School Blog entries

Wednesday 30 October 2024 Diwali Assembly Today we welcomed back Nabhi Nandan Das form the London Institute of Vedic Education. Nabhi spoke to the whole school about the Hindu faith, with a focus on Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. Nabhi commented on how respectful the children were and the thoughtful questions that they asked.Happy Diwali!

Wednesday 16 October 2024 Harvest Festival Harvest Festival took place on Wednesday 16th October, in school.Again, this year, we supported the Purley Food Hub, Caring for People in Crisis.Many thanks for all of your support and donations.

Friday 4 October 2024 Y2 visit to the King's Gallery We had a great trip to London yesterday! The children enjoyed the train ride and their lunch in St. James’s Park. The sun was out - and so were the geese who were after our sandwiches! We also managed to witness the King’s Guard marching by! Buckingham palace looked magnificent and the workshop was fun - particularly the bit where the children got to pose for their own ‘Royal Family’ portraits! Mrs Cock

Friday 27 September 2024 Year 5 visit Kew Gardens Although the weather at times was inclement, we still had a wonderful time exploring the beauty of Kew Gardens in London. Thank you to all of the parents for enabling this to happen. Educational visits are so memorable for years and years to come.As you all know, we are learning about the Amazon Rainforest and the children were commended on their knowledge which was brilliant to see! We visited the Glass House which simulated a mini rainforest which was full to the brim of amazingly special plants. We saw a Kapok Tree, tropical plants, banana and cacao trees, coffee plants and much much more. We also explored the Hive and the Princess of Wales Conservatory.In English, the children are reading 'Journey to the River Sea' and some of the new vocabulary came to life today especially the giant lily pads. All photos have been uploaded onto Classdojo. Finally, a huge thank you to our parent helpers.

Wednesday 25 September 2024 Perform Drama Workshops for R and Years 1-2 All children in Reception and years 1 - 2 took part in a drama workshop from Perform. They all had a wonderful time expressing action and feelings through drama and role play. The theme was saving Planet Earth!

Wednesday 18 September 2024 Y2 visit local Foxley Woods We had a wonderful time in Foxley Woods today! It was a long hike up the hill but worth it! We saw birds and squirrels and found lots of interesting mini beasts which we studied with our magnifying glasses. We even saw some badgers’ setts but the badgers were asleep! We enjoyed our picnic lunch and the playground at the end was an added bonus! (Parents, I think they’ll sleep well tonight!) ??

Monday 16 September 2024 Early Reading and Phonics workshop An Early Reading and Phonics FFT workshop took place today. Please look at the English curriculum page for more information.

Monday 9 September 2024 Griffin Library opens at Beaumont! The day has finally come!Our new library - The Griffin Library - has officially opened. We were very lucky that Mrs Shelley Davies, who is the Director of Croydon Education, opened up this new space in our school. The children, who raised the most money as well as read the most, accompanied our visitor along with some members of our board of governors. Mrs Ashton also came and represented FOBS who very kindly donated money towards the new library.Throughout the morning, each class came to visit and spend some time looking at books. I have attached some photos for you all to enjoy. Hopefully, the children will come home talking about how wonderful this library is.A final huge thank you to you all - including the children - for your wonderful donations and time. We are all thrilled with it and can't wait for the children to use it every week.Every parent will have the opportunity to visit Griffin Library after each class curriculum meeting. These dates can be found on our website.

Wednesday 17 July 2024 Y2 Trip to the Tate Modern What a fantastic day we had! We really enjoyed our trip to Tate Modern, many children saying they had never been to an art gallery before. They were amazed at the scale of the building and seemed to really appreciate the art on show. I had many interesting conversations with the children in my group and the other adults reported similar reactions in their groups! We have so many fantastic photos across two iPads that there will be a few posts coming up, I am afraid, as I can only post 10 pictures at the time! A big thank you to Aalia’s mum who came to help on the trip!

Monday 15 July 2024 Upper School Sports Day 2024 Upper School Sports Day took place this week and the rain held off! The children showed great sportsmanship and determination to succeed. Well done!

Monday 8 July 2024 Maths Primary Challenge Competition 2024 Croydon Primary Inter Schools Maths Challenge for 2024

Saturday 29 June 2024 Summer Fair 2024 It was well attended, with new games and two new food stalls. There were over 60 volunteers who helped on the day as well as the team who helped to plan it. A massive thank you to the 20 people who helped source amazing prizes for the raffle , which has become our highest ticket seller. In total Friends of Beaumont raised £2,000! This money will go back to the children through the final funding of the library as well as extra curricular activities we do throughout the year. Thank you to everyone who helped, ran stalls, attended and had a great time!

Wednesday 26 June 2024 Y1 visit Reigate Caves Year 1 had a lovely day visiting Reigate Caves and Barons Cave today! We enjoyed our lunch eaten around the fountain in Priory Park and then playing in the playground. Of course, the bus and train journeys also provided us with a lot of excitement and entertainment.

Friday 21 June 2024 PGL Weekend for Year Six Year Six visited Marchant’s Hill at PGL over the weekend for their end of year trip. The children had a wonderful time doing so many activities. There were three day groups and each group over the course of the weekend took part in eight activities. These were: archery, zip wire, abseiling, climbing, fencing, sensory trail, giant swing and raft building. Enjoy looking at some of the photos below.

Thursday 20 June 2024 Jason and the Argonauts play by Croydon High School A wonderful group of young actors from Croydon High School along with their drama teacher performed a play for Years 4, 5 and 6 about 'Jason and the Argonauts'. It was superb! A big shout out to Croydon High for putting on such a display.

Thursday 20 June 2024 Going For Gold - Y5 Girls visit Croydon High School The girls in Y5 had the most amazing opportunity to take part in an inter-school competition at Croydon High celebrating sport. The girls were able to take part in handball, the hurdles and the long jump. They all had a wonderful time! Thank you to the Croydon High staff for organising this event.

Thursday 13 June 2024 Natural History Museum Y6 On Thursday 13th June, Year Six went on a class trip to the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, London. This visit was linked to our science topic (‘Have we always looked like this?’). This is all linked to evolution and inheritance. We attended an evolution workshop and a dinosaur show. The children all had a wonderful time reinforcing their knowledge about evolution and fossils.

Friday 7 June 2024 Frylands - Y5 Trip On Friday 7th June, year 5 had a brilliant day at Frylands Wood. The activities involved den building, archery, rock climbing and an obstacle course.All of the children had a fantastic experience and it was great to see the children learning new skills outside of the classroom.Each activity brought new challenges and required different skills and what was wonderful to see was the determination and perseverance that was required to tackle each new task. The children supported each other brilliantly and were great ambassadors for the school.

Thursday 6 June 2024 Animal Day On Thursday 6th June 2024, the whole school enjoyed our annual Animal Day. An opportunity for all of the children in the school to see different species of animals from three different companies. FOBS very kindly part sponsored the day and we thank them and to all the families for enabling this event to happen. More photos have been uploaded onto your child's Class Dojo page.

Monday 3 June 2024 Reception visit Gatton Park On Monday, Reception class visited Gatton Park. They had a wonderful time finding minibeasts using mirrors to look underneath leaves, looking at the rockpools, pollinating flowers with pipe cleaner bees, spotting the camouflaged / not camouflaged objects walk, looking for bugs under logs, examining a toad, using sweeping nets to catch bugs, looking at a cricket, listening to 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar', standing next to the huge mound of manure to help us to remember the URE trigraph that we learn in phonics. A very fun and long day. Photos are below.

Friday 24 May 2024 Family Picnic

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