Ash class enjoyed a brilliant trip to London Zoo as part of their Galapagos Islands topic. In Science they are exploring adaptation and evolution, and saw many animals who are well adapted to their natural habitats. The children were excellent ambassadors for the school and...
Year 2 had a delicious start to their Istanbul topic today, tasting some amazing home-cooked Turkish food. Thank you to the parents who helped prepare the feast. What a treat for a Monday morning! The children are looking forward to learning lots more about this...
Year 5 wowed the school and local community this week with their amazing production of The Aristocats. In the third year of our Disney Musicals In Schools project, the children have spent the last couple of months rehearsing the songs, writing in character to develop...
This week all classes in Key Stage 1 were treated to a very special mosaic workshop. Children from Year 2 had the opportunity to draw exotic mini beasts from observation and then used paper squares to create a mosaic design of their chosen insect. Year 1...
[gallery ids="2280,2284,2283,2282,2281"] Hazel class had a lovely time in the winter sunshine at Springfield Park making large scale Andy Goldsworthy art with natural objects they found. They practised their PSHE skills of working cooperatively in teams to collect and select the materials they needed, create a...
Children in Year 5 and Year 6 were recently visited by author Abiola Bello, who grew up in Stoke Newington and has now hit the big time! The children have been reading her 'Emily Knight I Am' story in class and were given a reading...
Year 3 have been studying the work of Claude Monet and other impressionists as part of their Authors and Artists topic. They have been working on their watercolour technique and created their own beautiful waterlilies paintings using oil pastels to mark out the shape of...
[gallery ids="2221,2220,2219,2218,2217,2216,2215,2214"] Year 5 have been exploring Roy Lichtenstein's dotting technique as part of their Authors and Artists topic and in preparation for their Disney spectacular have recreated some scenes from the animated Aristocats. We think they’re purfectly marvellous and have a feline you will like...
[gallery ids="2207"] Jubilee recently came first in a competition run by the Office for National Statistics as part of their 'Let's Count' programme for schools in areas where the rehearsal for the 2021 census rehearsal is taking place. In October every child in the school got...
Year 6 have been interrogating the themes of Shakespeare's Macbeth as part of their Authors and Artists topic. They chose a theme, for example ambition, greed, cruelty, corruption, treason or justice. Then after experimenting with different types of lines they chose images and symbols from...