Net tournaments 🎾 🏸 🏓

Tomorrow many of the pupils in Y3-6 will be competing in ‘in-school’ tournaments, choosing from tennis, badminton and table tennis. All children have had tennis lessons this term and some attend tennis club after school. Quite a few have been taught badminton during enrichment sessions and table tennis is a bit hit with Y5&6 during […]

Building Maya cities in Year 6

Year 6 will be learning about the Maya this term and we began our exploration of this fascinating civilisation by looking at magnificent Maya cities. Not having thousands of tons of stone to hand (or several decades in which to construct them) we had to use Lego to build our replicas!

Sutcliffe athletics

Following the excitement of the Commonwealth Games, we will be taking to the track and field at the newly refurbished Sutcliffe Park. Year 2,3,4 are going this coming Monday (23rd) and Y5/6 on Monday 30th. Year 2,3,4 are going again on Monday 14th May and Y5/6 on Monday 21st May. Children should come to school […]

200 nights of reading means…

The first of our KS2 children have clocked up a whopping 200 nights of reading in their journals! Congratulations! Y3-6 came up with a shortlist of treats to mark this milestone and the most popular was a non-uniform day. So on Thursday 28th June, everyone who has reached 200 nights can come to school in […]

Year 5 & 6 Printing

This half term we have been learning different printing techniques. We used styrofoam to explore texture and created our own waves inspired by Hokusai. We have also used Lino printing to explore Greek patterns. Finally, we learnt stencilling techniques. We used card and craft knives to create artwork based on PAC-MAN.

Rocksteady-the first gig

Our four school rock bands, spanning from Reception up to Year 6, performed their first concert today with cover songs of hits from Blink 182, Michael Jackson, Queen and Coldplay. Next stop, the O2!

Years 5 & 6 Road Safety workshop

Years 5 & 6 were visited by ‘Alex and Jay’ last week – characters in a fantastic road safety-themed play delivered by ‘The Riot Act’ – a touring theatre company. The children were treated to an excellent 30-minute performance, followed by a workshop and Q&A session. The actors were both very engaging and completely convincing […]

Lewisham Junior Citizen – Year 6

Last week, Year 6 spent the afternoon at Lewisham Fire Station participating in the Lewisham Junior Citizen scheme. This involved taking part in several different workshops on the themes of Fire Safety, Road Safety, Personal Safety, Drug and Alcohol Awareness, First Aid, Internet Safety and Wellbeing. It was a really thought-provoking and informative afternoon and […]

House competition results from today …

Y3/4 football ⚽️ Gold: red Silver: yellow Bronze: blue Y5 basketball Gold: red Silver: yellow Bronze: blue Y6 tag rugby 🏉 Gold: green & red Silver: n/a Bronze: blue & yellow

Keep on running…

The inaugural SML park run was a runaway success! As part of our Sport Relief week, children from Reception to Year 6 clocked up laps of Manor House Gardens, showing great enthusiasm and determination! There were some tired legs at the end but lots of beaming smiles – well done everyone!