Guitar Club busking to parents for Children in Need 2015

Thank you to everyone for supporting our Children In Need Day at Woodcroft. The pupils looked great in their ‘Champions of Change’ gold and silver themed outfits and accessories. The day began with Guitar Club busking in the playground before school; raising a fantastic £89.00! Later, in a special assembly lead by Mr Russell and Miss Sherring, we then learnt about the reasons for raising money for this important charity, and the pupils sang our favourite Children in Need song, ‘Superhero’. Finally, we finished off the day with Pudsey’s Champion Challenge Quiz between the teachers. Unfortunately, there was a rather messy penalty for getting a question wrong!

We will let you know the total amount raised as soon as we have finished counting your generous donations. If you want to contribute further look out for the Pudsey money box at the Office. Take a look at the photos below for a flavour of our fabulous day.

Woodcroft Y6 enjoy the launch night of this outstanding new play!

Year 6 outside the theatre before the show.

On Tuesday 10th November a group of Woodcroft Year 6 pupils attended the launch night of an outstanding new play, Baddies: The Musical, at the Unicorn Theatre.
Our evening started with a short walk along the Thames to take in the London skyline at night. We then thoroughly enjoyed the show with seats right at the very front. In the story, the Big Bad Wolf had been thrown in jail for being too good at being bad; transporting us into the lives of everyone’s favourite fairy-tale villains. The script posed the question, ‘how were we supposed to tell who the good guys were if all of the baddies were locked up?’ There was also something very suspicious about the two goodies Peter Pan and Cinderella! Not all was as it first seemed, and we learnt some important messages about bullying and friendships throughout the story.
After the show were treated to a reception with juice and cakes courtesy of Unicorn Schools, our collaborate partner, before boarding the coach for a very late return to school. Well done to all of the pupils for their impeccable behaviour, and thank you to The Unicorn Theatre for making us feel so welcome. We hope that the rest of Woodcroft KS2 enjoy the show when all 250 of them attend the following day on Wednesday!

Bit of a shout out to @WPS_Success school who were seated in front of me at #BaddiesTheMusical last night and were impeccably behaved.

— JBR (@JBRAgent) November 11, 2015

Dr. Bike visited Woodcroft on Monday 9th November to carry out FREE bike checks and minor repairs. This was a great opportunity to get your bike checked over to make sure it is safe and roadworthy. If you didn’t make use of this free service as part of the Sustrans Bike It programme, make sure you bring in your bicycle next time Dr. Bike visits Woodcroft.

Sustrans is charity enabling people to choose healthier, cleaner and cheaper journeys. Woodcroft is a TfL Gold STARS accredited school and actively supports sustainable travel initiatives.

Local schools enjoying the festival hosted at Woodcroft.

On Friday 23rd October Woodcroft hosted an Infant Music Festival organised by Barnet’s Music Service, BEAT (Barnet Education Arts Trust). We were visited by 270 pupils from nearby schools; Courtland, Blessed Dominic, Barnfield and Broadfields. Our Year 2 classes joined the festival and sang a repertoire of songs, including one penned by our very own Mr Huckerby. Well done to our Year 2 pupils, their teachers and Mrs Sherring for preparing and representing Woodcroft to such high standards.

Residency Week 5: Special Tasks – Dance, Visual Art, Music, Movement and Film Making

Class 3S were asked by 2W to arrange for a big, enormous robot to visit! Click on the photo above see what special tasks the other classes were set…

Question:

‘When would you meet an enormous robot, see fireworks, listen to rainmaker instruments, dance in style, sing to the school, make play dough, create paper collage, go on bear hunt, become a ‘Cheeky Monkey’, breakdance, make salsa, speak French, dance to Michael Jackson and have a class race against your teacher?’

Answer:

‘In an ‘All Ears’ Special Task assembly with Greg Sinclair!’

The whole school came together on the final Friday of half term for a raucously fun assembly inspired by our resident artist, Greg Sinclair. As part of our Unicorn Theatre ‘All Ears’ collaboration project Greg asked each class to set a creative challenge for the next group; the results are captured on our All Ears pages: click here to see more photos.

Woodcroft Helps Launch London Wide Arts Campaign

Last week was the start of a new campaign for schools to come together and take practical steps to improve the creative and cultural education offer for children.

London Arts Organisation A.N.D. (A New Direction) is funded by the Arts Council England to connect young people with great arts and culture across the region. Thier new campaign, Generation Culture, was launched last week. At Woodcroft we already have a reputation for outstanding Arts education and so have been featured as part of the campaign launch. Woodcroft was honored to be the first school to pledge support. You can read the article about Woodcroft at the address below; 

Click here: https://www.anewdirection.org.uk/blog/all

A Celebration of Culture and Diversity

Pupils in traditional dress. Visit our International Day Gallery by clicking above.

Wednesday 21st October was INTERNATIONAL DAY at Woodcroft. We celebrated the fantastic diversity of people that make up our wonderful school community. Children and staff came to school dressed in traditional clothes from their home countries or the colours of their national flag.

In a special assembly we came together representing every continent of the world. At the end of the day we had our International Cake Sale. Thank you to everyone for their contributions.

Click here for more photos by visiting our International Gallery

Bronze Medals for the Woodcroft Team

Bronze Medal Success! Click above to view the tournament gallery

Congratulations to our Football Team for winning a brilliant bronze medal at the Barnet Mixed Football Tournament!
Over 30 schools entered the competition held at Friern Barnet Power League on Tuesday 20th October. Woodcroft won their group of 5 teams to progress through to a quater final match against Wessex Gardens. Goals from William and Usman secured that victory earning a place in the semis. However, we came up against the eventual winners, Summerside, the only team to defeat us all day! Despite our disappointment at missing out on the final we put on terrific performance in the bronze medal play-off match, winning 4-2 against Akiva, finishing in overall 3rd place. What an excellent first outing for our new kit.
Our coaches; Mr Judd, Mrs Clarke and Mr Gagen were extremely proud of all of the team. Makayla and Hira were voted payers of the tournament for some outstanding defending and goalkeeping.
Click on the photo above to view the Mixed Football Tournament Gallery.