Wood End School

I am delighted to share with you the result of our Ofsted report - we have maintained the outstanding grade! This is a testament to the ongoing excellent education children at Wood End receive My sincere thanks to our amazing pupils, staff, governors and parents. Happy New Year

Well done to our chess team. They won the Harpenden schools chess tournament this week. As a team they only lost two games out of 24. They were all brilliant and worthy champions. We are very proud of them of all.

What a wonderful KS1 and KS2 House talent show today. All finalists were superb. We had singers, dancers, karate experts, gymnasts, a comedian, pianists, a cellist and drummers! Well done to Ridgewood Red and Yeomans Yellows on winning!

World Book Day 2024 📚 We all had a brilliant day celebrating World Book Day with the children and enjoyed reading and storytelling! ❤️

@BBC_Teach we are happy to be featured on World Book Day and would love for you to pay us a visit and see our fantastic new library opened by Cressida Cowell in September! 👍🏼

Welcome to our Library - part of our new learning hub opened by @CressidaCowell in September! Our pupils love spending time in this calm and quiet environment where they can read to their heart’s content! ❤️ #edutwitter

Emilia has had a great morning working alongside me She visited all classrooms to check on learning; presented certificates in assembly; and observed and fedback to Mr Withers on his teaching! It was an absolute pleasure working alongside her.

Well done to our tag rugby team - third over all in the Harpenden schools event. Lost one game - to the overall winners. The team played really well and were a real credit to the school.

I popped into Nursery yesterday for lunch. Ended up playing with Lego! What a great group of children - I learnt all about, lions, towers and dinosaurs!!!

The smells coming form the kitchen have been delightful this week. Year 5 have been preparing and making bolognaise sauce. Great skills learnt. I've not been invited to taste yet!!!

What a superb assembly from year 6! A brilliant and funny way to showcase all that have done last term - and told through the eyes of the Ofsted inspection!

In geography,  year 3 have been looking at the 6 different biomes. They used the VR headsets to explore some of these biomes and understand more about their characteristics, their plants (flora) and animals (fauna). The VR headsets are proving very popular!

On Monday year 6 were lucky enough to have a virtual author visit with @tompalmerauthor. The children were keen to hear all about the inspiration behind his book ' Resist'. They also learnt about the research he does and his journey to becoming an author. Thank you Tom!

This week, year 5 have learnt all about the force of gravity. They carried out a class practical enquiry to study the effects that gravity has on falling objects, by creating 'craters' from classroom objects.

In art, year 4 have been learning about the brilliant and brave Mexican painter, Frida Kahlo and have been busy creating their study pages.

A great day for year 1. A brilliant History off the Page experience- the Great Fire of London. Children were engaged in numerous exciting activities. They also looked great dressed up too!

Year 3 have been reading a story about The Spider-god Anansi and the lengths he would go to be Lord of all the stories. They created freeze frames of the key parts of the story. Looks like great fun!

Year 1 have begun their learning about the Great Fire of London by investigating old and new London. They found out about the disgusting toileting habits of Londoners in 1666 and decided They would NOT have wanted to live there!  They created their own Pudding Lane bakery !!