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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.
Monday 17 November 2025 Year 3 are Adders and Subtractors This week in maths we are looking at adding and subtracting using exchanging. We used equipment to help us visually see the question and remember to regroup the ones into the tens columns. We will be moving onto drawing out the equations to help us understand how to exchanging more.
Tuesday 11 November 2025 Remembrance Day On Tuesday 11th November our Whole School Assembly focussed on Remembrance Day. Our Teaching Assistant Mrs Jane Lewis led the assembly as she is part of the Royal British Legion as a Standard Bearer. We were lucky to also have a colleague of hers, also a Standard Bearer, to help in the assembly.
Tuesday 11 November 2025 Year 4 took part in the 2 minute silence for Remembrance Day. This week, Year 4 took part in the 2 minute silence for Remembrance Day. We were inspired after the assembly lead by Mrs Lewis this morning. We discussed the significance of the red Poppy and about soldiers from the Commonwealth. At 11am, we went outside as a cohort and held hands in a circle to mark our respects.
Monday 10 November 2025 Year2 - 'Healthy Balanced' plates Year 2 in Art and Science designed some 'Healthy Balanced' plates.
Wednesday 5 November 2025 Year 3 Make Music with Science in Conductive Music Workshop Last week, our Year 3 pupils took part in an exciting Conductive Music workshop that blended creativity, technology, and science. The session was led by Miss Jones, a visiting teacher from conductivemusic.co.uk and organised by Ms Forbes as part of a special programme offered by the Waltham Forest Music Service.Using Makey Makey circuit boards, pupils connected probes to themselves, different body parts, and even a plastic ruler to turn them into unique sound sources. With each connection, they discovered how electricity and conductivity could be used to trigger notes, beats, and effects through computer software.Throughout the workshop, pupils applied their skills in Science, Maths, and I.T., learning about circuits, patterns, and coding logic while composing their own interactive music pieces. Each group experimented, collaborated, and performed their digital sound creations.
Monday 3 November 2025 Year 6's Ancient Egypt Topic Year 6 have been working incredibly hard on their Ancient Egypt topic this half term! The children created fantastic projects at home, showcasing their creativity and knowledge. Every child made a wonderful effort, and it was fantastic to see their projects proudly displayed in the hall for everyone to enjoy.
Wednesday 22 October 2025 Year 4 Visit the Epping Forest Visitor Centre
Tuesday 21 October 2025 Year 4's Egyptian Day Before the end of the half term, Year 4 took part in their Egyptian Day. The children came dressed up for the day. There were Pyramids, mummies, Pharaohs and even the River Nile.
Monday 20 October 2025 Year 3 - Egyptian Day - WHAT A DAY! Year 3 looked a tad bit different on Tuesday for Egyptian Day . Pharaohs, mummies and archaeologists galore appeared in year 3. The children all looked fantastic in their outfits and the projects were even more incredible! Mrs Sandhu and Mrs Grant have their work cut out for them picking a winner. Thank you too all the adults at home in their support in coming up with costumes and projects. We took part in different actives across year 3 and 4. We made a mummy, made a diorama, hieroglyphics and pyramid art! Here are some thoughts from some of the kids about Egyptian Day. ''My favourite activity was the pyramid art and dressing up.'' ''I really like the pyramid art because I liked colouring with the pastels and I really liked making the mummy''
Friday 17 October 2025 Year 5 Channel their Inner Archaeologists! Year 5 children have been channelling their inner archaeologists this week as they explored the fascinating world of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Using their knowledge of this ancient writing system, they created their own messages and artwork, carefully drawing hieroglyphic symbols to tell stories and spell out their names.
Thursday 16 October 2025 Year 4 Prepare for Egyptians Day 2025! Year 4 have loved learning about the Egyptians. This week we have enjoyed looking at each others projects and hearing all about them. We can't wait to show our parents and the school during our Egyptian Day next week!
Tuesday 14 October 2025 Year 3 study the poem 'Deux petits chaton visitant Paris' This week in French we put our knowledge of greetings into actions learning the poem 'Deux petits chaton visitant Paris' (Two little kittens visit Paris) We learnt the greetings and how to say my name is. Then we decorated some finger puppets and worked with our partners to show our poem to the class.
Friday 3 October 2025 Harvest festival celebrations
Friday 3 October 2025 Year 4 experience the Story of Seth and Horus As part of our History unit of Ancient Egypt, we have been reading the story of Seth and Horus in English. It was a very complicated action story so we explained the story to each other. After that, we role played the action in small groups.
Monday 29 September 2025 Year 3 are Number Recognisers This week in maths we have been focusing on recognising numbers to 1000. Working practically is a great way of visually seeing the different numbers and making them with our hands. We worked in partners to identify the 100s, 10s and the 1s in each number using place value counters and base ten equipment.
Thursday 25 September 2025 Year 3 Learn about Animal Nutrition This week in year 3 as a part of our Science unit on Animals Including Humans- focusing on nutrition and looking at where our different foods come from and what they can give us. This week we looked at the climate and how it effects the food that grow in the UK. We looked at where different foods come from either the UK or grown abroad. We were all surpirsed at just where a lot of where our food comes from.
Monday 22 September 2025 Year 4's 'Death of Osiris' Last week Year 4 began their new writing topic based on the ancient Egyptian myth of the death of Osiris. Before jumping into the main plot, we first read an example of a super cool action story set in the midst of the jungles to help introduce the features that we will be using for the next two weeks. We discussed how we need to use fast pacing, brave and strong characters, actions verbs, onomatopoeia and suspense to make the audience feel a range of emotions. Acting out the scenes in the jungle has made us super excited to see what fantastic ideas we come up with!
Friday 19 September 2025 Year 3 Explore the Land of the Pharaohs
Friday 19 September 2025 Year 6 explore advertising This term, Year 6 have been exploring the world of advertising in preparation for creating their very own E-safety adverts. The children began by reviewing a range of adverts, considering what makes them effective, memorable and persuasive.
Friday 19 September 2025 'Talk Like a Pirate Day' Assembly! On Friday, Mr Perna and some Year 6 children led the assembly on 'Talk Like a Pirate Day'. We discovered some fierce pirates from the past, such as Black Beard and Anne Bonny. We then learned (and practiced) some classic Pirate Lingo such as 'Ahoy!', 'Shiver me timbers!' and 'Matey!'.
Monday 15 September 2025 3G settle in to Key Stage 2
Tuesday 22 July 2025 Year 5 & 6 Girls Football On the 16th of July, 11 pupils from years 5 & 6 took part in a 6-a-side girls football tournament at Leyton Jubliee Park. The girls played amazingly and won their first two games! They won 2-1 against Thorpe Hall; then 4-0 against Jenny Hammond. Their third game was against Newport, who took the win with 1- 0; however, this was a very close game. The last match was against George Thomlinson, who won 2-0. Despite this, the girls tried their very best and have come away excited for when they take part in another football competition.
Friday 18 July 2025 Goodbye and Good Luck! Ms Furey – Ms Furey has been with us for 2 terms this year helping shape our youngest pupils and has worked really well within the EYFS team. The children thoroughly enjoyed the learning that she provided both indoors and outdoors.
Friday 11 July 2025 Super hot Summer Music Concert We were thoroughly spoilt on Friday with a fantastic Summer Music Concert organised brilliantly once again by Ms Forbes during Friday's whole school assembly that truly showcased the work that children across the school had been learning in Music.
Tuesday 8 July 2025 Year 2 Shine at Royal Opera House 'Create Day' On July 8th, our enthusiastic Year 2 pupils took part in the Royal Opera House's inspiring ‘Create Day', a celebration of creativity and children's rights. This year's event was linked to our Rights Respecting School theme, with a special focus on Article 31: the right to play.
Tuesday 1 July 2025 Year 5 are get out on the Water! Year 5 ventured across Zone 8 into Cheshunt and took part in a wide variety of activities at the Herts Young Mariners Base that focused on team building. A quick safety talk from the instructors and away we went! We took part in archery, raft building and bell boating. A firm favourite of the day was bell boating being that most of us took a lovely plunge into the lake on the lovely and sunny 33 degrees day! Thank you very much to the staff at the Herts Young Mariners base for a fabulous day!
Tuesday 1 July 2025 Get Excited for our New Classes!
Monday 23 June 2025 Year Six's Fiver Challenge! This half term, we took part in the Junior Enterprise Project and completed work towards our Fiver Challenge! We had to make a profit from £5, which was provided by the school. We made our business, created our business name, designed a logo, presented our sales pitch and sold our product on our stall during the Fiver Challenge Fair. It was such an enjoyable experience raising money for our end of Year 6 party! Along the way, we learnt a lot about finance helping us with life skills and how we can use these skills well beyond primary school!

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