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Sport Curriculum Day – World Cup Dance

We had another sport curriculum day where children across the school took part in World Cup dance lessons. The children learned dance routines from Brazil, England and America. The children and staff absolutely loved it!

Spread Your Wings Day

Children came to school dressed in a costume with wings for a donation of £1 on School Money for the charity ‘Spread Your Wings. Children came dressed as fairies, pixies, butterflies, bees, birds, dragonflies, ladybirds, superheroes with capes, Peter Pan, Tinkerbell, mythical creatures with wings. It was a wonderful collection.

PTA Rainbow Raffle

Thank you to everyone who donated – if you completely forgot – please bring an item for your year group on Monday. It is very much appreciated.

Nursery: RED
Reception: ORANGE
Year 1: YELLOW
Year 2: GREEN
Year 3: BLUE
Year 4: PURPLE
Year 5: WHITE
Year 6: BLACK

Diversity Day: Be Yourself Thursday (18th June)

On Thursday 18th June we are having ‘Be Yourself Day’ It’s a day for the children to celebrate and acknowledge the beauty of being themselves and their unique capabilities. It’s also a day to celebrate everyone’s differences. It’s a day to be yourself – the focus is about believing in their dreams, embracing their uniqueness, and inspiring them to use joy and laughter. We are asking the children to come to school that day wearing clothes that celebrate who they are – be it party clothes, a particular colour of clothes, pyjamas, dressing up clothes, sports clothes etc

Barnet Music Festival

On Wednesday night our KS2 choir children sang at the annual Barnet school Music festival. The event is organised by BEAT (Barnet Education Arts Trust) This was the 25th year of the festival. The event took place at the Arts Depot in North Finchley with an audience of 500 people. The event goes on for a week with approximately 51 primary schools taking part and over a thousand children participating. Miss Halil had arranged a lovely song for the choir. They sang ‘Heal the World’ by Michael Jackson. They sang extremely well and looked very smart. It was a lovely event to attend. Thank you to the children and Miss Halil who all did the school proud.

KODAK Digital Still Camera

Author Visit – Hollie Hughes

A big thank you and well done to Miss Mountford who organised the author Hollie Hughes to visit the school this week. Hollie did an assembly for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 children. She then went to Nursery to read some of her books. She then did book making workshops for Years3,4 and 5 in the hall. A huge thanks to the PTA who paid for the visit so that the children could have this wonderful opportunity.

Waste Audit

We have come to the end of our sustainability project with ‘In the Know’ and North London Waste Authority. This week our visitors came back to do audit 2 with Mrs Fitzpatrick and the Eco Council. They came to weigh our waste and to see if we had made improvements since the project began. I am delighted to say that they were impressed with both our waste audit action plan and our waste reduction.

The three highlights from our project were:

We developed a curriculum map with links which is rolling out in Sept 2027.
Teachers from Holly Park attended a CPD away day.
School chefs received training on how to prevent food waste.

Between the two audits, overall waste has dropped a lot, especially food waste, and rubbish is now being sorted better with more in the correct bin

Recycling rate went from 69% to 86%.

Waste went from 127Kg per day to 31Kg per day

Waste and recycling accuracy had improved since audit 1 and now 97% of waste is in the right bin!

Overall, we are producing less waste and there is better accuracy in waste going into the correct bins. All kinds of waste have been reduced including food waste from classrooms, offices and playgrounds which is now also going in the correct bins. Well done to everyone for being more aware of waste in general.