Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Year 6 Visits Cineworld, Ilford

  Tue 25 Nov 2025

  On Tuesday, we went on a visit to Cineworld, Ilford to watch an amazing film called ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’. I first thought that it would be a fun movie, because the word kingdom shows me that it has a happy background. I was wrong about that.The film started off with a boy, his mother, father and dog.They were sailing around the world, when a thunderstorm struck. The current was very high and they had to survive.The boy wanted to save the dog, who fell into the raging sea and ended up risking his own life. If you want to find out what happened next, visit Cineworld!

   Written by a year 6 pupil, Silver Class. 

   

  

• UK Parliament Week

  Mon 24 Nov 2025

  This week we are holding school elections to find out who the new MPs will be.  MP stands for Member of Parliament. This means that some of your classmates decided that they would like the chance to represent your ideas about how we can make the school a healthier environment and play our part in making the earth a greener place. They went away and thought about the ideas that they would like to see happen in school. They gave speeches to you in class to persuade you that they were the best person for the job.  When you listened to what your classmates had to say, you will have thought about who would do the best job about making positive changes in our school community and represent the ideas of your class.

  On Wednesday afternoon, it was time to decide who would be elected by voting for the candidates.  Voting is private and you don’t have to tell anyone who you have chosen to vote for.  If you are standing for election, you may choose to vote for yourself.  To cast your vote, you simply need to tick the name of the person you would like to be elected and put your ballot paper in the ballot box.

  Our school elections demonstrate our British value of democracy.  Democracy is a system where the people get to choose their leaders and have a say in how their community is run, often through voting in elections. The word "democracy" comes from ancient Greek words for "people" and "to rule," so it literally means "rule by the people". Instead of one person being in charge, everyone gets an equal say in electing representatives who make decisions on their behalf. 

  Once the votes have been cast, we, the Prefects, who are a bit  like the members of the House of Lords, if we compare ourselves to the UK Parliament, count them.  The two candidates in each class who have the greatest (most) number of votes will be elected as your M.P.s.

  The names of our new MPs will be announced in Friday’s assembly and we would like to wish all of the candidates good luck!

   

  

• Meeting the Philosophy Man

  Thu 20 Nov 2025

  On Thursday, we attended a Zoom meeting with ‘The Philosophy Man’.  We thought about some big questions relating to what freedom is. He talked about Odysseus and his journey to the land of the sirens. In the story Odysseus sails past the sirens, whose singing lures sailors to their deaths. He plugs his crew’s ears with beeswax and has himself tied to the mast so he can hear the song without steering the ship toward danger. They pass safely but one of his men takes the beeswax out of his ears after he sees Odysseus’s face transforming after he hears the sirens and he dives into the sea. I found this interesting because even though they had instructions to not take the beeswax out, the rower went against that.

   

  Habeebah,Silver Class

   

  

• Year 5 Visits the Cinema

  Wed 19 Nov 2025

  Earlier today, Maroon and Turquoise classes enjoyed an exciting trip to the Odeon cinema in Greenwich to watch the film adaptation of ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’, a book written by Micheal Morpurgo. It was a special pre-teach experience for our upcoming English topic in the spring term. The visit was not only a fun outing, but also a fantastic opportunity to introduce the story and themes that we will explore in depth later in the year.

  

• Year 5 Sharing Assembly

  Tue 18 Nov 2025

  This week, the pupils in year 5 had their first sharing assembly, it was a great success! Turquoise class explained what we learnt in English, Mathematics and History, while Maroon class explained what we learnt in Science, Art and Geography. It was lovely for the parents to see a live experiment, some acting and hearing the pupils talking about their learning.

  

• KS2 Choir to Perform at Westfield, Stratford City

  Mon 17 Nov 2025

  We would like to invite our families to come along and support our KS2 Choir at the upcoming Christmas Choir event at Westfield Stratford City on the first floor. Our choir will perform on Thursday 4th December at 12pm. We hope to see you there; it is the perfect way to get into the Christmas spririt!

  

• Two Year Old Provision Open Day!

  Fri 14 Nov 2025

  We were delighted with the fantastic turnout at our 2-Year-Old Provision Open Day, which took place on Thursday 13th November! Many potential new children joined us and had a wonderful time exploring the setting with their parent/carers. They enjoyed getting hands-on with our water play area, role-play activities, construction zone, and play-dough table.

  It was lovely to see so many happy faces and to watch the children confidently engaging with the environment. We look forward to welcoming our new families soon!

  

• Children in Need 2025

  Fri 14 Nov 2025

  Our school turned yellow today, with pupils and staff coming dressed as Pudsey Bear, in yellow or covered in spots! In doing so, we raised a total of £421.31 for Children in Need! We would like to thank our families for raising money for this very worthy cause. Don’t forget to watch Children in Need on BBC this evening.

  

• Power for Good!

  Thu 13 Nov 2025

  This morning, we hosted an Anti-bullying coffee morning for our parents/carers, led by Miss Werrin, Mr Kundu and our Anti-bullying Ambassadors. The theme of this year’s national Anti-bullying week is ‘Power for Good’.

  At the start of the workshop, Miss Werrin introduced our Anti-bullying Ambassadors and explained that bullying is something that occurs ‘lots of times and on purpose’. 

  She followed this by giving the audience a whistle stop tour on how anti-bullying is weaved through the school’s PHSCE and wider curriculum. She then handed over to the Anti-bullying Ambassadors who delivered a presentation on what bullying is, and how to stamp it out. Finally, parents/carers had an opportunity to talk to our ambassadors one-to-one about how we stamp out bullying in our school. 

   

  

• Year 6 Sharing Assembly

  Tue 11 Nov 2025

  On Tuesday 11th November, the pupils in year 6 were pleased to welcome parents into school to watch their sharing assembly. Silver Class had the privilege to present their learning first, and regaled parents with information about the Ancient Greeks, Black History Month, mathematics, French and water safety. Pupils from Bronze Class kept to one subject; science and shared with parents everything they have learnt about electricity, including symbols used when drawing diagrams of circuits, as well as details of two significant scientists who worked in the field of electricity. There was even a live experiment! The parents were very appreciative of the knowledge bestowed upon them.