The Year 5 and 6 Sportshall Athletics team went to Harrow Leisure Centre this week and competed in the West London qualifier for the London Youth Games. Winning muiltiple races and performing excellently in the field, the team were crowned champions and will now represent Hillingdon in the London Youth Games finals in March.
The choir performed at the Ruislip Manor Christmas Fun Day singing some songs that they will be singing at the Young Voices Concert in the new year.
Thank you to former pupil Max Dowling for taking the pictures of the event. Max is the founder of Max Studios.
On Saturday 30th November, Lady Bankes were presented with the Hinman Shield at Eastcote House Gardens during the Tree Dressing Ceremony. The award has been running since 1980 and is given to a school or group for their contribution to the community. We are very proud to receive this award.
Lady Bankes beat Sacred Heart 4-1 in a recent fixture.
Year 6 performed their Greek and Olympic themed leavers' show this week. The children played a variety of roles including Zeus and Hades and performed the show to their parents and school community. It was an amazing show and was thoroughly enjoyed by all.
On Thursday 1st February we took 32 children to Wembley Arena to take part in a Young Voices concert. The children had been learning all the songs since they started back at school last September. On the day we took the train from Ruislip Manor to Wembley Park and made our way to Zizzi for our lunch. The children were very excited however they were very well behaved in the restaurant. After lunch we made our way to the Arena and found our seats. Rehearsals began at 2pm and we practised we the very talented conductor David Lawrence all afternoon. The doors opened at 6pm and the parents started arriving for the concert which started at 7pm. Everything went to plan and it was a very magical atmosphere. The children, staff and all our parents watching had a thoroughly enjoyable time.
Year 1 enjoyed a virtual workshop run by the Polar Museum in Cambridge. They learned all about Captain Scott and his expeditions. This term, Year 1 are studying the key question, 'What makes a great polar explorer?' and this workshop has really supported this learning.
Year 6 visited the Battle of Britain bunker in Uxbridge this week to learn about the role the bunker played during World War 2. The children learned about the air defence system and about the roles that were played by the women in the WAAF (Women's Auxillary Air Force) during the war.
Well done to the girls football team who finished in third place in the borough finals this week. They qualified for the finals by getting to the final of the Ruislip and Northwood tournament two weeks previously. An amazing performance from the girls - well done!
The Sportshall Athletics team were crowned borough champions for the third year running after taking part in the finals at Swakeleys School. Competing in a range of events including relays, triple jump and javelin the team scored the highest number of points across the 18 teams who competed. Well done to everyone who took part and who will now represent Team Hillingdon in the West London finals in February.
We were thrilled to welcome author Banji Alexander to our school to talk to us about his life as an author. He shared with us his new book called Lockdown Looms - Reggie's Birthday Party and signed some copies for us to enjoy at school. We learned a song to sing with him and really enjoyed his visit.
We had great fun at school celebrating the coronation of King Charles III. The children made crowns, had a picnic lunch and sang to all the school at our Coronation Concert.