South Grove Primary School

Monday 21 October 2024 Year 3 - All about Badgers In our English lessons, the children have been writing a non-chronological report on badgers. They have been focusing on organizing their information into paragraphs. They have included facts about a badger's appearance, where it lives, what it eats, and interesting features like their nocturnal habits or how they live in setts (underground burrows).

Monday 21 October 2024 Year 4 Egyptian Day! This week, Year 4 brought Ancient Egypt to the school—and I don't mean they brought their mummies!—for Ancient Egyptian Day! Just look at their amazing costumes that they made/prepared at home. Among other activities, the children made Canopic jars out of clay, just in case they one day need to store some loose organs. Good thing none of the artefacts we've handled were cursed; no one wants a re-enactment of Ghost with Tutankhamun's shrivelled apparition!

Friday 18 October 2024 Year 5 explore the Landmarks of London London Landmark Projects are back again in Year 5! After all our research, our art work and our trip into London to see all these incredible landmarks we were definitely inspired to make these projects one of a kind! From the London Eye to the British Museum and even the infamous Red Telephone Box, the children have worked incredibly hard to make these stunning pieces! The children will showcase their projects next term and a winner will be chosen by each class, but the overall winner will be chosen by Ms Maltwood, I don't know about you but I surely don't envy being her when it comes to choosing one! Thank you to the parents for all your help to in creating these projects too! Can you work out which landmark is which?

Monday 14 October 2024 Year 6 Visit the V&A Last week Year Six ventured all the way to South Kensington to visit the Victoria and Albert Museum to observe real Greek Pots! We first completed a tresure hunt where we found out what year the pots were from, the location they were excavated and their key features. Once we had taken note of all of these things, we then sketched our favourites in preparation for making our clay versions.

Monday 14 October 2024 Year 6 Explore Advertising In Year 6, we have been reviewing existing adverts and promotional films to help guide us in making our own advert to promote online safety. Last week, we sourced a range of media from the internet (taking into consideration copyrighting) and this week we videoed our footage. We are having so much fun creating them and can't wait for you to see the finished videos!

Friday 11 October 2024 Year 3 Learn all about Flowers In year 3 this week in science, we have identified and labelled the names of the different parts of flowers and their jobs. We also looked at the life cycle of flowering plants.

Thursday 3 October 2024 Year 3 are Programmers! As part of our unit 'We are programmers' in Computing, we have been learning to use the programme scratch. In our lesson this week, we were creating characters and dialogue for our animation. We learned the keyword 'decomposition', which is when you break a big task into a series of smaller tasks.

Thursday 3 October 2024 Year 5's Annual Trip to North Greenwich!

Wednesday 2 October 2024 Year 6 Recreate the Battle of Marathon! 'Last week year 6 recreated the origins of London's favourite race , the Marathon! We learnt how the heroic Pheidippides ran an entire 25 miles from Marathon to the city of Sparta to inform the soldiers of their victory in the Peloponnesian War - almost as long as the walk from the mobile classrooms to assembly! We created a range of freeze frames and actions that matched the narration that was read aloud to us to improve our speaking and listening skills. Our favourite part was re-enacting Pheidippides' incredibly dramatic death following his announcement! After this, we then heard about the evil deeds of King Xerxes of Persia and how he failed at winning war against the Greeks.

Monday 30 September 2024 Year 3 Design Posters

Friday 27 September 2024 Year5 - Tiddalick the Frog This week we have been role playing the story of Tiddalick the Frog. This is s story from the dreamtime in Australia talks about how Australia got its rivers. The children worked together to choose which characters to be in the story and act this out. Using this experience we will soon begin rewriting the story changing up the characters and items that are in the original piece

Friday 27 September 2024 Year 6 are Learning about Ancient Greece In Year 6, we are learning about Ancient Greece. In English, we are studying different Greek myths and we are working towards writing our own. In Topic, we have been looking at the Ancient Greece timeline and this has led us onto looking at different Greek artefacts. We have started designing our own Greek pots and later on we will be making them.

Sunday 22 September 2024 Take Part in Tour De Waltham Forest! The Tour is our annual family cycling fun day, with lots of family-friendly activities and guided cycle rides through the borough. Tour de Waltham Forest 2024 will take place on Sunday 22 September at Fellowship Square (E17), to coincide with World Car Free Day.

Wednesday 18 September 2024 Year 4 travel to Egypt!

Monday 16 September 2024 Year 3 explore are techniques In year 3 this week we have looked at line drawings and how to show movement underwater. We drew different sea creatures and also completed colour washes in preparation for our sea scape collages.

Friday 13 September 2024 YEAR 5 Learn about Fire Safety This week in Year 5, as part our PSHE curriculum, we have been learning about keeping safe with a focus on Fire Safety. We were lucky enough to have a visit from the education team from the London Fire Brigade.

Friday 19 July 2024 Goodbye Miss Tomlin...

Friday 19 July 2024 Goodbye Ms Spain...

Friday 12 July 2024 1A ASSEMBLY - Food glorious food Last Friday we were so lucky to see Year 1A 's assembly.. What a treat it was!! It all started with their own version of Handa's Surprise called Inayah's Surprise, adapted to our school in London, instead of fruits from Africa as in the original story. The children then showed where the fruits are found on the map of the world. Mr Andrews is certainly improving our mapping skills!

Monday 8 July 2024 Rights Respecting; Going for GOLD

Friday 5 July 2024 Music Assembly 2024 What an amazingly melodic assembly we were treated to on Friday brilliantly organised by Ms Forbes! The assembly opened with Oisin and Eisa confidently playing "I Got the Fiddle Blues" on the violin as the audience arrived. Following this, sisters Mamediarra and Awa welcomed the audience with a drumming demonstration, leading into a powerful performance of "High Hopes" by the drum club, who played some complex rhythms over a backing track.

Thursday 4 July 2024 News Flash !! Please take a look at our Presentation on Going For Gold We are a Rights Respecting School and we love all of our Rights :)

Wednesday 3 July 2024 Year 6 had an exciting time at Herts Young Marine Base Year 6 went on their exciting end of year trip to Herts Young Marine Base (HYMB)! We took part in a range of activities which were Bell Boating, Archery, Caving and Raft Building. We had so much fun!

Wednesday 26 June 2024 Year 6 - Two Action Packed Weeks! The last two weeks have been action packed for Year 6! The week before last we created our Sky Arts weeks videos based on two scenes from the Secret Garden. We were given the choice between either the super creepy scene with the owner of the house, or the joyful garden exploring scene. We chose the lighting, filters and camera angles to make these the most effective for the audience and then used our editing skills even better! Following this, last week we participated in our school wide Quidditch competition where we represented our teams in some (very warm) matches. We used our team working skills to earn as many points as possible for our team captains who bravely announced the scores to the school.

Monday 24 June 2024 Silver Rights Respecting School Award

Monday 24 June 2024 OUTSTANDING CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL! It is with great pleasure that I am presenting our Ofsted Report following our recent 2 day Inspection on 21st and 22nd May.

Friday 21 June 2024 Nursery Assembly - Summer 2024 On Friday, the main hall was alive with very excited ladybirds, caterpillars and a whole range of animals, ready to entertain the packed audiences of eager parents and carers.

Friday 21 June 2024 KS1 Value Games Miss McFarlane and Mrs Monaghan had the lucky privilege of taking 30 Year 2 children to the Peter May Sports Centre to take part in a Value Games Festival. They were put into different value groups and got to compete in 4 different events ranging from Athletics, Speed cup stacking, Lacrosse, Handball, Dance, Cricket, Boxing, Rugby, Orienteering, Tag games, Archery and Badminton. They had a very inspirational fun filled day. It was lovely because we also saw the Feel Good Ambassadors from South Grove leading some of the events.

Friday 21 June 2024 KS1 Quad Kids Miss Edmonds and Miss McFarlane had the pleasure of taking some KS1 children to the Feel Good Centre to take part in the Waltham Forest Athletics borough competition Quad Kids. The children individually had to compete in 4 different events: 50m sprint, 300m jog, howling and long jump. Due to the torrential rain, sadly the children did not get to complete in all 4 events. They were only able to complete 2 events.

Thursday 20 June 2024 Year 3 got creative for Sky Arts Week This week, year 3 had a fantastic creative time. As part of Sky Art's Week, the children discussed the theme of connection. They looked at story illustrations and landscape paintings and imagined that they could jump inside them. Then they created doodle landscapes and also looked at changing colour in landscapes.