Woodcroft Pupils Walk with their ConnectED Partners

On the March 16th Woodcroft pupils joined 1000s of other children when we took part in The Mayor of Barnet’s ‘Golden Kilometre Challenge’, an event across 8 schools and 5 different venues!
The ConnectED Partnership (Barnfield, Broadfields, Colindale, Edgware, Goldbeaters, Rosh Pinah, The Orion and Woodcroft) united with the Mayor, Cllr Stock and Cllr Thompstone to host joint, simultaneous kilometre walks. The Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Barnet then travelled between each of the venues with the ‘golden baton’ that had started its journey here at Woodcroft with one of our own Bronze Sports Ambassadors, Diana (Y5). At each walk two children joined the minibus so that all the schools had been connected by the end of the day!

Read about it in the news…

4,000 Barnet school kids put best feet forward in the name of good health

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Well Done Year 3

Year 3 presented a wonderful year group assembly to their families and the school on Friday 10th March. The show had songs, dance, drama, ukuleles, Spanish, geography, history, art and IT – yes… just about the entire curriculum!
All of the pupils performed with confidence and enthusiasm. A big thank you goes to all of the hard working Year 3 staff.

Inner Peace Day began an international event celebrated on 21st March as the World Day for Inner Peace. The idea behind it was to establish a day in schools dedicated to World Peace. Where students could experience inner peace for themselves and to spread the message of peace to some of the most troubled areas around the world: refugee camps, occupied territories and places devastated by war.

A team from Inner Peace UK visited Woodcroft on Wednesday 15th March to work with classes in Years 4 and 5. They focused on developing calming strategies within the pupils and showing them how to focus their inner, positive energy. 

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Woodcroft Dance Team – Outstanding Performance

Woodcroft Dance Team took to the stage at the Barnet Dance Festival on Tuesday 7th March. Their performance wowed the Finchley Arts Depot audience. One Barnet headteacher commented, “I thought your children tonight at the Dance Festival were truly brilliant. Their energy, commitment and delivery was simply stunning.”

All of the dance team pupils and staff should be congratulated on the high standard of their performance. We look forward to more opportunities to watch this amazing group of talented dancers perform.

Take a look at a video clip of their rehearsal…

Where have you been reading this week?

Mirs Court, our Chair of Governors, takes over the Headteacher’s office – Who does she think she is?

Can you see where the teachers have been Extreme Reading?

Can you see where the teachers have been Extreme Reading?

Pupils can upload their photos and comments on to the Treehouse – click below if you are logged in …

https://sites.google.com/a/woodcroft.barnet.sch.uk/treehouse-home/-bigreadweek2017/extreme-reading

On Tuesday 28th February M&M Theatre performed a wonderful production of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe to KS1 & KS2. Classes are now creating Narnia themed displays with artwork and writing in their classrooms as part of our Big Read events. Click on the link here to view the full gallery.

Digital Technology and Safer Internet Week – 6th to 10th February

As part of our AIM@Digital programme we are always keen to promote positive behaviour online. During the past week we have been studying digital technology, computational thinking and online safety. Take look at some of the exciting things we got up to…

Digital Champions Assembly: #SID2017 Launch 

On Monday 6th February our Digital Champions prepared and presented an assembly to the whole school about safe internet use to get us ready for Safer Internet Day 2017. Woodcroft  Digital Champions are pupils that work with Mr Guest, our IT Lead Teacher, in a weekly club to manage our online applications and support their classes.

Safer Internet Day 2017: Be the change: unite for a better internet

Safer Internet Day 2017 was celebrated globally on Tuesday 7th February with the theme ‘Be the change: unite for a better internet’. Every class throughout the school took part in activities during PSHE lessons discovering how to show good manners while on the internet, and learning about online safety. We call this Digital Wisdom at Woodcroft.

Technology Day

Every year group was set two challenges:

Challenge 1: Try out a new application or digital resource that you haven’t used before
Challenge 2: Develop computational thinking through an ‘unplugged’ activity; learning about computing and coding without using any technology!

Some amazing activities took place! Here is just a small sample…

Unplugged: Physical Pac Man, debugging baking recipes, creating physical email servers, following algorithm instructions and musical coding!

Plugged: Digital film making, applications for leaning, Google G Suite, Storybird, WeVideo and Beebot coding.

Online Safety Parent Workshop

Click here to view the presentation.

On Thursday 9th February parents were invited to a workshop to discuss the complex issues encountered when children use devices to go online. Mr Guest presented the outcomes from Woodcroft’s most recent pupil surveys and  highlighted some of the main issues. Practical ideas for how to help your child and links to recommended websites were also given.

For more information, visit the online safety page of the school website: click here

Police visit to celebrate Woodcroft support

Woodcroft was visited by PC Rolfe and Support Officer Davies from the Met Police’s Safer Transport Team on Monday 30th January. Last term, local pupils were set the task of promoting safer driving in their families through the Parents Promise Licence activity. Today, PC Rolfe returned to thank Woodcroft for its support and present certificates and prizes to the winners.

We were informed that there had been a 50% reduction in accidents on local roads during the Police’s initiative. Well done to all of the pupils and families who took part.

Woodcroft S&W Netball Champions

Congratulations to the Woodcroft Netball Team who successfully defended their title as Barnet S&W Champions. A tense final against The Orion went into extra time until Woodcroft got the goal that mattered to retain their title!

24 teams from across the South and West of the district competed on a bitterly cold January day. Despite slipping up in a group stage match against Frith Manor, when the net eluded our attackers, we made it through to the quarter finals. Victories followed against Bell Lane and then Goldbeaters put us in the final against The Orion. It turned out to be a very evenly matched game, both sides had chances to win, but after normal time the scores remained level at 1-1. That was when Daniel found his form at the vital moment during the sudden death ‘golden goal’ finale. He confidently slotted home the ball following a swift Woodcroft counter attack. Well done to the entire team who all played their positions wonderfully. We must also congratulate our development B team who performed well in their own group stage games. Thank you to our support staff, coaches Mr Patel, Mr Judd, and first aider Mrs Clark. Training now begins again as we prepare for the borough wide finals next month!