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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.
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.
Monday 17 June 2024 Refugee Week 2024 - 17th - 21st June
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Friday 24 May 2024 Year 6 Explore Islamic Art
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
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!
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.
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.
Wednesday 22 May 2024 Year 6 have a visit from Project Zero
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!
Friday 17 May 2024 3B's Class Assembly 3B delivered a fantastic assembly all about the Second World War
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Wednesday 27 March 2024 Fond Farewell to Mr Poulton
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!!
Friday 22 March 2024 Music assembly On Friday morning, we were treated by a fantastic music assembly organised and showcased by Mr Poulton.
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.
Friday 15 March 2024 Comic relief 2024 The South Grove Spirit was again outstanding in our Celebration of Red Nose Day!
Tuesday 12 March 2024 Year 3's Science Day - March 2024
Tuesday 12 March 2024 Year 5's Science Day As part of Science Day, Year 5 took part in experiments all day following the whole school focus on ‘time’.
Friday 8 March 2024 4P Assembly was all about Pompeii What an explosive assembly we were treated to on Friday with 4P erupting onto the stage to lets us know all about what they had learnt about the ancient city of Pompeii for their History topic.
Friday 8 March 2024 Girls Football Festival - March 2024 Ms Edmonds and I had the lucky privilege of taking ten children from KS1 to a Girls Football Festival at Douglas Eyre Sports Centre on Friday to take part in a range of carousel activities to explore football skills and it was the perfect day as it was International Women’s Day! Nobody came 1st, 2nd or 3rd. It was all about taking part and having fun and the children certainly did this!
Wednesday 6 March 2024 UKS2 Netball Final - 6th March
Monday 4 March 2024 Year 5 - Careers Week To celebrate Careers Week in school we are being visited by some our students parents to come and talk to classes about their work and what they do in their field. In year 5 were visited by Ms. McIlory who works for Mental Heath First Aid England as their Head of Campaigns & Communications. She told us about a lot of the different things she did in her job and showed us some of the campaigns she created with her team. She also informed us of ways to help us with our mental health and who we can speak to when we worried about our mental health or if we are worried about someone close to us and their mental wellbeing. The children were full of questions such as what is your favourite thing about your job, what other jobs have you done and if you could do any other job in your company what do you think you could do? and many more. Ms. McIlory was very impressed with the children's questions and the attention they gave to her and her talk. Thank you again Ms McIlory!
Friday 1 March 2024 World Book Day 2024
Wednesday 28 February 2024 World Book Day Stories The infamous World Book Day stories are back in Year 5! Excitedly Monday, the children in year 5 came up with questions about books for year 2. They interviewed the children about their likes and dislikes in books and what they would like a book to be about. Tuesday, their heads full of ideas the children sprang into action and began to plan their storybooks for the year 2s. We have footballs, unicorns and cats going on crazy adventures with some singers and princesses too. The rest of this week our author's and illustrators have been very hard at work to write, draw and put together their story. Year 2 get ready because we have some great stories coming your way!
Tuesday 27 February 2024 LKS2 Girls football On Tuesday, two teams represented South Grove in a Year 3 and 4 girl's football competition. We had a fantastic day and played some fantastic football.
Tuesday 20 February 2024 KS2 Football || February 2024 On Tuesday 20th February, Mrs Edmonds and I had the pleasure of taking the KS2 football teams from across Years 3-6.
Thursday 8 February 2024 UKS2 Netball || 8th February 2024 On a very wet Thursday in February, eight Year 6 children, a Feel Good Ambassador and one member of Year 5 attended the Waltham Forest Netball Stingers competition at the Score Centre.
Friday 2 February 2024 Year 4 & 5 Dodgeball || February 2024
Friday 2 February 2024 2DM Assembly all about the Great Fire of London Wow 2DM! We all felt very hot and bothered by the time the assembly finished having watched all those flames and dramatic stories from the children! It was a wonderful assembly packed with facts around the Fire of London, Pudding Lane in 1666.
Friday 2 February 2024 Year 5 Space Projects! It's that time of year again, for the infamous Year 5 space projects! Over the term the children have learnt a whole cosmos of information about the planets, the moon and our galaxy. The children thoroughly enjoyed working on their projects coming up with their own unique take on the solar system and more. Miss Young and Mrs Grant definitely have their work cut out for them trying to pick a winner...
Tuesday 30 January 2024 LKS2 Tri Golf by Mr Perna Last week (18th January), a group of year 4 students represented South Grove at the LKS2 Tri Golf Competition.
Monday 29 January 2024 Year 3 Racket Pack by Miss Hubbard On Monday 29th, a group of year 3 children had the opportunity to try a new sport, which was badminton. They were on a rotation of six activities, all of which allowed them to practise different skills which would be essential for a badminton game. We completed the activities alongside another school and although we were not competing, the children soon became very competitive and were striving to win their games.
Friday 19 January 2024 Year 5 are Learning About Space It's been a very planetary week this week up in year 5. We have been learning about the planets through Virtual Reality and making our fact file posters with our newly found information and created some eye catching art in the style of Peter Thorpe.We even pushed ourselves to create a mnemonic phrase to help us remember the order of the planets, such as ''My Very Excellent Mum Just Served Us Noodles''
Monday 15 January 2024 KS1 Tri Golf Festival by Miss McFarlane Miss Edmonds and I had the lucky privilege of taking ten KS1 children to the Leyton Sports Hub to take part in a Tri Golf Competition on Monday 15th January.
Friday 12 January 2024 5G Create Roman CAM Toys We have been busy getting back into routine upstairs in year 5, so we thought we share with your incredible work we completed in the last week of autumn term. In the last week of term to finish off our work on the Romans we created CAM toys. These toys are made up different parts; a follower, a cam and a handle and a slider. The 'cam' is what gives our toys the up and down movement they have based on the shape. We used round ones, egg shape ones and tear drop ones. We worked in pairs to measure, saw and glue these items into place. We had to think about our follower and had to make sure they could be seen when moving. It was a thoroughly enjoyable experience for all and we look forward to our future creations.
Thursday 11 January 2024 3B Visit the William Morris Gallery This week, 3B had a fantastic time visiting the William Morris Gallery. We explored the museum and saw furniture, rugs and wallpaper that William Morris designed. This inspired us to sketch some of his animal and plant designs.We then used the ideas we saw in the museum to create our own print designs in an art workshop. We learnt how to use a printing press and created these fabulous designs.
Tuesday 9 January 2024 Born in a Barn! - The Infant Nativity What a treat we all had on the Tuesday and Wednesday before we broke up! Our Reception, Year 1 and 2 children seemed to have disappeared and in their place were mooing cows, very noisy cockerels, sheep, donkeys, villagers, camels and majestic kings alongside Mary and Joseph.
Thursday 21 December 2023 Community News & Events
Thursday 21 December 2023 It all started as a normal school week….. Three weeks before Christmas, Mrs Hunter-Leitch had been busy gathering the Christmas decorations in the library and had put up that Christmas tree ready for the festivities.
Tuesday 19 December 2023 Goodbye and Good Luck! On Thursday we say Goodbye and Thank You to Mrs Agrawal who leaves us as
Monday 18 December 2023 Research Project Winners for the Autumn Term 2023 We have had some wonderful Research Projects and excellent work this term and to celebrate with the lucky winners, they will have the opportunity to choose a book as a prize from a wide range.
Wednesday 6 December 2023 Year 6 visit the Olympic park in Stratford Last Wednesday Year 6 took a trip to the Stratford Olympic park to conduct their geography fieldwork study. We assessed the environment and what kind of biomes/landscapes we could see around us. We then compared this to Brazil and noted how different the climates are in particular! We also discussed how the park use sustainable energy sources - much like the cities we are making in our projects.
Tuesday 5 December 2023 SEND Ice-Skating @ Lea Valley Ice Centre || December 2023 On Tuesday 5th December, seven very excited children left to take part in an ice-skating festival. We arrived with plenty of time to relax and settle our nerves before putting our ice-skating boots and learning to walk in them. After we found our balance, we were taken through to the competition rink where we had three, highly-qualified instructors, lots of adults and even the center manager had come to support us.
Tuesday 5 December 2023 What a hoot!! Last Wednesday Nursery, Reception, Years 1 and 2 had a fabulous treat in the main hall where they met four feathery owls and their handlers from Night Owls.
Monday 4 December 2023 3H Assembly || Living together || November 2023 We were treated to an amazing 'Living Together' assembly on Friday where 3H shared their knowledge of what it means to be a part of a diverse community, both within school and the wider school community. They explained that being part of a community is important because it helps us to connect with different people.
Monday 4 December 2023 Year 3 Research local artists, Zahrah Hussain and William Morris
Tuesday 28 November 2023 UKS2 Girls A team football by Mrs Grant On Tuesday 28th November, Mrs. Grant along with Miss Summers ventured up to Goals in Chingford with nine very excited girls and one keen Feel Good ambassador to face the elements at the Waltham Forest UKS2 Girls Football competition.
Friday 24 November 2023 Disability Awareness Month Assembly || November 2023 written by Ms Spain
Friday 24 November 2023 KS1 Sportshall Athletics Competition || November 2023 Ms Edmonds and Miss McFarlane had the lucky pleasure of taking sixteen KS1 children to the Peter May Sports Centre to take part in a Sportshall Athletics Competition. In total, sixteen different Schools took part and there were six different events to participate in: Launcher, Jumpers, Pitcher, Stepper, Skipper and Bouncer.
Thursday 23 November 2023 The Big Climate Conversation This week, the Sustainability Reps did themselves and South Grove proud by attending and engaging in climate action for our local area.
Thursday 23 November 2023 Year 3's Living Together project As part of our Living Together project, the children created these amazing family tree research projects at home.
Monday 20 November 2023 Year 4 go back in time 4SH, once again, went back in time to the Stone Age, visiting the ancient Egyptian exhibition of the British Museum. Unfortunately, 4P had to cancel due to a staff outbreak of the mummy's curse, but this has been rescheduled for Monday 4th December.
Monday 20 November 2023 Nursery Learn about Diwali Nursery have been learning about Diwali this week and have enjoyed making Diya tea lights, out of salt dough. This is an excellent activity alongside things like playdough or Plasticine or clay to help develop fine motor strength and skills. To make a Diya lamp the children needed to roll a ball and then press their fingers to flatten it out and fit a candle inside. They then pinched the edges up to form a lip, so lots of skills involved. After the salt dough had been left to dry, the children chose colours to paint with and then eventually added sparkles using glue.
Friday 17 November 2023 Anti- Bullying Week- Make A Noise Against Bullying by Ms Spain What an amazing week learning about this important topic. One area we focused on was what is banter and how do we feel when things are taken too far... if we don't like something, make sure we tell someone. Make sure you MAKE SOME NOISE!! ??
Thursday 16 November 2023 Institute of Imagination Workshop As part of our sustainability STEAM collaboration with the Institute of Imagination, we had an exciting art workshop in year 3 this week. We used wire, junk modelling, pipe cleaners and collage materials to create balance sculptures in the style of the artist Alexander Calder's mobile sculptures. We even got to share our work over the internet with other schools around the country.
Thursday 16 November 2023 Geography Services in the Local Area In geography this week, year 3 looked at services in the local area. We then discussed whether we thought these services were essential or a luxury. We also discussed whether we thought services in other areas such as rural areas would be the same as our urban services.
Tuesday 14 November 2023 UKS2 Sportshall Athletics || Tuesday 14th November This particular trip is one that the children really look forward to. Arriving early, we took the time to prepare the children with advice on their particular events. Attentively, the children listened and those who had been lucky enough to take part in Sportshall Athletics before, offered words of advice.
Tuesday 14 November 2023 Year 2 have been learning to tell the time In Maths, Year 2 have been learning to Tell the Time using o'clock and half past. We also had the Institute of Imagination workshop. We had great fun using shapes and patterns inspired by nature and engineering 3D paper buildings.
Tuesday 14 November 2023 South Grove Bulb Planting and Allotment tlc In the Half Term holiday a group of families had fun in the Secret Garden tidying and planting bulbs. Here’s what one family had to say about it:
Monday 13 November 2023 Nursery Learning Gallery || 'All About Me' || Autumn 2023 Here is a photo gallery of some of our learning at Nursery this year. Our first topic is ‘All about Me’ and we spend time getting to know our adults, each other and ourselves. Here we are exploring our inside and outside environments, working on our fine and gross motor skills and engaging in a whole raft of activities carefully selected to help us develop in our learning and above all love learning at Nursery! Please have a look on the Nursery page at our Early Years Curriculum, our termly Curriculum overviews for parents and our Nursery Presentation for more information.
Monday 13 November 2023 Year 6 have this been directing and filming their own E-safety videos ‘last week in Year 6 we worked as teams to film our computing E-safety videos after planning them using our storyboards. We all chose a different year group as our audience to educate about the importance of saving safe online and provided tips on the best way to do this.’
Friday 10 November 2023 Poppies and other items for Remembrance Poppies are sold in preparation for Remembrance Day which is a time to remember those who died or were wounded in World War One and Two and in every war since. They will be available from later this week and all next week to purchase in school.
Thursday 9 November 2023 Reception Learn about Seasons and Festivals Last week in reception we learnt about seasonal changes and festivals. We also read the story of Pumpkin Soup and made our own story books. We looked carefully at a variety of pumpkins, vegetable squash, and used descriptive words to describe them and then used our observations to make still life paintings of them. We used different materials to make our still life pumpkin pictures and combined them to make a gigantic pumpkin. On Friday Ms Rice provided us with a recipe so that we could make and then try some pumpkin soup. .. yum!!!
Thursday 9 November 2023 Year 2 are Climbers In PE this week, we took out the large apparatus. We particularly enjoyed trying to climb the ropes and climbing on the wall bars. Lots of us reached the top of the wall bars but only Logan in 2F climbed to the very top of the rope! Our very own Spiderman!
Thursday 9 November 2023 Year 5 Learn about Jack Cornwell
Wednesday 8 November 2023 Year 1 are Celebrating Year 1 kicked off their new topic, Let's Celebrate, by dressing in clothes they would wear to a celebration. It was lovely to see the children show off their different outfits that are worn for celebrations from Eid to birthday parties. Many of the children brought party food and we were able to share where the foods came from and also try some! Thank you to the parents who were able to make or supply food for this special occasion, it really helped us to appreciate different cultures and to understand the role of hospitality in our community, as we were able to share food with other year groups. The children also had the chance to talk about a celebration that they have been part of outside of school and show photos they had brought in from home.
Wednesday 8 November 2023 Free swimming lessons for children! Anyone under 16 years can apply for the free swimming lessons. The deadline for applications is Friday 10 November, and the offer is limited to one voucher per applicant.Follow the link for more information, and follow Waltham Forest Best Start in Life Facebook page for more free and affordable sessions for children and families.
Tuesday 7 November 2023 Nursery go on an Adventure! || November 2023 'Nursery morning and afternoon children all met up for Nursery's Trip linked to their Transport topic. We enjoyed a bright day filled with sunshine at nearby Leyton Jubilee Park exploring the pirate ship and other play equipment. Thank you to our parents for supporting the children taking part.'
Tuesday 7 November 2023 PLM || 6th November 2023
Tuesday 7 November 2023 Year 5 are Wild Eco Builders In Year 5 this week, we took part in a second virtual workshop led by the Institute of Imagination. The theme this time was Wild Eco Builders where we looked at how the science of nature can inspire us to imagine creative solutions when designing architecture.
Monday 6 November 2023 Nursery Learn all about Cultures and Celebration Nursery have started their learning about different cultures in our community and the celebrations though out the year with a focus on Harvest. This is a celebration to give thanks to the land and to those who work on the land to collect the Harvest ready for winter. We used oil pastels to draw still life pictures of vegetables by looking at the colours and shapes we could see. We then chopped and cooked Harvest Soup and gave thanks to all the farmers that help us eat by growing food around the world.
Monday 6 November 2023 Remembering Shirley This week in year 5, to remember Shirley whose funeral was this week we created messages and memories about her. We placed these onto the memory tree in the school library. We thought of memories and kind words to place on the small hearts and decorated them with her favourite things; foxes and flowers. We took our time and had a quiet moment to remember her by the tree. Later in the playground at lunchtime we did a 1 minute silence in respect of her. The children shared very fond memories and not a dry eye was in sight.
Monday 6 November 2023 Meet year 4's new Class Assistant
Friday 3 November 2023 Year 5 Class Assembly - the Holiday Show - November 2023 In Year 5, our topic last term was 'The Holiday Show' where we were learning about the physical Geography of the World. To begin with, we learned about weather patterns and the different biomes on Earth. After looking at different biomes around the World, we focused on London and in particular, its landmarks. During our learning, we were lucky enough to go into central London and take a boat along the River Thames passing by many recognisable landmarks. To conclude our learning , the children - as part of their homework- created London landmarks.
Tuesday 31 October 2023 UKS2 Multisports || OCTOBER 2023 On the 31st of October, some year 5 and 6 students trekked their way to Score Leisure near Leyton Orient to take part in the multi sports trip. This involved numerous games and activities for the children to take part in. They took part in: dancing, football, squash, hula-hooping and volley ball. The children had a brilliant time taking part in the variety of sports. There were smiles all round and excitement by all, the children had a great time.
Friday 20 October 2023 Welcome to our new website! Welcome to our new website
Wednesday 18 October 2023 UKS2 Girls football || October 2023 On Wednesday 18th October, eight of our best female footballers took part in the football tournament held by Leyton Orient at the SCORE Centre. Below are our results.
Friday 13 October 2023 Black history month assembly
Tuesday 3 October 2023 UKS2 Boys football || OCTOBER 2023 On Tuesday 3rd October, ten of our best footballers took part in the borough football tournament held at Chingford Goals on a beautifully, sunny day. Below are our results.
Tuesday 3 October 2023 LKS2 Boys football || OCTOBER 2023
Friday 29 September 2023 YEAR 2 & 3 Mixed Football || OCTOBER 2023 Miss Edmonds and myself had the lucky opportunity to take 12 Year 3 children to the Waltham Forest Year 2 & 3 Mixed Football Festival at Goals. The children were split into 2 groups – South A and South Grove B. Both teams worked extremely hard and tried their best. South Grove B played Mission Grove 2 – 0. Handsworth 4 – 0. Hillyfield 6 – 0. Winns 5 – 0. South Grove A played Greenleaf 2 – 0. George Tomlinson 1 – 0.Barncroft 5 – 0. Parkside 2 - 1. I am very pleased to say…South Grove A managed to get through to the Quarter finals. I am pleased to say both teams were fantastic and worked extremely hard.
Monday 15 May 2023 Coronation Weekend Whether you were celebrating or not, I hope you all had fun over the Coronation long weekend with whatever you got up to with your family and friends. We’d like to say congratulations to the newly crowned King Charles III.

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