Woodcroft Primary School

The Parents’ Promise Licence

The Police set our pupils a homework assignment this week (see Newsletter 259) to encourage safer driving. Pupils interviewed their parents (or a relative who drives) about their driving habits and then issued them a special licence that they had decorated.

For more information about the project visit: http://dontriskit.info/kidsinthecar

Competition Time

Prizes for the best licences from each class were being awarded – take a look at the winners and runners-up below. The police are also holding a competition across the local area, so copies of the winning licences have been sent to Edgware Police Station. To take a look at our winners  Continue reading →

Over the next week we will be celebrating Woodcroft’s wonderful musicians with three concerts at the school. On Thursday 24th November our strings musicians perform to family and friends. Then on Friday we will enjoy a concert by our woodwind, brass and guitar players. Finally, on Monday, Year 3 take to the stage with their ukuleles. Continue reading →

Woodcroft had a ‘Spotacular’ day on Friday 18th November when we took part in Children in Need. We started our events before school, with choir and guitar club busking on the playground.

All of the pupils and staff had made a donation and arrived at school dressed in their spotty themed costumes. Evan Mrs Court, our Chair of Governors, joined in the fun. We also had a crazy assembly where the teachers had to do a ‘spotty’ challenge with velcro balls. It was all very exciting as you can seen from the photos below. Thank you to everyone who made a donation. We raised a grand total of £575!

The Woodcroft Choir started their performing year on a high! On Friday 4th November they were invited to open a celebration event hosted by the MMA, the national Music Teachers Association. This prestigious event was attended by representatives of music education and Members of Parliament from across the United Kingdom.  The Choir participated in a workshop in the afternoon with a professional cappella group Apollo 5 and learned two songs which they performed at the evening celebrations.  In addition, they prepared and presented two items of their own. The Choir performed beautifully and received high praise from the guests for their professionalism, commitment and musical skills.  Congratulations to our wonderful pupils on an amazing first performance!

On Tuesday 1st November Woodcroft was visited by 300 children from other local schools to take part in a Key Stage 1 Music Festival. The Festival was organised by BEAT (Barnet Education Arts Trust) and based around the theme of Pirates to link with ‘International Talk Like a Pirate Day.’  Our Year 2s performed songs learned in music lessons and presented a poem learned in their English lessons.  Each school also had the opportunity to perform their own song.  Woodcroft’s item was composed by our very own Mr Huckerby.  Congratulations to our Year 2s for their fantastic performance!

Woodcroft has yet again received the highest award for school sports and games. On Friday 21st October we were presented with the Sainsbury’s School Games Gold Award for the second year in succession. This prestigious kitemark is only awarded to schools that demonstrate the highest levels of commitment and participation to sports and games throughout the academic year. At a special assembly, Ashely Stewart, Strategic Sports Manager for Barnet, presented Woodcroft with a certificate of recognition and congratulated pupils and staff for their dedication to school PE & sport. You can find out more about the award, and see Woodcroft’s online gold medal at

https://www.yourschoolgames.com/

We enjoyed another successful International Day on Thursday 20th October. All our pupils looked wonderful as they came to school dressed in the traditional clothes of their families’ home countries.

At the end of the school day, Friends of Woodcroft had organised an International Cake Sale with donations from across the school community. Parents had baked traditional cakes or decorated them in the colors of their national flags. The sale raised over £300 with proceeds being put towards the purchase of dual language books for the school library.

Parents can view a full gallery by clicking on the link below and using the password sent out. International Day Gallery – parents click here and use password provided.

Coin Picture and Harvest Basket Collections

Our annual harvest coin picture took shape on Thursday 13th October. Every pupil had brought in their bag of loose change to add to the design. This year’s benefiting charity is AgeUK Barnet. Parents and pupils were then invited back into the hall after school to view the finished design before it was collected together and counted.

On Friday 14th October every class decorated a harvest basket filled with food that the pupils had donated. These were celebrated in a special harvest assembly.

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Year 4 studied photographer Kike Calvo – click on the image to view a gallery

Last week we enjoyed a visual arts focus to our lessons. From Nursery to Y6 each class studied a particular artist and produced some stunning work. Take a look down the Gallery Corridor in school or on the Treehouse to see what your child was up to.

Year 4 studied photographer Kike Calvo to produce these amazing images during Art Week to support their National Nutcracker project with the Royal Opera House and Royal Ballet. They projected backgrounds in our 4D immersive suite and thought carefully about the lighting that they needed to use to emphasise movement. Take a look at their gallery page by clicking here

2016 Team of the Year – Woodcroft Football Team

Woodcroft footballers were awarded Team of the Year at Barnet’s prestigious School Sports Awards on Friday 30th September. At the presentation ceremony held at Finchley Arts Depot our boys were presented with their trophy by two up and coming stars of rugby from Saracens.

You can see their glittering prize in our now overflowing awards cabinet located in the main foyer. Last season our team won a clean sweep of major trophies including the two Barnet knock out cups (Martin Cup and Dick Bailey Cup) and the Munroe Shield (overall league champions). They were also runners-up in the North London 6-a-side tournament. This award is a fitting climax to what has been quite an amazing year for Football at Woodcroft! Congratulations must also go to Mr Judd and Miss Clarke for their support and coaching of the team.