25th May 2023 Cycle Races And Free Bike Checks On Sunday 11th June Join Cycling Club Hackney on Sunday 11th June at Well Street Common Festival for fun cycle races as ... 24th May 2023 Our New Pen License Holders Well done to our new pen license holders who have shown great care and pride in their ... 24th May 2023 End Of Summer 1 Staff Breakfast A lovely staff breakfast to say thank you and well done for all their hard work put in throughout th... 19th May 2023 Clean Air Poster Competition From Mayor Of London We are encouraging all children to participate in a competition to create a poster based on the them... 15th May 2023 Gold and Silver Cycling Medallists Well done to Leon and Mia for taking home gold medals and Brooke for taking silver in last Friday... 12th May 2023 Year 4 Travel Back To Victorian Era Year 4 travelled back in time to the Victorian era at the Museum of London. They dressed in traditio... 10th May 2023 Save Water With Eco-Team Did you know that it takes 20,000 litres of water to make just 2 pairs of jeans. This is equivalent ... 28th April 2023 Crown Competition - Friday 5th May On Friday 5th May, we are inviting children to make a crown and wear it to school to celebrate the c... 28th April 2023 Bring a Significant Female to School Day A massive thank you to the adults who joined us on ‘Bring a Significant Female to School’... 28th April 2023 Earth Day 2023 Southwold took part in Earth Day his year where children dressed in the colours blue and green. They... 28th April 2023 Dance With Year 4 Year 4 enjoyed their PE lesson where they had a warm up session led by two of their class mates, fol... 25th April 2023 Kings Coronation Day Menu – 5th May 2022 Click here to view our special lunch menu that will be served on Friday 5th May for the Kings Corona... 29th March 2023 Easter Bonnet Competition Winners The School Council had a difficult job in deciding the winners of the Easter Bonnet Competition this... 29th March 2023 Timestable Ambassadors Teach Year 4 Year 6 Timestable Ambassadors loved working with the Year 4 children to help them with their mental ... 29th March 2023 Eco-Team Cross Site Visit The Eco-Team visited Orchard Primary School to discuss future ideas and best practice. They were exc... 21st March 2023 Erasmus Tenerife Trip - March 2023 e Monday 20th March 2023 The Erasmus trip to Tenerife began today at (an ey... 16th March 2023 Guest Author Visits KS2 KS2 had a special visit from author, Danny Wallace. He shared his experience of how he become an au... 15th March 2023 Year 4 Visit Kew Gardens As part of the Year 4 children’s Science and Humanities topic, they visited Kew Gardens. They ... 8th March 2023 Cake Sale For Charity Thank you for all of the kind and generous donations to our cake sale on Friday. We raised £286 to s... 3rd March 2023 Pen Licenses Award Congratulations to our new pen licenses winners who have worked incredibly hard on their handwriting... 2nd March 2023 Artwork Competition A fun art competition has arisen! Please see the details below on how to submit any fantastic pieces... 1st March 2023 World Book Day Southwold did an amazing job of dressing up in their favourite characters for World Book Day! You al... 1st March 2023 Art Competition Winners Well done to our Art Competition winners for their amazing paintings inspired by Keith Pipper. ... 1st March 2023 Reading Books In Extreme Places Children at Southwold have been caught reading in ‘extreme’ places over the last week. T... 24th February 2023 Holiday Homework Celebration In Southwold’s Headteacher Golden Award Assembly today, teachers celebrated children who have ... 24th February 2023 Year 4 Explore London Transport Museum Year 4 visited the London Transport Museum as part of Enterprise and Work Week. They enjoyed their &... 23rd February 2023 Sport Ambassadors Hard At Work Sports Ambassadors have been busy teaching the importance of staying fit and healthy throughout this... 22nd February 2023 Pen Licenses Award Congratulations to those who were awarded their pen licenses this week for showing excellent handwri... 10th February 2023 Valentines Themed Breakfast Staff enjoyed their Valentines themed breakfast yesterday to celebrate their continued hard work thi... 27th January 2023 Year 4 Create Adverts Year 4 created posters to advertise keychains they made for the Enterprise Fayre this week! Using th... 27th January 2023 Enterprise Fayre Thank you for all parents and carers who attended the Enterprise Fayre yesterday! Children loved sho... 14th December 2022 Christmas Choir Performance Southwold choir took part in a Federation Choir performance at Homerton University Hospital today. T... 14th December 2022 Christmas Lunch Fun Children enjoyed their festive lunch of roast turkey with potatoes, mini sausages and stuffing, with... 14th December 2022 Christmas Coffee Morning We had many family members who joined us for our Christmas crafts coffee morning! A big thank you to... 8th December 2022 Value Award Winners Congratulations too all our Value Award winners for demonstrating the core values of friendship, kin... 7th December 2022 Year 4 Mould Teeth Year 4 took part in an interactive teeth workshop today. They explored different parts of human and ... 9th November 2022 Year 4 Create Spun Linen Yarn Year 4 enjoyed taking part in their second gardening workshop. They took their retted flax and were ... 19th October 2022 Year 4 Visit Tate Modern Gallery Year 4 went to the Tate Modern Gallery to visit the Cézanne exhibition. They explored and analysed h... 14th October 2022 Harvest Festival Celebration To celebrate Harvest festival, each class sang harvest themed melodies and then researched and learn... 5th October 2022 Pupil Voice Fayre KS1 and KS2 enjoyed attending their pupil voice fayre this week. The hall was filled with many stall... 30th September 2022 Tag Rugby With Year 3 And 4 Year 3 and 4 took part in a tag rugby festival this week. They enjoyed learning and understanding di... 22nd September 2022 Southwold Awarded With Best School Garden Southwold Garden has been awarded runner up prize for the Best School Garden. The ceremony will be h... 15th September 2022 Year 4 Construct Greece Landmarks Year 4 learned about the history of Greece and ancient landmarks present. They researched and built ... 14th September 2022 Summer Holiday Homework Masterpieces During the summer break, each class was given a holiday project to research, construct and present f... 7th July 2022 DT Day With KS2 KS2 had an exciting DT Day joined by parents where many fun activities were completed. Year 3’... 7th July 2022 Year 4 Build Lampshades Year 4 created reading lampshades yesterday with the help of a few parents. They enjoyed decorating ... 6th July 2022 Hispanic Day - 11th July 2022 Click here to view our special lunch menu that will be served on Hispanic Day! 6th July 2022 Sports Day 2022 Here are some photos capturing all the events which took part in Sports Day including: a relay compe... 6th July 2022 Year 4 Learn Taekwondo Year 4 enjoyed their Taekwondo workshop this morning. They learned the different styles of martial a... 1st July 2022 Healthy Eating Food Fayre As part of ‘Keeping Healthy Week’, many mouth watering goodies were made for the Healt... 20th June 2022 Day 3 - Erasmus Project International Partner Schools Visit This was the day that they had all been waiting for… Cooking the Spanish and English recipes a... 20th June 2022 Day 2 - Erasmus Project International Partner Schools Visit After getting to know one another, our international pupils got down to translating some authentic S... 20th June 2022 Day 1 - Erasmus Project International Partner Schools Visit There was excitement and a warm welcome at Southwold with the arrival of children from our ... 13th June 2022 Erasmus Project Visit - 13th -1th June 2022 From today until Wednesday we will be hosting our partner Erasmus schools at our Southwold site. Chi... 30th May 2022 Primary Science Quality Mark 2022 - 2025 Award We are extremely delighted to announce that we have been awarded our Primary Science Quality M... 19th May 2022 Year 4 Visit a Victorian Classroom! Year 4 were visited by ‘Miss Wilberforce’, a teacher from Victorian England, 1899. She s... 4th April 2022 Year 4 Build Anglo-Saxon Boats Year 4 enjoyed crafting and building Anglo-Saxon boats using cardboard, foil, straws and many more c... 21st March 2022 Year 4 Visit Kew Gardens Year 4 loved the visit to Kew Gardens! Many activities were completed on the day such as a visit to ... 26th May 2022 Sunflower Growing Class Competition Each class is taking part in a sunflower growing competition, where the children are responsible for... 25th May 2022 Erasmus - Welcoming our Erasmus Partner Schools to Viridis With the easing of travel restrictions, children from the partner schools will be visiting us in Jun... 25th May 2022 Erasmus Update - Food and Drink Activities Year 4 have continued to work on their food and drink topic with their partners from Portug... 25th May 2022 Anti-idling Workshop With Key Stage 2 Last term a few Key Stage 2 children took part in an anti-idling workshop with the Idling Action gro... 23rd May 2022 Eid Celebration Day 2022 Some lovely photos from our recent Eid celebration day held at school! It was lovely having everyone... 20th May 2022 Green Team Gift Every Class With Snake Plants Thanks to our Green Team, each class is now the proud owner of a Snake Plant which is known for its ... 31st March 2022 Free Lunches Over Easter Provided by Hackney Food Bank Hackney Foodbank will be handing out free children’s packed lunches* from all of their distribution... 11th February 2022 Year 4 Visit the Museum of London To support their Humanities learning, year 4 took a trip to see the Anglo-Saxon exhibit at the Museu... 10th February 2022 Digital Leaders Deliver an Assembly on Safer Internet Day Our Digital Leaders kick started Safer Internet Day by delivering an assembly with a focus on being ... 3rd February 2022 Year 4 Weaving Workshop Year 4 were visited by a professional weaver who showed the children some of the fabrics she has mad... 2nd February 2022 School Council Brainstorm Ideas for a Hackney Council Competition In our School Council’s most recent meeting, the children brainstormed Winter Gritter Truck na... 1st February 2022 Timestable Rockstars Awards During our Phase Leader assembly, our Times Table Ambassadors handed out some ‘Times Table Roc... 1st February 2022 Recycling Across Southwold At Southwold we are trying to recycle more because we understand that plastic can be harmful for the... 19th January 2022 Eco-Friendly Prize Giving The Eco-Schools team are very happy that Southwold are trying to use more eco-friendly prizes. Our n... 17th January 2022 Digital Leaders Meeting The Digital Leaders met for a cross-site meeting with the other digital leaders from the two other s... 29th November 2021 Year 4 Photographers Year 4 have been learning about the architecture of Oscar Niemeyer in their art lessons; as part of ... 18th November 2021 Year 4's Teeth Workshop The children in year 4 learnt about all of the different types of human teeth before making their ow... 12th November 2021 DT Day With Year 4 Year 4 spent the afternoon of DT Day sewing juggling balls. The children found it quite tricky at th... 10th November 2021 Turning Flax into Fibre with Year 4 Year 4 have been learning about the different processes involved in turning flax into usable fibre. ... 20th October 2021 Year 4's Exciting Capoeira Workshop For ‘World Week’, Year 4 took part in a very exciting Capoeira workshop. They were taugh... 12th October 2021 Years 4 and 5 Race Against The Clock at Springfield Park Children from Years 4 and 5 took part in the Hackney Cycling League ‘hill climb’ at Spri... 30th September 2021 Parents as Partners - Hackney Education Online Event Parents/Carers in Hackney - Have your Say! 28th September 2021 Year 4 At The Greenwich Royal Observatory Year 4 at The Greenwich Royal Observatory 13th May 2021 Year 4 Inspired Sports Workshop Year 4 took part in a multi-sports workshop. The children had the opportunity to take part in a vari... 11th May 2021 Year 4 Science - Habitats Year 4 have been learning about animals and their habitats within Science. The children made predict... 11th May 2021 ABQM Cross-Site Meeting Last week our Anti-Bullying Quality Mark (ABQM) pupil group met. The group is made up of representat... 11th May 2021 Timestables Learning in Key Stage 2 Year 3 have been trying out some fun and practical ways to learn their timestables. They are focusin... 11th May 2021 'Get Caught Reading!' During the partial closures we asked children to share their ‘get caught reading’ photos with us. Fr... 29th January 2021 Year 4 Teeth Workshop The children in Year 4 had a hands on workshop all about teeth The children learnt about the differe... 29th January 2021 Autumn Term Dr Bike In the Autumn term we were visited by Dr Bike. It was a soggy, but very busy day for Dr Bike. Experi... 29th January 2021 Year 4 Gardening Year 4 classes have been learning how to scutch, heckle and spin their home-grown flax fibre into a ... 29th January 2021 Year 4 Debating In the Autumn term Year 4 were learning about Ancient Greece. In their History lesson they talked ab... 29th January 2021 Year 4 Cycling In the Autumn Term Year 4 started their cycling lessons, which will take place weekly. As some of yo... 25th March 2020 Tending to the Southwold Garden The children attending school this week have been busy helping Ms Ivita to water the garden and plan... 13th March 2020 Year 4 Eat Like Vikings! Last half term Year 4 were learning about life in Viking Britain. Did you know that The Viking peopl... 28th November 2019 Southwold is Ofsted Outstanding! Between 16th – 17th October Southwold received a full Section 5 Ofsted Inspection. The inspect... 31st October 2019 International Evening Just before half term we had ‘World Week’ which culminated in International Evening. We had an amaz... 24th September 2019 Year 4 Flax Workshop This week children in Year 4 had their first gardening lesson of the year. The children were ripplin... 24th September 2019 Southwold Pupil Voice Fayre! Last week Southwold hosted the an... 2nd July 2019 Cross-site School Council Last month our cross site school council met at Hoxton Garden. The children discussed the upcoming s... 6th June 2019 Ragged School Museum - Year 4 Trip Year 4, who were learning about the Victorians in History, went on a trip the Ragged School Museum. ... 10th May 2019 Grandparent Afternoon Tea As part of Families’ Week we invited in Grandparents/Significant Older People in to have after... 10th May 2019 Bring a Significant Female to School As part of Families’ Week we welcomed significant females in to school to join in with the lea... 1st April 2019 Science Fayre Flubber Fun! The theme for our Science Fayre this year was Flubber! The children had the opportunity to experimen... 8th March 2019 World Book Day Fun! On Thursday 7th March we celebrat... 31st January 2019 Spring Term Value Award Winners! These children are the winners of the Spring term Value Awards. They won the awards for; empathy, r... 25th January 2019 Students enjoy exploring the Postal Museum! The pupils really enjoyed visitin... 25th January 2019 A hat for Flaxman! The children in Year 4 have created an amazing, new hat for... 18th January 2019 Digital Leader Cross-site Meeting Last week the Viridis digital lea... 11th January 2019 Holiday Homework Champions Here are the pictures of our Spring 1 homework cha... 7th January 2019 Happy New Year and Welcome Back! Welcome back to the Spring term! We hope that all our children, families and staff had a happy and ... 18th December 2018 Christmas Jumpers and Christmas Lunch! On Friday 14th December we... 30th November 2018 Hands On Science - Teeth Workshop This week Year 4 had a Hands-on Science workshop. ... 21st November 2018 School Council meeting with Caterlink This week our school council met with Keely from Caterlink (area manager... 20th November 2018 Viridis School Council Meeting The Viridis School Council meet t... 12th November 2018 Ofsted Success! On 25th September Southwold Primary School received a short one day insp... 9th November 2018 Design and Technology Day On Friday 2nd November we had our first Design and Technology Day of the academic year. the children... 7th November 2018 Inclusion Quality Mark Flagship! We are delighted to share with you that Southwold Primary School has been awarded ‘Flagship... 5th November 2018 Homework Champions A huge well done to our Autumn2 homework champions who won golden awards for creating excellent proj... 31st October 2018 Year 4 Flax Workshop Year 4 children were learning how to scutch, heckle and spin their homegrown flax fibre into a ball ... 3rd October 2018 Cycling at Southwold Southwold is proud to be a Bikeability school! Bikeability is today’s cycle training programme. It’s... 3rd October 2018 Bring A Significant Male to School Last Wednesday we were joined by significant males (dads, granddads, uncles, brothers, cousins…...