Last year, the teachers and children designed the Grazebrook Passport. Alongside PSHE and RE, this forms our Personal Development curriculum. One aspect of this curriculum is to support children to understand finances. This week, the children in years 3, 4, 5 and 6 had their first of a series of financial education workshops delivered by the charity My Bnk, whose aim is to build young people’s money knowledge, skills, mindsets and habits. The children learnt about different money mindsets relating to the consequences of everyday spending and saving, how and where we get money, forms of payment, and different bank accounts. 

As part of the London Design Festival, children from years 4, 5 and 6 had the opportunity to meet three artists and a manufacturing company, and take part in three workshops. 

The children re-visited previous learning on sustainability and global issues such as climate change and plastic in our oceans. They also discovered how local companies create everyday products in an environmentally friendly way. One manufacturing company recycles plastic waste from the ocean, turns it into PLA for 3D printing usage, and then, through sustainable methods, makes everyday items such as desk pots, clipboards and photo stands. The children quickly learnt about how digital production on demand and short supply chains help to reduce our carbon footprint.

"We learnt about how you can stop the amount of shipping across the world by using products produced in our local area and recycling used plastic to make new things such as pencil cases. This can help because it will stop the amount of pollution by not having people delivering products by aeroplanes." Molly, Year 6. 

Year 3 had the privilege of attending the Sports Inspired festival at the Britannia Leisure Centre. We used the amazing facilities and participated in boccia, wheelchair basketball, martial arts, volleyball, dance and tag rugby. The children all loved playing sports they had never tried before, and said how much fun they had. Thank you to Sports Inspired and the UBS volunteers for an amazing, inspiring day!

This week sees the launch of our new pre-school stay and play groups. These groups are free of charge and are designed for 1 to 4 year olds currently not attending our Nursery. Every Monday from 9.00am to 9.30am, our fantastic PE coaches will be running Tumbling Tots in the main hall, where children wil take part in lots of exciting physical development games. Every Tuesday from 9.10am to 9.50am, our Early Years staff will be running a Messy Stay and Play group. Both are free drop in sessions open to any children living in our local community. 

If you have any queries regarding you child's learning, the first point of contact is your child's class teacher. You can speak to them at the end of the day or contact our school office to arrange a phone call or face-to-face meeting. At times, you may wish to contact the member of staff in charge of your child's year group. At Grazebrook, these are: 

Nursery and Reception: Ms Kelly O'Callaghan (EYFS Leader) or Ms Caireann Conlon (Assistant Headteacher)

Year 1, Year 2, Year 3: Ms Niamh McLaughlin (KS1 Lead Teacher ) or Mr Josh Middleton (Assistant Headteacher)

Year 4, Year 5, Year 6: Ms Simone Bunbury (Assistant Headteacher) 

SEND: Ms Caireann Conlon (Assistant Headteacher) 

All email queries, including those for the attention of a class teacher or school leader, should be sent to gboffice@newwavefederation.co.uk in the first instance with the addressee and/or topic in the subject line. These will be forwarded to the relevant member of staff.