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Thursday 13 February 2025 Year 6 Celebrate Safer Internet Day 2025
Friday 7 February 2025 4SH Assembly- up Pompeii! Last Friday, we were treated to the glitz and glamour of another class assembly. This week, 4SH, directed by the expertise of Mrs Sandhu Hanif, took to the boards to deliver an epic about Ancient Rome. We were transported back to Ancient Pompeii and discovered the horrors that befell that once glorious city at the hands of Mount Vesuvius.
Thursday 6 February 2025 Year 2 visited 'The Monument' Year 2 had the fantastic opportunity and visited 'The Monument'. We climbed the 311 steps to reach to the stop and see the view of London. We got to see how in 1666 the fire covered London and to see where people had to go to collect water from the river Thames to try and put the fire out!
Thursday 6 February 2025 Chinese Lunar New Year Assembly On Thursday Ms Lee led the fabulous Lunar New Year Assembly to celebrate the Year of the Snake. This was led by Year 1 but there were some great contributions from other year groups. Children shared their artwork depicting the Year of the Snake then sang the song ‘Gong Hey Fat Choy’ to welcome in the New Year. The children explained how they had learnt the Chinese characters for numbers up to 10, how they had taken part in the traditional Dragon Dance and we all learnt about the delicious food that is eaten during the celebrations which made us all rather hungry!
Tuesday 4 February 2025 Year 5 practice CPR Last week, our children had an invaluable lesson on CPR using the Dr ABC method. They were guided through the steps of Danger, Response, Airway, Breathing, and Circulation, helping them understand how to react in an emergency.
Monday 3 February 2025 FAMILY LEARNING - Help your child grow and thrive!
Friday 31 January 2025 ?? Calling All Music-Loving Parents! ?? Do you play an instrument and have a little time to spare? We’re looking for enthusiastic parent volunteers to help with our lunchtime and after-school music clubs! Whether you play the recorder, drums, violin, keyboard, ukulele, or guitar, or another instrument, we’d love to have you share your skills with our young musicians.
Friday 31 January 2025 Guitar & Drum Lessons - Register Your Interest! Is your child interested in learning to play the guitar or drums? We are looking to recruit peripatetic teachers for these instruments, but this will depend on demand. If you’d like to see these lessons offered at South Grove, please email Ms. Forbes to express your interest. ???? musicbox@southgrove.waltham.sch.uk
Friday 31 January 2025 Year 6 Explore the Tudors Year 6 continued to explore their fasinating new Tudors topic last week in a very dramatic manner by re-enacting a divorce! The children were provided a short scene between the tyrannical Henry VIII and his beloved wife Catherine, exploring the complexity of the emotions between the two; using their own historical knowledge to get into character. First they simply read the lines out to one another and then they were allowed to include a singular chair as their prop to increase the tension in the scene using different levels and types of body language.
Friday 31 January 2025 Year 3's Stone Age Cave Paintings Year 3 have been exploring Stone Age cave paintings. We looked at the symbols and animals they drew and how they used line, tone and shape to create this images.
Wednesday 29 January 2025 Reception become firefighters! After our visit to the Pump house Museum, on Wednesday we were able to compare and contrast the fire engines from the past with fire engines from the present, as two fire engines and their crews came to South Grove. We met the firefighters who told us about the equipment that they use and then they let us have a go at spraying water from the big hoses and sit inside the engine. We were so excited!
Tuesday 28 January 2025 Reception Explore the History of Transport In Reception we are continuing to learn about TRANSPORT and had a very busy and exciting week. Last week we learnt that in the PAST, vehicles looked and worked differently. We found out about steam trains and horse and carts and we were fascinated how differently things used to work in the past compared to the present day. Some of the children made a time line ordering the types of vehicles from different time periods. Then each class visited the Pump House local museum to see some vehicles from the past, this included tube carriages, a Penny farthing Bike and fire engines.
Tuesday 28 January 2025 Year 3 Visit the William Morris Gallery On Thursday and Friday, year 3 enjoyed a trip to the William Morris Gallery. We explored the museum, drew ideas inspired by nature and learnt how to relief print. We will be putting our fabulous prints up on our corridor display for everyone to see.
Friday 24 January 2025 Year 5's Fantastic Anglo Saxon/Viking Assembly! On Friday, the school was treated to a journey back in time to the days of the Anglo-Saxons, courtesy of 5A. Mr Andrew's class brilliantly narrated how the Saxons replaced the outgoing Romans in Britannia and how their culture flourished.
Thursday 23 January 2025 Year 5 Explore Space Art You can imagine after the week year 5 had, we were due some down time. To ease ourselves back into school after our incredible night at the O2 we completed our art work based on artist Peter Thorpe and his space themed Art. We designed out foreground and background to make our images pop! Using pastels and bright colours, these will be on display shortly for all to see soon!
Wednesday 22 January 2025 A Night to Remember: Year 5's Young Voices 2025 Trip to the O2 Year 5 students at South Grove Primary School made history this week by attending the Young Voices 2025 concert at the O2 Arena. This event was a first for our school in many years, and it will surely be remembered as one of the highlights of the year.
Tuesday 21 January 2025 The Big Garden Birdwatch Mr Combe shared his love of bird watching with the children during whole school assembly on Friday. The children were really interested and, perhaps for some, their first time interest was due to the feathery friends we had visit us a week ago. They were a pair of Egyptian Geese who arrived on our playing field and were very happy to spend time with us all during playtimes and lunchtimes with a line of small humans watching, fascinated as the geese pecked at the frozen grass.
Monday 20 January 2025 Year 5 are Space Explorers! As part of our topic this term Space Explorers we are looking at the artist Peter Thorpe. He is an Abstract artist from America who specialises in Space theme art. We looked at some examples of his work and noticed he uses the foreground and back ground to help elevate his pictures. We then planned our own versions of his art work taking inspriation from his examples. Making sure we thought about what to put in the background of the image compared to the foreground. We want our rockers to stand out from the page in the foreground. We had to be sure our colours were not the same on our images as we do not want to the two sections of our picture to clash. We are looking very forward to putting these pieces together in our upcoming art lessons.
Wednesday 15 January 2025 Year 4 see the Lion King! This week, Year 4 (plus some guests) prowled into Central London to see the Lion King stage show! Most had never experienced anything like this before, but they'd be lion if they said they didn't have an amazing time! Unfortunately, we didn't get back to school until 6:30pm, so I suppose I'll have to train the kids to Mufasa on their feet...
Monday 13 January 2025 Royal Opera House's virtual opera and ballet workshops Our Year 4 and 5 students had an unforgettable experience participating in the Royal Opera House's virtual opera and ballet workshops, featuring Alice Through the Looking Glass and The Magic Flute. The children were thrilled to see professional ballerinas and singers performing live, inspiring them to try their hand at dancing and singing. They also enjoyed exclusive behind-the-scenes glimpses into the world of opera and ballet, learning how these magical performances come to life. It was a unique opportunity to immerse themselves in the arts and explore their own creativity.
Monday 13 January 2025 Year 5 - What matters most to Christians and Humanists? This term in RE we are studying 'What matters most to Christians and humanists,'' To start off this topic we talked about our different rules for life and why they matter. As a class we came up with different reasons for why rules matter and who they help. We decided that rules are useful because they help us in our everyday to do the right thing and be safe. We also came up with new rules that if everyone followed them they would help us to have an easier life. Good rules we thought would be to be kind to one another, help each other out when they are struggling, have no war and only peace and we think one that might be a top favourite for some, shops have to give away free items to families once a week to help them.
Friday 10 January 2025 Year 6 make their own 'Green City'! Taking inspiration from London and Curitiba, Year 6 made their own ‘Green City’ with sustainable materials to show how to make urban living better for everybody! The children completed their projects at home as an ending to their topic in Geography. They are all fantastic and it will be very hard to choose the winner!
Thursday 9 January 2025 Year 4 explore the story of King Midas and the Golden Touch This week, Year 4 began their journey into myths by looking at the story of King Midas and the Golden Touch. As it's a dramatic story, we thought we Midas well act it out too! This is a great way to embed the story in their minds which will aid in writing their own versions of the tale next week!
Thursday 9 January 2025 Year 3 explore Henri Matisse We have been looking at the French artist Henri Matisse. We looked carefully at the shapes and colours contained in his art work then we drew it and wrote sentences in French to describe his wonderful work.
Thursday 9 January 2025 Happy new year!
Thursday 19 December 2024 A Fabulous festive family concert! On the last day of term, Thursday 19th December, South Grove staff, children and parents/carers were in a very festive mood! And, oh my goodness, Ms Forbes certainly pulled out all the stops for her first festive concert with huge success! She ensured that the content of the concert would put everyone in a very good festive and holiday mood by the end and brought out some amazing performances by the children!
Tuesday 17 December 2024 Year 5 Feel the Force! The last week of term is finally here (cheered Mrs Grant and Mr Andrews) but first to learn some science. We had some fun filled days learning about different types of forces. We identfied such forces as push and pull and using new terms such as air resitances and buyonacy to describe an items forece. We measured objects weights and mass using Newton meters and to finish it all up we created some parachutes from plastic bags to test their air resistnace. To round out the week we also had Jolly Jumper Day and we turned up in our jolliest outfits ever!
Friday 13 December 2024 Year 3 Create Family Trees For their homework project, the children made family trees to learn more about what makes a community. As they worked, they explored how their families connect to others and how those connections create a sense of belonging. Tracing their roots and mapping out relatives helped them see the different ways people come together and support each other. It also got them thinking about how families, no matter how different, play an important role in building a strong and caring community.
Friday 13 December 2024 Anglo-Saxons and Vikings take over Year 5! What a day! Year 5 were nowhere to be seen for they had been taken over by Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. Now not a worry it was a very peaceful day up in year 5 between the two tribes known for some awful activities in the past but this was put aside for today. The children worked beautfuly in their pairs to create a cam toy inspired by the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons. We then showcased our outfits to the other classes, before we then came upstairs after lunch to design our our Norse God. A very fun day but I am certain Mrs Grant and Mr Andrews were happy to have their students back the next day.
Thursday 12 December 2024 The Nativity!

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