Latest News
Latest News
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Superwriters!
Fri 21 Mar 2025Super Writers’ assembly: The Super Writer awards are nominated each 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, 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:Shakespeare
Jack S
Ella P
R Darling
Khamari-Lee
Emilia (Emi)
1 Bannister
Kaiya
Jonah
1 Seacole
Blake
Oliver
2 Morris
Hallie
Alexander
2 Nightingale
Laura
Max
3 Bowie
Alisa
Herkus
3 Potter
Amanda
Kyle
4 Brunel
Alexia
Dev
4 Ennis-Hill
Rufus
Emili
5 Hawking
Rose
George
5 Bronte
Ania
Mason
6 Darwin
Freddie
Dulcie
6 Pankhurst
Louis
Samuel
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Huge Thank You to Micro Scooters
Thu 20 Mar 2025Thanks to Micro Scooters for their donation of some raffle prizes for our summer fair - we're sure the children will love them. Their range also includes adult scooters for sustainable commuting or simply keeping up with the kids.
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Aim High Maths Day!
Wed 19 Mar 2025On Wednesday, selected Y4 pupils, were invited to work with Andrew Jeffrey, “The Mathemagician” as part of an Aim High Maths Day. His life’s work is to share a passion for mathematics with teachers and children alike: https://andrewjeffrey.co.uk/
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Ivy Grove story swap session
Tue 18 Mar 2025Some selected Y5 pupils visited Ivy Grove, a local residential home on Tuesday to take part in a story swap project. Both the pupils and the residents expressed their delight in taking part in the session and enjoying each other’s company.
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Rights Respecting Council presentation
Wed 12 Mar 2025On Tuesday the 11th March, we were fortunate to host Ms Machnicki, Assistant Principal of Chingford Foundation School and a selection of year 7’s and 8’s to our school.
Our Rights Respecting School Council gave a presentation detailing what it is like to be a Gold School. All our council members spoke clearly and confidently about various qualities that make a ‘Gold’ school. Our pupils also asked the year 7’s and 8’s what they might like to do at the start of their Rights Respecting journey as well as finding out what life is like in secondary school.
We are helping Chingford Foundation School as they begin their journey to becoming a ‘Right Respecting School’.
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Y1 at the V&A Museum
Tue 11 Mar 2025The Victoria and Albert museum in South Kensington, known as the V&A holds within it collections that span over 5,000 years of human creativity in virtually every medium, housed in one of the finest groups of Victorian and modern buildings in Britain. Y1 booked a coach and had a great day out!
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Happy World Book Day!
Thu 06 Mar 2025We have had a fun-packed celebration of books across the school today with a range of events and activities taking place.
Children have read and created their own comic strips; told stories; participated in online quizzes and live writing lessons; enjoyed a fantastic performance by Michael Rosen; debated who should be named the ‘ultimate book character’; explored poetry and non-fiction texts; listened to stories and created their own book-related artwork.
This afternoon, all children in Years 3-6 went outside to find a ‘reading buddy’ and shared a book of their choice with one another.
We did all of this whilst dressed as book characters! There was an impressive amount of effort and creativity that had been put into the creation of costumes today and we were able to share and celebrate this across the both sites with an online assembly.
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Ash Wednesday
Wed 05 Mar 2025Ash Wednesday is a holy day of reflection and repentance in the Christian faith. Believers observe the day by fasting and receiving ashes in the shape of a cross on their forehead. It also marks the beginning of Lent.
Year 5 were invited by Mother Marilyn to visit the church and learn about Ash Wednesday. Mother taught the children the meaning of, penitence, how the church produces the ash and encouraged the children to explore the changes in the decoration of the church. Finally, she offered the children and adults a blessing in the form of an ash cross on the forehead.
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Reception went to the Fire Station!
Tue 04 Mar 2025A huge thank you to Chingford Fire Station for hosting our Reception classes this week. The children learnt about fire safety and the work of the firefighters. They had a thoroughly informative and enjoyable experience.
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Cross Country Success!
Sat 01 Mar 2025The children who ran in the Borough Cross Country Race on Chingford Plain, did very well on Saturday! The Girls team brought home Gold and the boys team Bronze! Lucia came 2nd out of 176 girl runners! Bailey came 13th out of 213 boy runners! We also won a HUGE special cup for the best combined results for our girls and boys teams!
It was a lovely morning, after the initial fog, the sun shone and although the route was like mud soup in places, everyone did their very best! Huge congratulations to the Y6 runners who entered simply because it was their last opportunity to do so before secondary school and ran so well! Special mention to Finnan, who finished the race despite having a fall and hurting himself. Thank you especially to Miss Efreme for organising our teams and to all the staff, parents and carers who came to cheer the children on.
