William Patten Primary School
Stoke Newington Church Street
London N16 0NX
Headteacher: Karen Law
The infamous and very popular Year 4 Roman Day. The children look forward to it so much and always remember it, often mentioning it as a highlight of their time at WP. Feasts, shield making, battles and lots of fun today in the top hall and beyond! Fabulous costumes too!
WP was a sea of blue on Friday! Every November 14, World Diabetes Day is commemorated. This is an opportunity to raise awareness about the impact of diabetes on people’s health and to highlight the opportunities to strengthen the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of the condition. To celebrate the day, many staff and children wore blue (including socks, shoes and glasses!) and donated £1 to Diabetes UK.
Year 6 hugely enjoyed their residential trip to Kench Hill in Kent, they had a fabulous time! A big thank you to the WP staff team and the staff at the centre for ensuring that the children had some amazing experiences. The children have lots of lovely memories of a very special week!
Year 4 enjoyed their trip to London Zoo last Tuesday to support their Science topic. Such wonderful sights to see! A very big thank you to all of the parents who were able to accompany the classes on the trip. Your
time and support is very much appreciated and we couldn’t do it without you.
Year 5 had a fantastic trip to the National Gallery to see the Impressionist paintings they have been learning about in their art lessons. The visit gave them the chance to admire famous works up close and gather inspiration for their own Impressionism-inspired painting sessions back at school.
Year 3 have been fantastic historians learning all about life in the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Ages. Along with fact finding research, both classes created fantastic cave drawings and their own artefacts out of salt dough - animal bone jewellery, arrow heads and small pots. Not forgetting the cross-curricular link with our English text ‘The Stone Age Boy’ and the wonderful writing they have produced. They rounded off their History topic with a trip to the British Museum. The classes were wonderfully behaved on the journey and were excellent role models while exploring the museum. Using an activity booklet the classes completed a treasure hunt to locate particular Stone Age, Iron Age and Bronze Age artefacts; drew patterns they saw on stone and metal objects; found and wrote facts about Bronze age jewellery and even saw the types of objects they had made out of salt dough!
A huge thank you to all the parents who were able to join us for the EYFS presentation, the introduction to the work of the fabulous EDI committee and for the picnic. It was lovely to welcome so many of you! Thank you also for your very generous donations of goodies! A final thank you to our lovely Year 6 Peer Supporters for their help and kindness, playing with the Reception children and their teddies.
We were delighted to celebrate World Afro Day at WP. Members of @williampattenedi presented two assemblies, one for KS1 and one for KS2. The assembly included information about when World Afro Day started, how it started and the different types of Afro hair. A key message was that it is important to celebrate diversity, embrace difference and be proud of our unique hair types. A huge thank you to Ami, Cymone, Erika, Laura, Shade, Sherelle and Tiffany. They were AMAZING! As part of World Afro Day, classes shared stories celebrating Afro hair. A very big thank you to Kiki, who read the story My Special Hair by Candee Dingwall to both Year 1 classes. The children loved talking about their different hairstyles and the way they might wear, look after and cover their hair types. The children talked about everyone’s hair and hairstyles make them unique and special.
What a brilliant night. Over 750 children, parents and staff enjoyed performances in the top hall showcasing the talents of our wonderful children, delicious food brought in to share by our fabulous families in the middle hall and craft activities in the bottom hall provided by staff and the parent led EDI committee. Thank you to everyone who contributed, it was a magical evening!
Reception visited the Postal Museum on Tuesday and had a wonderful time travelling on the Mail Rail and playing in the ‘Sorted! Postal Play Space’, an immersive mini-town with streets, buildings, trolleys, pulleys, slides and chutes. The children had great fun and learnt a lot! The children also helped The Jolly Postman collect, sort and deliver the post for fairy tale characters! What a busy day!
