William Patten Primary School
Stoke Newington Church Street
London N16 0NX
Headteacher: Karen Law
Year 2 have enjoyed their outdoor classroom sessions with Nina. The children made castles and beds, as well as mud pies in the mud kitchen. They enjoyed using tools to make their own medals and of course
they loved identifying animal poo and recreating animal prints in clay. El also demonstrated his strength moving a huge wooden pallet to make his cart!
Year 1 had their most exciting adventure yet as they set off by train for Spitalfields Farm. As part of their science topic on animals, they learned all about the farm's animals. Did you know that donkeys are not waterproof? Chewy the goat was a particular favourite as were the guinea pigs and ferrets. We noticed that one of the sheep was missing an ear and one of the ducks missing an eye. Our guides - Sadie and Kirsten - explained that a lot of the animals are rescue animals. We really recommend a visit!
Thank you to all the families who were able to join us for the Year 4 Come Dine With Us today. It was so lovely to see so many of you and thank you for your lovely comments about your lunch. The kitchen team were delighted to hear you enjoyed your meal. Thank you for your patience with the long queue! The children were all so excited to see you too. A huge thank you to Ali and his team - Althea, Sally, Sophia and Tilda for all their hard work preparing an extra 60 delicious dinners! What a team!
Year 4 continued the bake sale competition after school on Friday with a delicious selection of tray bakes, cupcakes and big cakes to choose from. A very big thank you to everybody who made cakes, helped to serve (including some junior assistants!) or bought cakes. All money raised will go the @william_patten_school_ptfa to raise money for additional activities and resources for the children. The year group that raises the most money wins a prize! Will it be Year 4? We will have to wait and see! Thank you Year 4!
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!
