Reminder There will be NO after School club on Friday 4th October 2024, as we have a whole school staff training. Please ensure your child is collected promptly at 3.30pm. Thank you After School Lateness If a child is collected late from school (3.30pm) they...
There will be NO after School club on Friday 4th October 2024, as we have a whole school staff training.
Please ensure your child is collected promptly at 3.30pm.
Thank you
If a child is collected late from school (3.30pm) they are put into an After School Club and the cost for this is claimed back from the parent/carer.
If a child is collected late from After School Club (5.00pm) they are put into Extended Wraparound Care and the cost for this is claimed back from the parent/carer.
If a child is collected late from Extended Wraparound Care then a charge of £5.00 for every 5 minutes of lateness will be charged to the parent/carer.
Throughout October, we will be celebrating Black History Month. Each class will have the opportunity to participate in a workshop at Hackney Museum. To celebrate the return of Carnival in Hackney, the theme of these workshops will be carnival. The children will learn about the history of carnival in Hackney, as well as the importance of music and costumes in carnival.
Towards the end of the term, as part of their history learning, each class will complete a Black History Month unit. This will focus on what black history is, why people migrated to Britain in the 1940s, the British Empire and Sierra Leone’s capital city Freetown.
We can’t wait to share our learning with you all!
Hackney School of Food is running some free monthly sessions for families to join them in the kitchen to cook simple and affordable recipes before sitting down to eat together at their site.
Each class will teach a new family favourite recipe from one of their Chefs. Classes will focus on low-cost and delicious meals to feed any size family. Attendees will also receive ingredients and recipe cards to make recipes at home again.
This is a family class where children are welcome to join the cooking lesson. For safety reasons they require children attending to be over 5 years old with a maximum of 2 children per adult.
Sessions will run every last Thursday of the month from 4-6:30pm at Hackney School of Food on Oswald St.
Their first session will run on 26th of September. Our recruitment/ referral process is filling in this form, after which we will contact you to confirm places ahead of the class.
We will select families on a first-come-first-served basis on numbers that will fit in our kitchen. Families are welcome to come to multiple sessions.
This half term’s writing competition is to write a poem about why reading is so amazing. Your poem can be in any format you like and you can choose whether it rhymes or not! We are encouraging children to write their poems at home, but if they would like any help with ideas, they are more than welcome to ask their class teacher or Miss Bienias. All poems need to be handed to Miss Bienias by Friday 11th October and some children will be chosen to read out their poems to the school in our half termly Writing Assembly. We cannot wait to see your wonderful creations. Here is Miss Bienias’ example of a poem about the utter joy of reading!
Reading is a World of Imagination
In pages wide, adventures gleam,
A world unfolds in every dream.
With every book, new paths are spun,
A thousand lives, a single run.
From wizards’ spells to daring quests,
In ink and paper, we find rest.
For reading’s magic helps us see
The endless bounds of what can be.
Deadline: Friday 11th October 2024
This admissions process is for children in Year 6 (born between 1 September 2013 and 31 August 2014) who will start secondary school in September 2025. Deadline is 31st October 2024.
Mr Watson is our school’s Designated Safeguarding Lead.
If Mr Watson is not available, you can always speak to one of our school’s Deputy Safeguarding Leads:
This week, some families from Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 have been participating in an Air Quality Project. They have been working along Sustrans, an environmental charity, to monitor the air quality on their journeys to school.
They have been using special monitors that give readings of the air quality at different points on their journeys to and from school. They have been using a journal to log their readings and any familiar sights and smells they witness on their journey.
They will continue their project by creating an alternative journey to school which will enable them to compare the air quality.
We can’t wait to share more information about how they get on!
This form (link below) is to apply for free swimming lessons in October half term, which will take place at Clissold Leisure Centre. Free swim wear is available to make the lessons accessible to all children.
Before completing the form please read the criteria below. If your child does not fit the criteria they will not be able to award them a place on the lessons.
| Name | Class | Reason |
| Amaya and River | Year 1 | For working hard to the best of their ability during reading lessons. |
| Ammischaddai | Year 1 | For being a great friend and helping to keep his friends calm. |
| Deniz | Year 1 | For trying hard in his learning. |
| Aazalie, Benjamin, Diana, Florence, Grace, Ire, Jacob, Judah, Josiah, Marie, Nicholas, Ocean, Reuben and Soraya | Year 2 | For taking such pride and dedication in writing. |
| Asmin | Year 2 | For using some great adjectives in her writing. |
| Mayo | Year 2 | For using his knowledge of place value to help him correctly complete tasks. |
| Sofia | Year 2 | For working consistently and independently to complete her maths tasks. |
| Logan | Year 3 | For trying so hard to complete his maths task. |
| Ruben | Year 3 | For showing respect to all adults by listening to all instructions and behaving beautifully. |
| Zain | Year 3 | For making great choices in behaviour, especially in getting back to green. |
| Maya | Year 4 | For being a roman numeral master and for having great attitude in maths. |
| Michael | Year 4 | For being an amazing friend and always being respectful to everyone. |
| Diana | Year 5 | For mazing effort in maths. |
| Orlando and Rupert | Year 5 | For great effort in their presentation during lessons. |
| Khloe and Dominic | Year 6 | For being so tidy after their science lesson, taking pride in the classroom. |
Year 6 have started their new unit of Art this week. We are looking at Yinka Shonibare, a prominent artist whose work encapsulates being a ‘citizen of the world’. He creates a range of paintings, and photographs, but we are looking particularly at his textile......
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