Newsletter 31
w/c 24th May
REMINDERS
Monday 31st May – Friday 4th June - Half Term Holiday
Monday 7th June - Children return to school
W/C Monday 7th June - Sustainability Week
Tuesday 8th June - Reception – Drama Workshop
Monday 21st – Friday 25th June - Diversity week
Friday 25th June - Dress up in the colours of the rainbow to celebrate diversity
Wednesday 30th June - Years Three, Four & Six Virtual Reality workshop
Wednesday 21st July - End of Term - school closes 2.15pm
HAPPY HALF-TERM HOLIDAY TO ONE AND ALL
From all our us to all of you, have yourselves a very good half-term and we'll see you on the other side for our last half-term of this eventful academic year! We are all back in on Monday 7th June (no inset day next half-term) which is the beginning of Sustainability Week. Our team, headed by our Geography Co-ordinator, Emma Elengorn, has a feast of exciting activities in the pipeline for our children to mark this important week. Watch this space, there will be full coverage in an upcoming issue.
RICH PICKINGS FOR YEAR SIX ON THE GREENWICH FORESHORE
A long coach journey to riverside Greenwich gave Year Six the perfect opportunity to do a spot of London sightseeing en route, before messing about on the river. On arrival they were met by their guides in the grounds of the historic Old Naval College before making their way to the foreshore of the river, the O2 overseeing them in the distance.
The session started quietly, as they were instructed to simply listen to the sounds of the Thames as it flowed on by. It was then time to explore, hunting the foreshore for old artefacts. The pickings were rich for our litle river scavengers: roof tiles from Henry VIII's old palace, old animal bones, pieces of clay pipes and piles of oyster shells from Tudor times. Maybe even Henry VIII himself may have gobbled the contents of those very shells. Hats off to 6M's Santi who made the discovery of the day - part of an animal jaw with a tooth still in place. Well done Santi!
After testing the pH level of the water (the Thames is about a pH6) and learning about the flow of the river, their thoughts turned to lunch before the journey home. It was good to get back on the coach and enjoy an old-fashioned, school trip, with no online learning in sight!
