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• Bring a Bottle - 23rd November 2012

  Mon 19 Nov 2012
   Details of this event can be found in our Letters section or just click here!

• PA Christmas Fair and Market

  Fri 16 Nov 2012

  Saturday 1st December 2012, 11am – 2pm @ the Junior School

   

  Final PA planning meetings for Christmas Fair:

  ·         Monday 19th November, 8pm @ Kings Head Pub

  ·         Wednesday 21st November, 2.20pm @ Junior School

  ·         Wednesday 28th November, 09.10am @ Infants school

   

  Stalls requests should be emailed to hushnarah@hotmail.co.uk

   

  (Cost of stalls: for parents £10 and outside stall holders £20)

   

  “Bring a Bottle” Non Uniform Day for Children:  Friday 23rd November 2012

• Shoe Box Appeal

  Fri 16 Nov 2012
  Well done to everyone who helped with the Shoe Box Appeal, we managed to collect 98 boxes at our Infant site!

  

• Nitwars at School

  Fri 26 Oct 2012
  Here's the local newspaper article: Children Battle Head Lice!

• 4H Gunpowder Mills Report

  Tue 23 Oct 2012

  On Tuesday 23rd October, all of Year 4 travelled by coach to the Royal Gunpowder Mills to learn about life in the Victorian Era which is our current topic.

   

  Firstly a member of staff called Claire took us to a room and taught us about holidays in the Victorian times... Doctors advised people to go to the seaside because they thought it was very good for them, but when the women walked along the pier, they fainted because of their corsets! Women sometimes had their rib bones taken out because it was very fashionable to be slim. Most women’s waists were 18-19cm wide.

   

  Teacups were popular souvenirs, and they had a picture of where they’ve been on the front. Inside, there was a shell type thing to keep your moustache dry. Some people paid a dipper to dip them underneath the water for 3 minutes. I couldn’t, could you? People who were ill drank sea water and milk together as a medicine.

   

  Poor and rich children had completely different toys. Football was played with a pig’s bladder in a leather case, if you dared to hit the ball with your head, you might get knocked out. Rich children had china dolls to put on their window sill and their hair was made out of people’s actual hair. Poor children had to use their imagination for most things.

   

  After that we had lunch, and then we went to the Victorian classrooms. The teachers were very strict, you always had to call your teacher Ma’am and you would line up separately before you would go in, smallest to tallest. Mrs Stern got caned for drawing on her blackboard, she didn’t actually do it, it was a different class that didn’t rub it off. Mr Trehern got caned for copying Josh.

   

  Finally we went to the factories (not real ones). There were 3 different jobs to do, there was shoe cleaning, putting matches into boxes and washing. The rules were very strict. If you didn’t work hard enough, you would lose a penny, if you argued, you would lose a penny and if you complained, you would lose a penny. The crazy girls won with 10 pennies (I was in that team and we won a pie!).

   

  I learnt lots of things in the classrooms and with the toys. My favourite bit was when we were in the classroom because I thought it was really fun, except for the cane (it’s not a very nice punishment). I would recommend it to you because it is a very fun way of learning, I enjoyed it so much!

   

                                                                                                                            By Charlotte
  
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• New School Website Launched!

  Tue 02 Oct 2012
  Welcome to our brand new school website! We have created the website to keep parents up to date with school news and notices, and to showcase some of the great things our pupils are achieving. The website is extremely easy to edit by all staff at the school, so check back soon for new updates!

• Harvest 2012

  Thu 27 Sep 2012
  Our recent Harvest Festival bread making competition at the Junior School stirred a great deal of creativity with a record number of entrants. Our Harvest Festival donations of groceries were passed onto 'Christian Kitchen', a local charity helping the Borough's homeless and those in need of shelter.

  

• Children see Olympic Torch

  Tue 18 Sep 2012
  We were contacted by Antony Everett from The Car Buying Company, 107 Station Road recently because they had purchased an Olympic torch, signed by Lord Sebastian Coe, and wondered if we would like to bring along a group of children to have their photograph taken, holding said torch.
  
  
  Pictured are Year 3 students Elycia and Lilia and Sam and Lillia from Year 4
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

• Year 6 Visit Paralympics

  Mon 03 Sep 2012
  On the week commencing 3rd September 2012, children from our Year 6 classes were lucky enough to be able to visit the Paralympics,  here are some pictures of their visit, click here to see what they thought of the day!

  

• Disney Star Naomi Scott Thrills Pupils

  Tue 15 May 2012
  Naomi Scott, star of the Disney movie 'Lemonade Mouth' and Sky TV's blockbuster sci-fi series 'Terra Nova', recently visited the Junior School to talk to the children about her career and Christian faith.  She came along with the 'Frantic' team, a group of children workers from The Bridge Church in Woodford. 
  
  Year 6 pupil, Sofia, reports:
  An up and coming star of the silver screen, Naomi amazingly found time to come and visit the pupils at our school. We are an extremely lucky school to experience visits from well known celebrities. Last week Michael Copp from 'The Apprentice' visited us and not so long ago we met West Ham footballer, Jordan Spence.  

  Naomi, Jordan Spence's  girlfriend, gave us some tips about achieving your ambitions in life and told us how she became a star. The first great step forward in her acting career was in 2011 when she was cast as Mo Banjaree in  the hit Disney film, 'Lemonade Mouth'.  She had been spotted singing in her church and on a Youtube clip and soon found herself jetting off to Los Angeles! That same year, she was cast as Maddy Shannon, in the Steven Spielberg produced science fiction series 'Terra Nova'  which ran on Sky 1.

   

  Some interesting facts that not many people know about Naomi is that she is half Gujarati Indian and half British. Her father and mother run a church in Woodford. 

   

  Another Year 6 pupil, Ugur, adds his thoughts on Naomi's visit: 
  Naomi told us she attended a nearby secondary school, Davenant Foundation, which  a number of Year 6 pupils will be transfering to in September. She said it was a great school and told us about some of the teachers there. 
  
  
  
  

   

  Naomi kindly answered a series of questions during a Q&A session and spoke passionately about her belief in God and the importance of her family. 

   

  During her visit  the Frantic team set up a challenge which meant Naomi had to go into a wind machine cubicle and catch as many bits of sponge as she could in one minute. Year 6 teacher, Miss Roberts, joined in the fun. Both dressed up in clown costumes. Needless to say, Miss Roberts lost! 

   

  We also got to watch a trailer of Terra Nova and a Youtube video of Naomi singing  'She’s so gone' one of the songs from the Lemonade Mouth movie. 

   

  With a photographer from the local press snapping away, Naomi said her goodbyes leaving us with great memories and some Lemonade Mouth goodies.