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This year we celebrated our love of reading in a new way: we celebrated poetry! Children wrote and performed their own poems which they shared with their class and the adults played the masked reader to see if children could guess who the person reading the poem behind the mask was. The children were pretty …

The children, staff and parents work hard at St Francis’. We believe that hard work is the foundation on which dreams are built. We were so please to receive this acknowledgement from Rt Hon Damian Hinds (Minister for Schools) on all the hard work we do to support the children’s early reading. St Francis’ is …

This year St Francis’ took part in the Metropolitan Police’s Christmas Tree Campaign alongside The Childhood Trust. The Christmas Tree Appeal Campaign delivers Christmas presents to young people across London who may not otherwise receive a gift. This year the campaign will be ever more important as families navigate the continuing cost of living crisis. …

During the Spring Term, the children of St. Francis’ have been very busy preparing for and performing musical concerts. The St. Francis’ Choir presented a brilliant performance of their home-grown Easter Cantata. Based on Jerusalem Joy by Roger Jones, the choir chose various other songs that they felt told the Easter story, by composers as …

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Year 5 have been taking part in an exciting project called ‘Architecture in Schools’. Five brilliant architects from London firm Allford Hall Monaghan Morris supported the children on a field trip and two in school workshops to design and model bridges that would bring connections and community between the two different sides of the River Thames. …

Last summer, St. Francis’ was part of Art Matters – an annual Newham-wide schools’ art exhibition. Members of our student Arts Council selected art from all year groups to be exhibited at University of East London’s art studios and then backed the work and mounted it on special display boards. Some of the Arts Council …

A group of year 6 children recently took part in a competition for East London schools called the Money Wise Challenge. They competed against teams from other schools by speed-answering questions on personal finance topics. St Francis’ sent two teams; one team came second in the competition and the other team came third. Well done! …

The theme for this year’s Maths Market Week was the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. The children used their calculation, reasoning and problem-solving skills to overcome challenges throughout the week. After designing and making a product, they took them to the market to sell. Fun was had by all and it enabled the children to see the …

Congratulation to Rhianna; she is the KS2 winner for the No Smoking Day Poster Competition. The competition received nearly 100 entries which were done to a high standard, but Rhianna’s poster stood out as one of the best in the borough. Her poster will be displayed on bus stops, our social media page, website and …