As part of our World Book Day celebrations,  both year 5 classes were visited by a local author – John Press.  He was very impressed with the depth of questions that the children asked him and, as a result of his visit, the children learnt a lot about writing books.  John is kindly making his book-  Return of the Purple Paw –  available on Kindle, free of charge, until Saturday lunchtime should your children like to read it. John has written a number of other books: Soul Boy (his latest) The Mysterious Case of the Mysterious Case. The Curse of the Sherbet Skull Scrambler.

Well done to Daisy and her year 5 team, Theo, Ajay  and Joe, who organised and ran (with the help of Oliver and Mihir) an after school cake sale raising an impressive £347 for The Brain Tumour Charity.

On Friday 25^th January we held our annual Family Woman Morning.  This was, once again, a very oversubscribed event which saw over 90 mothers/grandmothers spending the morning with the children in their classes.  We have picked some photos to share with you and you can also find feedback from the morning here.    Parents are always welcome to spend some time in class with their children so if you missed out on this event and would like to do so please contact your child’s class teacher.

On Thursday 24th January, Keston gala team which consisted of 35 children competed in the Croydon swimming gala at Purley pool.  The team did amazingly well and fought off strong competition to win the Best Overall Girls and the Best Overall School trophies.

Year 2 thoroughly enjoyed the workshop with Mr Chadwick the Candle stick maker on Tuesday.  We learnt about the plague and got to act out some of the events during the Great Fire of London.  Some of us dressed up and we all had a chance to take part.