Welcome back to Summer Term at School 21!
LATEST NEWS AT SCHOOL 21:
Spring Exhibition Feedback
We hope you enjoyed our Spring Exhibition on 27th March! It was fantastic to have such an enthusiastic crowd exploring students’ amazing work around the school.
Please let us know your feedback here https://forms.gle/K4xmEAUzLyS9G7Ju5 to help us make our Summer Exhibition even better!
Recycled Art Challenge
Over the spring holiday we set students a recycled art challenge. Thank you to everyone who took part!
Football News!
Our Year 5 and 6 Girls’ football team played very hard in their last match of the term. A big ‘Thank you’ to parents Ms Dos Reis Barbosa and Mr Kapovi for stepping in to support the team! Despite loosing 1-0, spirits remained high and the team are determined to come back with renewed strength. The PE department and all of us at School 21 are very proud of the team, and excited to support them in the upcoming East London Year 5 and 6 Competition this Summer Term!
School 360 Community Iftaar
A group of our Year 10 Real World Learning Project students spent a great evening working with The Nurture Academy! At the School 360 community Iftaar, the girls ran a pop-up salon for the evening, taking bookings and braiding hair for families from School 21 and School 360. The event was so popular it booked out, and a second event is being organised just to accomodate all the bookings. The young women did themselves and School 21 very proud with their dedication, expertise and professionalism.
LEARNING AT SCHOOL 21:
Reception
This week we began our new project, "I wonder what's in the egg?" We received some new exciting guests in our class… caterpillars! We have been observing how much they have already grown. Our story this week was The Very Hungry caterpillar and we did many paintings from the story to use in Drawing Club. In Adams Class, we also adopted a pet worm for a day and built a playground for it out of blocks.
Year 1
This week we launched our outdoor play area! We are going to be using this every afternoon as part of our playtimes. We had so much fun this week exploring all the new equipment and zones: We built dens, made water walls, planted and maintained the flower beds, played with the sandpit and even practised some football scoring!
Year 2
Year 2 started a new computing project using Scratch Junior. They were so excited to create programs using blocks, linked together, to command objects or characters to move against different backgrounds. This project is for two weeks and we are looking forward to seeing the magnificant outcomes.
Year 3
Year 3 have begun their new Science Unit which is all about plants and how they grow. We started this unit by setting up an investigation about how important light, water, space, soil and air are for plants to be healthy and strong. In our groups, we set up 3 different plant pots with different conditions such as access to no air, some air or lots of air. We will monitor our plants over the coming weeks to see which grow the most.
Year 4
This week, we have started our new coding project on Scratch and we are working towards creating our own games. We have started by looking at how to create codes which make the sprite move and we used these codes to move our sprite through a maze. We are really enjoying our new project so far and can’t wait to create our games!
Year 5
Our first Year 5 assembly back! We learnt about the different types of relationships, including those between acquaintances, friends, relatives and families. As well as sharing what we love about our families. Some great responses included how their families were funny, caring and always there for them.
Year 8
Year 8 worked on creating The Giant Book of Indigenous Peoples of the World. This was done to raise awareness of the importance and relevance that indigenous peoples have in our world today due to their community values and their care and respect of the environments. We were fortunate enough to bring a Mayan indigenous person to the exhibition that took place on the 27th of March. Another indigenous person from the Amazon rain forest donated a painting to the school as a token of his community's gratitude for raising awareness on indigenous culture, and struggles in our world today:
“My name is Minta, I belong to the Waorani community from the Ecuadorian jungle. My community is located in the Yasuni National Park, where the depths of the jungle begin. My people have been the guardians of the forest since the beginning of time. Mother Earth gives us animals to feed, abundant fruits, medicine, construction materials and her rivers provide fish, water for drinking, bathing and washing clothes. This is the most biodiverse place and the lungs of the world. Unfortunately, since the 1940s this has been an oil exploitation area. Over the past few decades, countless wells have been drilled and mile after mile of road built. Settlers and companies, "development", that's what they call it, settled in my grandparents' territory. There are frequent oil spills. The water in the rivers is contaminated, children have headaches. The lighters, where they burn the gas, burn day and night. Even the rain itself has already been contaminated.Thank you for raising awareness of indigenous peoples of the world.”
Year 12
At the end of Spring Term, Year 12 Government and Politics students participated in a 'Learn with the Lords' session with Lord Hampton, a crossbench elected hereditary peer. The students asked insightful and intelligent questions, and received candid and interesting answers, about issues ranging from constitutional reform, including the future of the House of Lords and electoral systems, to pressing contemporary concerns like the Rwanda migration bill and Gaza ceasefire vote.
Their engagement made a compelling case for lowering the voting age to 16, as Lord Hampton himself commented on!
Over the past few months, a group of year 12 students participated in a variety of workshops where they had the opportunity to express their views on the social and political climate of ‘growing up in East London’.
Their voices, ideas and political insights were then used to create a theatre production called ‘Fortuna’. Students were invited to view the theatrical piece at Hoxton Hall on Tuesday. An enjoyable afternoon was had by all!
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