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.”

Scargill Infants and Parkhill Juniors - New Video Conferencing sessions

The children at Parkhill Juniors have once again been video conferencing with children at Scargill Infant school in Havering. Today a class from Year 3 and a group of Year 6 children took part in two separate video conferences with classes at Scargill Infant School.

Click here to read about how they shared work, read stories and played a guessing game.

National Schools Film and Animation Awards

BFI SouthBank - November 23rd 2009

We were delighted to have been shortlisted for the KS2 Mixed Media category for the above national award.

Mrs Dorling, Mrs Seagrave, Mrs Caroline and the four children who made the film "Water - Making a Difference" travelled to the BFI award ceremony and spent a wonderful afternoon being interviewed, watching the nominated films and being entertained by a magician, beat box artist and freestyle dancers.

The event was sponsored by TAG Learning and Schools Tube and was hosted by Floella Benjamin OBE, Hon D. Litt (Exon). It was a fantastic experience and everyone had a superb time.

Our film did not win the main category but just to be shortlisted in such a high profile competition was reward enough. We will certainly enter the competition again next year.

You can read more about this project in the Blog entry of 29th June.

Click here to watch our film.

London Grid for Learning Primary Schools' Conference 2009

Monday 2nd November 2009

Alison Seagrave and Lesley Caroline were invited to the Emirates Stadium to give a presentation about the work Parkhill Junior has been doing using Video Conferencing.

To our delight we received an award for "Innovative and effective use of LGfL resources or services to enhance learning and attainment". This was in recognition of the work the children have been doing using video conferencing, LGfL resources to support curriculum work and the London MLE (Fronter) to support personalised learning and assessment.

To find out more please click on the pictures.

Thursday 9th July 2009 - Wider Opportunities Showcase

Wider Opportunities Showcase

Ilford Town Hall, 9th July 2009

The Wider Opportunities program is a Government initiative that promises every Primary school child should have the opportunity to learn an instrument. This year, Year 4 have been learning to play the violin and a group of Year 4 children took part in the Wider Opportunities Showcase musical evening at Ilford Town Hall.

The evening featured children from a selection of Redbridge Primary schools playing Fifes, Violas, African Drums, Guitars and Percussion instruments.

It was a fantastic musical evening which everyone enjoyed. Our Year 4 children were superb and gave a wonderful performance of a selection of upbeat tunes and even managed to dance at the same time as playing!

Well done to the Year 4 violin players and the Redbridge Music Service Wider Opportunities teachers, Roberta Sullivan and Rebecca Kantor.