Due to popular demand, we are extending STEM club to Year 3 and 6. If you have a child in Year 3-6 who would like to take part in an after school science club, please sign up at the office. The STEM club will run on Wednesday 5th June 2019 from 3.15pm – 4.15pm. The…
If you are able to run a workshop for a class or work with groups of children during that week, would you please email our Arts’ co-ordinator Ms Kelly Roberts and let her know what you are able to come and help with. Emails can be sent to school@dkh.southwark.sch.uk and in the subject line please…
Dear Parents/Carers We appreciate the information and comments you have shared with us regarding the new online payment system – Arbor. We understand that some of our parents have encountered issues while attempting to log in and pay for clubs, trips, meals etc. Our first Arbor Login Workshop to support parents become familiar with the…
Get your Fun Run sponsorship in to the office! The total is building up, we’ve already raised well over £500, can we reach £1000 to fund our fabulous new bike shed?! Bring in your sponsorship form and cash in a sealed envelope.
A few more photos from Friday the 3rd of May. Thank you to Senor Pablo for organising such a wonderful, fun and informative day.
A message from Margaret: Due to the KS2 SATs next week, there will be no steel pan lessons next week on the following days: – Tuesday the 14th of May at 8.15am for Year 5 – Wednesday the 15th of May at 8.15am for Year 6 There will however be a session on Friday the…
The office is only accepting payments through Arbor now. On Wednesday the 15th May Ms Mir and Mrs Markides will be running an Arbor login tutorial session from 9:15 – 10am in the IT room. If any parents need help with their Arbor logins and support with how to pay for meals, clubs etc. you…
A well done to the winners of the Young Writer’s competition last week. We had an assembly this morning to hand out the certificates to children whose work will shortly be published. If you missed out this time, don’t worry. More writing competitions are planned for the future!
We are delighted to inform you that we are now offering a 15hr top up service in the nursery. If your child is currently attending 15hrs per week and you are interested in additional hours, please speak to Rachel Kearns. The school is able to provide care and education during these times; Monday – Friday…
Find out about your child’s curriculum coverage this term: view the Summer Term Topic Webs here
We are pleased to introduce Times Table Rock Stars is being trialed at DKH. Children in years 3, 4, and 5 will have be able to play Times Table Rockstars at home and at school. This is a fun, interactive way for children to learn their times tables. It is a sequenced program of daily…
Wow! What a fabulous week filled with experiments, investigations and a touch of gardening to celebrate science! As I looked around the school, I was amazed by the enthusiasm and excitement the pupils showed for their class science experiments and their home projects. We enjoyed planting vegetable seeds at the school allotment, tying in with…
It was a smashing effort all round for World Book Day 2019 at DKH! Thank you to parents for all your efforts dressing the children up and thank you to staff for getting into the spirit. The award for ‘Best Dressed Staff Member’ went to Miss Genower, for her outstanding effort as Captain Underpants. The…
A few snaps from Year 1’s recent multi-sports trip, followed by a trip to Lettsom Gardens.
For World Book Day, Thursday 7th March 2019, we would like the children to decorate hard boiled eggs as characters from their favourite books, comics or texts. They could create a scene using a shoe box or egg box, or simply just decorate the egg. A winner will be chosen from each year group and…
A few snaps from Nursery’s ‘People who help us’ visit day.
Elder class delivered a wonderful class assembly about Chinese New Year on Tuesday. Dragons, puppets and music filled the hall much to the delight of parents and children. Thank you to all the children and adults for their hard work.
Tuesday 5th February was Safer Internet Day. We focused on the theme of permissions: getting permission from our friends to post media about them and giving permission for internet companies to have our personal information. Through assembles and classwork, we explored good practice and the importance of making savvy choices.
Please put the 7th of March in your diaries for World Book Day. We will be celebrating this year by inviting staff and children to dress up as book characters (any characters, not a specific book). We hope to have a Sponsored Read event here in school and will send out more information closer to…
Year 4 are learning all about polar explorers Matthew Henson and Earnest Shackleton in their literacy. As part of this, they were able to visit Dulwich College, where one of Shackleton’s boats – the James Caird – is housed. Shackleton was once a student at Dulwich College. Not only did Beech and Eucalyptus see the…
Years 5 and 6 were treated to a production of ‘Riot Act’ this afternoon – a theatre based road safety production designed to teach children and young people about the potential hazards when using our streets. A thank you to the production team for their efforts and helping us get across these important messages to children.
Nursery are very excited to welcome some special visitors as part of our ‘people who help us’ topic. The children are currently thoroughly enjoying learning about different occupations and people who work to help us and our community. We have invited the local fire fighters, police officers and lollipop lady to come and speak to…
Find out about your child’s curriculum coverage this term: view the Spring Term Topic Webs here
The school is trialing a new newspaper idea called ‘Snoop’. A Christmas issue will be given out to everyone today. The idea is that the children use online templates to create their own newspaper virtually alone with minimal adult supervision. We have tried this in class (the summer issue) and in a club (the most…
