Year 5 had the opportunity to visit KPMG to look at how businesses can be sustainable. This is a part of their World of Work week. Year 5 had to think about how their product could be sustainable, whether this could be renewable resources or a product that can last for a very long time. Year 5 worked as a team and thought about the core skills such as teamwork and innovation that they could focus on for their sustainable product.

For World of Work Week, Year 4’s theme was Showcase. As part of this exciting theme, Year 4 went on a visit backstage to the Shaftsbury Theatre in London’s West End. The children got to experience what life is like for the actors both on the stage and backstage in the wings. They also got to learn about the jobs of the stage manager and technicians and see how such large pieces of scenery and stage can be stored in such small areas. Additionally, Year 4 also had the opportunity to walk around the auditorium and visit a royal box whilst learning about the jobs of the box office and front of house team.

Curwen competed at their third TTLT competition of the year on Friday 13^th October as they travelled to Memorial Park for a boy’s football festival. 

There were 9 schools and over 120 boys competing at the festival with Curwen being placed alongside Earlham, Carpenters and Kaizen in Group 1. The boys won their first two games 4-0 against Kaizen and Earlham to set up a group deciding match against Carpenters. Both teams showed their quality but it was Curwen who emerged victorious with a hard-fought 3-1 win to claim the trophy.

Well done to these children who represented the school amazingly: Ade (4GM), Anas (4GM), Benji (4GM), Lucas (4GM), Harley (4GM), Rome (4M), Alhaaz (4M), Barack (4G), Zakariya (4G), Benjamin (4G).

Yesterday, our MASt Literacy students had an amazing time meeting Sir Lenny Henry (actor, comedian, writer and all-round Renaissance man). They were treated to a morning of storytelling, jokes, questions and top tips on how to become a successful writer. Phoebe-Grace (Y5) even got to tell Sir Lenny a joke, and some pupils got their books signed by the man himself. 

Curwen has been busy creating our very first podcast! It was made by the members of the School Council. 

This week, our year 4, 5 and 6 MASt science children at Curwen visited schools' day at New Scientist Live at EXCEL London. The children were exposed to a range of science based technology and careers through shows, talks, demonstrations and hands-on activities. The children first enjoyed 'Rude Science', a show full of explosive and grotty experiments where children learnt about bodily fluids and functions. Next, they had a once in a lifetime chance to take part in a live link up with astronaut and ISS Commander Andreas Mogensen aboard the International Space Station where they heard about life on board and his personal experiences. Finally, they had some time to explore a range of exhibits including animal robots, combine harvesters, meteorites and coding devices. It was an amazing and eye-opening experience into the world of science!

On Tuesday (3^rd October), six of our children represented Curwen in the Ten-Pin bowling competition against other schools.

Each player threw their bowling ball down the lanes in order to hit the pins over for points and the team with the highest number of points won the competition. Our talented Curwen team managed to achieve a total score of 491, placing us 4th out of the 11 schools. Muntaha 6C managed to achieve 110 points which was the highest score in the competition! Well done Muntaha!

All of the children really enjoyed it and they can’t wait for the next one. 

Tzuriel 5PB said “I like getting medals.” 

Yusuf 5PB said “It was lots of fun!”