News

What is Holi? Holi is known as the festival of colours. For centuries, this is the one festival that has been uniting people of all classes, castes, age groups, and generations. Everyone comes together and celebrates the oneness of humanity, and that is the message of Holi.   What is the significance of Holi? There…

Why do schools celebrate the World of books? World book day is a national charity that is funded by publishes and those who sell books in the UK and Ireland. Their goal is to give every child a book to own. It’s also a celebration of authors, illustrators and most importantly the celebration of reading….

What is Dosa? A dosa is a cooked flat thin layered rice batter, made from a fermented batter. It originates from South India. It is somewhat similar to a crepe and a pancake in appearance. Its main ingredients are rice and black gram ground together in a fine, smooth batter with a pinch of salt….

Dear parents and guardians As you will know the advice is circulating from the government about precautions that we all ought to be taking to help prevent the likely hood of the spread of this virus. Please see below the latest guidance provided via Government regarding the spread of Coronavirus and travel.: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-to-educational-settings-about-covid-19/guidance-to-educational-settings-about-covid-19 We recognise…

What is a Chapatti? A Chapatti is like a pancake that is cooked in a frying pan, known as a tava. They are made of whole wheat flour known as atta, mixed into the dough with water and oil. As we have been learning about Shrove Tuesday, we looked at how pancakes were made across…

Why do we eat lots of pancakes on Pancake Day? For Christians, Shrove Tuesday marks the last day before Lent. It is associated with clearing your cupboards of foods such as sugar, fats and eggs. Traditionally, pancakes were eaten on this day to use up these foods before the 40-day fasting season of Lent began….

Valentine’s Day is celebrated on the 14th of February. It is a special day when people express their love to another person. On this day people often give presents, red roses, chocolates and send Valentine’s Day cards to each other.   Cupid is a baby angel who has a bow and an arrow and he…

After the huge success of our environmental day last week, the nursery and reception children decided to continue our learning around animals and climate change. In the nursery, we have created a role play area called ‘The Zoo’. During our carpet sessions, we thought about animals that currently live in zoos around the world and…

  What is the environmental day? The environmental day is a day dedicated to thinking about our planet and things that we could do to reduce our carbon footprint.   As a school, we decided to run workshops in each classroom for the entire day, thinking about, learning and taking part in activities associated with…

The nursery children went to the Wembley library to take part in a storytime session. We had lots of fun listening to songs and rhyme. We also borrowed books to take back to our school.