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Cycle Training
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Curriculum Evening 2010
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New Entrance Building Works June 2010
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Year 6's Peter Pan Preparations are underway!
Click on Peter Pan to download some pictures to colour in!
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Anatolian Culture in Clissold Park
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Road Safety Movie
Following Walk to School Week, our Road Safety Officers made a movie (2 mins 9.8MB) to remind children how to cross the road safely. Click below to see movie.
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OLSJ CRUCIFIX
Our newly painted crucifix outside the library.
Also - our newly donated weather vane!
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Theatre in Schools Partnership - Road Safety for Years 5 & 6
Click for more photos. How did Aaron die? Read the review below.
NOW YOU SEE ME, NOW YOU DON'T
By Rory, Naomi, Brendon and Frankie (Road Safety Officers)
The Theatre in School Partnership came to work with Years 5 and 6 to talk to us about how to keep safe on the road.
The main characters were called Kali and Aaron. They got off the bus from school in a rush. After a bet, Aaron got 50p off Kali and went to the shop to buy Ribena. Kali crosses the road safely and shouts to Aaron to hurry up and come quickly. Aaron rushes across the road diagonally and he wasn't concentrating … he got knocked down. The car that knocked him down was only travelling at 15 mph. He broke his hips, he injured his neck and head and died in hospital later that day.
A year later, Kali went to the cemetery to see his grave and place flowers there. She spoke to him and told him how she was doing and how she was progressing at school.
Aaron's family really miss him because this is a true story. We all felt emotional when we found out that Aaron had died because we felt as though he was our friend.
Please be careful on the roads, especially to and from school. It's your responsibility to cross the road carefully.
Year 5 & 6 discussed where and how NOT to cross the road:
- Between two parked cars
- Diagonally across a crossing
- With headphones on
- When you're on the phone
- Talking with your friends
- Running across the road
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Olympic Site Visit - Year 6
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Get Fruity for Haiti
The school raised £99.26 for CAFOD to send to Haiti. The children all contributed fruit and were treated to a delicious cup of fresh fruit one afternoon in March!
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Mary Seacole Supplementary School
Please take advantage of the Saturday School on offer at Our Lady's which comes to you via the Mary Seacole Supplementary School. These are free Saturday morning lessons from 9.00 until 12.30 in the Junior Building, for Year 2 - Year 6 children covering English, Maths, Science. This scheme is approved by the Hackney Learning Trust and all teachers are CRB checked. Forty children turned up on the first day. Long may it continue!
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Community School House PC Suite & Artwork
Breakfast Club and After School Club work
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VIP Visit - Diane Abbott - Nov 2009
Diane Abbott, MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington visited the school on Tuesday 3 November. Diane was the first black woman to be elected to parliament and has been our MP since 1987. She spent a couple of hours at the school and also had a school lunch. Many of the children asked her questions, Year 3 sang their version of "Young, Gifted and Black" and 2 children from Year 6 videoed and interviewed her. Many thanks Diane for visiting our school and thank you to Sam Kirwan who organised the event. More photos in the gallery.
Click here to see movie interviews with Diane (5mins 24MB)
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Black History, Culture & Achievement
See a slideshow of our display (35 MB) celebrating Black History Month with music by Richard Bono. Below are photos taken on the day that parents: Felicia and Cecelia came in to the school to talk about Nigerian culture. Look out for Florence, our cook, also in national dress. See these pictures and more in the gallery.
See more pictures in the gallery
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Harvest Mass
The Harvest Mass took place on Thurs 15th Oct., celebrated by Fr. John. We appealed for gifts and donations of non-perishable food for the Franciscan Shelter for the homeless in the East End. Thank you for all your contributions and to Mrs Yeend, Garnett and Scales for all their hard work organising the event, the display looked fantastic. Congratulations to Year 6 who brought the most food and were rewarded with chocolates!
Ms. Dyer, our music teacher, also worked very hard with the whole school, not just the choir, to produce a musical treat. See a movie of the choir practising below...
CLICK HERE TO WATCH A MOVIE OF THE OLSJ CHOIR SINGING "SEASONS OF LOVE" by Jonathan Larson
Higher Level Sustainable Travel Award
Our Head Girl and Head Boy show off our certificate!
 
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SATS RESULTS
Our SATS tests results have been compared with those of the rest of the country. They measure performance against indices of poverty, special needs, ethnicity and free school meals etc. They then put schools into categories. For the first time ever on this measure we are in the very highest category possible for CVA (Contextual Value Added), that is to say we are in the TOP 5% IN THE COUNTRY! Needless to say this is a remarkable achievement! Congratulations to all staff!
English Level 4: 89%
English Level 5: 48%
Maths Level 4: 85%
Maths Level 5: 34%
Science Level 4: 97%
Science Level: 5: 59%
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Mushroom House Project in Thailand
Burmese refugee children sent oil pastel drawings to us all the way from the Hsa Thoo Lei School in Thailand. Here is a slideshow of all the artwork (37MB).
In the western border town of Mae Sot in Thailand over 700 Burmese refugees attend Hsa Thoo Lei School. Many of the Burmese migrant children have suffered hazardous crossings across the river that divides the countries and are extremely vulnerable to malnutrition. The school's income is far below levels required to fund regular lunches and many children have no food during the school day. The Thai Children's Trust is raising funds for the school to provide some nutrition to these vulnerable young people.
Ruth Flanagan, a teacher of the Thai Children's Trust, came to the school and delivered a presentation on the plight of the Burmese child refugees to mark Refugee Week (15 - 21 June 2009). Here's a report from the Catholic Independent News website:
www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=14409
Organised by the Thai Children's Trust, the Mushroom House Project is being developed. The mushroom sheds will be built at Hsa Thoo Lei school. They will house pre-prepared spore bags. They are placed on racks in a hot and humid hut. Regularly tended, the spore bags produce mushrooms over a three month cycle. For most of this time there will be mushrooms available to supplement the diet of the children. Any spare will be sold. Already we have given £800 for 2 mushroom sheds.
"We are so grateful to the school community of Our Lady & St Joseph Primary School to start this project off with such a generous gesture. Just one shed at £400 will make a difference to an entire school and all its pupils." said Andrew Scadding, CEO of Thai Children's Trust based in the UK. "With Joe's green advice I hope we will spark keen interest in how schools can grow their own nutritious food and see what fun it can be. We hope, too, that we can encourage fundraising to help the Burmese refugees."
Click here to find out more about the Hsa Thoo Lei appeal
Click here for a recent blog entry from Women With a Mission.
Mushroom houses being built with the money given by our school
This woman, Naw Paw Ray, once herself a refugee, runs the Hsa Thoo Lei School
Inside the newly built mushroom house. Shelving ready for the spore bags.
Our mushrooms are now growing ...
... and spurting out of the bags, ready to be eaten or sold!
Inside the school
Picking the precious mushrooms
Classroom
The School Assembly
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History of the School
 There has been much research going on by Fr. Nicholas, Sean Flood, and a few parents & parishioners regarding the history of the school site.
A booklet has now been printed and is available from the Office. It is extremely well presented and includes information on a recently discovered a link with our school and 2 key abolitionists of the slave trade: Oluaduh Equiano (aka Gustavus Vassa) & William Wilberforce.
The booklet documents changes on the school site premises from beyond Victorian times to the present with photos, research and anecdotes.
It is a tremendous collaborative effort and we hope you enjoy reading it!
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