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Detective Chief Inspector Talk
Detective Chief Inspector Heather Wilson spoke to our seniors about the skills and training involved in policing. Students asked a range of questions to the DCI from her thoughts on a range of topics from the right to protest to the impact of lockdown on crime rates.
Happy Holi
Reception learnt about the festival of Holi which culminated in them having fun with powder paints!
End of Spring Term Celebrations
KS students that won this terms house competition and the most supers celebrated with a house feast and gold badge party hosted by Mr Magoo!
Year 2 Board the Titanic
Year 2 ‘boarded’ the Titanic and set sail for New York. They experienced what life was like in 1st, 2nd and 3rd class. Fortunately we managed to disembark before we hit an iceberg and made it safely home. This is part of Year 2’s enquiry topic.
Inclusion and Diversity Talk
Our Pickwicks students took part in a seminar on how to be actively anti-racist with Dublin University. Guest speakers included Ahmed El-Habbash who discussed Islamiphopia and Yemi Adenuga who discussed the importance of difficult conversations and building relationships within communities. She discussed unconscious bias and explained that ‘when you’re feeling good in yourself the only…
Science Week!
In celebration of science week, children across the school made bath bombs, learning about the chemical changes that take place when a bath bomb is dropped into the water. We also ran some exciting Science Week competitions. We have some fantastic videos of children doing science experiments at home as well as making eco posters…
Inspiring Women
Over the course of last week we had a number of inspiring women giving virtual talks to both our Seniors and Juniors. The visiting speaker for our Year 7 – 9’s this week was Financial Times science columnist, Anjana Ahuja. She spoke with the students about international women’s day and answered lots of science questions…
Lockdown Photography Competition Winners
A big well done to our Lockdown Photography Competition winners; Jade H (Year 3), Jade S (Year 6), Violet L (Year 4) and Matilde B (Year 1). Watch the Full ‘KS in Lockdown’ Video Here
Parent Readers
Thank you so much to our incredible parent readers who took the time to read some French and Spanish stories to some of our classes. Merci and Muchísimas Gracias!