School Events
Holiday Camp Fun!
The children at our half term holiday camp are having lots of fun this week! Yesterday, after learning a poem about the wind, they made kites which they flew and had a paper boat race to test the strength of the wind. They have also done water calligraphy and traditional Chinese games such as rubber…
Year 3 make mummified tomatoes
To support their studies on Ancient Egypt, Year 3 have been mummifying tomatoes. Firstly, the children scooped out the inside of the tomato (as Egyptians once did when they mummified people!) Then they applied hand sanitiser to the tomato to kill the bacteria before weighing the tomato and salting it. And voila! After 2 weeks…
Dinosaur World!
As part of their project on dinosaurs, nursery created a brilliant Dinosaur World yesterday using jelly, sand, soil, ice… and lots of dinosaurs.
Pupils enjoy a trip to Neverland
Pupils in Nursery, Reception and Years 1 and 2 enjoyed a trip to Neverland this week at a special drama workshop. They used their acting and performing skills to help Peter Pan save the day – well done!
Electrifying STEAM Workshops!
On Wednesday, we were very lucky to have parents, Mr Weinhammer and Ms Yu, in school to lead workshops about electricity across our KS2 classes. The children had fun turning fruit and vegetables into rudimentary batteries using citric acid and exploring whether they were good conductors of electricity. They built human models to visualise a…
Year 4 make their own compasses
Year 4 have been making their own compasses! The children have been learning about how the compass was created in ancient China during the Han Dynasty around 100AD. They have discovered that the Chinese initially developed the compass not for navigation but for spiritual purposes and to organise buildings and other things according to the…
Coronation Celebrations
We have had lots of fun learning about and celebrating the Coronation. We had a special assembly this morning and had a procession of everyone wearing their crowns. This afternoon we have made ‘Kensington Wade Mess’ and had class parties. Happy Coronation weekend everyone!
British Values Week
In preparation for the King’s Coronation, the whole school has been celebrating British Values Week. The children have been reflecting on British people of significance and were reminded of the 5 British values that are the cornerstone of our country: democracy, the rule of law, tolerance of other faiths, mutual respect and individual liberty.
Chinese Immersive Education Breakfast
We welcomed a number of Mandarin teachers from local senior schools to Kensington Wade this morning to our first Chinese Immersive Education Breakfast! At this event, our Head of Chinese, Wang Jing, explained how our bilingual immersive model works. Our visitors also heard from some of our pupils, observed one of our Year 2 lessons…
Kensington Wade Great British Bake Off
Here are just some of the amazing entries we had at our GBBO on Friday! Thank you so much to all the parents and children who donned their aprons and entered the competition, to our celebrity Bake Off judge Chigs Parmar, to the Friends of Kensington Wade, our sponsors and, last but not least, parent…
