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…
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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…
Over approximately 10 weeks, Year 5 have been building a 3D video game using Kodu Gaming Lab, a child friendly visual programming language. Over time, they have added interactive objects and developed their game, working out bugs and glitches to ensure a good end-user experience. This week, they tested and evaluated each other’s games and…
