International Evening - Thursday 21/10/21 Thursday next week we will be celebrating our learning across Black History Month with an International Evening. It is running from 15:45 - 17:00 (3:45 - 5pm). Enrichment clubs and wrap around care will continue to run as usual. Please note...
Thursday next week we will be celebrating our learning across Black History Month with an International Evening. It is running from 15:45 – 17:00 (3:45 – 5pm). Enrichment clubs and wrap around care will continue to run as usual. Please note that if you do wish for your child to attend the international evening you will need to collect them to take them into the hall.
Across this week and next children have been cooking foods from the countries they have been learning about. They have been reading books, studying and making pieces of art to further their understanding about the wide variety of cultures.
When children come to school on Thursday 21st October we would love it if they could wear clothes that either represent their own culture or the culture that they have been studying in school this month, this could be as simple as the colours of the flag from that country. The countries are as follows:
On Thursday when families attend the international evening they will be given a ‘passport’ as they arrive so that they can get a sticker from each country that they visit as they move around the hall. There will be some food available and we are asking for donations from across the school community. If you are able to make or cook something for Thursday 21st October please do let us know by tapping on the link here and filling in a form. If you are donating a dish please drop that into the school office by 2pm on Thursday 21st, we will ask you to let us know what it is so we can make a label.
Thank you so much for the donations made for the Hackney Food Bank. We have arranged for Hackney Food Bank to come and collect them to hand out to individuals and families in need. To learn more about the Hackney Food Bank tap here.
Friday 19th November is Children in Need 2021. We will be taking donations of £1 on the school gate for children to come to school that day in non-uniform. To learn more about the work that Children in Need does please tap here.
Our preschool is open in the half term to those parents who pay for full time places. The school building is also open and in use by BADU Sports who are running a sports camp for 5 – 11 year olds and for The Strings Club who are running a musical camp.
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