presented an assembly to both sites about World Religions today. It was warmly received by both sites and highly informative. They spent their break times researching and producing the power point presentation that they shared. It is nerve racking speaking in front of 420 pupils plus staff but the three Y6 pupils made it look easy!
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Karl Nova the poet worked with selected Y4 pupils!
Wed 08 Oct 2025Selected Y4 pupils joined Y4 pupils from nearby schools for a day of poetry on Wednesday. They had a fantastic time!
In his award winning debut book “Rhythm and Poetry”, the beauty of rap lyricism and Hip Hop influenced poetry is displayed with wit, humour and positivity. His approach is to meet young people where they are and engage them with the style and attitude they are familiar with while keeping his content wholesome, inspirational but still very real. This collection reflects on his journey of growth from childhood to adulthood through the lens of hip hop culture with a great freshness, sincerity and realism. A lot of the verses have already impacted many lives as he travels and delivers them with his unique and energetic style.
"Rhythm and Poetry" by Karl Nova
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Harvest Festival
Wed 08 Oct 2025We were delighted to welcome Rev Darren to lead our collective worship celebrating Harvest today.
Rev Darren also helped to judge the bread making competition which was no easy task! Ms Lampard was particularly delighted by the bread in the shape of her face! It really made her day! Congratulations to everyone who took part and here is a list of winners and runners up:
Year group
Winner
Runner Up
3
Arabella B
Leo G
4
Leo H
Ellsie C
5
Zak B
Luke S-M
6
Alex O
Frankie J
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Y4 Boys came 2nd in the LA Football Tournament!
Tue 07 Oct 2025Well done to the Y4 team for bringing home Silver medals from the football competition at at Goals!
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First Aid Training for Y6 pupils
Fri 03 Oct 2025On Monday this week, Year 6 pupils received some excellent first aid training from Danny Hyde, a fire fighter stationed at Bethnal Green. They all behaved beautifully and showed high levels of competency, whilst being instructed as to: how to deal with someone who is unconscious; giving CPR and using a defibrillator.
Here are some of the children's thoughts:
Chloe said, “this was a life lesson that could help me help someone in the future.
Matylda added, “we were all engaged because it was hands on experience”.
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Parents make a massive impact improving the Infant site on DIY day this Saturday 20th September!
Sat 20 Sep 2025Thank you to all the parents, older siblings and children who came and helped on Saturday 20th September. Your cleaning, sanding, jet-washing, repairing, painting, gardening has made a huge difference! The site looks lovely!
A special thank you to Jon Reidy, who coordinated this event as he has successfully done so for a number of years now. Jon is now handing the baton of organisation on to Agnieszka and Toby Whitaker, as his daughter has left us for secondary school. Jon goes with our heart felt thanks.
Agnieszka and Toby are regular volunteers (along with their three children, who work hard, gardening and clearing) at our DIY days, so they know what they are taking on! Plus they know first hand how it helps maintain the life the children's play equipment and make everything look that bit lovelier for everyone!
School budgets are so stretched nationally and this type of support is invaluable. Thank you to everyone who donated plants and money towards paint and soil too! It all helps and it is really appreciated!
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Children have made a terrific return to school and the whole school declares its love for Michael Rosen!
Fri 12 Sep 2025From Reception to Y6, all pupils have a favourite Michael Rosen poem! From “We're Going on a Bear Hunt,” “Chocolate Cake,” and “Don't Put Mustard in the Custard” in Reception, to "Pocket Shakespeare", "Words United" and "Good days, An A-Z of Hope and Happiness" in Y6.
Who is your favourite poet? What is your favourite poem?
Happy Reading!
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Summer Holidays begin!
Wed 23 Jul 2025Today in church, we said "Goodbye" to our Y6 Leavers and wished them all the best for Y7 and beyond! Church was followed by a breakfast back at school for the parents of Y6 pupils and our Y6 pupils. In Church Ms lampard, Headteacher said to the Y6 cohort:
"Congratulations – you made it- whether you spent the last 7 years here or elsewhere, you made it through 266 PE and music lessons, 1330 English Lessons, Maths Lessons and lunchtimes… unless you were otherwise detained… 2660 Registrations. You made it through 3990 line ups and over 1300 Collective Worships. Congratulations – because you are still standing… and you are about to start one of the most exciting times of your life. Exciting because over the next 6-7 years you get to choose more and more of how your life’s going to turn out. You choose more and more of what subjects you’ll study, what sports you’ll pursue, what kind of friends you’ll have. You’ll choose, what you’ll do after you finish school for good this time, and what kind of person you want to be. And how do you make the most of those choices?
Make good smaller choices:
1. Choose to work hard. Whatever way you put those 2 words together, work hard, or hard work, the message is the same – nothing of value will come without it.
2. Choose to not give up easily. Resilience will get you everywhere. JK Rowling was so poor she couldn’t afford a computer or even the cost of photocopying the draft of the Philosopher’s Stone, so she manually typed out each version to send to publishers. It was rejected over 20 times until finally a small London publisher, gave it a second chance, the rest is multi-million-pounds history.
3. Choose to listen. You have 2 ears and one mouth for a reason – use your ears twice as much as your mouth. You’ll be surprised at how much you learn.
4. And above all, choose to be kind. Kindness cost nothing – it’s what people remember. Winston Churchill said “You can make a living from what you get, but you’ll make a life from what you give.
Choosing those four little choices will let you have choice in all the big decisions you have to make later on." Ms Lampard went on to say, "It has been our privilege and pleasure to watch you grow to see you change over the time you've been with us. You have been a super year group all the way through school, and you will all always have a space in the heart of CCofE school. As you go forward, remember
life is a journey, not a destination, the trail riders of old would refer to life as a series of trails or paths-Sometimes the trail/the path is a happy one, Others times it's blue or sad or difficult. It's the way you ride the trail that counts. So always ride it with effort and ride it with kindness. If you can help someone out along the way, then do so.
And as we believe at school, “Don't look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too." (Philippians 2:4)
As Shakespeare said, “a friend is someone that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow." Always be that friend.
Breakfast was a lovely opportunity for final best wishes and photos.
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Y6 leavers' Awards
Fri 18 Jul 2025This afternoon, we held the Y6 Leavers Awards Ceremony. It was an opportunity to mark them completing their primary school journey.
We're so proud of each and every one for their hard work and the growth they have demonstrated. Every one received a medal and a certificate to wish them all the best as they move on to secondary school. There were special award winners in different subject areas:
Y6 Awards ceremony 2025
Science Award Jonah
Leadership Award Hari-Dev
Volunteer of the Year Thomas P
Spring Shield for Performing Arts Sam
Evan Cup for Excellence in Mathematics Jack B
Musical Award Elsie
English Award Oyindamola
Rights Respecting Award Indie and Richie
Award for Art Maya
Darlow Good Egg Award Edward
Computing award Mikayla
The Ruth cup for exceptional progress – Benedict
RE cup Caleb
Humanities Cup Thomas B-C
Sporting Talent Hayden
Chess Cup Yingqi
Francessca Ward Values Cup: Jack H
Governors’ Awards (for effort and achievement throughout Primary school)
Arthur D, Louis L-S, Jack S, Katie, Hermione
Headteacher’s Awards: Amelie, Millie, Molly, Maryam, Eliot, Asher
Headteacher All Rounder Award: Ella
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Y6 Leavers' Play
Fri 18 Jul 2025Y6 performed a Musical by Andrew Oxspring called Prexit and it was superb! Entertaining, funny and poignant! There wasn't a parent in the room who didn't identify with "The Nits Blues" and there wasn't a dry eye in the hall when they finished with the song, "The Time I have spent with You" which was all about holding back time;
"Oh growing means never standing still,
We've got to keep moving.
But I promise you this, I never will
Forget the time I've spent with you."
