Today Year 1 and Year 4 went to Kew Gardens to find out more about different types of plants, how plants grow from seeds, and the minibeasts that live amongst the plants. More information and pictures will be available on the newsletter on Friday.
We are very excited to be taking part in the Young Marketeers project. This involves growing our own produce to sell at Borough Market later on in the year. Today we visited Borough Market to learn all about how to plant our seeds from expert gardeners, and also how to set up the ultimate stall with…
Thank you to all the parents who donated Easter Eggs as prizes for a fun morning of Bingo.
Superheroes – The whole school dressed up for Comic Relief. You can see all the pictures on our newsletter. Each class also took part in a dance in the playground followed by a whole school dance. Fun was had all round in honour of Comic Relief £614.50 raised so far! Thank you.
We mixed up all the classes and took part in different activities. The activities included: – Investigating what lives around a tree – Building a working Roman groma – Creating our own outdoor gym – Researching climate change – Creating a new animal and making a model with clay – Digging for worms – Building…
We had a fantastic time on World Book Day! One of the highlights of the day was listening to a story read to us by a different teacher! We had a non-fiction pop up library in Year 3 and completed some code breaking activities linked to some famous authors. Some of the children won the best…
Changes to self-isolation and daily testing of close contacts From Thursday 24 February, the Government removed the legal requirement to self-isolate following a positive test. Adults and children who test positive will continue to be advised to stay at home and avoid contact with other people for at least 5 full days, and then continue…
At Friars, Year 4 children have loved kicking back and relaxing in their own clothes during Children’s Mental health Week! In year 5, we learned what mental health means, what difficulties some people face, emotions we feel and ways to help us cope with these emotions. We talked about the 5 ways of wellbeing: connect, be active, learn and take notice. Today we focused…
In the last three weeks, children from Year 6 have played in a local football tournament. The team played with more confidence each week, winning their final match of the group stages 2-1. The tournament was also a wonderful opportunity to meet children from Robert Browning, who also played in the same group. We look forward to playing some friendly…
On Wednesday Nursery, reception and Year 1 classes were visited by staff from Kings College Hospital London. We practised using different medical equipment e.g. stethoscopes, bandages on our teddy bears and performed surgery on a teddy bear with fabric organs. We worked together to complete a skeleton jigsaw, naming the different bones. We also talked about the importance of…
Year 6 played a mixed football match against St Jude’s Primary School. The team showed an excellent attitude throughout and were a credit to themselves and to Friars. The final score was 2-5 to St Jude’s. There are three schools in our group, and we have two games still to play. We were really proud of our player of the match who…
