News Whitehorse Manor Junior School

We have been busily selling raffle tickets and hosting a cake sale, in order to raise money for the very worthwhile charity Macmillan Cancer Support.

Year 5 have had a busy but fantastic start to the year so far!

Hopefully you have all seen the fantastic Disney movie – The Lion King! 

Author and storyteller, Chitra Soundar, is hosting an interactive session this Saturday at 2pm at the Salvation Army in Thornton Heath.

Our current Thematic topic in Year 3 is a local area study about Crystal Palace. 

Our new year 3 cohort has had a fantastic start to their Key Stage 2 career. 

There have been sixty one Kings and Queens of England in the last 1200 years but none has been monarch longer than Queen Elizabeth II, who died yesterday at the age of 96. 

A highlight of the end of year is the opportunity for pupils in different year groups to share their music work with each other. 

This website post has information, activity clubs and links to resources which will support families and children over the summer holidays. 

This week, Year 6 at Whitehorse Manor performed their end of term production, ‘Aladdin Trouble,’ to children across the school and to their parents. 

We were pleased to be visited today by Steve Reed, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and MP for Croydon North, so that he could meet with our School Council to discuss local matters and tell them a little bit more about his work as our local MP. 

Lovely to see Rachel Dixon, our Dance and Yoga specialist teacher, working with Year 5 on the field under the blazing sunshine today. 

It was a pleasure accompanying Year 6 on the annual visit to Chessington World of Adventures on Wednesday 6th July. 

Children got the surprise of their lives when they got to meet Ava, a half girl half osprey, from a story they read in class before visiting the London Wetlands Centre.

Today was the day when our ‘decennial’ (it means every 10 years – I Googled it!)