Woodcroft Primary School

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.

COLLABORATE is a year-long partnership programme between the Unicorn and one primary school that gives teachers and pupils unparalleled access to theatre for young audiences. We are proud to announce that Woodcroft has been selected as the Collaborate Partner for 2015-16!

This is a unique opportunity to place a whole-school focus on theatre and creative learning, and explore artistic and educational practice with professional theatre-makers. Find out more about the programme by clicking the link below:

Unicorn Theatre Collaborate Partnership Information

On the evening of May 5th our fantastic ‘J Rock’ dancers performed to parents and carers before receiving well earned medals of achievement. The club showcased their ‘Sting in the Tale’ routine for the very last time. Well done to everyone one involved in the club for another amazing year of dance! Anne Fisher, organiser of the Barnet Dance Festivals, came along to present the medals and congratulate the group on the high standard of performance that they achieve every year.

A short film of their year, directed by Miss Maynard, was also premiered on the evening. This can be viewed below.

Also, click on the image below to view a gallery of photos of the evening.

Click to view more photos of their evening presentation and performance.

We have all been shocked by the news of the earthquake in Nepal. The 7.8-magnitude quake has killed more than 6,000 people. Many survivors are now in desperate need of food and water.
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 Friday 15th May we shall be holding a Nepal Benefit Day at Woodcroft when we will raise funds to help our friends in Nepal.

Click on the link below to view the latest newsletter with more information about the day.

Newsletter Issue 203

Woodcroft choir performed as part of BEAT’s ‘Play On’ concert at the Royal Albert Hall on Thursday 23rd April.

You can watch a video of the evening by going to the Barnet Education Arts Trust (BEAT) website  http://www.playon2015.co.uk/

Woodcroft pupils had an amazing day – click on the photo below to see a gallery of our experiences; from lunch in Kensington Park, through our afternoon rehearsals and finally to the spectacular evening performance!

Woodcroft Basketball Team Compete

Our school basketball team, the ‘Woodcroft Wildcats’ took part in the Barnet Basketball Tournament against teams from across the borough. In their pool matches they succeed in achieving a very creditable 1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss. They were eventually knocked out in the quarter finals by the eventual winners.

Well done Wild Cats! Click on the image below to see them in action…

Click on the image above to see the Wildcats in action!

Welcome back to the start of a new term. We hope that you had a good break and enjoyed the Easter sunshine! This term is always especially busy with trips and events so we will be distributing the summer diary sheet on Friday.

Woodcroft already provides excellent information to parents through our weekly published newsletter and website. However, in response to questionnaire feedback about receiving even more notice about events we have introduced a new School Calendar facility on this website. This online, interactive, Google calendar will enable parents to keep up to date with all of the latest information. Go to our School Calendar page or click the icon on the right. Can I recommend that you select ‘Agenda’ view from the tabs available if it doesn’t do so automatically, This will display a handy list of all events throughout the term. We hope that you find this new feature useful.

NB: Please note that Google have identified and issue with the web calendar not displaying on certain devices. We have therefore provided a direct link on the Parent Calendar if parents experience difficulty viewing.