South Grove Primary School

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 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!

Friday 13 June 2025 KS1 Quadkids Athletics competition On Friday 13th of June, a small group of KS1 pupils took part in an Athletics competition at the Feel Good Centre. They took part in 4 different events which were a long jump, sprint, howlers throw and a long distance run. All pupils put in 100% effort and Ms White and Ms George are very proud of the children's performance.

Friday 13 June 2025 1L's Fantastic Summer Class Assembly! 1L's class assembly is based on their Summer Topic: Plants and Flowers. The children showed immense confidence by proudly presenting their fantastic artwork, story-telling, singing, dancing and making their performances very enjoyable and engaging to watch.

Thursday 12 June 2025 3A's Class Assembly about WWII 3A put on a fantastic assembly all about the Second World War! they showcased all of the fantastic learning that has gone on over the past half term and even impressed us with two songs! It was such a pleasure to experience their beautifully written evacuee diary entries, Blitz artwork and were even treated to some VE celebration dancing. We learned all about what it meant to be an evacuee and also what it would have been like in Britain living through such a difficult time. Thank you 3A!

Thursday 12 June 2025 Year 6 have Another Visit from Project Zero "Last week, Year 6 were lucky enough to be visited by our friends at Project Zero again! We also got the opportunity to meet special guest, local rapper Kitch. He told us the inspirational story of his life with a stammer and how this impacted his education and mental health. We heard how he used writing as a means of communication when he felt that his voice was not enough to express what he was feeling. We also got to find out more about the beginnings of Project Zero itself and it's ambitious aims for the future of young people in Waltham Forest. We can't wait to see them again at the end of the school year!"

Monday 9 June 2025 Year 5 become civil Engineers! What better way to so start a week by building bridges. Metaphorically and literally, as part of our topic this term we looked at different types of bridge and what made them strong The structure of a bridge making sure it was strong and sturdy and be able to hold up items. We tried to make the longest bridge we could make using only one sheet of A4 paper. Then we followed a design brief to make a beam bridge to test how many cubes the bridge would hold. There were intense moment just seeing how many cubes could make it on top of of the bridge before they would collapse!

Friday 6 June 2025 Year 6 explore a most fascinating concept in biology- evolution! This week in Science, Year 6 have been exploring one of the most fascinating concepts in biology- evolution! The children have been learning about Charles Darwin and took part in an exciting Science experiment called ‘Battle of the Beaks'. As part of their learning about evolution and adaptation, the children used different tools to represent bird beaks and tested how well they could pick up various foods like seeds and raisins.

Friday 6 June 2025 Year 2 and 4P in 'Meet the Musicians' Workshop

Tuesday 3 June 2025 Year 5 Get Cooking What a return to year 5 for our final term! After our week we are well rested and ready to take on all the work and fun that is coming our way. We had our second session of Adopt A Chef with Chef Tessa. This week Chef Tessa helped us to improve to our knife skills using the claw method and the bridge method we applied these to cutting up various salad items. In our salad we chopped up: radishes, peppers, celery, cucumber and lettuce. We found some of the items easier to cut up than others. We couldn't wait to get these salads home and eat all!

Friday 23 May 2025 Year 4 are Fashionistas! Year 4 Fashion Day! This meant children coming to school in their very best outfits, presenting their research projects, and getting involved in some serious D&T. They made friendship bracelets using thread, beads and the power of friendship, and then upcycled old t-shirts into swanky new tote bags. Tote-ally awesome!

Friday 23 May 2025 Year 5's Quidditch and a Victorian Classroom Experience What a week! You knew it was last week before half term. We had participated in Quidditch and a Victorian Classroom Experience! Hogwarts came to South Grove, we flew high and far but don't worry no brooms were in sight, we played a slightly more 'muggle' version of the game! To round off all our fun learning of the Victorians we travelled back in time to 1895 to the Ragged School in Mile End to take part in activities about the Victorians, many of the children thoroughly enjoyed the classroom experience taught by the strict Miss Perkins who told us to sit up straight and only be spoken to when asked to speak! We practised the 3 R's, reading, writing and arithmetic! We are very glad that we are not in the Victorian era that is for sure!

Thursday 22 May 2025 UKS2 Girls Cricket

Wednesday 21 May 2025 Year 6 are Fairground Designers! "Following a busy SATS week, Year 6 have been hard at work on an exciting Fairgrounds-themed maths project ready to build their own next half term! As part of their learning, they took on the challenge of designing their own fairground attractions while working out real-world calculations like building fees, running costs, and potential profits. Using their maths skills, they budgeted carefully to make sure their rides were fun, affordable, and financially successful. It was a fantastic way to link maths to everyday life, and the students showed great creativity and problem-solving along the way."

Wednesday 21 May 2025 Year 3 Travel back to the 1940s! We travelled back in time last week to the early 1940s and spent a whole day as people from the WW2 era! Our World War 2 day was filled with fantastic activities which really helped us to deepen our knowledge and understanding of what that time period was like for those living through the war.

Wednesday 14 May 2025 Help us recycle and raise funds for the School! We are now collecting bakery (bread/rolls/crumpets/pannini/bagels etc) plastic packaging (from all brands) including plastic trays, zipper bags and plastic packs. As well as any brand of plastic bread bags and closure tags. These will be sent to Terracycle for recycling and they will pay us £10 for each box weighing more than 2kg from now until July! Please drop these off into the Terracycle bins at the Ringwood Road gate or bring them to the office.

Monday 12 May 2025 Year5 are Cryptographers! This term in computing we have gone from the computing suite to the classroom. Out topic for the term is 'We are Cryptographers'. In the topic we are learning about how they're are different forms of communication and how messages are transmitted across distances. Last week we were blown away attempting Semaphore out of the field. Using red and yellow flags to form letters of the alphabet. This week it was a little bit dark as we were trying Morse-code using torches. We came up with messages to send each other and used the torches to help us. It was very tricky to send these message using the torches to make sure we could understand them and decode the message

Friday 9 May 2025 2F’s Living & Growing Assembly On Friday the hall was filled with all things creepy and crawly as we were treated to a wonderful assembly from 2F all about nature and especially about mini beasts. They opened with a a song, ‘If I were a Minibeast’ which they expertly signed using their Makaton knowledge.

Friday 9 May 2025 Year 4 Create Fabulous Slippers! This week, 4SH slipped into the world of textiles as they began creating their very own slippers! These they designed by themselves, with a target audience in mind, using their knowledge of product marketing. They seemed to enjoy doing it -- they spent the whole time in stitches. 4P have designed theirs this week, and will be creating them next week, so there are good things coming... or sew its seams.

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