Hammers and Happa Zome
The Secret Garden was filled with the sound of hammering again this afternoon as Hokusai Class had their trn at creating Happa Zome leaf prints in Forest School. First we learnt about the different trees in the Secret Garden including Oak, Field Maple, Hazel, Hawthorn...
Cupcake Challenge
Last week, we completed a maths project looking at all the challenges that come with buying ingredients, making a profit, packaging and the cooking of cupcakes. Here are some pictures from the final process...
Now Press Play and The Snow Leopard
by Muhsina and Zayaan Last week, we had an activity with Now Press Play. We learnt about ancient civilisations in the Spring, so Anna and Alice chose us to be one of the first schools to listen to an ancient story about the Shang Dynasty. It helped us think about what...
Getting Musical in Riley Class
Today in Riley class, we had a wonderful workshop from our visiting musical friend, Aga! This was our 3rd workshop with Aga this year - we have previously practiced our singing, rhythm and composition with him in the autumn and spring terms. In today's session, we...
VIP Lunch!
As a reward for all of our hard work and excellent efforts through out last week, Riley class won a super special VIP lunch! Thank you to Mr O'Regan and Mrs De Jager for serving our lunch. We ate some cheesy pizza, yummy stir fry and lots of vegetables!
Our trip to the Nuclear Races!
Last week both Riley and Van Gogh class got muddy at the Nuclear Races in Brentwood, Essex. We travelled to Brentwood by coach! It was a nice scenic journey. We ventured into the wild forest and had a great time tackling the various obstacle courses and team building...
Moving Pictures
Year 1 have been learning about mechanisms in Design Technology this half term. They made moving farm pictures using either a slider or lever mechanism. Look at the brilliant finished results below:
In the Hapa Zome Zone!
We had great fun in Forest school today creating leaf prints using the Japanese artistic technique of Hapa Zome (pronounced Hap-pa - zo-MAY). First, we learnt the names of the trees in the secret garden and played I-spy to test our knowledge. Then, we worked in pairs...
Last week . . . ⛰️
by Muhsin and Amara Last week, we went on a trip to a local church in RE. Before we went, we wrote some questions that we could ask our guide and at the end we thought about what we learnt. Mr Mills came with us too and we found out a lot of information by listening,...
Reading our Recounts to Year 6:
What a lovely way to round up the week. We had some time reading our Mudchute farm recounts to the year 6 children. They were so helpful and polite. Ibrahim and Marco Once the children had read their recounts to the Year 6's, I could hear the year 6's offering...