Woodcroft Primary School

Let’s create a better internet together

Woodcroft Primary School is supporting Safer Internet Day 2015 and joining hundreds of other organisations across the UK in celebrating Safer Internet Day and promoting the safe and responsible use of technology.

Safer Internet Day 2015 is on Tuesday 10th February 2015, with the theme ‘Let’s create a better internet together’, offering the opportunity to focus on both the creative and positive things that children and young people are doing online, as well as the role that we all play in helping to create a better internet.

For more information about Safer Internet Day at Woodcroft click here

Visit the Safer Internet Day website here

Woodcroft Primary, alongside installation company 4D Creative, will be hosting an event for school leaders in our fantastic immersive learning space. If you are interesting in visiting on 11th February please contact 4D Creative. Click on the attached flyer below for further details.

Woodcroft 4D Event

Read about Woodcroft in the Edgware and Mill Hill Times. Click on the links below to read their article about the visit of Ian Rose last week.

http://www.times-series.co.uk/news/11751080.Children_thrilled_with_Paralympian_visit/

Ian Rose with his Olympic medals

Team Photo

The Girls football team took part in the West Barnet 6-a-Side Tournament at Power League. Despite deteriorating weather they performed well and improved with each game played. Well done to all of the girls and thank you to Miss Wilkes and Mr Judd  for their support of the team. Thank you also to our parent helpers and supporters.

    We have been approached by Cambridge University to help with a research project called the ‘Index of Toddlers’ Life Chances’. They are looking for parents of 12- to 35-month-old children to complete a questionnaire. The study, part of the ‘Ready Steady Go’ project, is led by Prof. Claire Hughes and is trying to learn more about the growth of basic social skills in children and the experiences of parents of raising children. It’s very short, takes 10 minutes, and they would be delighted if parents contributed. For more information or if you can help please pick up a paper questionnaire from school or visit the links below:

Project Poster: Click here
More Information: http://toddlersup.wix.com/toddlersup
Questionnaire link: tiny.cc/readysteadygo

The Woodcroft Boccia team visited Northway School on Friday to take part in a competition. We played and won all of our six games! Well done to the Boccia team for their excellent sporting behaviour and attitude on the day. Thank you also to our Sports Ambassadors, Shabnam Y6 and Alin Y5, and Miss Wilkes for supporting the team. Click on the team photo to view the gallery…

The Woodcroft Boccia Team

Did you know that Boccia is a Paralympic sport for athletes with disabilities that have a major impact on motor skills? Boccia is a target ball sport belonging to the same family as petanque and bowls. You can find out more about the sport and the British team by clicking the link here: http://www.gb-boccia.org/

Ian Rose, Judo Champion and Paralympic Silver Medalist, visited Woodcroft today to launch Be The Best You Can Be 2015. In assembly Ian gave an inspirational talk to all pupils and then visited each class to answer their questions and pose for photos.

Ian visited every class in the school.

Ian is pictured below with a group of pupils from across the school who were chosen to ask a question.

Ian Rose introduced us to Dave the penguin – can you spot him?

Find out more about Be The Best You Can Be at Woodcroft please read our media release: click here
Alternatively visit the 21st Century Legacy website by clicking the plaque below.

Be The Best

Guitar Club performed a wonderful musical set to the school and parents on Friday 23rd January.  They played and sang ‘Stay with Me’ by Sam Smith and then two songs by Ariana Grande; ‘Break Free’ and  ‘Problem’. They also performed ‘Count on Me’ by Bruno Mars and ‘Stairway to Heaven’ by Led Zeppelin.

The quality of their playing and singing was truly amazing. Well done to Mr Huckerby for enabling such musical talent an opportunity to express itself so confidently. Visit the photo gallery here…

Guitar Club Performance

Ollie Tunmer leads a body percussion assembly

Ollie Tunmer, star of West End Show Stomp, taught Woodcroft pupils the art of body percussion. Take a look at what we got up to…click here to visit the gallery.

Ex Woodcroft pupil, Bryn Court, talks about his film creations.

Today we were visited by Bryn Court, an ex Woodcroft pupil who is now a renowned Hollywood movie sculptor and set designer. Bryn was the Head Sculptor for the Harry Potter series of movies, but has also worked on many other famous films from Braveheart to James Bond. He brought along two house elves from Harry Potter. I am sure you all remember ‘Dobby’ from the films…guess who created him?

Bryn talked to the school in a special assembly. He told us all about his time as a pupil at Woodcroft, and how he dreamed of becoming an artist. He described how he worked hard at school so that he could go to college to study art. After college Bryn then started helping out at a film studio to learn from others around him. He has now worked on many films and also helped create the Harry Potter theme parks in Orlando and Japan. Bryn has just finished making a lifesize fire breathing dragon at Universal Studio’s new Wizarding World; check out this video clip below …

Bryn was also crafted the Dark Knight sculptures for the Batman movies. Visit his website to see all of his fantastic work.    http://moviesculptor.com/

Bryn will be coming back to Woodcroft in the near future to support our AIM@Arts programme and work with some Woodcroft pupils. However, he starts a new film project with JK Rowling on Monday; but you will have to ask one of the pupils to find out about this surprise news!