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• Choir Performance at The Royal Festival Hall

  Mon 01 Jul 2019

  On Thursday 28th June, 19 children form Elfrida and 12 children from Athelney performed as part of a huge choir at The Royal Festival Hall on London's Southbank.

  They listened to a selection of music form other Lewisham schools including an amazing dance and drumming performance from Rathfern Primary School.

  After the interval our children - The Bellingham Children's choir - performed as part of a choir telling the story of Ernest Shackleton and his adventure to cross Antarctica in 1914.  

  For a video clip of our wonderful singers click here:  https://www.elfridaprimary.org.uk/clubs/

  

• Aspirations Day!

  Mon 24 Jun 2019

  What a wonderful day we have had today; thinking about what we want to be in the future and how we might go about getting there.  We had 5 wonderful volunteers come in to talk to KS2 about their jobs and how they got to where they are.  A huge thank you goes to Esther- a  lawyer, Anu- an A+E consultant, Sunny - a music producer, Melody - an investigator for the revenue service and Karen who is a firefighter.  The volunteers encouraged all of the children to believe in themselves, be the best that they could be and strive to do the jobs that they dream of.  The children asked some excellent questions and we all learnt a lot about a range of professions.  The main message was not to believe people who said you couldn't do something just because of the way you looked, the colour of your skin or your gender.  It is important to work hard, believe in yourself and treat other people with kindness and respect. 

   

   

  

• #together

  Wed 19 Jun 2019

  Join in with the next #together event on Saturday 11th August 2019.

  From 11am-3pm join members of the police and local businesses at Bellingham Leisure Centre on Randlesdown Road.

  Loads of free fun!

  

• Cricketing success!

  Thu 06 Jun 2019

  Elfrida Eagles (that is our official cricket name) won the inaugural 2019 Platform Cricket Festival with great successes made throughout the competition.

   

  Three teams from Cypress, Silver Birch and Palm competed against 22 other teams in knockout rounds from 9.00 - 3.00.

   

  Each team competed in a different group and all teams won all their matches in the first round to qualify for the quarter-finals.

   

  In the quarter finals Palm and Silver Birch competed against each other (putting enormous pressure on their Head Coach as to who to support, what with having taught all students personally!) and Cypress played against Athelney for a place in the Semi-Finals.

   

  When all seemed lost Cypress pulled on through and beat Athelney on one run to compete against a second team from Athelney in the Semi-finals! Silver Birch just outmaneuvered Palm to reach the semi-finals against Downderry school.

   

  In the Semi-finals the Downderry team had some strong players who played (most likely) at youth club level (we are basing this on their cricket whites!) and Tommy and Sonny made a valiant effort to make up for the large lead Downderry made on Elfrida. Unfortunately Tommy was wicketed out and Silver Birch went into a knockout round with Athelney for third place.

   

  Cypress made an impressive start in the Semi's against Athelney and they won their heat, with Mr. Woods providing sound advice from the sideline. Cypress then faced Downderry in the final which became very intense. However with some great batting from all players and Robert hitting a six it gave Elfrida a great headstart. Although the Downderry team was strong Taya was able to out bowl their best player to lead Cypress to win with 1 run!

   

  Final score was:

  Cypress: Gold

  Downderry: Silver

  Silver Birch: Bronze

  Palm: Fifth place

  

• Sports Day

  Thu 23 May 2019

  What a great day we had for our sports day this year!  The weather was amazing and the children even more so!

  Thanks to all of the parents and carers who came to support their children and joined us for our picnic lunch.  It is always really special to have the whole school eating together all at the same time!

  Another thank you needs to go to Mrs Rendell for organising such a great day and our new PTFA for ensuring we had plenty of water and fruit at the rest stop!

  

• Perform workshops

  Thu 25 Apr 2019

  As you may know, Perform visited our school last term with their drama, dance and singing workshops.. They currently have a £40 introductory offer for children at Elfrida if you join before May 12th. "Perform uses a mix of drama, dance and singing - specially developed to bring out every child's true potential. As well as having fun, the children will enjoy real benefits such as greater confidence, improved concentration and increased awareness of what they can achieve." 

  For further details and to book a Free Trial Session please go to www.perform.org.uk and quote DRAM12052019. 

• Can you help us to get our own defibrillator

  Tue 23 Apr 2019

  Can you help us to get our own defibrillator? The PTFA are aiming to raise £1200 for one.....

  Join the closed facebook group: Elfrida School PTFA' https://m.facebook.com/groups/2414711948752829/ or email Elfridaptfa@gmail.com

  

• Free cooking sessions

  Tue 23 Apr 2019

  GCDA is delighted to announce the next round of free Lewisham Cookery Clubs

  ‘Easy Quick and Tasty’!

   

  By preparing quick, affordable, healthy and delicious meals at our 5-week community cookery clubs you can learn that small changes to the way meals are prepared can make a big difference to your health and wellbeing.

  Everyone is welcome, from complete beginners to experienced cooks and participants receive a FREE cookery book on completion of the course

   

   

  Where: Lewisham Training Kitchen at The Green Man,

  355 Bromley Road, SE6 2RP

  When: 5 weeks starting Mondays, 13th May from 10.30am–1.00pm

   

   

  For more information please contact Fay on 0208269 4886 or email fay@gcda.org.uk

• We are on Twitter

  Mon 08 Apr 2019

  Elfrida has joined the Twittersphere!

   

  Find us @ElfridaSchool

• Latest attendance and punctuality figures

  Mon 18 Mar 2019

  See how each class is doing when it comes to being in school and being in school on time!

   

  Come on everybody!  Class and whole school targets are 96%.  Some classes are beating this target and some are seriously lagging behind!  

  Come on everyone.  Let's all do our bit to make sure the children are in school every day!