Year 5 had a wonderful time on their trip to the Waterworks Centre. They learnt all about flood plains, filter beds and the Victorian past of the area. The children also observed lots of the wildlife in the area and they spotted lots of plants...
This week in Reception we have been looking closely at the story of the Nativity. This is the culmination of our RE topic this half term where we have been exploring how we prepare for Christmas. We used figures to act out the story and...
This week in Nursery, we went on a trip to our local supermarket 'Tesco'. We bought ingredients/items such as flour, salt and baking paper to make salt dough decorations. We also used the shopping list we created in school to tick off the ingredients we...
Today, Year 6 visited the Forest Road Youth Centre to take part in TfL’s Junior Citizenship scheme. The morning consisted of a range of workshops, that were lead by team members from Transport for London, Hackney Dental Service, Metropolitan Police, London Fire Brigade and THINK!...
Last Friday, Year 4 visited the Science Museum as part of our electricity unit. We saw some wonderful experiments in the WonderLab and visited two galleries. [gallery ids="10908,10909,10910"]...
Year 2 had a great time at the Hackney Museum this week! We learnt about the positive impact of immigration in Hackney and we were able to guess the roles of some important black figures in Hackney using clues. We also got to create a...
As part of our Diverse Britain curriculum, this week Year 6 visited Hackney Museum to explore their ‘Movers, Makers and Community shakers’ exhibition, which tells a wonderful story of African heritage in Hackney. The session was led by a local artists, who provided the children with...
Year 4 visited the Hackney Museum for the workshop ‘Movers, Shakers and Community Makers’. Alicia-Pearl Cato shared her artwork with us and we were even able to make our own symbols to represent ourselves! [gallery ids="10227,10228"]...
To celebrate Black History Month, our children were taken to the Hackney Museum to learn about the outstanding contribution many black people from the past have given to society. The children enjoyed the many tasks and were very well behaved. Well done Year 1. [gallery ids="10233,10234,10235,10236"]...
This week in Reception we built on our RE curriculum by visiting our local church Saint John of Hackney. We learned about how the church has changed over the years and played a game to help us understand why people go to church. We were...