Aston House - Junior News
Junior School Christmas Play
The Junior School put on a wonderful performance of ‘The Innkeeper’s Breakfast’ for their Christmas play. In particular, the innkeeper and narrators worked especially hard learning their many lines. Highlights included the Innkeeper's comic lines, the wonderful duet by Mary and Joseph and the Three Kings' entrance.
Junior School play: the Innkeeper and three of his guests
Nursery Christmas Play
This year the Nursery Christmas play was ‘Shine Star Shine’. All the children rehearsed hard to put on a delightful performance. Highlights included Sophie-Amelie’s solo, Alexander’s enthusiastic singing and Sami’s excellent acting as the ‘Star’. As usual with children so young, there were some comedy moments! The Kings and camels appeared to ‘get lost’ in the desert and one of the camels decided to have a nap half way through the play!
The cast of the Nursery School Play
Anti-bullying assembly
This term the children in both schools had a special anti- bullying assembly entitled ‘The Power of One’. The Power of One is a series of skits presented by actors who use boxes, colours, and masks to vividly portray what bullying is, what can be done about it, and how every child has the power of one - the power to report bullying when they see it.
Some the children taking part in the assembly
Operation Christmas Child
This term for our charity, we decided to support Operation Christmas Child. Operation Christmas Child distribute shoeboxes filled with toys and useful items such as pencils, toothbrushes, soap and hats and gloves to children in various countries around the world who otherwise would not receive a gift at Christmas time. Due to the generosity of the parents, we collected 65 boxes for this good cause. Thank you.
Some of the reception children helping to carry out the many Christmas boxes
Celebrating Ealing Learning Festival June 2009
Aston House School held an art exhibition in June as part of the Ealing Learning Festival 2009. Art work created by the children as part of their program, Creativity Matters was also displayed. Visit our art gallery
Year 1 pupils at their poetry evening.
A spot of gardening at our Nursery
Our Nursery are beginning a "Gardening" event with seeds to sow and potatoes to plant alongside the flowers - we hope to show some pictures soon.
Aston House receives a visit from the Magician
The children had a very fun time with the Magician and couldn't believe his amazing tricks!
Creativity Matters comes to Aston House
BACKGROUND: During 2006 Ealing Council partnered with The Engine Room, Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts, London to develop ‘Creativity Matters’, a pilot test within four Children’s Centres to determine the impact of embedding creative professionals in early years education (click here for background).
Making tubes out of newspaper and seeing the result grow!
Building houses and making decorations for Chinese New Year!
The main artist, Clare Mitten visits the school at least once a week over a two year period.
Aston House School gets passionately healthy
Both our junior and senior schools held a Healthy Schools Week to help raise funds for the NSPCC during the week beginning Monday 13th October. As part of the four core themes of the National Healthy Schools Programme, which support the links between health, behaviour and achievement, the weekly curriculum had been amended to get the pupils involved in inspirational ideas on healthy eating, healthy bodies and physical activities!
On Friday 17th October, a company called “NUTRITIOUS and DELICIOUS” in partnership with the London Borough of Ealing, talked to the children about vegetables, fruit and eating healthily and they even got to make tasty smoothies as part of the “Ready Steady Cook” type workshops.
