Woodcroft Primary School

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.

Click on the photo to view our Harvest Festival  Gallery

Thank you to everyone for their generosity towards our Harvest Festival collections this week. The food hamper display and ‘coin-picture’ collections in aid of ‘AgeUK Barnet’ and the ‘British Red Cross Nepal Disaster Fund’ looked fantastic and raised a total of £322. Click on the photo above to view our Harvest Festival Gallery. 

Pharaoh Tutankhamun is prepared for mummification

This week Year 3 travelled in our TARDIS to have a very special meeting with the famous pharaoh, Tutankhamun. The pupils got to take part in a real life mummification experience! They carefully followed the steps they had learned  and were able to prepare the pharaoh for the afterlife. Year 3 want to say a very big thank you to Tutankhamun and wish him all the best in the afterlife. Take a look at some photos of our day – click on a thumbnail to view the gallery slideshow.

Congratulations on achieving GOLD!

Our JTAs with Mrs Court, Chair of Governors.

Woodcroft was invited to attend the TfL 2015 Gold STARS Accreditation Ceremony on Tuesday 13 October where were formally presented with our gold award and certificate. Mrs Valoti and our Chair of Governors, Liz Court, went along to this prestigious event at Camden Town Hall along with two of our Y6 Junior Travel Ambassadors (JTAs), Florenta and Billy.

During the event we had an opportunity to exchange ideas and plan new, exciting travel initiatives with other Gold accredited schools from across London. Our JTAs  had a fun packed day and were proud to collect our 2015 STARS Award in this special ceremony.

STARS – Sustainable Travel: Active, Responsible, Safe – is an accreditation scheme for schools to inspire young Londoners to travel sustainably, actively, responsibly and safely. STARS empowers
pupils and improves the safety and wellbeing of the whole community. It also encourages active travel behaviour and improves the environment around the school.

FOUNDATION STAGE WIN MOST ENTHUSIASTIC GARDENERS IN BARNET AWARD 2015!

Most enthusiastic gardeners 2015!

On Thursday 8th October Mrs Brown and Mrs June attended the 2015 Barnet Young Gardeners Award Ceremony along with pupils, Arman and Ajisa, and their Mum, Mrs Husedzinovic.

The judges had visited our Early Years Garden back in the summer and spent time talking with the children about how the garden is used at Woodcroft. At the Awards, held at Sunnyfields School, it was announced that we had won the prize for ‘The Most Enthusiastic Young Gardeners 2015’. We were presented with The Rose Connolly Cup by the Mayor of Barnet. The judges commented that Woodcroft Reception pupils were always enthusiastic and very knowledgeable for children so young. Well done to everyone involved in making our boutique garden so special!

Click on the photos below to see Woodcroft’s table display at the event, receiving the trophy from Mayor Shooter and then proudly celebrating in our garden back at school. You can read about our award in the press by clicking here… Edgware and Mill Hill Times – Young gardeners scoop prizes for homegrown displays

Residency Week 3 – Musical Pictures and Graphical Scores!

click the image to visit the ‘All Ears’ webpage

This week each class was set a mission: work in partnership with a class from another year group, learn to visually represent music, develop a themed graphical score, rehearse a composition involving 30 pupils and then perform it to an audience – oh, and by-the-way, you only have 2 hours to complete! Take a look at some amazing images from the week (and the project so far) by clicking the image above.

Something to Chew On!

click to view the sessions

Every Friday our Year 3 classes are enjoying taking part in a special healthy lifestyle programme with Saracens Rugby Club. ‘Something to Chew On’ mixes rugby themed interactive healthy lifestyle classroom sessions with rugby training.

Click on the photo above to see Ben Cave and Frederico Bertilotti from Saracens leading the sessions in the classroom and then outside on the playground.

Click on the photo to view our festival photo gallery

The Sun was shining, flags were waved, whistles blown, music played and pupils danced – everyone had a great time at the 2015 Burnt Oak Festival and Parade on Saturday 19th September.

Woodcroft was joined by our fellow connectED partnership schools; Barnfield, Broadfields, Colindale, Goldbeaters and The Orion, in the procession from Edgware to Silkstream Park. With music supplied by our very own Mr Raw, everyone who joined the parade danced their way through the streets of Burnt Oak.

The schools then put on some amazing performances on the festival stage. Woodcroft’s guitar group got things off to a great start with an accomplished set; singing and playing with such confidence. J Rock Dance Club later wowed the audience with their latest composition.

The Nutmeg Community guys who were hosting the proceedings on the stage had fun with all of the schools getting everyone up to dance. No one was safe – including Headteachers!

In a climax to the event all of the school choirs came together on the stage to perform ‘Everyone Belongs’; a fitting end to a first event with our connectED partnership schools.

Well done to the festival organisers from All Together Better Burnt Oak! Thank you to all of the staff and parents who supported the event and helped make it such an excellent day! Click here to view our Festival Photo Gallery