A team of Whitehall Junior children were selected for the first time, to represent the school at the ISA Swimming Gala. Mrs Scarrow, our Sports teacher, was immensely proud of the children battling it out to the end, in all 50 metre races as well as Relays. Well done Whitehall!
What a fantastic time the children had today. After Tennis coaching from the Huntingdon Tennis Club earlier in the week, we had a visit today from our Circus Skills Presenter who had everyone enthralled and trying hard to perfect their skills with each other! The sun came out and after a picnic on the lawn, [...]
For the past term or so, the infants at Whitehall have been participating in Yoga in order to supplement the sports and swimming that we already undertake. We have really enjoyed this focused part of our week and have taken notice of how our bodies feel before after the sessions. Last week we were lucky [...]
This was the question in Foundation as we watched our Butterflies fly for the first time. The whole of Whitehall joined us as we held 5 painted lady butterflies and cheered as they flew away. The butterflies started life in Foundation after the Easter Holidays as tiny caterpillars. We watched and recorded as they grew. [...]
Year 5 and 6 went to Grafham on Wednesday 10th of June until Friday the 12th of June. We arrived at 10.15am – some of us got a little lost as there are quite a few different Grafham centres! When we arrived, we went straight to our lounge (which is basically our base) and listened [...]
Lundi après-midi (yes... afternoon!) nous (les années 1 et 2) avons mangé le petit déjeuner français. Nous avons mangé... un croissant un petit pain-au-chocolat une brioche deux biscottes du beurre de la confiture aux abricots (apricot jam) du pain (de la baguette). Nous avons bu du jus d'orange et du chocolat-chaud Miam! Miam!
Dear All, Please if you see the dream team congratulate them on their efforts yesterday. Despite muddy conditions and continued driving rain the boys made it through to the quarter finals to be defeated in their tracks by the victors of the tournament. The boys only lost the quarter final game and drew 3 matches, [...]
Last week Foundation learnt about weddings. This was a theme the children chose to build upon. We have used it to base maths skills such as weight and measure when making wedding cakes, literacy skills such as writing invitations, U.W when discuss other cultures and traditions and musical development. On Wednesday we were invited to Somersham [...]
Last week we welcomed the Raptor Foundation into School to visit with Key stage 1 and the Early years team as part of our theme about Birds. David arrived with 5 beautiful birds including a barn Owl and a hawk. We learnt about their food, asked questions about how they hunt and many of us chose to [...]
After months of preparation, the day finally arrived! Yes, the Junior children were off to London to sing in the ‘Young Voices 2015’ concert at the O2 Arena. Needless to say, the children were incredibly excited as they arrived at school in their Young Voices T-shirts with back-packs full of food to keep them going [...]
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