News Year 5

Yesterday, over 50 of our Year 1-4 children competed at the Croydon schools cross country event. 

As part of their studies on places of worship the Year 3 children visited St John the Evangelist Church in Upper Norwood. 

Year 5 started the new term with an exciting culinary lesson, where they created a fabulous fruit salad.

In Year Five, the children have been creating and performing ‘blackout’ Poetry using the book The Lost Words: A Spell Book by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’. 

Last Friday, Connemara Class in Year 4 performed an assembly in celebration of the Harvest Festival.

The gardening club at WHJUN has been out in force this week, picking up litter, weeding and planting daffodil bulbs on the edge of the field for us all to enjoy in the Spring. 

As part of our continued commitment to reading and phonics, we were delighted to take delivery this week of even more books to support the delivery of our Little Wandle Phonics programme. 

Year 5’s Akai stunned his rivals with a famous victory at Croydon’s prestigious interschool cross country competition. 

Ecclesbourne boys’ football team stormed to an overwhelming victory last week against Chestnut Park School. 

This week at Atwood a group of Year 5 children are being put through their paces on their bikes. 

The JTA’s (Junior Travel Ambassadors) are encouraging all staff, pupils and carers to dispense with their cars on Friday 29th September and explore other modes of transportation to and from school that day. 

Welcome back! What a lovely week to start the term and my time at Atwood. 

The Wizard of Oz simply sparkled This week has seen the children in Years 5 and 6 perform their rendition of the ever popular, Wizard of Oz. 

EPS’s athletes put in excellent performances at last week’s prestigious Croydon Interschool Athletics Competition.

After weeks of training and practice, the WHJUN Athletics Team arrived at Croydon Sports Arena.