London Fields Primary School

It has been another wonderful morning in Epping Forest and this time we've been meeting all kinds of amazing creatures. Some of us have even been brave enough to hold them! We can't wait to tell you all about it this evening!

Year 5 had an amazing evening playing games and toasting marshmallows at the campfire before getting into our pyjamas and getting cosy in our pods. Next stop is breakfast and another fun day of activities!

What a beautiful day to be camping! Year 5 had a good journey to their campsite and have spent a lovely day pond dipping, building dens and exploring the lifecycle of a pond. They've made their pods nice and cosy and are getting ready for some food and a camp fire. Everyone's looking forward to getting cosy in bed and having a great night's sleep in the woods!

Year 5 have been working with a charity called Climate Change All Change that matches designers with primary schools to help children understand how design can mitigate some of the effects of climate change on our future lives. Year 5 spent 6 weeks designing the elevations, sections and plans of a community centre in Hackney Marshes with architects Georgia Trower and Jamie Harrington. 

They then presented their designs to a team of professional architects, before Georgia and Jamie took them away to create final rendered drawings of what the future buildings could look like. Georgia and Jamie then presented us with the rendered drawings at a special celebration, putting our designs on display at Acrilycize at the Art House. The renders really brought our designs to life and were so impressive to see - we were amazed at how our imaginations had been brought to life! We really hope that some of these buildings will be built one day!

For World Book Day, our school continued its long-standing tradition of older children reading with the younger classes. This year, Reception welcomed visitors from Year 5, who spent time reading a selection of books with them.

Many of the Year 5 children remembered being in the same Reception classroom themselves just a few years ago. They were pleased to return as more confident readers and share stories with the younger children.

On World Book Day, we loved dressing up as some of our favourite characters in our favourite books. A few of us dressed up as characters from our English text "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane." We loved talking about the books that we love reading and sharing our recommendations.