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60 children from both Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 assembled at St John’s Angell Town on Tuesday for a big day of dance with the school’s specialist dance teacher Ricki Blackett. Talented dancers from Loughborough, Christ Church SW9, Stockwell and Jessop joined pupils from the host school learning complicated routines in record time, testing their co-ordination and muscle memory to the limit! The results were fantastic and the children performed in front of all pupils in St John’s at the end of the sessions. We hope to extend this project next year and see our cluster’s talented dancers get a chance to show off their skills to be public. Many thanks to all staff and pupils involved.

On Wednesday 12,000 students ages 11 upwards gathered at Wembley Arena for the 3rd WE Day UK, celebrating active citizenship in our schools. The young people had all taken part in a year of fundraising for local and international charities as part of the WE schools programme. There were inspirational talks by students as well as well known speakers such as Professor Brian Cox as well as performances by music performers Labrinth, Fleur East and Darren Criss to name but a few. Rita Ora told her story of arriving in UK from Kosovo to settle here. All in all it was a great way to celebrate the impact children and young people can and do make to bring about positive change in the world. http://www.weday.com/we-day-events/we-day-uk/

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There’s a chance to see some of the wonderful work of children from Hill Mead Primary school’s Fine Art club, currently on display at Pop Brixton. The children’s work is of exceptional quality, guided by Fiona Reid, Senior Teacher at the school.

Fun, creativity, learning, sharing, acting: this week the Reception class children at Jessop went on a hunt for hidden objects and props to talk about and photograph as part of their project using photography to support their learning particularly in literacy. The children will use their objects, role plays, emotion images and props, into a variety of settings next week to weave together stories through images.

More activities for families in and around our area this weekend.

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This week the 2 Reception classes at Jessop Primary School began their 4 week project with Fotosynthesis, the photography experts, to explore how they can create stories through images and photography. The children learnt lots of techniques: framing, close ups, understanding when to use landscape or portrait. They based a role play on a single photo they were given and took a series of images to display the action and emotions from the image. After lots of discussion and great team work the children sat down and wrote key words from their stories, ideas and thoughts – lots of writing going on after a varied and stimulating session. Next week there will be more story development and use of cameras in the classroom.

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