School News

Courtwood Primary School held their PTFA Sponsored Bounce on Tuesday 12th March. After lunch the hall was prepared by putting up a huge bouncy castle! Class by class, the children came in and the aim was to see how many bounces each child could achieve in one minute. Each child received a certificate and there […]

Year 4 have been working hard in their maths lessons, learning how to calculate area of rectangular shapes. As part of their learning, the children were challenged to create robots formed from rectangular shapes, to travel to the moon on a space mission. Each piece of their robot had to measure a specified area. The […]

This year, Courtwood will be taking part in the Grow Your Own Potatoes project, along with other schools from all over the country.  There is a competition at the end – so we could hopefully win some prizes for the school. Children in Chestnut Class, Reception, Year 1 and Year 5 have been chosen to be our “Potato […]

On Thursday 7th March, Year 5 visited Quest Academy for a taster day. We had a great day experiencing lots of different lessons. In Geography the task was titled ‘Can you point me in the right direction?’ and involved a navigation challenge. In PE, we particularly enjoyed learning volleyball (a sport we had never played […]

As part of our  Book Week celebrations, parents were invited to come and have a bagel for breakfast, with their child, whilst spending some time sharing a book together. There was a lovely atmosphere in the school hall as stories were shared, to the backdrop of the aroma of warm toasted bagels! Parents and children […]

Our new school dining hall experience has been launched this week, much to the excitement of the children here at Courtwood. The tables in the hall now replicate a restaurant dining experience, with flowers, napkins, cutlery, tablecloths and bread plates laid out for the children as they enter. Conversation cards are on each table, to […]

This week the children of Courtwood have enjoyed a fabulous week long celebration of books! The children arrived on Monday to find the school full of mysterious lily pads. This provided an exciting start to book week as the school came together, using the illustrations in David Weiner’s book ‘Tuesday’ to piece together the mystery. The children then used the […]

On Tuesday 5th March, our netball team played in the heats of the Croydon Schools Netball Tournament. Courtwood were the hosts and welcomed teams from Orchard Way (an A team and a B team ) and Fairchildes. Each team played all the others in a round-robin format and Courtwood emerged victorious, winning each of their […]

On Tuesday 26th February, Year 4 went to The Shard as part of our geography city study of London. We travelled by train directly to London Bridge. After travelling up one of the fastest lifts in the country, we saw the fantastic landmarks of London. The children discussed the different landmarks, the history and the purpose of them. After […]

On Wednesday 27th February, Year 3 went to visit the Science Museum up in London. In Science the past half-term we were learning all about forces and magnets. The Science Museum had a great ‘Feel the Forces’ workshop that demonstrated laws of motion and different forces. We saw and got to participate in lots of experiments. After lunch, […]