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• Official Saplings Opening

  Mon 26 Oct 2015 Karen Cartwright

  On Thursday 22nd October we celebrated the official opening of our nursery, Saplings.

  We held two events and invited a range of people who have supported the nursery, been instrumental in its opening, who work in it or who attend it!

  Councillor Till  attended the first event, cutting the ribbon with the help of the children and declaring us open! Lots of children who attend the nursery as well as their brothers and sisters enjoyed the party too!

  The governors as well as local childcare providers attended the second event, Ms Newton and Mrs Wong both spoke briefly and the ribbon was again cut, this time by Leah from year 1, whose Mum works in the nursery.

  We had an amazing cake to celebrate the event and it was a lovely chance to thank everyone who has worked so hard to turn our dream of an Elfrida nursery into reality. 

   

   

  

• The Peace Mosaic

  Thu 22 Oct 2015 Karen Cartwright

  Elfrida have been working with the charity For Jimmy for sometime now.  This charity was set up in memory of Lewisham teenager Jimmy Mizzen who was sadly stabbed and killed in 2008.

  The charity have worked with our Year 4 and 5 children to travel with them on a journey for peace.  As part of the programme, they ran sessions over two terms, looking at how they could develop character, confidence, leadership, problem-solving and teamwork skills in the young people.

  This half term For Jimmy are taking part in the WHY? festival at the Southbank centre.  Throughout WHY? Festival, the charity For Jimmy is creating a large artwork on the windows of the Riverside Terrace Cafe with school groups and members of the public.  It will be called The Peace Mosaic.

  The Peace Mosaic is made up of around a hundred Perspex acrylic sheets placed along the length of Royal Festival Hall. It will grow as hundreds of young people and members of the public add their handprints to represent their hopes for peace and safety in their own neighbourhoods.

  To find out more about the Peace Mosaic click here.

  To find out more about the WHY? Festival and other activities on offer click here.

  For more information about the project at Elfrida please click here.

   

   

  

• Half term break

  Wed 21 Oct 2015 Elizabeth Newton
  School closes for half term on Friday 23rd October and re-opens Monday 2nd November.

• Food Bank Visit

  Mon 19 Oct 2015 Karen Cartwright

  On 19th October Miss Cartwright, Ms Cancilla and 4 children from years 4-6 took all of the harvest donations to the food bank in Forest Hill.  We had to weigh all of our donations and then sort them all out into the correct boxes and shelves.

  The lady there was very impressed with the generosity of our pupils.  Together we had collected 284kg of food.  This is enough to feed 30 people.

  A huge thank you to everyone who donated food for our Harvest celebration, the local community really benefit

  

• Phonics workshop

  Wed 07 Oct 2015 Karen Cartwright

  On Wednesday 7th October Mrs Reynolds and Miss Gregory ran a workshop for parents in the hall to explain how we teach reading and phonics to our children.

  The event was really well attended and parents took away sets of phonics flashcards so that they could practise the letter sounds with their children.

  If you want more information about phonics as well as a video that will help you to say the sounds correctly please click here.

  If you would like further information about phonics or early reading please talk to Mrs Reynolds, Miss Gregory, Mrs Marshall, Miss Cartwright or your child's class teacher. 

  

• Harvest Assembly

  Fri 02 Oct 2015 Karen Cartwright

  Friday 2nd October saw us celebrate Harvest with two wonderful assemblies.

  First the children from Nursery to Year 2 shared things they had been learning.  Reception and Nursery children sang a great song about a combine harvester, while year 1 shared their learning about foods that we grow in England.  Reverend Singh then spoke to us all before we sang a rousing chorus of Cauliflowers Fluffy - always a crowd pleaser!  Year 2 children entertained us with a great performance of Farmer Duck before we finished off with a harvest samba song.

  The children from Years 3 to 6 also had an assembly.  Again we sang the favourite - Cauliflowers fluffy before year 5 performed some great harvest poems.  The play on words like peas and peace and let us and lettuce were very clever!  Reverend Singh again spoke and then a group of year 6 children used PowerPoint to effectively inform us about the meaning of Harvest.  The celebrations were brought to a close with another rendition of the harvest samba.

  A huge well done to all of our performers, a big thank you to everyone for their donations of food and a massive thank you to Miss Edwards for organising such a great event!