Inflatables, Ice Creams and Water Fun!

Children who came along to this year’s Camp Woodcroft, our free summer activity camp exclusively for Woodcroft pupils, had a great time. Click on the photo below and take a look at some of the things they got up to. They had inflatable fun, sports and crafts galore, then water games and ice creams to cool down!

Click on the photo above to visit the Camp Woodcroft Gallery

Our football team’s new kit has arrived ready for the 2015-16 season. They will certainly look part when they take to the pitch next term.

The team had a very successful 2014 -15 season, narrowly missing out on the league title by 1 point! Let’s hope the new kit gives them the boost to go one better.

Thank you to Kitroom, our team shirt sponsors, for helping make our fantastic Joma kit more affordable. Check out the Woodcroft twitter feed @WPS_Success to see Kitroom’s comments!

We are now looking forward to seeing Mr Judd (Football Coach) and the team wearing all their new gear. The updated design gives the kit a modern look while maintaining our traditional sky blue home colour. Thank you also to Mr Judd for organising our new kit.

Congratulations to Year 6 for successfully completing their Arts Award. On Friday 17th July a moderator from Trinity College assessed their portfolios and confirmed that 39 pupils had achieved the standard for the Bronze Award and praised the high quality of evidence presented by the school.

To achieve Bronze, a Level 1 national qualification, young people present detailed evidnece to show they have taken part in arts activities, experienced arts events, research their arts inspiration and shared their skills with others. Bronze is available to young people aged 11 to 25.

Year 6 planned their work and created their own Arts Award portfolios, both in a special course book and in online folders. Over the year our pupils needed to demonstrate evidence of around 40 hours of arts activities and study to be successful.

The qualification is awarded by Trinity College London who are a leading international examinations board providing respected qualifications in the performing arts. Woodcroft is a registered Arts Award Assessment Centre: click here for more info.

Visit Your Local Library and Join Up!

The Summer Reading Challenge is designed for children between the ages of 4 and 11. Last year almost 840,000 children took part. Every year the Challenge has a new theme and this year libraries will be working with Guinness World Records ™ (GWR) on the 2015 Summer Reading Challenge. This year the theme will be Record Breakers!

Parents need to take their children along to a local library to join up. The challenge is to read 6 library books over the summer break…easy!

Download the 2015 Reading Challenge leaflet by clicking here.

Nick of Time

The standard of performance at Woodcroft never fails to amaze – and this year’s Leavers Show was no exception. Written by Mr Guest and Mr Huckerby, the show called ‘Nick of Time’ centred on a group of children travelling through history. With fantastic costume and song, expertly coordinated by a Y6 Stage Crew, the pupils brought history to life and showed off the year group’s amazing performance talents! Well done to all of the pupils, and thank you to all of the staff for their hard work putting it together. Click on the image below to view a slideshow of photos from the show.

Click on the image above to see the show photo gallery

Young Musicians and Dancers Concert

On Monday 13th July, families were treated to a celebration performance from our young performing artists.  On show were our Year 2 whole class drumming ensembles, Mega Movers Dance Club, Junior Guitar Club, Young Woodcroft Singers and our combined Year 1 to 6 Woodcroft Choir. They were all outstanding in their first performance to their families, who were an enthusiastic audience!  A special thank you to Mr Shaverin, our drum tutor, Mr Huckerby for coaching our young guitarists and Miss Stubbings for preparing Mega Movers.

Click on the above image for more photos.

Families enjoyed our school open evening on Thursday 9th July. Parents and children had the opportunity to walk around the school together and celebrate curriculum achievements, class activities and school events that have occurred over the year. There was also a schedule of performances in the school hall from some of our choirs, musicians and dancers. Other highlights included an opportunity to try out our learning software in the Computing Suite, view a Family Learning display in the library, take a look at our fantastic foundation stage mural and watch a DVD our school production that was being shown in The Tardis. Click on the photo below to see small sample of what was on offer…

Year 6 pupil experts demonstrate some of our ‘Apps for Education’ in the Computing Suite. Click here to view our Open Evening Gallery…

Woodcroft Receives Top Sports Award

It has just been announced that Woodcroft has been awarded the top accolade for school sport and games: The School Games GOLD Award!

The Sainsbury’s School Games Mark is a Government led scheme to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community. Schools in England are assessed across bronze, silver and gold levels of the quality mark. Each year we have improved our award from Bronze (2012-13), Silver (2013-14) up to Gold (2014-15), a great achievement!

Only the top 5% of schools achieve GOLD and can demonstrate that pupils have the widest range of clubs and activities in which to participate.  Woodcroft has also embraced external sporting opportunities and established strong pupil sport leadership programmes. Thank you to all the parents and carers who have supported PE and Games helping us to achieve this fantastic award. Finally, well done to our excellent Sports Team; Ms Charalambous, Mr Raw and Mr Judd for all of their hard work and commitment.

Woodcroft Music Commendation

Woodcroft was shortlisted for the Music category at the prestigious 2015 Education Business Awards. At a London ceremony on Wednesday 8th July we were presented with the runners-up commendation by Cheryl Baker (singer and TV presenter).

Our nomination was recognition for the outstanding work that takes place at Woodcroft to promote music and the Arts. Liz Court (Chair of Governors), Donna Dolphin (Parent Governor), Miss Sherring (Music Leader) and Mr Tallon (Head) represented the school.