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  • Year 6 Evolution and Inheritance Workshop

    Published 04/02/25

    Year 6 Evolution and Inheritance Workshop

    This week each year 6 class had a virtual workshop delivered by the Natural History Museum. A representative from the museum led a 50-minute interactive workshop all about evolution. The children looked at what is evolution? Why does evolution and how does evolution happen?

    They very much enjoyed the workshop and the children had to look at different time periods and look at adaptation of the foot and hooves of a horse.

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  • Children's Mental Health Week

    Published 03/02/25

    Children’s Mental Health Week
    To begin children’s mental health week, each year group had a workshop run by Empower Arts. The session began with a discussion on what mental health is and how we all feel different emotions. The children then played emotional musical statues: showing different body language for each emotion. Next, they learned actions to go with positive affirmations and said, “I am brave, I am strong and my feelings matter!”
    In groups, the children made freeze frames of different scenarios they may come across in the playground and spoke about their thoughts.
    The children will continue to be complete mental health activities throughout the week.

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  • Gold Level Rights Respecting Schools Award ​​​​​​​

    Published 03/02/25

    Gold Level Rights Respecting Schools Award
    We are absolutely delighted to share some fantastic news—our school has been awarded the Gold Level Rights Respecting Schools Award from UNICEF UK! This is the highest level of the award and reflects our commitment to embedding children’s rights in every aspect of school life, from our policies and curriculum to our ethos and daily practice.

    To celebrate this incredible achievement, and as it is also Children’s Mental Health Week, we will be holding a Golden Day in school on Friday 7 February, 2025. Children are encouraged to wear yellow clothing (no jewellery, please) as we come together to recognise the importance of children’s rights and well-being. Throughout the day, pupils will take part in activities focused on mental health and well-being, a key area of strength highlighted in our Gold Award assessment.

    Achieving this award is a huge accomplishment for our school. The assessment recognised:

    • Our articulate pupils, who have a deep understanding of children’s rights and confidently apply key rights-respecting concepts.
    • How children’s rights are embedded across the school, visible in displays, linked across the curriculum, and highlighted on our website and communications.
    • The way our pupils connect their rights to safety both in and out of school, and their trust in our school systems to support them.
    • Our strong culture of inclusivity and respect, which is embraced and understood by the whole school community.
    • Our focus on health and well-being, ensuring that children and families feel supported to thrive.

    Earning the Gold Award means that our pupils see themselves as global citizens, advocating for social justice, fairness, and children’s rights both at home and around the world. We are incredibly proud of this achievement and look forward to celebrating it together on Golden Day!

    Thank you for your continued support in making our school a truly rights-respecting community.

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  • Year 6 Bikeability

    Published 03/02/25

    Year 6 Bikeability

    Last week, our year 6 children completed The Hillingdon safer cycling course, also known as Bikeability. Throughout the week, the children learnt how to be safe on the roads and were able to have a guided experience. Many have now completed their level 1 and 2 and are now have a good understanding of what it means to be cycling safely on the road.

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  • Year 4 Cultural Week

    Published 30/01/25

    Year 4 Cultural Week – Africa

    During Culture Week, Year 4 explored the rich and diverse continent of Africa, immersing ourselves in its vibrant cultures and traditions. One of the highlights was our traditional African drumming workshop, where we learned rhythmic patterns and sang traditional African songs. We were also fortunate to welcome parent helpers, who shared fascinating insights into African culture, including Somali clothing and traditional food. They even led a fantastic performance of dance and music, which we were excited to join in with. Throughout the week, we got creative and engaged in a range of activities: we painted stunning African animal silhouettes and decorated traditional Somali attire. In computing, we researched famous African figures and created informative fact sheets. In geography, we explored the similarities and differences between children’s lives in Africa and our own lives.

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  • Year 3 Cultural Week

    Published 29/01/25

     Year 3 have had a fantastic week celebrating Cultural Week. Our focus was Pakistan, Afghanistan and the United Arab Emirates. The children have completed a range of different activities across their subjects. In art, the children were looking at the intricate designs of the Pakistani trucks. After they were creating Pakistani truck designs using traditional Pakistani art patterns. In geography, the children took a trip to Pakistan and learnt about some of the famous landmarks, they then wrote postcards home to family members telling them about all the wonderful things they had seen. We read a book called the “The Arabic Quilt” the book is about being proud of your culture and celebrating differences, also, the children all learnt to write in Arabic.  Lastly, the children had the great opportunity to experience an Arabic drums workshop in which they listened to music, experienced the culture and learned how to play the drums!

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  • Year 6 Cultural Week

    Published 29/01/25

    Year 6 Cultural Week

    Last week, our school celebrated cultural week and our focus culture was ‘The Countries from the Commonwealth.’ During our guided reading lessons, we looked at the 2023 Commonwealth short story winner and Jamaican born writer, Kwame Mcpherson’s, ‘Occee’ – a story about racism and discrimination as an immigrant.
    In addition, the children also participated in a carnival dance workshop where they were able to explore the dance style of a carnival. They were remarkable! Keeping with the active theme, as a year group, we played a traditional commonwealth game from India called ‘Kabaddi’ – despite the windy weather, the children thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
    We were also very fortunate to have a parent come and share about the culture in Uganda. Children had a chance to learn about the food, fashion and famous sights as well as a time for questions. It was such a personal experience for the children!
    To finish off our celebration of culture, the children created beautiful art pieces from different countries around the commonwealth, ranging from Aborigini art to national flowers and flags of the commonwealth.

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  • Year 5 Cultural Week

    Published 21/01/25

    Cultural WeekTo begin culture week and our study of India, the year 5’s were immersed in a Bhangra dance workshop. It began with a quick introduction to the history of the dance and where it originated from: Punjab, India.
    Before beginning the dancing, the teacher shared three key points to remember when dancing
    1. Smiling is vital
    2. Bounce your shoulders
    3. 97% of moves start with the left foot.
    The children then learned an 8 step Bhangra dance which they did in time with music and performed.
    The teacher then introduced a ‘saap’ -a wooden instrument that claps together to make a sound that represents showing power. The alternative to this is shouting ‘Hoi!’ The next step the children learnt was the ‘fasla ’ which represents harvesting the crops which was done by farmers. The children then performed their final piece and were excellent.
    Throughout the week the children also had fun learning all about India. They made maps which identified the capital cities, key states and seas surrounding India and Sri Lanka. In Guided Reading, the children learnt about Princess Sophia Duleep Singh and made informative posters about her life and struggles to achieve equal rights for women. During Art lessons the children made some fabulous Rangoli patterns as well as using their skills to replicate drawings of the Taj Mahal. Some of the children even made fact files about India. Well done to Year 5, for producing such fantastic work and learning so much about India!

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  • Ofsted Outcome December 2024

    Published 20/01/25
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  • Parental Questionnaire Outcomes

    Published 04/12/24
    Thank you to everyone who completed the questionnaire. Your views were extremely positive and we look forward to working with you on making the school even more successful.  
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  • Online Safety Workshop for parents

    Published 28/11/24
    In November, we held a parent workshop for online safety. We talked about the potential risks and dangers that children face online and provided resources for parents to best safeguard their children. If you missed out on this workshop, we will be ho
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  • Winter Wonderland

    Published 27/11/24
    7 lucky children went to Winter Wonderland today. We had to travel by train and for some children it was their first ever experience of going on the London Underground. We were given a wrist band and we were allowed on any ride (as long as we we
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