School Events 2019-20
Primary Quality Science Mark Awards Evening – On 13 / 11 /19, Ms Singh and Miss Hodkinson attended the PQSM award’s evening in Central London to receive Scott Wilkie’s GILT award.
This Primary Science Quality Mark has been awarded to us by local experts to celebrate our commitment to excellence in Science teaching and learning. Jane Turner, PSQM National Director said “Gaining a Primary Science Quality Award is a significant achievement for a school. The profile and quality of Science teaching and learning in each awarded school is very high. Children are engaging with great science, both in and outside of the classroom, developing positive attitudes towards Science as well as secure scientific understanding and skills. Science subject leaders, their colleges, head teachers, children, parents and governors should be very proud.
We are very proud of our award and we would like to say a big thank you to Ms Singh for her continued hard work as our science leader.
Congratulations to the children who were elected to be this year’s Head Boy and Head Girl!
Anti Bullying Week – Change starts with us!
In Key Stage 2 at Scott Wilkie, all year groups have been using the VR Goggles to discuss and explore a range of different scenarios as part of our Anti Bullying Focus week.
The children will be updating our school’s anti-bullying policy and using philosophy sessions to explore bullying issues further and the positive changes we can make to keep our school a safe , friendly place, where everyone is valued.
The children of Scott Wilkie had a surprise this week. The Little Pop-up Book Hut was delivered by volunteers from the London Book Project. Children were allowed to choose a book from the hut to help encourage a love of reading.
Head Boy and Head Girl Elections
Here are our finalists for the Head Boy/Head Girl election. Well done and good luck!
The children of Scott Wilkie used Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenage environmental activist, as a muse to help them write their own speeches on whatever they were passionate about.
Whole School Speech Making Day
Scott Wilkie children watched Great Thunberg’s speech on climate change this morning and were inspired to write and perform their own speeches on a hot topic that they feel passionate about.
Each child in the school wrote a speech, and each class put forward a speech to be shared at a whole school assembly. The speeches were amazing! Some of the topics the chidlren felt passionate to write about were: racism, recycling, reducing plastic waste, making time to read for enjoyment, the positive benefits of gaming and many more! We have uploaded some of the speeches to share with you!
The children ast Scott Wilkie had a vist from NSPCC Ambassadors today who delivered an assembly and class workshops on Speaking Out and Staying Stafe.
School Events 2018-19
At Scott wilkie we celebrated ‘Cultural Week’. To start the week off, the children dressed up in their traditional clothes from their culture and brought in traditional food to share. We took part in dancing workshops, learning dances from around the world.
We also took part in traditional Maypole Dancing!
We finished the week off we a Great British Picnic followed by an afternoon of traditional British games.
Workshops
KS2 pupils took part in some exciting workshops where their mapping skills were put to the test, while KS1 pupils enjoyed workshops on oceans and seasons.
Science Week
Spring Newsletter 2019
Amadajeh, Daniel and Destiny Scott Wilkie’s pupil Science leaders have created a Spring Term Newsletter to celebrate the exciting Science Scott Wilkie children have been investigating this term.
Scott Wilkie’s Debating Team won both their debates in the East London Debate League Round 2 and they are top of the league table!
Author Visits from Chloe Inkpen and Ali Sparkes
To top off a tremendous World Book Day, the children of Scott Wilkie were visited by two famous authors, Chloe Inkpen and Ali Sparkes. The children in KS1 took part in workshops with Chloe Inkpen and she also read her stories to them. The children in KS2 not only had an interactive and amusing assembly with Ali Sparkes, where she told them all about the journey she took to become a famous author, but they also took part in workshops where they learnt all about becoming authors. The children in KS1 and KS2 also had the opportunity to get signed copies of the authors’ books.
The children of Scott Wilkie were set a challenge to take a picture while reading in the most extreme place possible. Here are some of our entries and well done to our winners who won a set of books to help them continue their love of reading.
Thursday 7th March was World Book Day. The children at Scott Wilkie had the opportunity to come dressed in as their favourite book character.
Debate team win the first round of their Debate Mate competition.
Whole school creative writing
Scott Wilkie pupils enjoyed an amazing morning of creative writing, where they wrote their own 500 words story.
The best 3 entries from each class will be selected from the BBC Radio 2 ‘500 Words Competition’.
I Can Be Project (Meeting an architect)
Children at Scott Wilkie have enjoyed taking part in Esafety workshops for Esafety week.
Scott Wilkie’s Pop Up Book Shop
Excitingly, to further promote our love of reading at Scott Wilkie, one of our learning spaces was turned into a Pop Up Bookshop this week for Christmas. Every child in the school got the opportunity to peruse the books in the bookshop and choose their very own book to take home and keep.
Key Stage 2 Ascension Church Visit
December 2018 – The children of KS2 visited Ascension Church in Custom House to learn about the birth of Jesus from the eyes of a pair of mice detectives.
Newham Schools Poetry Festival
Two members of Year 6 had the opportunity to partake in Newham Schools Poetry Festival. They both wrote poems inspired by the sadness felt by animals kept in captivity and were able to perform these poems in front of three judges, which included the author Paul Delaney. Due to her imaginative language and passionate performance, Daniela came third place and had her poem published in an anthology!
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Congratulations Scott Wilkie’s Head Boy and Head Girl for 2018/19.
On Friday 16th November the School Council organised a pyjama day and a bake sale for Children in Need! Thanks to you, we raised £377.98 through donating money and buying delicious cakes in our bake sale. A special thanks to the Scott Wilkie School Council for arranging the day and working really hard to raise money.
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Custom House Library Reading Challenge
Scott Wilkie Primary School won the Custom House Library Summer Reading Challenge. Our school had 92 reading champions, which is the highest number of children to complete the challenge from all of the local schools. Librarians from the library came to assembly to present Scott Wilkie with the Reading Challenge cup. We will continue our termly trips to the library throughout this academic year too.
Art Club
Key Stage 1 Extra Curricular Art Club enjoyed creating some great firework prints this week!
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Scott Wilkie sports stars are champions of the Newham Mini Olympics – 1st Place Ranking!
A selection of our year 3 and 4 pupils attended a multi-activity afternoon at Forest Gate School on 12/11/18. They enjoyed participating in; invasion games, ball skills and balancing, before being tested on their speed bounce, golf, target throw and relay racing. After dominating most activities, Scott Wilkie were crowned Mini Olympics winners. Well done to our mini Olympians!
To top off the afternoon, Scott Wilkie was also presented with their School Games Platinum Award – Look out for the presentation of the award in an assembly coming soon.
Congratulations Scott Wilkie’s Head Boy and Head Girl for 2018/19
A big congratulations to our new Head Boy, Head Girl and their Deputies.
We hope they will continue to be great role models and look forward to seeing how they will work together to move the school towards greater things.
Head Boy and Girl Elections
Here are our finalists for the Head Boy/Head Girl election. Well done and good luck!
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Black History Competition
Well done to all the children who entered the Black History Competition and congratulations to the KS1 and KS2 winners!
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School Events 2017-18
Sports Day
Scott Wilkie children enjoyed a whole day of sporting fun trying out a range of sports including: fencing, boxing, karate and much more.
Competitive Sports Day
Scott Wilkie children competed in a range of track and field events scoring points for their houses.
Carnival
The whole school got together for an afternoon to celebrate our cultural diversity through dance and performing arts.
Science Week
The Great British Picnic
As part of cultural week, Key Stage 2 children enjoyed an afternoon of traditional British outdoor games and a picnic on the field.
Year 3 – Enabling Enterprise Trip
Please click on the link to view the article of their recent EE business trip.
Extreme Reading Competition
We held our first Extreme Reading Competition this year. Each child in the school was challenged to submit a picture of them reading in extreme situations. We had many entries and the children proved that reading can be done anywhere and everywhere.
Our three winners were Terae, Kayla and Adam.
Here are the winning entries and some other inspirational entries.
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World Book Day
The children dressed up as their favourite book character for World Book Day. Here are the children with the best costumes from each class.
As part of World Book Day, each class in the school was paired with up with another class, where the children read their favourite book with another child.
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Christmas Production
The children in Key Stage 2 performed their Christmas Concert to the delight of their parents and carers.
Cross Country Race
On Wednesday, we took part in a cross country race around the school’s field and through the park. It was cold but we soon warmed up!
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Some of us were so fast, we thought it would be funny to run backwards to the finishing line. Whilst we waited for our turn, personal trainers showed us how to warm up.
Children in Need
A big thank you to all the children who donated to Children In Need. We raised a massive £238.95.
Top Table
A child from each class were invited to sit on the Top Table by the Pupil Leadership Team.
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Creative writing
It was a gloomy and foggy Friday morning, when Charlie the school caretaker discovered the mysterious trunk at the back of the field.
Where had it come from? What was inside?
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As part of creative writing day, the children of Scott Wilkie explored the possibilities of the secret behind the unearthed trunk.
Head Boy and Girl
A big congratulations to our new Head Boy, Head Girl and their Deputies.
We hope they will continue to be great role models and look forward to seeing how they will work together to move the school towards greater things.
Head Boy and Girl Elections
Here are our finalists for the Head Boy/Head Girl election. Well done and good luck!
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Sam the Attendasaurus
Sam the Attendasaurus visited Scott Wilkie to promote attendance and to emphasize the importance of attending school regularly.
Sam will be returning to Scott Wilkie at Christmas, where children who have attended school every day for the rest of the term, will be to meet and have some play time together with Sam
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Maths Morning
On Friday 13th October Scott Wilkie hosted a huge amount of parents, carers and children for their first Maths Morning. The KS1 hall was packed with everyone enjoying maths games and activities.
Adults were given a chance to play with their children and many were astonished by their impressive maths skills! It’s really important to play games regularly children and embed their maths learning into everyday activities.
Parents also got a chance to go into lessons and see how brilliant their maths lessons are. We would like to say thank you very much to all the parents and carers who came in and we can’t wait to see you again on Friday 15th December.
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School Events 2016-17
Storytelling workshop
As part of the Cultural week, Reception and KS1 students were treated to a performance of traditional tales from different cultures. Our pupils helped Valentine (an actor from the Fresh Water Company) to perform a number of different stories and they had a great time.
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Cultural dress-up day
Our students dressed up in traditional outfits to celebrate the diversity and unity within our school. This was the culmination of Cultural Week where we learnt and celebrated different cultures from home and abroad. Students brought foods which represent their cultural heritage and shared it their peers. We also learnt about the main five British values which are: democracy, rule of law, mutual respect, individual liberty and tolerance and respect.
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French afternoon
Pupils from years 5 and 6 took part in a range of activities to mark the end of Cultural Week and to celebrate all they have learned in French this year. The students played Boule, tried refreshments in French style café, drew the Eifel Tower and took part in a French theatre workshop in which they acted out a traditional tale in French.
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40th Anniversary Celebration
The past met the present in this fantastic celebration which brought the community together. Miss Ridley and Miss Blackwood choreographed and lead the performing arts to their best performance yet. The event was celebrated by governors, parents, alumni, and current and former staff members from the Scott Wilkie family, including Scott Wilkie’s first Headteacher, Mrs. Pierce.
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Newham Debating League
Our debaters entered the Newham Debate League. They took part in three rounds throughout the year. There were two debates per round and our team won all six debates. The children became winners of the League which was a first Scott Wilkie and a great achievement for our school.
London Music Fund Scholarship
Tyrone (5A) has been awarded the London Music Fund Scholarship for his outstanding skills in playing the cello. He will receive a full scholarship over the next four years.
Tyrone is one of the only children in Newham to have received such an honour. This award not only reflects his ability but his incredible work ethic and dedication to music.
Well done, Tyrone.
Scott Wilkie’s first Carnival
The whole school took part in a carnival full of colour, entertainment and self-expression. The different year groups had a great time displaying their banners and carnival outfits whilst the dancers swayed to the sound of the steel pans which was being played by the school band.
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Year 6 leavers’ production
Here are the photos of our leavers’ wonderfully memorable production of The Next Big Step. Congratulations the Miss Ridley and the Year 6 team for producing another wonderful show.
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Leavers Assembly
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Morpurgo House Captains Teegan and Taofeek |
Ms Maayuf
We are also sad to have to say goodbye to some of our teachers as they move on to pastures new. Thank you for all your hard work and good luck!
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Mr Manning |
Mr Thompson and Mr Manning
The NED show
On Friday 30th June, Scott Wilkie got an inspirational visit from NED and Ian.
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We learnt to Never give up, Encourage others and Do our best.
Visit from the Bird Man
The children from Year 5 and 6 had a special visit from the Bird Man. They had the opportunity to meet different types of birds and some lucky children had the chance to hold the birds
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Place of Worship Competition
Scott Wilkie did amazingly well in this year’s Place of Worship Competition where many schools across Newham take part. We won a total of 7 prizes, the children produced some fabulous work
and we are so proud of their success. Those who have received a prize include:
Sumayyah from Nursery – Stained Glass Window
Year 1 – film on Sikhism
Year 2 – Art prints inspired by a visit to St Paul’s Cathedral
Lugne from Year 2 – Angel Print
Migle from Year 4 – Hindu God Model
Year 6 – Paintings on Life After Death
Haymish from Year 6- Painting on Life after Death
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Summayah in Nursery won an award in the Place of Worship Competition for her wonderful Stained Glass Window. |
Year 1 Display – Sikhism. Year 1 won an award in the Place of Worship Competition for their assembly on Sikhism. |
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Haymish in Year 6 won an award for his painting and reflection on Life After Death. |
Migle in Year 4 won an award in the Place of Worship Competition for her lovely model of a Hindu God and her thoughtful reflection. |
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Year 6 Display – Is Death the End? Year 6 Won an award in the Place of Worship Competition for their lovely paintings and reflections. |
Spelling Bee
Ameerah, Zahra, Sabrina and Ayman took part in the semi-finals of the Newham 2017 Spelling Bee. They had to learn and memorise the spellings of 100 words and their definitions. Ayman even had to solve three conundrums (words with mixed up letters).
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World Book Day 2017
Scott Wilkie children and staff dressed up to celebrate World Book Day on Thursday 2nd March 2017 and what a wonderful variety of costumes they wore!
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Scott Wilkie Top Table
The Head and Deputy Head boy and girl set up the first Scott Wilkie top table, during which, the children chosen had the opportunity to dine with the Head Boy (Matthew 6T) and Head Girl (Chloe 6W).
Marina (3B)
Kasie (3H)
Alicia (4H)
Kayla (4S)
Freddy (5M)
Tilly (5A)
Ernestas (6T)
Leo (6W)
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Diwali
On Thursday 10th November, children attended a special performance of the Story of Diwali. They enjoyed watching the teachers dress up as characters such as Rama and Sita and act out what happened. Several children also took part and really enjoyed their roles. It was a wonderful and interactive way for this story to be told and helped children to learn more about this special festival.
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Year 3 Rock Circus Day –Tuesday 13th September
On Tuesday 13th September, Year 3 took part in a ‘Rock Circus Science’ workshop. The children had lots of fun! They looked at different types of rocks, they took part in a variety of rock experiments and made amazing fossils!
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Place of Worship Competition
Year 6 and Reception both won prizes at the annual Place of Worship Competition this year. Year 6 visited a Buddhist temple to find out the history of the Buddhist religion and facts they could use in their lessons.
They crafted a wonderful display of Buddha from different drawings they created and created an amazing depiction of Buddha.
Reception visited the local church and came up with a fantastic song, with the help of Ms Jamie to sing in their choir complete with instruments! They sounded fabulous and well deserve their prize. Congratulations to the winners and all that entered.