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• Friday 8 March 2024 World Book Day 2024 For World Book Day, our KS2 Reading Ambassadors took on the teachers in charades.
• Monday 13 November 2023 Art Ambassadors At Remembrance Day Exhibition Our talented Art Ambassadors were delighted when their artwork was chosen to be part of a Remembrance Day Exhibition at The Pump House Gallery, Battersea Park.
• Thursday 7 September 2023 New Academic Year We'd like to welcome our children into the new academic year. We've been as busy as this beautiful bee getting everything ready and look forward to seeing our lovely Swaffield families at school.
• Thursday 29 June 2023 Performance Poetry Award for Third Year Running!
• Saturday 24 June 2023 Celebrating Windrush 75 Well done to all the children & parents who shared their family stories as we gave thanks to the Windrush Generation, celebrating #Windrush75. It was an honour to be joined by the wonderful Levy, an amazing 100 years old, and to share his story of coming to Britain.
• Monday 22 May 2023 Outdoor Classroom We've been busy getting our outdoor classroom ready for our seedlings that we've been nurturing since the Spring Term.
• Friday 5 May 2023 Celebrating the Coronation Today's celebrations for King Charles' coronation will be remembered fondly in years to come. Thanks to our PTA for the wonderful bunting, flag and cakes! Huge congratulations to the prize winners in our Crown Competition. See all the entries here: https://www.swaffield.wandsworth.sch.uk/News/Coronation-Crown-Competition/
• Friday 28 April 2023 Coronation Crown Competition We are so impressed with the creativity and artistic skills used by children from Nursery to Year 6 in designing a crown fit for a king in the Swaffield PTA Coronation Crown Competition. Well done to all out entrants.
• Friday 21 April 2023 Ramadan & Eid Assembly
• Tuesday 14 March 2023 Neurodiversity Celebration Week Neurodiversity is based on the idea that everyone has a differently-wired brain and their own unique way of thinking about and experiencing the world.
• Monday 6 March 2023 School Street Consultation Swaffield School has applied to have a school street.
• Friday 3 March 2023 Sponsored Reading Challenge As part of our World Book Day celebrations, we're challenging children from Nursery to Year 6 to read as many books as they can between 3rd March and 18th April for our sponsored reading challenge.
• Tuesday 28 February 2023 Time-travelling Author Visits Swaffield for World Book Day The children were enthralled by award-winning and time-travelling author Ally Sherrick in a special assembly.
• Monday 6 February 2023 Supporting Children's Mental Health Week 2023 We’re proud to be supporting Place2Be's ChildrensMentalHealthWeek from 6th to 12 February. This year's theme ‘Let’s Connect’ has inspired our class-based activities and our assembly during which we’re encouraging people to connect with others in healthy, rewarding and meaningful ways.
• Tuesday 31 January 2023 Nursery Application Deadline: 5th February 2023 Don't miss the deadline to apply for a Nursery place for September. Find out more here: https://www.swaffield.wandsworth.sch.uk/Admissions/Admissions-Nursery/ Please send your application by email directly to Swaffield School admissions: swaffield@swaffield.wandsworth.sch.uk or drop into the school office.
• Tuesday 31 January 2023 Science & Enterprise Week During our annual Science & Enterprise Week our budding entrepreneurs in Nursery up to Year 6 think of ideas, devise products, make them, then design adverts to promote them. Through teamwork, collaboration, and creativity, they create fantastic items to raise funds for their year group
• Monday 16 January 2023 New Library We're delighted to say that our fantastic new library is fully open and being used by all classes. It's packed with wonderful books for the children to enjoy. The library is arranged in two sections:• one for the younger year groups, which has lots of wonderful picture books as well as early readers• the other for older children, which is divided and colour-coded by the genre of the books.
• Tuesday 3 January 2023 Happy New Year 2023 We'd like to wish everyone in our community a very happy new year!
• Friday 16 December 2022 Carols In The Playground Carols in the Playground this year was really lovely - crisp, sunny and filled with beautiful singing and music. Parents and carers enjoyed hot chocolate and treats while they watched their children perform. Here's a snippet to enjoy:
• Friday 16 December 2022 Festive Cheer from KS1 Key Stage 1 children put on a wonderful performance of "Santa's On Strike" for their parents and carers this year. Listen to a snippet of their singing below:
• Friday 11 November 2022 Art for Remembrance Day Swaffield Art Ambassadors created this beautiful artwork to show what Remembrance Day means to them. It is on display at the Pump House Gallery, Battersea Park as part of their Remembrance Day Exhibition.
• Tuesday 18 October 2022 Black History Month - Inspired by Chelsea Foundation Our Black History Month assembly by Chelsea Foundation inspired many really creative entries for their 'iconic shirt' competition. Well done to all the children who spent time designing their own 'iconic shirt' and sent it into the competition.
• Tuesday 18 October 2022 New Look Newsletter We're excited to reveal our new look newsletter. We listened to feedback from our Swaffield families and looked into ways to make it easier for them to read our newsletter on their phone or tablet. It sounds like it's well-liked!
• Tuesday 11 October 2022 BOSS Acting October Half Term Camp Book your child's place for a spoookfest with BOSS Acting this October Half Term.
• Tuesday 11 October 2022 New Holiday Club at Swaffield Starting this October half term: a new holiday club at Swaffield School with special rates for Swaffield families plus an early bird discount for bookings before Sunday 16th October.
• Wednesday 14 September 2022 Swaffield Welcome BBQ
• Thursday 23 June 2022 125th Anniversary Whole School Photo Our whole school photo on 23rd June 2022 marked the first day of celebrations of our anniversary and will be a milestone in Swaffield's history. What a lovely memory for us all.
• Wednesday 22 June 2022 Year 3 Poetry Winners At The Globe Theatre We were really proud of our Year 3 Performance Poetry winners. Not only did they win a prize in this year's CLPE Clippa Performance Poetry Competition but they were invited to perform on stage at the world-renowned Globe Theatre.
• Tuesday 21 June 2022 125th Anniversary Community Art Project As part of our 125th Anniversary celebrations we were delighted to create a piece of art at the end of Swaffield Road to celebrate our community.
• Wednesday 8 June 2022 Swaffield Sings At Platinum Jubilee We are extremely proud to have been one of the 22 schools chosen to be part of the Platinum Jubilee Kids' Choir that performed at the Platinum Jubilee Pageant in front of Buckingham Palace on Sunday 5th June.
• Tuesday 3 May 2022 Eid Assembly During a special assembly on 28th April, we learned more about Islam and the holy month of Ramadan from some of our pupils and Dr Eman Mansoor. Thank you to the parents from the Wandsworth Town Ahmaddiya Community who arranged the assembly with the help of Ms Crolle. We wish everyone Eid Mubarak.
• Friday 29 April 2022 Outdoor Learning Funding Boost Outdoor Learning is important at Swaffield and we're pleased to announce that our outdoor classroom and garden space is getting a transformation thanks to a recent garden grant.
• Friday 22 April 2022 Stephen Laurence Day & Earth Day Assembly on Friday 22nd April celebrated Stephen Lawrence Day and Earth Day.
• Wednesday 20 April 2022 Biodiversity Assembly Thank youto Paradise Cooperativefor your fascinating assembly today. We learned lots about biodiversity and were astonished to hear stag beetle larvae can take up to seven years to hatch! We can't wait for our next outdoor learning sessions with you.
• Wednesday 20 April 2022 Inspired by Nature - First Day of Summer Term It was lovely to welcome everyone back to school today. Our Nursery tree is looking beautiful and is inspiring our Nursery children's art as well their reading and writing.
• Wednesday 16 March 2022 Creative Entrepreneurs In a whole school focus, children from Nursery to Year 6 have enjoyed Enterprise Week in which they have devised products and learned business-related skills includingpricing, production and promotion.
• Friday 11 March 2022 Year 3 Win CLiPPA Performance Poetry Award Massive congratulations to Giulia, Jozef, and Muneef from Year 3 whose fantastic joint performance of "Bright Bursts of Colour" by Matt Goodfellow has earned them a Four Star Winners prize in the CLiPPA Performance Poetry Competition.The winners were chosen from hundreds of video entries from schools from all over the country.
• Friday 4 March 2022 Art Project On Show at Southside Our Year 6 children were excited to take part in this wonderful community art project and we'd love parents and families to take a look at the fantastic work created by children across the borough. Here are some images of the creative art in progress:
• Friday 4 March 2022 Inspiring Critical Thinking For #worldbookday we've been using picture books across school to inspire critical thinking and also have really enjoyed reading for pleasure in our pyjamas.
• Tuesday 1 March 2022 Shrove Tuesday and St David's Day Reception children made delicious pancakes today for Shrove Tuesday and we marked St David's Day with an interesting, special assembly. Best wishes to everyone who is celebrating these today.
• Monday 28 February 2022 Collection for Ukraine We're sure that, like all the staff at school, Swaffield families will be feeling upset and saddened that the situation in Ukraine has turned very grave in the past few days.Our thoughts are with everyone affected by this terrible conflict.
• Thursday 24 February 2022 Celebrating World Book Day 2022 On Thursday 3rd March, we're celebrating reading and books for World Book Day 2022and want everyone to come to school wearing pyjamas!
• Thursday 24 February 2022 Hippity Hop Fashion Shop - School Council On Monday 28th February 2022, School Council are holding their sale of good quality, used, children's clothing after school in the Lilley Suite.
• Sunday 20 February 2022 125th Anniversary We're very proud to have been educating children in our community since opening in 1897 and are excited about sharing our 125th Anniversary celebrations at this year's summer fair. More info to follow soon. 125 sleeps to go!
• Wednesday 9 February 2022 Supporting Children's Mental Health Week We're proud to support #childrensmentalhealthweek. During the week our children are participating in a number of activities, including today's assembly, to increase awareness of, and strategies to support, children’s mental health. Swaffield families: there's more information in this week's Wellbeing Newsletter.
• Tuesday 8 February 2022 Safer Internet Day 2022 Today, during @UK_SIC #SaferInternetDay2022 we focussed on respect and relationships online. This supports our ongoing lessons, equipping children with the knowledge to stay safe online.
• Tuesday 1 February 2022 Chinese New Year We've been learning about the Chinese New Year: in assembly, children performed the story behind the Chinese Zodiac and found out about the Year of the Tiger. Those in our after school "Cool Cookery Club" made a delicious stir fry. Happy Chinese New Year to all those who are celebrating!
• Wednesday 26 January 2022 Nursery Maths Nursery children are using the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears to support their maths learning. Using all of their senses to decide what they think of porridge, they then recorded their opinion on a whole class graph.
• Thursday 13 January 2022 Reception Outdoor Learning Our Reception children enjoy their fabulous outdoor space and especially love exploring the garden looking for bugs.
• Thursday 16 December 2021 Seasons Greetings We were very pleased that every child had the opportunity to take part in a seasonal performance this year and that we were able to invite parents and carers in to watch them.
• Friday 19 November 2021 One Kind Word It was wonderful to see so many odd socks being worn as we started national anti-bullying week and celebrated what makes us all unique.
• Friday 12 November 2021 Autumn 1 Homework Projects 2021 Wow! What a lot of imagination, hard work, and creativity went into the Autumn 1 half term's homework projects. Take a look:
• Thursday 11 November 2021 Remembrance Day 2021 Our Art Ambassadors have created some beautiful work based on the theme 'What does Remembrance Day mean to Me?'.
• Friday 22 October 2021 People Who Inspire Us - Black History Month This Black History Month, every class from Nursery to Year 6 has chosen a significant individual, who is black and British and who inspires them, to research, write about, and then draw or paint a portrait.
• Thursday 21 October 2021 International Reggae Star Performs at Swaffield As part of ourBlack History Monthcelebrations, we were delighted to welcome local musician and international reggae star, Nu Flowah, to assembly.
• Monday 11 October 2021 Harvest Collection 2021 At harvest time each year, we think about where our food comes from, those who growand produce it, as well as those who sadly go hungry because of family circumstances. This harvest time, we are collecting donations for our local foodbank so that we can help others in our community.
• Wednesday 29 September 2021 Swaffield Joins Mini London Marathon in Schools Swaffield School is excited to once againbe taking part in the London Mini Marathon.
• Wednesday 21 July 2021 Swaffield Annual Awards At the end of every academic year, we announce the winners of the Swaffield Awards.
• Wednesday 21 July 2021 Coding Creativity
• Tuesday 20 July 2021 Year 5s Perform at Shakespeare's Globe Huge congratulations to Freddie and Zane, Year 5 Lynx, who, following their win in the CLiPPA Shadowing Scheme 2020 Performance Poetry Competition, were invited to perform at Shakespeare?s Globe Theatre.
• Friday 16 July 2021 Year 1 Resilience Letters Our Year 1 children shared the country’s dismay in the treatment of our English football heroes. These supportive words are from letters of solidarity they wrote and sent to the players:
• Thursday 24 June 2021 CARIBBEAN COOKERY BRINGS WINDRUSH HISTORY TO LIFE
• Thursday 17 June 2021 Year 2 Paper-making Year 2 enjoyed learning how to make paper from old newspapers. It's quite a process and required great teamwork! 
• Friday 28 May 2021 George Floyd Assembly Ms Crolle shared this informative and moving assembly. 
• Friday 14 May 2021 Chicks Hatch In Nursery Nursery were thrilled when ten living eggs arrived in a special incubator on Monday and were excited to learn that they would soon hatch. The children watched and waited and a little later in the week they began to see that a couple had little holes which appeared as the chick inside was ready to come out.
• Wednesday 5 May 2021 Heroes Stamp Design Competition We are delighted to be taking part in Royal Mail’s Heroes Stamp Design Competition, honouring the heroes of the coronavirus pandemic.
• Wednesday 5 May 2021 Swaffield: ITV London News England Does Daily Mile
• Tuesday 6 April 2021 Swaffield Sponsored Readathon
• Monday 29 March 2021 Singing voices fill school A school filled with children’s singing voices is a happy place.
• Sunday 14 March 2021 Happy Mother's Day from our Nursery children We'd like to wish all the mummies a very happy Mother's Day with this gorgeous song from some of our fabulous Nursery children.
• Friday 5 March 2021 Looking Forward to Welcoming Everyone Back!
• Wednesday 3 March 2021 World Book Day 2021
• Friday 24 July 2020 Swaffield Head Teacher and Staff Recognised As School Heroes We are extremely proud that Ms Hamilton, Ms Blunden, and our whole school team have been recognised as School Heroes by our local MP, Dr Rosena Allin-Khan, for their work supporting Swaffield pupils and their families throughout the coronavirus pandemic. 
• Friday 24 July 2020 Nicholas Stewart Project Writing Competition Earlier this term our children took part in this year’s Nicholas Stewart Project Writing Competition.
• Monday 11 May 2020 Swaffield Achieves Artsmark Gold!
• Tuesday 31 March 2020 Fourth Plinth Schools Award 2020

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