News

Thursday morning saw a wonderful demonstration of teaching for Maths Mastery in Year 4 (4P). 

This time last year I was approached by one of our parents, asking if we had any old and unused resources which might be useful to a Nursery School that her mother was setting up in Ghana. 

Congratulations to the selected pupils from Year 3 and 4 who took part in the Croydon Schools’ Cross Country event at Lloyd Park on Tuesday 4th October.

A highlight of the end of year is the opportunity for pupils in different year groups to share their music work with each other. 

What a lovely way to round off the year, with a performance by our Junior Choir on the front steps of the school. 

We were pleased to be visited today by Steve Reed, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and MP for Croydon North, so that he could meet with our School Council to discuss local matters and tell them a little bit more about his work as our local MP. 

Lovely to see Rachel Dixon, our Dance and Yoga specialist teacher, working with Year 5 on the field under the blazing sunshine today. 

It was a pleasure accompanying Year 6 on the annual visit to Chessington World of Adventures on Wednesday 6th July. 

Today was the day when our ‘decennial’ (it means every 10 years – I Googled it!)

If your child likes fire engines, Croydon Fire Station is hosting its annual Open Day on Saturday 2nd July 2022 from 11am until 4pm. 

I will be honest and say that the building of the Anglo Saxon houses in 4P was not popular with our cleaning staff (lots of mud and straw) but the learning when Mrs Pinkney set up a ‘river’ in one of the flower beds and asked pupils to set up their homestead was next level stuff. 

The new playground at Grangewood Park has its official launch this Saturday, 11th June, between 10am and 12 midday. 

Whitehorse Manor Junior School was inspected under section 8 of the Education Act on the 26th and 27th April 2022. 

Dear Parents and Carers.  Our MHST (Mental Health Support Team) would like to share that the Off the Record Youth Counselling Service will be running a Support for Parents and Carers workshop to help them understand and better support their children who may be struggling with self-harm.   

The WHJUN choir very much enjoyed their visit to St Alban’s this morning, where they entertained the weekly coffee morning group with a selection of songs including ‘Marching in the Light’ and ‘You’ve got a Friend’.