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Yesterday saw this year’s awards ceremony for a number of our primary children who have taken part in the cricket coaching and creative ICT programme that has taken place after school at the Ben Hollioake Learning Centre at the Oval cricket ground. This programme is generously funded by Surrey Cricket Club and the Walcot Foundation. Children from St John’s Angell Town, St Saviour’s, Christ Church Primary SW9 and Archbishop Sumner primaries have attended weekly after school sessions. They have made presentations using the software Comic Life and podcasts about the ground, including interviews with players and staff. Each week the children have also had cricket coaching from the club. Awards yesterday included categories for best podcast, best comic, best cricketer, high attenders, most improved pupil in terms of behaviour and effort and most hardworking and helpful pupil. All the children received certificates from players at the club. Thanks to everyone who made this opportunity possible and we look forward to developing more opportunities for our children at the Oval with Surrey Cricket Club.

Welcoming back our schools community this week, here are some activities for families to enjoy this weekend.

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We wanted to produce some visual templates to show some of the processes children have gone through to support their learning in visual art this term, as part of Confident Creators. Our approach has been about children experimenting, taking risks and celebrating their creativity in a safe working space.

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We wish all our pupils, staff and families a good Spring break and look forward to a busy summer term!

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A huge thank you goes to St Gabriel’s College and all the primary schools who took part in the Science Fair last week. This year was the biggest so far, with year 5 pupils from 8 primary schools taking part. Over the term they have worked with the Science Department staff at St Gabriels and students from year 9 to come up with scientific questions to investigate and present at the fair. All the presentations were of a very high standard. The judges, Kings College, London University medical ambassadors, chose a presentation on flight as the winning team, from Stockwell Primary School. Thanks to all the staff and students who made this an exciting learning event.

On Monday the teachers participating in our Paul Hamlyn Foundation project Confident Creators, met and discussed their progress in embedding the arts and supporting growth mindset in their pupils. It has been a wonderfully creative term with teachers leading a range of lessons with their classes in Music, Drama and Art, supported by our team of artists from Pegasus Opera and visual artist Liz Atkin. Teachers have commented how they have grown in confidence in delivering the arts in their classrooms, being a facilitator for the creative process. They have been doing case studies during the term and have seen children become enthusiastic writers, where before they were very reluctant, some very shy children speaking and participating in activities in front of the whole class and children improving in their skills of collaborating and reflecting on their learning. We looks forward to moving the project forward next term. Thanks to everyone involved in delivery of this project and to the children for their inspirational work.