News
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Monday 24 June 2024 Silver Rights Respecting School Award
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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.
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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.
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Wednesday 19 June 2024 Year6 are Junior Entrepreneurs! This half term, we took part in the Junior Enterprise Project and completed work towards our Fiver Challenge! We had to make a profit from £5, which was provided by the school. We made our business, created our business name, designed a logo, presented our sales pitch and sold our product on our stall during the Fiver Challenge fair. It was such an enjoyable experience raising money for our end of Year 6 party! Along the way, we learnt a lot about finance helping us with life skills.
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Monday 17 June 2024 Refugee Week 2024 - 17th - 21st June
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Friday 14 June 2024 5G's Class Assembly Well, we certainly did go back in time during Friday’s class assembly. We entered the hall into a Victorian Classroom…..we had a whistle stop tour of life in Victorian times for children and adults.
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Friday 14 June 2024 Year 6 Visited Mission Grove School Last week Year 6 went to visit our friends at Mission Grove School as part of Waltham Forest's Junior Citizens programme. We got to hear fantastic range of talks from the people who teach us to be responible citizens such as the Fire Brigade, the Police, Transport for London and Project Zero. The highlight of our trip was getting to roleplay scenarios that could happen on public transport on a real life bus! Additionally, we spoke to Leyton Orient about our feelings towards the transition to secondary school and just how much homework we might recieve! Overall, we certainly feel a little more prepared for life beyond primary school.
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Wednesday 12 June 2024 Mini Tour De Waltham Forest On Wednesday 12th June, eight experienced cyclists from UKS2 went to Leyton Jubilee Park to take part in the borough’s cycling competition: Mini Tour de Waltham Forest.
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Friday 7 June 2024 1L's Class Assembly 1L delighted the audience on Friday with a very colourful assembly on their recent learning. They went to the Olympic Park to look at the wild flower gardens where they were able to identify lots of different flowering plants and insects in the bug hotels that had been created.
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Friday 7 June 2024 KS2 Quadkids Athletics On Thursday 6th June, our largest team of thirty-two children left South Grove and headed to the Feel Good Centre. It turned out to be a glorious day and perfect weather for the children to compete in.
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Friday 24 May 2024 UKS2 Boys Dynamos Cricket On Friday 24th May, a group of selected UKS2 pupils went to a cricket competition two days after we had just had Ofsted in. We left South Grove at 8:55am and once we arrived we practiced our batting, bowling and fielding skills.
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Friday 24 May 2024 Year 6 Explore Islamic Art
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Friday 24 May 2024 Year 1 get Inspired by Klimt We are thrilled to share with you the highlights of an extra busy but exciting week! Your children showcased their talents and hard work in a way that made us all extremely proud, particularly during the OFSTED visit. Their enthusiasm and dedication truly highlighted the best of Year 1! During the week we focused a lot on Art and Science, drawing inspiration from the renowned artist Gustav Klimt. We really enjoyed looking at his beautiful paintings of flowers, and the children had lots of opportunities to draw and paint their own. The results were lovely! The children’s artwork was not only creative but also reflected their understanding of Klimt’s unique style. In our Science lessons this week we learned about deciduous and evergreen trees. The children enjoyed discovering the differences between these types of trees and identifying them from a range of examples. In Maths, we continued our exploration of place value and their progress has been really positive, and we are d
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Friday 24 May 2024 Year5 Visit the Ragged School Museum To complete our learning this term about the Victorians, this week, year 5 travelled back in time to Mile End 1874 to attend the Ragged School Museum founded by Thomas Barnardo in the late 1870s. Children took part in real life Victorian School lesson by teacher Miss Perkins, who told us to sit up straight and not slouch. Speak only when spoken to, to learn from our mistakes and commented on our impeccable handwriting. We also experienced a Victorian style kitchen/bedroom where sometimes up to 8 people would all sleep in the same room and all life would happen in this room. Sleep, eat and work! We could all agree we think school and our kitchens and bedrooms are a lot nicer today than it was in the time of the Victorians. We finished up our visit with a lovely walk down Regents Canal in the sunshine!
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Friday 24 May 2024 Year 3 Learn about Shadows In our science learning this week, we have been investigating the best material to make shadows. We were given a brief about Isaac, whose baby sister finds it difficult to sleep at night due to too much light getting in. We were then tasked with finding the best material to make curtains. Through our learning, we discovered materials are either transparent, translucent or opaque. With this in mind, we knew we needed our curtains to be made from an opaque material. We then tested which ones were best at blocking the light.
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Thursday 23 May 2024 Year 6's Commitment to Sustainability On May 23rd, some of our Year 6 children- who are incredible change agents- lead a presentation to schools around the country and in different parts of the world to tell them all about our commitment to Sustainability and just what our little Sustainable Market means to us.
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Wednesday 22 May 2024 Year 6 have a visit from Project Zero
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Friday 17 May 2024 Year 3 took part in World War II Day On Friday, the children were able to dress up as part of our World War II day. They took part in a range of activities so they could fully immerse themselves as though they were children during this time. They were fortunate enough to have a guest speaker who was a child during this time. Although the children have studied diary entries and letter writing from the perspective of a child, it was great for them to hear first hand the experiences of Rosalie (Mrs Vallance and Ms Mullins Mother). We were so grateful that she could volunteer her time to speak to us. A huge thank you from all of year 3!
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Friday 17 May 2024 3B's Class Assembly 3B delivered a fantastic assembly all about the Second World War
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Friday 17 May 2024 Year 6 have fun in St Jame's Park It was an exhausting week for Year 6 as the children completed their SATs! They were all well prepared for the tests and have worked extremely hard. The adults in Year 6 are extremely proud of them! As a reward for all their hard work, we went to St James Park just to have fun! Take a look at our pictures which show just how much fun the children had!
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Monday 6 May 2024 Year 5 Adopt a Chef! Year 5 taking part in a special program over the summer term. Adopt A Chef is a charity based program run by the Royal Academy of Culinary Arts, which helps children to develop healthy eating habits and encourages an enthusiasm and interest in food, cooking, food provenance and sustainability, as well as giving an insight into the hospitality industry. So far each class has completed two sessions with Chef Tessa. She has taught us a few things already and we are very keen for the future lessons to happen. In our first session we had a variety of food to taste test (honey, chicory, rhubarb, lemon, samphire, bread and tomato). We used our senses to help work out if a food was bitter, sour, sweet, salty or umami. Do you know what umami is? We marked this on a image of a tongue to show where we felt these tastes. Some items were liked better than others. Our second session we took to the practical room and it was knives out! We had some salad products (lettuce, pepper, radish, celery
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Monday 29 April 2024 KS1 Tennis Festival Ms Edmonds and Miss McFarlane had the great privilege to take fifteen KS1 children to a Tennis Skills Festival at Ridgeway Park Tennis Centre.
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Tuesday 23 April 2024 LKS2 Mini Tennis Festival On Tuesday 23rd April, two teams from year 4 participated in a tennis competition at Ridgeway Park. We played lots of games and practised our tennis skills. Amazingly, Team A made it to the quarter finals where they played Greenleaf. The score was 2-2. This meant that we progressed to the semi-finals where we played Ainslie Wood. Unfortunately, we lost 4-0.
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Monday 22 April 2024 Surprise Guest! On Monday 22nd April, we were really lucky to have Joe Wicks, The Body Coach and star of lockdown PE sessions, come into school to run a sporty workshop with some children in KS2! The children were very vocal in their enjoyment with great cheers coming from the hall as they joined in his inspiring, motivational and fun session.
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Friday 19 April 2024 Year 6 Learning Challenge! Year 6 had an incredible active learning session on Friday where we combined Science and Maths with PE. We were split into teams of four and had to compete for the most points. We started off by labelling the bones in the skeleton. We ran to get the key words in order to complete the diagram. We then put our problem solving skills to the test. We took part in an orienteering lesson where we had to find numbers around the playground (using our maps) in order to complete the challenge.We had a great session and would like to say a huge thank you to Enrich!
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Thursday 28 March 2024 Year 5 - what have we been up to? Year 5 have been busy swimming for the whole of March so learning has been very disrupted. However, they have soldiered on through last minute changes and afternoon English and Maths lessons. A huge well done to all of the children in Year 5 for their superb progress in their learning. Certificates have all been handed out.
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Wednesday 27 March 2024 Fond Farewell to Mr Poulton
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Friday 22 March 2024 Take Over Day 2024! The Take Over Day Challenge is happening on Friday 22nd March (Shh! Don’t tell the staff). Children will be able to apply for The Take Over role of staff within the school but must convince their peers that they can do the job!!
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Friday 22 March 2024 Music assembly On Friday morning, we were treated by a fantastic music assembly organised and showcased by Mr Poulton.
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Monday 18 March 2024 Year 3 Investigate Packaging In our design and technology lessons, year 3 have been investigating chocolate packaging. We then looked at the nets of different packages and drew our own nets using the measuring skills that we have been developing in maths. Then, we created a mood board for our own design ideas and designed logos to meet a design brief. Next week we will use all of this information to make our own 3D chocolate packaging.