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International Day March 2023

At Churchend we had an International Day to celebrate and share the different cultures of our diverse community. We learnt songs and stories, played games from around the world, created flags and artwork, cooked and tasted food and learnt about the various cultures of our staff and families. It was an amazing day to celebrate the Churchend community of which we are proud to be a part of. Thank you very much to the International Day committee who worked together to plan and organise the day. Thank you very much to Fahra, Kamil, Charlie, Hannah, Jennifer, Aleena, Iris, Rishita, Leagh and Mrs Allen.

We also had Chinese dancing workshops with Sin Man. She taught us fan dancing and ribbon dancing and the whole school from nursery to year 6 was able to join in the amazing experience. On International Day we had a performance where some children from each class were chosen to perform to the whole academy. Sin Man finished the assembly by doing an incredible solo performance. The Chinese Dance workshops were funded by Reading Borough Council as the academy had been awarded a grant to promote and celebrate the diversity of the community.

The Chinese Dance performances can be seen on the Academy Youtube channel by clicking on the links below:

KS2 ribbon dance group 1

KS2 ribbon dance group 2

EYFS/KS1 fan dance

Sin Man solo performance

Red Nose Day 2023

Year R Fox class assembly - Mother's Day

World Book Day 2023

Year 4 Bee class assembly - Buddhism

School Council visit to The Mayor's Parlour February 2023

Year 6 Lion class assembly - Lent

Year 5 Falcon class assembly - Chinese New Year

'Twas the Night Before Winter 2022

Children in Need 2022

Year 6 Tiger class assembly - Remembrance Day

Poppy Appeal 2022

We have been raising money for the Royal British Legion by selling fundraising items and collecting donations for poppies. Children have collected coins for the pennies for poppy appeal, taking part in the Turn Tilehurst Red competition. Year 6 Tiger class led the assembly on Remembrance Day and the whole school took part in 2 minutes silence at the 11th hour of the 11th day on the 11th month.
We will remember them.

The parents and children of our Hindu community led our Diwali assembly, telling us the story of Rama and Sita, how Diwali is celebrated around the world and singing a "Happy Diwali" song. The parents also created some beautiful rangoli pattens for the children to see and very generously gave the gift of diya lamps to every child in the school. Thank you so much for your kindness and sharing a special celebration with us all. Happy Diwali.

Diwali assembly October 2022

October is Black History month and the Academy launched its celebrations with 2 days of African Drumming workshops where every child was able to join in, learning and performing chants, rhythms and songs with Ronald. It was an incredible experience for everyone and the whole Academy came together for a final performance led by Ronald and the year 6 children. The workshops were funded by Reading Borough Council following a successful grant application to provide activities and events for children to enjoy experiences that reflect the diversity of the families at the Academy and the wider community.

African Drumming Workshops

African Drumming Assembly Performance

Everyone at Churchend came together for a final performance of African drumming where the whole Academy joined in with the songs, chants and rhythms, Ronald had taught the children during his 2 days of fabulous workshops.

The year 6 classes joined Ronald for a wonderful performance to celebrate the start of Black History Month.

You can watch the full assembly on the Academy youtube channel, following these links:

video 1 - Assembly - Tiger class

video 2 - Assembly - Lion class part 1

video 3 - Assembly - Lion class part 2

School Council 2022 - 2023

National TA Day 16th September 2022

End of Year Awards 2022

Congratulations to the reception children at Churchend who were winners of the CLiPPA 2022 - a national poetry competition where the children performed "Caterpillar Cake" by Matt Goodfellow.

They travelled to London on Friday 8th July to perform live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on the Southbank. They met Matt Goodfellow who led a poetry workshop which the children loved! They saw Michael Rosen and Chris Riddell, who was illustrating the event live on stage.

The reception team is very proud of the children for their amazing performance and doing such a wonderful job of representing the Academy in London.

Follow this link to see a recording of the performances from the day.

(Churchend children are on stage from 50 mins.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIEkd62rdck&t=2219s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIEkd62rdck&t=2219s

Follow this link to see official photos of the day:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=CentreforLiteracyinPrimaryEducation&set=a.7833073233401203