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The Spring Term ended today with a Church Service led by Father Justin at the Parish Church. As part of his talk Father Justin stapled pieces of paper onto a very large wooden cross in front of the altar. Each sheet of paper had a sin or wrong doing written on it. He then set fire to the pieces of paper to emphasise the fact that Christ paid the penalty for our sins on the cross. Needless to say, the children were very excited by this spectacle!

Year 4 pupil, Caleb, commented, " I was a bit nervous when he first started to light up the pieces of paper on the cross as most of the building is made of wood but I needn't have worried as everything was under control and it was all good fun."

Year 5 pupil, Issy, added, "My friends and I were shocked that Father Justin's a firestarter! It certainly grabbed everyone's attention leaving us all shocked!"

In the absence of Ms Lampard, Mr Osborne read out her Headteacher's Address which included wishing everyone in our school community a very happy and peaceful Easter.

The Red Balloon Foundation play a key role in supporting the School's delivery of the RE curriculum by providing us with festival boxes each term containing artefacts and other resources that support a PowerPoint presentation produced by Luke Lowrie and his team.

 

This term's 'Easter Box' focuses on the parable of 'The Tenants' found in Matthew's Gospel with the children being given the opportunity to explore whether Christians believe that Jesus' death on the Cross was a tragic mistake rectified by God through the resurrection, or whether what happened on Good Friday was actually God's plan all along.

 

Year 3 pupil, Rebecca, found it interesting learning about Holy Week, saying, "I learnt that Jesus suffered badly before being crucified."

 

Fellow Year 3 pupil, Eliz, added, "I enjoyed the presentation by Luke as it was really interesting and educational."

Last Friday we had our annual Let Girls Play Day event and it was a great success. It was fantastic to see all of the different football shirts on display representing teams and countries from all over the world!

 The girls had an opportunity to take part in dribbling, shooting and passing sessions as well as being exposed to a football game. Those taking part behaved impeccably throughout each session and showed wonderful enthusiasm and footballing ability.

Despite the rain attempting to spoil outdoor proceedings it did not defer from what was a wonderful day and a great opportunity for girls to take part in football sessions. If this has encouraged your child to take part in more football sessions, then the girls’ football club (year 5 and 6 only) runs on a Tuesday with Mr Blake and spaces are available for after Easter. 

The school saw some fabulous performances put in by our children at the Waltham Forest Borough Cross Country run held on Chingford Plain last weekend. The school picked up 24 medals on the day with notable individual performances from Year 6 pupil, Lucia-Star, who took 1st place out of 155 runners in the girls' race and fellow Year 6 pupil, Luca, finishing 9th out of 179 runners in the boys' race.

Our Girls' 'A' and 'B' teams and the Boys' 'A' team all picked up medals in what was a truly memorable day. Well done, everyone!

This term's Prayer Space set up by the Red Balloon Foundation focuses on Lent and Ramadan. This term's Prayer Space aims to encourage children across the school to think about what it means to go without and to make personal sacrifices.

Hythe Town footballer, Marvin Hamilton-Omole, came into assembly today to talk to Key Stage 2 children about his career as a footballer which has seen him play for numerous teams including Gillingham, Cypriot side APEP and Albany Creek who play in the Australian Brisbane Premier League.

Marvin has also played for Sri Lanka at full international level representing his mother's birthplace in the qualifying rounds of the World Cup.

 

The special assembly was hosted by Year 6 pupils Coco, Yasmin and Bethany who provided the audience with a PowerPoint presentation about Marvin's career as well as interviewing him and leading a Q&A session with questions coming from the audience.

 

The visit coincides with tomorrow's 'Let Girls Play Day' which will see all girls across the school participate in football related activities.

 

Year 6 pupil Asfandyar thoroughly enjoyed the assembly saying, "It's great having people from outside of school come into assembly to  tell us about their lives."

 

Following weekly training sessions from members of Red Balloon, 16 Year 5 mental health 'Champions' will shortly begin mentoring Year 4 pupils to encourage them to look after their emotional, physical and dietary wellbeing through a programme known as the 'Champions Challenge’.

Each day, for a period of 6 weeks, Year 4 pupils will be encouraged to record in a wellbeing journal something that was good for their physical health, something that helped their emotional wellbeing and a healthy meal they managed to eat.

Once a week, the journals will be given to our Year 5 'Champions' who will monitor each child's progress offering advice and liaising with teaching staff if necessary.

The programme was kick started during this morning's assembly when the Year 5 'Champions' presented the project to all of our KeyStage 2 pupils.

Year 5 pupil, Thomas, who was interviewed proudly wearing his 'Champions' badge, is very enthusiastic about the 'Champions Challenge'. "I'm excited about this", he said, "I think it's brilliant being able to help others and not just look after ourselves."