Growth Mindset

It's Enterprise Week!

This week classes are busy forming small cooperative 'companies' and making products to sell at this year's Summer Fair.

The children will be working out costs and profits in Maths, making their products in D.T. and Science, writing information about their products in Literacy and designing logos, badges and publicity materials in Art and Design.
These Year 1 children are looking pleased with their work so far!

Spitalfields Festival

Recorder Big Band, Columbia Brass Ensemble and Columbia bassoon players performed at a concert as part of the world famous Spitalfields Festival on Monday 9th June. They had been working hard for the event during the last term at school with their music tutors. The children played alongside a prestigious music group called The Orchestra for the Age of Enlightenment and they performed in historic Shoreditch Church.

Ex Columbia students also performed as part of a huge orchestra. It just shows that starting music at Columbia and continuing to practise hard really pays off!

The standard of music was very high and the professional musicians praised the skills of our Columbia musicians. The concert was enjoyed by all.

Summer Music Concerts

Proud parents flocked to see their talented children perform in the Summer Music Concerts. The concerts are a fabulous celebration of just some of the music opportunities offered at Columbia.

It's a jungle in the office...

Tony, Ann and Carina have been busy in the office. The artwork commissioned by Olly has been installed. The office is now a wild place to work!

A host of golden daffodils

School House children went back to visit Jesus Green to see the difference they had made in the park when they planted  daffodils in the Autumn. When they go there, what a sight met their eyes!

As William Wordsworth said:

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Fahim, Jordan and Sabarena took these fabulous photos of their daffodils while they were there.

Portraits by Year 6

Year 6 tell us about their portraiture project for the playground.
We began by looking closely at other artist's portraits and paintings of people's profiles. We looked carefully at the different facial features and proportions of different people.
We made acrylic portraits and then graphite drawings. We covered the paper in graphite and rubbed away parts to show the light. 

Next we used collage to make the shape to be used as an outline for our finished wooden heads. 

Finally we experimented with stencils and printing to give us ideas for features, designs and details for our heads. The finished year 6 heads are on the wall in the playground.