Manor Primary School joined in the celebrations of the Royal wedding with a special school lunch and a whole school afternoon tea party. Many children dressed as if they were visiting Windsor Palace for the wedding party. Children, staff and parents enjoyed delicious cakes, biscuits and sandwiches whilst they waved the British flag to celebrate …
The children and staff of Manor Primary School celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as characters from books. Despite snow falling on the day, we enjoyed wearing our costumes and speaking about our favourite stories. After a special assembly in the afternoon, classes paired up with their reading buddies for an extended ‘Drop Everything …
It is now 2018, but we’re still excited about last month’s Christmas production. This year, we held our Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 Christmas production of ‘A Midwife Crisis’- a modern retelling of the Nativity story. All of the children performed to a hall full of entertained and proud adults. This year, we …
As you may know October is Black History Month. In school we have been focusing on that this week, with a focus this year on music. It has been lovely to hear so much music being played and sung around the school, and the children have really enjoyed this. We have marked the end of …
On Tuesday 17th October, we held a school dinner tasting session as part of Newham’s new menu launch. The event was so well attended that we had queues outside of the door! We hope that it gave you a real flavour of the quality of the food that the children are served, and the huge …
On Wednesday 17th October, Year 3 led our Diwali Assembly to celebrate the festival of light. It was a chance to share what they had been learning about Hinduism in class. They gave a very impressive re-telling of the story of Rama and Sita that they had rehearsed well. It was good to see the …
On Wednesday 11th October, we once again welcomed parents and carers (some grandparents and older siblings too) to experience school life at our school. Many parents were amazed by the methods of teaching – very different to some of their own experiences. We had 127 children visited by parents and families which is great, and …
On Friday 10th November, Manor Primary School fell silent at 11am. We marked Remembrance Day in school on this day with a one minute silence as a sign of respect. The children have all had an assembly to explain again why this is an important thing to acknowledge, and the silence was done in classes …
On Friday 6th October, we held a fundraising extravaganza to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Research and celebrate our ‘Good’ Ofsted inspection report. The events held included a parents and carers coffee morning, a non-uniform day and an after school cake sale. The Manor Bake-Off proved to be very popular with some fantastic cake entries …
At Manor, we are very fortunate to be able to work closely with our local secondary schools: Eastlea Community School and Manor work closely on a range of events throughout the year – the annual Year 5 taster day to secondary school is one of these. Our Year 5 pupils had the amazing opportunity to …
