Music Evening - Wednesday 28th April

Parents, carers and teachers were treated to a wonderful evening of music and dance. Children from every year group took part. A wide range of music instruments were played, the Sala club performed a lively dance and the choir sang a medley of beautiful songs.

Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the evening and we look forward to the next concert.

Science Challenge

Science Challenge at Ilford County High School

Friday 19th March

Congratulations to children from Parkhill who were awarded 1st, 3rd and 7th places in the Science Challenge. The challenge was to make an elastic band powered car that would transport an egg for 1 metre. A total of 13 cars were entered by the competing schools.

Royal Albert Hall Redbridge School's Choral Festival

The 18th Biennial Redbridge School’s Choral Festival

Wednesday 17th March

Children from our school choir joined 2000 other children from schools across Redbridge at the Royal Albert Hall. It was a fantastic musical evening. Well done to everyone who took part.

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Video Conferencing - ICT Clubs

Scargill Infant T-shirt project and Parkhill Junior Film Making project

Today children from our ICT clubs held a video conference to talk about their work.

The children from Year 1 at Scargill Infant school told our Year 6 children about their ICT club project to design a T-shirt picture.

The children at Scargill Infants had drawn pictures using the computer program TextEase - Paint. These pictures were then transferred to special paper and ironed on to a T-shirt.

The children proudly wore their T-shirts and told us all about this project.

The pictures were extremely detailed and they had created very complicated backgrounds using shapes and different colours.

The T-shirts were beautiful.

Our Year 6 children asked them a wide range of questions about the software, how easy it was to draw using this program, their ideas and the time it had taken to complete the work.

The Parkhill children then explained how they were creating animations using stop frame camera pictures. Their main focus for the first film was speech and how they were making a speaking face with a plasticine mouth.

Redbridge Dance Festival

Salsa!

On 10th February, ten year 6 and seven year 5 children went to Woodford County High School to the annual Redbridge Dance Festival. We saw performances from a wide range of primary and secondary schools. We were the only school to do a salsa routine, which went very well. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon and it has made us more determined to practise harder for next year (and try to get more boys to take part.)

Video Conferencing

Parkhill Junior continues to build links with other schools via video conferencing.

Year 3 - Wednesday 27th January

Class 3D held their second video conference link with Scargill Infant School, Havering. They shared some of their class work with Class 4. Read more about this video conference by visitng the shared Parkhill and Scargill blog. The link is on the right hand side of the screen.


Year 5 - Thursday 21st January

The first link with Collège Louis Pasteur in France. We had a meet and greet session where the students in France said hello, their names and how old they are. Several children from Class 5A then did the same. They spoke very clearly and confidently. Class 5A were shown a map so they could see where in France the school is. The children will now meet on a regular basis to continue this work.

January Snow!

Snow Poem

The January covering of snow resulted in some wonderful pictures of the school grounds. However it also inspired some very creative writing. Here is year 6 pupil's snow poem to enjoy!

Winter Wonderland

There is pin drop silence as Mother Nature covers the field with a thick white blanket of snow.

All cars are white and the face of the oak tree is slapped with ivory goodness.

Trees’ branches look like chalky spiders swaying in the light winter breeze.

The hoards of six-pointed snowflakes make hats and scarves look embedded with an intricate white collage.

God has come down and painted the whole city.

Although cold outside, the delightful beams from children’s faces give a warm fuzzy feeling to the whole atmosphere.

Snowballs are flying, children are screaming, “we are all walking in winter wonderland.”