A huge thank you to the wonderful parents of our school for their generous donations!
We are overjoyed to announce that we were able to raise £370,89, which will go towards Children In Need!
Your kindness and support is greatly appreciated.
Year 4 have been learning all about the Romans this half term in History and 4W shared some of their knowledge in this weeks sharing assembly! We went all out with our costumes and we really put on a show!
From the Roman Legion to Boudicca, the Celts to Pompeii, it really was an assembly full of facts and laughs.
Thank you to all of the 4W grown ups who were able to attend and, if you couldn't make it, take a look at the photographs!
This week preschool were very lucky to have a visit from our local Lollipop person who taught us how to cross the road safely. The children learnt about ‘stop’, ‘look’ and listen’, practiced crossing a zebra crossing and even got the chance to dress up as a lollipop person.
On Monday, some of our Key Stage Two children were lucky enough to take part in a Meet a Musician workshop with some musicians from the BBC Symphony Orchestra. In this session, children learnt about what an orchestra is; how many people are in the BBC Symphony Orchestra (over 100!); where the orchestra travels; and what a normal day looks like as a professional classical musician. The children listened to the musicians play the violin and the viola; created their own song (they chose the theme of Tom and Jerry!); and had the opportunity to ask questions. It was a truly special and unique experience for the children and it has certainly opened our eyes to the many differing careers available to us.
Last week, 2S kicked off our new science topic about materials. We worked collaboratively to classify objects, observing closely and noting their different properties. The children enjoyed creating a 'museum' of objects, discussing the suitability of materials for their purpose. The children found the idea of a paper house or a chocolate teapot very funny!
Our enthusiasm for science was evident on this week's trip to the CLR James Library, where many children chose to borrow a science book. After our spelling test, we enjoyed some calm reading time. I was proud to hear how excited the children were to share the library books and make recommendations to their friends. This week's polls show that our class favourite genres at the moment are non-fiction, funny books and stories about dinosaurs!
I have been thrilled to meet with our well-being ambassadors over the last few weeks and strategize over how we can make our playground an even safer and happier place to be. As a team, we decided to launch Playground Pals and we had the privilege of doing so in the first Anti-Bullying Week assembly of the week.
Playground Pals are carefully selected children in the year groups 1-6 who are there to support children who are feeling a little bit low or down in the playground. The well-being ambassadors made it clear to the children that more serious issues must always be reported to the teachers.
The pictures of our Playground Pals are on display in the playgrounds so that children know who they can turn to (and some of the pictures you can see here!). The children also wear bright hi-vis slap-bands so that they can be easily recognised.
Thank you so much to our well-being ambassadors for creating this wonderful idea, and thank you to our Playground Pals for your kindness and support!
This half term, the year 4s have started their history topic of the Romans. To start they created their own Roman shields. They have learnt all about the success of the Roman Empire and the effect this had on Britain.
We have already started to see some creative home learning and we look forward to sharing more about the Romans in our sharing assembly!
This week in Aqua and Sky class we have been learning all about our school and local community. We have explored different types of maps and learnt how to draw information from a simple map. The children have shown particular interest in different London Landmarks, especially Big Ben and The Gherkin!
To extend our learning, our core text has been The Everywhere Bear. The children have made bear hats and re-enacted the bear’s journey. And the fun doesn’t stop here - we have even made our own maps from home to school, including landmark junk modelling and aerial views of London! Take a look at some of the photos below to see our wonderful week in action…
Shacklewell have been enjoying a whole host of Religious Education topics this term! In Year 2, they have been learning all about Mosques and their features. They have learnt that it is very important for Muslims to wash before they pray!
A Year 2 child said she 'really enjoy RE as they get to learn about lots of different beliefs that are different to my own'. Year 3 are enjoying their topic on Hinduism. They have been learning all about how Hindu’s show their faith and explored puja, arti and bhajn’s and, if you want to know about Christianity in Britain, just ask Year 4!
In Year 5, the children have been exploring the Five Pillars of Islam and their meaning. A child from 5S said that Muslims fast because 'it helps them to empathise with people who are less fortunate than themselves.' Take a look at the wonderful comic strip from a Year 5 child, too!
Lastly, Year 6 have been learning about a whole host of beliefs over the last few weeks from Hinduism to Christianity and the different denominations. Did you know that Baptist's do not baptise? A Year 6 child told me this is because they want the person to be able to make the choice themselves.
Last week saw the beginning of Year 3's adventures into the Stone age and Iron age, beginning with an Archaeological dig. Each student was welcomed into Archaeologist training camp, exploring what an Archaeologist was, their importance in regard to history and how they could classify artefacts that they found. It proved very successful! Not only did the teams follow their training but we managed to find some spectacular items from the stone age. We classified these together and then discussed what the possible uses of each artefact was. I was incredibly proud of their team work and enthusiasm. Well done to all our budding Archaeologists!
The Zero Carbon Schools project and the Eco-Councillors had their first weekly session, developing their understanding of climate change and its impact on the environment. Their goal identify ways to reduce the school's carbon footprint by developing their knowledge of sustainability and the factors that could affect it, whilst identifying the changes we can make as a community to support this. They were then given a task to present their new-found knowledge as a news report which they thoroughly enjoyed.
This half term we have a lot of fun topics coming up. We have spent the week learning all about Diwali and understanding more about the story of Rama and Sita. We also began exploring adding one more too numbers 6 , the children then had opportunity to explore this skill in different ways within the environment.