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Thursday 5 March 2026 World Book Day 2026: Can you spot South Grove's own Wallys?
Thursday 5 March 2026 Year Three's World Book Day 2026 Year 3 had a wonderful time celebrating World Book Day. The classrooms were filled with imagination and as children arrived dressed as their favourite characters from stories old and new. We were delighted to see magical witches from 'Wicked', brave superheroes ready to save the day, and several young witches and wizards from the worldof harry Potter.
Thursday 5 March 2026 Year Four's World Book Day 2026
Thursday 5 March 2026 Year Five's World Book Day 2026 Year 5 started the week with an exciting live lesson with Michael Rosen and friends, who took us on a delicious journey through food-related tales from around the world. The class were inspired to create their own tasty stories using creative storytelling prompts and a draw-along illustration activity, which they thoroughly enjoyed.
Friday 27 February 2026 3SH's Assembly was all About Settlements
Thursday 26 February 2026 A Play in a Day This week, Year 6 had the exciting opportunity to work with a company called SPLATS to learn and perform Shakespeare's classic play, Romeo and Juliet. In just one day, the students worked hard to master their lines, stage directions, and characters, bringing the famous story to life in a truly impressive performance!The students showcased their talents in front of Year 5, as well as their proud parents. It was a fantastic experience for everyone involved, and the Year 6 students did an amazing job, demonstrating teamwork, creativity and confidence. Well done to all the performers and a big thank you to SPLATS for making this experience so memorable.
Thursday 26 February 2026 Year 4 Practice their Tennis Skills For PE this week, we have started to learn Tennis skills. We have been using our balls skills that we were learning about last term to help us.This week, we focused on exploring how to handle the racket and how we control our body whilst holding one.We focused on control whilst using a tennis ball: tapping the ball up and down and then turning our wrists whilst alternating the racket face. Then, we moved on to bouncing the ball into the hoop using the racket ensuring the ball kept within our hoop. Some of the children found this very challenging but were very persistent. Finally, we ended our lesson with a rally.
Tuesday 24 February 2026 Girls Football Last Tuesday, nine girls from Years 5 and 6 went to Chingford Goals to represent the school in the UKS2 football tournament. Martialled by our super-skipper Ida, we swept imperiously through the group stage with some cracking goals from Bianca, Zainab and Janae. In midfield, we had out rock - Olivia - who was the heartbeat of the team and the non-stop energy of Connie and Emilia. Pola backed them up with great defensive play. We went into the quarter final with a record of four wins and one draw. In the quarter, we played Davis Lane. It was a tightly contested game with few chances and Rosie saved us with some great saves. However, with the last kick of the game, they somehow managed to squeeze in a goal and end our participation in the competition.
Monday 23 February 2026 Year 3 Retell Greek Legends This week in year 3 we have begun a new unit of writing. We learnt about the legendary Battle of Troy and the Trojan Horse. We learnt about Odysseus and his cunning plan to defeat the Trojans and take back Helena 'the face that launched a thousand ships!' We were given a series of pictures to sequence with our partner and to help our oracy we used stem sentences to retell the famous story. Some of us then took on the challenge to try and retell the story to the class without using the words umm or errr. It was pretty tricky! We are looking forward to learning more about this and seeing what amazing writing we can create.
Friday 13 February 2026 Chinese New Year -- Year of the Horse 2026
Thursday 12 February 2026 Year 3's Safer Internet Day 2026 This week in year 3 we celebrated E-Safety Day and took part in a variety of activies over the day. In the morning we discussed what the day was and how we can be safe and sensible online. This years theme was all about AI and how we need to be careful when using this online. We talked about things that we OK and not OK uses of AI, it can be fun sometimes but we need to think about how it would make someone feel. We also watched a live lesson from the BBC all about AI and how it works to create an app. Then in the afternoon we created posters to talk about how to be safe online
Thursday 12 February 2026 Year 4 see the Paddington Musical! "This week Year 4 had the privilege of getting to go and see the brand new Paddington Musical! So many of us had never been to the theatre and we were in awe of the set design and the costuming, especially how realistic Paddington was! We got to hear a fantastic range of musical numbers such as the 'Rhythm of London' (an amazing number that made us all very proud of being from London and representing the values of Paddington Bear), the Geographers Song (a great expression of the life of an explorer) and everyone's favourite 'M-M-M-M-M Marmalade!' Then we all had a tear in our eye watching Paddington's experiences of love and family.
Tuesday 10 February 2026 Year 4 Dodgeball Competition Last week 7 Year 4 pupils attended an exciting dodgeball festival organised by the Leyton Orient Sports Network. Children from a range of local schools took part, giving our pupils the opportunity to play friendly matches against different teams throughout the day. South Grove School proudly showed the 4Rs - respect, resilience, responsibility and readiness - by working as a team, supporting one another and demonstrating excellent sportsmanship. To make the day even more memorable we saw a fabulous double rainbow as we came back, adding a special moment to an already fantastic experience. The event helped build confidence, teamwork and our movement skills, we all had a blast!
Friday 6 February 2026 A Splendid Time on the Riverbank! Well done to 4Y for their fantastic class assembly on Friday 6th February!
Thursday 5 February 2026 Music and Movement Year 6 have been bringing music and movement together in an exciting dance project! The children have been choreographing their own group dances to Believer by Imagine Dragons, working collaboratively to create routines that show creativity, teamwork and confidence. They have been watching each other perform and recording their own dances, using the videos to reflect and make improvements to their technique, timing and expression. It has been fantastic to see their enthusiasm as they refine their performances.
Wednesday 4 February 2026 Year 4 Improve their Knowledge of Climate Change while Practicing their Computer Skills “Year 4 have been combing their new science knowledge of climate change with their computing skills. They have been monitoring the weather in Walthamstow over the last few weeks and then placed the information they have learned into an Excel spreadsheet. Using this data, they then described what the weather was like on a PowerPoint presentation and learned how to insert pictures behind the writing in preparation for making their own weather reports! Now Year 4 are climate change experts and meteorologists!”
Thursday 29 January 2026 Year 4 Study the Art of Claude Monet In Year 4, the children have dived even deeper into their captivating study of Claude Monet. Following our impressive collaborative rendition of 'Water Lilies' using vibrant oil pastels, the children have now elevated their work—literally! By expertly sculpting 3D water lilies from card, they have added a stunning new layer of texture and structural complexity to their Impressionist masterpieces. We are thrilled to announce that these beautiful creations will first feature in an upcoming assembly, and following that, they will be proudly available for everyone to admire around the school.
Tuesday 27 January 2026 Football-themed Competition "Year 4 proudly took part in a nationwide, football-themed competition run by Emile, putting their Multiplication Tables Check (MTC) skills to the test both in school and from home. The children enjoyed tackling football-inspired maths challenges, demonstrating excellent focus, teamwork and determination as they represented our school. Well done, Year 4! You really showed off the 4 R's!"
Wednesday 21 January 2026 Year 3 get Inspired by Abstract Art This week in year 3, we were inspired by abstract art. Abstract art is something that does not try to represent something realistically so sometimes it can look a little strange or odd. We took parts of a fossilled shell in its complex form and spilt it into a circle, a spiral, a curved line and radiating lines too. Using charcol we drew those first and then using chalk and pastels we decorated and blended them to give them an abstract look. Can you spot the different parts of the shell. Keep an eye out around school to see our fabulous fossil abstract art!
Friday 16 January 2026 Year 3 where visited by the School Nurse to talk about Personal Hygiene This week in year 3 we had a visit from the School Nurse to talk to us about personal hygiene. We learnt about the importance of making sure to keep clean which helps us to be healthy. Making sure that we wash our hands for 20 seconds (that's how long it takes to sing Happy Birthday twice), brush our teeth (twice a day) and not bite our nails (ew, think about where our nails go all day)! We then created posters about the new information we learnt from the workshop. Looking after ourselves keeps us healthy!
Tuesday 13 January 2026 Year 4 Enter the Enchanting world of Claude Monet In Year 4, we have embarked on an exciting artistic adventure, delving into the enchanting world of Claude Monet. We have been exploring the techniques that made his artwork so captivating, particularly focusing on the use of overlapping colours. Through our experiments, we have discovered how to create soft circles and delicate fine lines, which help to recreate the dreamy effects seen in Monet's famous pieces.
Friday 19 December 2025 A Winter Concert full of Sparkle and Celebrations! We were spoilt on the last day of term with A Musical Winter Concert created by Ms Forbes to showcase the wonderful music that the children have experienced and thoroughly enjoyed during the Autumn Term.
Friday 19 December 2025 GOODBYE EDWIN!
Friday 12 December 2025 Year 3 Mountains This week mountains and more appeared in year 3. The childrens projects look fantastic! We can tell a lot of time and effort went into creating many versions of famous mountains around the world.
Friday 12 December 2025 Nativity - Little Angel Gets Her Wings We were treated to two wonderful performances for our KS1 Nativity Play last week.
Wednesday 10 December 2025 Year 4: 'How to Survive a Bear Attack' Year 4 had a rawr-some time preparing for their next English writing unit 'How to Survive a Bear Attack' by showing off their fearsome acting skills! First we begin with the grand reveal that we would not be writing our instructions based on food like every other year but instead we would be immersing ourselves into the depths of the Alaskan Denali National Park . We watched a range of videos to help us understand the sights, smells and sounds that we may encounter on our strolls through the mountains. Next, we then watched a guide on how to survive a bear attack and learnt that bear spray is an essential item! As we watched these we took notes on what our experiences may be like in the forest to help inform our acting task. As we were so well-prepared we were able to transform into the most terrifying creatures in the National Park
Friday 5 December 2025 Year 3 Learn about Road Safety This week, in Year 3 we were very lucky to be visited by the Smart Brothers who taught us all about Road Safety. They reminded us that it is very important to be safe and sensible around roads. Being sure that we don't play ball games near the road because cars may not see us or the ball. Also looking for a safe place to cross too. It is very important to remember 4 rules when crossing ANY road. We need to STOP! LOOK! LISTEN! and THINK! We need to STOP! at the edge of road, we then need to LOOK! for traffic, next we have to LISTEN! for traffic and then THINK! is it safe to cross. We were inspired after to create our own Road Safety posters.
Thursday 27 November 2025 Year 4 Study the Human Form "Last week Year 4 continued their artwork based on the Human Body and form. We began by playing a game where one person per table came to the front and drew a person doing an action for their team to guess. This allowed the us to experiment with conveying activity and bodies in a new and exciting manner. Once our incredibly competitive game finished we then moved onto the main part of the lesson. Unlike in other weeks where we practiced mastering the human form using charcoal for shading and simple block line drawings; this time Year 4 drew their peers in as much detail as possible, making sure to include their facial expressions, clothing, hair and body language. We really enjoyed the opportunities to try different poses and how these impact how other people draw us!"
Tuesday 25 November 2025 The Friends of South Grove Family Disco
Tuesday 25 November 2025 Children in Need 2025 As a school we made Children in Need last that little bit longer by celebrating it last Friday and everyone looked very cosy in their pyjamas around school! In the assembly, led by Miss Young and Year 4, we learnt what the charity was for and how they help smaller charities and projects who work with children in the UK to help make their lives better and make sure that every child has the childhood they deserve.

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