What a day Year 1 had! It is odd to think that there are farms within our mammoth metropolis with donkey, pigs, goats, chickens and hen. But they do exist; giving our children a wonderful…
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Music Fun!
This week in reception, we had a lot of fun exploring the music stand in the outdoor area. Miss Kuchel taught us the names of the different instruments – gong, cow bell, cymbal, tone block,…
Read MoreMaths Parent Workshops
Today KS1 had some special visitors to help them with solving worded problems using the four operations! We used hundred squares to help us visualise the number sentences and used written methods to help us…
Read MoreWorld Book Day 2017
Here at St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Highgate, we had a fantastic day of celebrations for World Book Day with wonderful costumes, competitions, story-telling and prizes to be won. Children and teachers came to school…
Read MoreYou can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man!
We have been very busy with lots of activities relating to our key text, “The Gingerbread Man”. We baked our very own gingerbread men that tasted delicious (we even had some left over for the…
Read MoreAladdin!
On Thursday, Year 6 had the pleasure of going to the West End to see the production of ‘Aladdin’. Having walked down the hill to Archway Tube Station, we took the Northern Line to Leicester…
Read MoreGordon Brown!
We have had a lovely week in Year 4, reflecting on our AMAZING trip to the Gordon Brown Centre. The children wrote really thoughtful thank-you letters to all the Staff. They have also had…
Read MoreAuthor visit
This week we also had a visit from author Chris Lam Sam and illustrator Angela Keoghan who came to talk about their new book ‘Inspector Brunswick: The Case of the Missing Eyebrow’. Chris performed an entertaining read-along of the…
Read MoreGreen fingers!
This week the children had an exciting afternoon with Sophia, our environmental leader, planting bulbs. They learnt how to plant bulbs and look after them so they will soon turn into beautiful gladioli. Year 2 were told how…
Read MoreTai Chi Champions!
As part of our topic on China, we were lucky enough to have a special visit from a Tai Chi expert! The children were taught different moves and got to ask lots of questions about…
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