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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 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!
Thursday 12 December 2024 Recycle with TerraCycle®'s Green School Project We're excited to share some fantastic news with you all! South Grove Primary School has started to recycle with TerraCycle®'s Green School Project. Contributing to it helps our school raise funds and teach the importance of recycling to empower future generations to take action at no cost to you!
Tuesday 10 December 2024 Year 4 Grab a Slice! This week, Year 4 grabbed a slice of the action by designing and making their own healthy pizzas! This means a healthy balance of protein, carbohydrates, fat and veggies in every bite. They had an amazing time being little chefs—I'm positive they'll jump at the chance to help out in the kitchen at home...
Friday 6 December 2024 Year 1 visited St Saviour's Church Year 1 visited St Saviour’s Church this week, to embed their learning about a Place of Worship which is important to Christians. Father Salvador was very impressed with Year 1’s knowledge about the sacred artefacts they would find in a Church, and also their behaviour in an important place. They really were ambassadors for showing respectful attitude. Well done Year 1. Year 1 also got to experience what singing in a Church would feel like, as they performed their Christmas song to Father Salvador.
Thursday 5 December 2024 Year 4 Conducted an Eggcellent Eggsperiment! This week, Year 4 conducted an eggcellent eggsperiment. The plan was to investigate how different can drinks affect our teeth; however, since (thanks to the prohibition of corporal punishment in 1986) we aren't allowed to remove children's teeth, we used boiled eggs! Eggshells possess a very similar chemical composition to teeth, you see. So far, the eggs seem to be reacting to the different liquids; releasing some rather interesting smells! We'll keep you updated.
Wednesday 4 December 2024 Year 3 Finish their Walthamstow leaflets After weeks of hard work, we are so excited to announce that we’ve finally finished our amazing Walthamstow leaflets!
Tuesday 3 December 2024 Year 5 Prepare for Anglo Saxon/Viking Day To prepare for our Anglo Saxon/Viking Day we have been looking at cam toys in Design and Technology. A cam toy uses hand-powered mechanisms to create cyclical motions that animate a scene. We have designed Anglo Saxon/Viking character/scenes to go on top of our toy. We looked at the different parts of the toy to understand how it moves where it turns rotary movements into linear motion, we have also looked at different cam shapes to help us decide which was our scenes will move. The shape of the cam effects the up and down movements it will make. Stayed tuned for the next weeks edition of the newsletter to see how our toys turned out
Monday 2 December 2024 Human Rights Assembly
Friday 29 November 2024 Year 1 Retell the Story of Stick Man Wow! Incredible writing Year 1. After learning the ‘Stick Man’ story by Julia Donaldson using a story Map and Talk for Writing strategies, Year 1 retold the story of Stick Man all by themselves. It is incredible how much progress they have made this half term already. What good foundations they made in Early Years and how resilient they are at attempting tricky things. We also furthered our Design and Technology skills by creating a moving picture of Stick Man using split pins to create movement. We are looking forward to creating a background and adding a mechanism to make them move like puppets.
Friday 29 November 2024 Year 4 Explore the Digestive System! This week, Year 4 learned all about the digestive system. Learning about all of the organs involved was really intestine their memories—thankfully, they had the stomach for it! They were particularly impressed to find out that their stomachs contain an acid strong enough melt metal! Iron't you glad we've got a protective mucus layer to stop it melting us?
Thursday 28 November 2024 Year 5 discuss Human Rights To help us prepare for the whole school assembly on Human Rights. In year 5 we talked about the different Rights of a Child and what they meant to us. We discussed different rights and mentioned how they were rights that we needed and why they were good to have in the world. We then designed a symbol that depicted a Human Right and talked about what it meant to us. We believe in year 5 is that everyone should be recognised and treated fairly all around the world no matter where they are from or where they live.
Wednesday 27 November 2024 Year 6 participated in the Institute of Imagination's 'Wild Cities' Workshop "Last week Year 6 participated in the Institute of Imagination's 'Wild Cities' Workshop where we learned all about sustainable architecture and buildings across the world that have been inspired by different animals. We used what we learned to then create our own sustainable buildings made out of Lego and junk materials. We used the animal and building type cards to create a frog inspired school, butterfly hospital and shark football stadium. We can't wait to use these buildings are inspiration for making our own cities based on Brazil!"
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Friday 22 November 2024 Year 3 Explore Walthamstow In our English lesson this week, Year 3 have been busy exploring the amazing area of Walthamstow and all the cool places it has to offer. They’ve been jotting down notes about the buzzing market, the beautiful park, and even a museum full of incredible art! Now they’re turning those notes into awesome paragraphs to show off just how exciting Walthamstow really is. Want to know more? Take a peek at what they’ve written—it’s packed with fun facts and great ideas!
Friday 22 November 2024 Year 6 Choose Respect For Anti-bullying week, Year 6 were lucky enough to take part in a live lesson taught by the BBC.
Friday 15 November 2024 Year 3 Investigate Local Street Art In Year 3, we have been investigating local street art and discussing its meaning.
Friday 15 November 2024 ANTI-BULLYING WEEK ASSEMBLY 2024 Our whole school assembly on Friday, led by Year 4, celebrated Anti-Bullying Week and the theme was children making the right choices to Respect everyone. We were shown some really thought provoking video clips about making right choices and understanding what respect and bullying mean.The children then shared what they had been doing in each Year Group.
Tuesday 12 November 2024 Year 5 Study the Story of Beowulf This term in English, we have been studying Beowulf. Beowulf is story with Anglo Saxon origins from Denmark. It tells the tale of an awful creature names Grendel who terrorises the land. He causes havoc and chaos where he goes, Hrothgar the leader has built a massive Meade hall called Heorot. After Grendel has caused carnage, he looks to find a way to have all the madness ends. In enters Beowulf, a warrior who claims he will slay the dreadful creature. We did some role-play, acting out a scene with Hrothgar and Beowulf. We worked on our tone and sound of our voice to get touch with our characters. Take a look at the video to see some of this scene in action!

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