On Tuesday 9th January our key stage 2 football teams took part in local Hackney fixtures. The girls team secured a 4-1 victory against Betty Layward and a 3-0 win against William Patton.

The boys team also had a successful match against Betty Layward winning 7-2, with 4 goals scored from goal kicks.

In their match against William Patton, the boys team showed great determination and ability to bounce back from 3-1 into earning a hard-fought 3-3 draw.

Year 4 have been learning all about the Romans this half term in History and 4W shared some of their knowledge in this weeks sharing assembly! We went all out with our costumes and we really put on a show!

From the Roman Legion to Boudicca, the Celts to Pompeii, it really was an assembly full of facts and laughs.

Thank you to all of the 4W grown ups who were able to attend and, if you couldn't make it, take a look at the photographs!

On Monday, some of our Key Stage Two children were lucky enough to take part in a Meet a Musician workshop with some musicians from the BBC Symphony Orchestra. In this session, children learnt about what an orchestra is; how many people are in the BBC Symphony Orchestra (over 100!); where the orchestra travels; and what a normal day looks like as a professional classical musician. The children listened to the musicians play the violin and the viola; created their own song (they chose the theme of Tom and Jerry!); and had the opportunity to ask questions. It was a truly special and unique experience for the children and it has certainly opened our eyes to the many differing careers available to us.

I have been thrilled to meet with our well-being ambassadors over the last few weeks and strategize over how we can make our playground an even safer and happier place to be. As a team, we decided to launch Playground Pals and we had the privilege of doing so in the first Anti-Bullying Week assembly of the week.

Playground Pals are carefully selected children in the year groups 1-6 who are there to support children who are feeling a little bit low or down in the playground. The well-being ambassadors made it clear to the children that more serious issues must always be reported to the teachers.

The pictures of our Playground Pals are on display in the playgrounds so that children know who they can turn to (and some of the pictures you can see here!). The children also wear bright hi-vis slap-bands so that they can be easily recognised.

Thank you so much to our well-being ambassadors for creating this wonderful idea, and thank you to our Playground Pals for your kindness and support!

This week in Aqua and Sky class we have been learning all about our school and local community. We have explored different types of maps and learnt how to draw information from a simple map. The children have shown particular interest in different London Landmarks, especially Big Ben and The Gherkin!

To extend our learning, our core text has been The Everywhere Bear. The children have made bear hats and re-enacted the bear’s journey. And the fun doesn’t stop here - we have even made our own maps from home to school, including landmark junk modelling and aerial views of London! Take a look at some of the photos below to see our wonderful week in action…

Last week saw the beginning of Year 3's adventures into the Stone age and Iron age, beginning with an Archaeological dig. Each student was welcomed into Archaeologist training camp, exploring what an Archaeologist was, their importance in regard to history and how they could classify artefacts that they found. It proved very successful! Not only did the teams follow their training but we managed to find some spectacular items from the stone age. We classified these together and then discussed what the possible uses of each artefact was. I was incredibly proud of their team work and enthusiasm. Well done to all our budding Archaeologists!