1st Place in the 2015 Be Your Best Rock Challenge Short Film Competition

Staff and governor representatives of Woodcroft’s J Rock Dance Crew were invited as VIP guests to the finals of the 2015 Rock Challenge competition. The evening event was taking place at Portsmouth’s Guildhall on Wednesday 17th June. Woodcroft’s ‘Mission Impossible’ film was one of 3 shortlisted finalists. Starring the cast and crew of J Rock, and directed by Miss Maynard, the film was shot over the course of the year in preparation for our performance in February.

After the the film was shown to the packed house we were surprised when it was announced that Woodcroft’s film was declared the 2015 WINNER! Well done to everyone involved in J Rock, with special congratulations to Miss Maynard.

Watch the film again by clicking here: J Rock Mission Impossible Film

Our intrepid Year 6 pupils set off on their residential journey to Hayling Island on June 10th. Click on the image below to be taken to their School Journey Diary Page.

Year 6 kept us informed with a daily update of photos and events.

Y6 Residential at JCA Hayling Island

Those that didn’t go on the residential had some exciting adventures closer to home. Take a look at their photo gallery by clicking here for their Y6 Wildlife Adventure Photos

A team of Woodcroft pupils from Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 we put through their paces at the summer Change4Life Festival. The event, held at Allianz Park, enabled the pupils to try out a range of sporting and athletic activities alongside teams from other schools. It was tiring afternoon, but the pupils did extremely well. See how they got on by clicking the photo below.

Change4Life is about taking the first steps towards eating well, moving more and living longer. To find out more about Change4Life click here.

Click on the image above to see our Reception, Y1 and Y2 pupils in action!

An updated Summer Diary sheet has been published and will be distributed with the Weekly Newsletter on Friday 5th June – it is also available to download by clicking the link below:

Click here for the updated Summer Diary Sheet

However, this will be the last published paper diary sheet as we have now moved to our online Google Calendar.
This facility provides the most up to date information. It would also be confusing to update two separate diaries. Forthcoming event dates and details will still continue to be published in our Weekly News. Click on the calendar icon found in the sidebar of this page. If you have any problems please inform the Office. Thank you.

Woodcroft Cheerleaders Chosen To Represent Team Barnet!

At the Borough Cheerleading Festival that took place at Allianz Park, home of Saracens Rugby Club, on Thursday 21st May our very own Woodcroft Cheerleading Squad was chosen to represent Team Barnet! All of the team were awarded special T shirts and had their photographs taken with the Deputy Mayor of Barnet. Well done to all of the squad and the club leaders, Serena and Mrs Gignac.

Click on the image below to see them in action

CURRENT NEPAL FUNDRAISING TOTAL … £2065

Thank you to everyone for supporting our Nepal Benefit Day on 15th May. The generosity of everyone at Woodcroft has been amazing. We have exceeded all of our fundraising expectations! Visit our special Nepal Pages in the ‘News’ section to find out more about our benefit day, view the photos and read the messages of support written by our pupils.

Click here to read the Newsletter Report from Issue 205 of Woodcroft News

Click here to see the latest fundraising totals and visit the Nepal Benefit Page

Our ‘Nepal Day’ has also been featured in the Newspapers! Click on the image to read an article in the Barnet Press; School’s support for friends in Nepal

Then follow the link below to see another report in The Hendon Times. It is pleasing to see our fundraising continue to raise awareness of the Nepal disaster.

http://www.times-series.co.uk/news/12959009.Children_raise___2_000_for_Nepal/

Woodcroft has strong ties with Nepal. Many of our families originate from the country and our link school Nagarjuna Academy and Kids World is in the capital Kathmandu. You may remember that Mr Tallon and Ms Vanner visited in October 2013 (see link below). We also raise money annually to support a charity funded jungle school.

Click here to see a slide-show of Mr Tallon and Ms Vanner’s Nepal adventure.

On Monday 18th May our Reception classes, RB and RC, took delivery of some painted lady caterpillars. They are planning to watch them grow and change as part of their topic.
The caterpillars have been put into individual pots with some baby caterpillar food and placed in the ‘Understanding of the World’ area of the setting.  The pupils have been busy exploring them with magnifying glasses and report that the caterpillars are currently ‘small, black, spiky and very hungry’!

Click on the image below to visit Reception’s Caterpillar Diary Page. Join us as we watch them develop.

Click here to see our very hungry caterpillars!

So far we have raised over £1000 and we still need to count the money on the coin picture and collect in further donations. Thank you to everyone for their generous support – keep the donations coming!

Click on the image below to view a selection of photos from the day’s activities. Woodcroft pupils wore crimson ‘awareness’ ribbons, created a giant coin picture, made class message flags, wrote to their friends in Nepal, made a Nepalese garden, and came together outside at the end of the day for a silent reflection.

A full report will follow in next week’s news. We will continue to collect money before announcing the final total on Friday 22nd May. Well done to everyone – a wonderful Woodcroft day!

Click on the photo above to view our Nepal Day Gallery.