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Mr South's Blog: Leicester City's Success
It has been interesting to see that all the boys who support Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal have all gone rather quiet in the last few weeks! In fact they haven’t even given me a hard time for following the “Mighty Spurs”!
What has been truly refreshing has been Leicester City’s triumph in the Premier League. It is a lesson to us all that with teamwork and effort, who knows what we can achieve?
 Mr South, Headmaster
Read more from my blog
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| Little Elms Blog - 06 May 2016 |
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| ‘Critical Thinking’ is one of the hot educational buzz words of the moment for all areas of learning from Early Years all the way up into Secondary School. Critical thinking is letting children have their own ideas, making links and choosing ways to do things. |
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| Year 2 create their own Fraction Quilt |
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| Year 2 children created their own Fraction Quilt in the style of Kandinsky using our excellent knowledge of fractions. It helped us to count up using fractions and understand what makes a whole – it looks pretty AWESOME as well. |
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| Community Garden Morning at Elmhurst |
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| Pupils, family members and staff from Elmhurst School for Boys recently took part in a Community Gardening Morning organised by the School Council. |
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| Children enjoy Art Workshop |
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| WOW ! what a workshop! Children at Elmhurst enjoyed participating in Wool & Ribbon Tree Bombing and Figure to Abstraction Art Workshops. |
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| Elmhurst's Annual Swimming Gala: 20th May 2016 |
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| The annual school swimming gala takes place in just two weeks time and the boys have been working hard to improve their times! The gala is open to all boys from Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 |
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Year 6 visit Sutton Life Centre
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| On Thursday 28th April Year 6 boys visited Sutton Life Centre which is a unique, state of the art educational and community facility in South London promoting good citizenship, personal safety and the environment. |
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| Reception & Year 1's Forest School Update |
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| How many woodland flowers can you name? Ask Year 1 this and they will tell you up to 8 different types!! All found in Littleheath Woods thanks to our very own flower detective Mrs West. The Council had told Mrs Mawanda that on this occasion we could pick just one of each flower as we were learning about them. |
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| Silver for U11 Footballers at Oakwood Festival |
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| This year the U11 A and B teams participated in the Oakwood Football Festival. The weather was fantastic for the closing event of the Football season. 15 boys went with Mr Padfield and Mr Endersby to the Warlingham Sports Club venue to join 6 other schools in the A team event and 5 in the B team pool. |
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| Year 6 apply their Maths skills at B&Q |
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| Year 6 recently enjoyed applying their Maths skills on a trip to B&Q. Before the trip, they had to draw a plan of their dream house in pairs. They then had to plan out the flooring that they would install for the ground floor and top floor. |
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| 10 Years of Maypole Dancing at Elmhurst |
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| The sun was shining, the blossom was out and our beautiful new community garden (in no.44) was coming to life on Tuesday as we celebrated the arrival of Spring with some Maypole Dancing. |
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Gold Medal Winners for Lining Up!
Gold Medal Winners for Lining up for the week 25 April 2016:
Lower School: RN
Upper School: 4F and 5P
Gold Medal Winners for Lining up for the week 03 May 2016:
Lower School: RM
Upper School: Will be announced on Monday
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Elmhurst School for Boys,
44 - 48 South Park Hill Road, South Croydon, Surrey CR2 7DW
T: 020 8688 0661
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