Y6 enjoyed working with their y1 buddies on Wednesday afternoon.  It was a lovely opportunity for Y6 to support their friends in Y1 and act as role models.

This term PSHE is all about changing me.  Y1 worked with their y6 partners to create a flower with themselves in the centre.  Each outer petal represented a new skill that the children have developed this  year.

Willow class  talked to Aspen about all the things they have learned to do:  reading, riding a bike, counting and writing sentences.

Year 6 then helped Y1 children sketch their own book markers to take home and enjoy reading for pleasure over the summer holidays

Chestnut and the Night Pirates

The children had a productive week. The immersed themselves deeper into our story ‘Night Pirates’ by sequencing events and designing pirate flags.

In phonics, chestnuts were busy revising their sounds and showing what they had learned this year.

Everyone enjoyed this week’s topic lesson, where the children got to design their own fine motor fish followed by practising their threading skills. Picking fish out of water was also a lot fun and helped the children build up their hand strength.

Finally, Chestnut class made some tasty pirates from all sorts of ingredients and enjoyed eating the fruits of their labour.

Have a lovely weekend.

Chestnuts week in the sun

Chestnut class immensely enjoyed their sports day together with Olive class on Wednesday.

The children played tug of war, flew over hurdles, showed off their balance in sack race and measured their speed against each other during relays.

Everyone enjoyed the day and had a smile on their face as families cheered them on. The parent race was a sight to behold with some children joining in.

For the rest of the week, the children continued to explore our topic ‘Under the Sea’. Making turtles and jelly fish was most likely their favourite part.

Nursery Sports Festival

This week the Nursery children really enjoyed taking part in our annual sports festival.

The children worked together showing great teamwork when competing in all of the

amazing activities.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the parents/carers for your support

and Mr. Rash for providing such a fantastic event, we really enjoyed ourselves!

Year 6 win at the Open City Architecture Project!!!

Congratulations to Year 6, Aspen Class, for winning first prize in the Open City

Architecture Project 2026.

The Project brief was to develop a part of St James’ Park, with a focus on aquatic

features. It was an exciting opportunity for Aspen to show their creativity and design

skills whilst working together.

On Monday some of the children attended Central Hall in Westminster where the award

ceremony for the Open City Project was taking place.

Thirty-seven schools across the boroughs of Brent and Westminster entered the project,

which was judged by a panel of architects, designers and engineers. Hallfield along with

five other schools were short listed by judges for their creativity, team work collaboration

and model making skills.

The children were delighted when the judges announced they had won first place in the

urban explorers category. Well done to all of year 6 on their incredible achievement.

Sports day for Year 3 and Year 4

On Thursday, Year 3 and 4 enjoyed a fantastic Sports Day filled with excitement, teamwork and determination. The children took part in a range of events, including the egg and spoon race, relay races and tug of war. A huge thank you to all the parents and families who came along to cheer on the children. A special well done to the parents who joined in the tug of war and helped make the day even more memorable! Well done to everyone who took part!

Year 6 visit the Wallace Collection

To support our English and DT curriculums Aspen travelled by bus to the Wallace Collection in Manchester Square this week. The children were able to explore the armoury gallery and to Identify different types of armour relating to battle, parade and celebration marches. Aspen learned that many of the names given to armour are derived from the French and Spanish languages. Children tested the: cuirass, sabaton and the morion which were surprisingly heavy to wear. Year 6 then sketched and designed their own patterns suitable for creating a cuirass.Using printing ink and blocks the children created cuirass models to wear in battle.

Designing Castles for D&T in Cherry Class

In DT this week, Year 3 explored the features of castles, such as towers, walls and battlements. They discussed how these features help to make castles strong and protective, linking this to their learning about structures. The children then carefully sketched their own castle designs, taking time to include key details. This work is building towards the next exciting step, where they will design and construct their own castles using materials such as card and tape. Take a look at some of their wonderful drawings.

Nursery’s Homework Projects

The children in Nursery have been working incredibly hard over the half-term break, creating some truly amazing 3D homework projects based on their favourite stories from this term.

We are so proud of their creativity, effort, and enthusiasm.

Maple Class combine maths and poetry for their last week of the term

Maple Class have been great mathematicians and poets! The children looked at some rhyming words, identified interesting vocabulary/ phrases  in ‘The Owl and the Pussy-Cat’ story and eventually wrote their own poems. Writing poetry has been voted  the most interesting type of writing by Maple Class.  

In Maths, the children worked hard on fractions using concrete resources, explaining, reading and identifying them. We have consolidated this and we have moved on to telling the time. With this all in mind, Maple Class is ready to have a little break and come back after a week to carry on learning. 

Chestnuts and the Gruffalo

The children had a lot look forward to this week. We indulged in a wide range of art activities, making playdough, designing fantasy transport and magical trees, just to name a few.

In maths the children recapped and deepened their knowledge of number bonds to 10 and 2D shapes. The enjoyed exploring both topics with concrete objects and through using creative approaches, such as paint by number and shape puzzles.

During phonics lessons, it was all about the sound ‘oa’. The children enjoyed making their own boats and floating them among the objects that represented the sound.

The highlight of the week was making Gruffalo crumble on Friday though. The children loved and process and enjoyed every bite.

Have a great half term holiday.

Journeys in Cherry Class

Over the past two weeks, the children have been working with Hermione, a local artist, on a creative project centred around the theme of journey. Together, we explored what a journey can mean — not only travelling from one place to another, but also the journeys we take in our minds, in our memories, and as we grow and learn. Children created their own “special journey” artwork using pencil, pen and colour. Some explored ideas such as mountains, forests and pathways, drawing on places that feel important or meaningful to them. Take a look at the work in progress, which already highlights the children’s creativity and individuality, with each piece beginning to tell its own unique story.