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!

Some of our year 5 and 6 children had the amazing opportunity to participate in the Sculpture in the City programme- the first Newham school to participate! The children attended 4 workshops over the space of two days where they had the opportunity to visit and explore various art pieces and sculptures within the City of London. They also drew their own skylines from a high rise building and made their own collages. The final workshop ended with them working collaboratively to make their own sculptures incorporating their artwork from previous workshops.

Curwen competed at their first TTLT competition of the year on Friday 29^th September as they travelled to Memorial Park for a girl’s football festival.

There were 11 schools and over 120 girls competing at the festival with Curwen being placed alongside Earlham, Kensington and Selwyn in Group 2. The girls won their first game 3-0 against Selwyn, before narrowly losing to Earlham 0-1. They finished the tournament in style however winning their final game 4-0 against Kensington to claim second place in the group and ensure they went home with medals.

Well done to these children who represented the school amazingly: Laila (6C), Janat (6C), Kaci-Ann (6C), Anaiya (6R), Georgia-Marie (6K), Alice (5T), Kasey (5T), Aisha (5PB), Kiarrah (5PB).

Special mention also to Luna (6A) and Anushka (6K) who covered the festival as part of the new TTLT Media Team.  

A group of year 2 and 3 children from our school took part in an event with picture book illustrator Joelle Avelino. The children had the opportunity to listen to the story "Mama's sleeping scarf" written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and learnt how Joelle Avelino found her inspiration and created the book's drawings. Our children were very fortunate to witness the drawing process of the book's main character and to draw it themselves by following Joelle's step by step instructions. What an exciting and rewarding experience! 

During the last week of September Year 4 visited the London Mithraeum and Guildhall’s Roman Amphitheatre as part of our history topic on the Romans. We got to see the remains of a Roman temple in the Mithraeum and experience what happened in Roman temples by listening to some of the Latin chanting that used to happen during Roman times. We also saw over 600 artefacts used in everyday life. In the amphitheatre we saw where gladiators used to fight in Londinium and learned how brutal the games were! We recorded videos of ourselves sharing what we had learned about the amphitheatre to add to our Roman presentations in our computing lessons.

Curwen had a fantastic time at Ranelagh Primary School on Friday 22nd September celebrating the
launch of Ranelagh Rockets.
A team of 10 children participated in a Baseball festival on the new diamond court at Ranelagh,
trying their hand at a range of pitching, throwing and batting activities. They also got to play some
small-sided games against North Beckton, Kensington and Ranelagh where they could showcase
their fantastic baseball skills.
The children thoroughly enjoyed it and are very much looking forward to playing Baseball again
soon!
Well done to these children who represented the school amazingly: Rafin (6A), Diana (6C), Tatyana
(6C), Lorenzo (6R), Sumaiya (6R), Khalil (6R), Ashana (6R), Sufyaan (6K), Jaynie (5T), Thiago (5T).

Some of our Year 5 children have spent the week enjoying the great outdoors, on their residential visit to Ullswater in The Lake District National Park. They've taken part in a variety of activities, including rock climbing, abseiling, gorge walking, hiking, tunnelling and visiting a local farm. They've also completed the John Muir Award. No doubt it's been an unforgettable experience of a lifetime. Click here to see photographs of their visit.