Friday, 19 April 2013

Family Homework at Ben Jonson School

This morning, children, parents and staff enjoyed an excellent family homework themed assembly at Ben Jonson School. Children from all year groups shared their food themed family homework including menu cards, tasty looking clay models, research and a delightful Easter basket made by young Riyad and his parents.

Families across the five Stepney Partnership primary schools (Ben Jonson, Cayley, Halley, Redlands and Smithy Street) all take part in the popular family homework project.

Get your popcorn ready and check out a couple of amazingly dramatic videos from Ben Jonson families for the previous Dinosaur themed family homework.





Monday, 15 April 2013

Family film making


 
A handful of families braved the artic conditions (snow in April?!) to make a film about the area of Stepney - past, present and future. Using the library at Stepney Green as a base, the families worked with film makers from Cineclub to work through the processes of making a film from research, to creating story boards to shooting the film itself. We will link to the film soon.

Tuesday, 2 April 2013

No Fear!


 
Today families from Stepney Partnership schools enjoyed a truly stunning peformance of 'No Fear!' the new show from Green Candle Dance Company.

Young children gathered around on cushions in Stepney Green school library watching and joining in as actors sang and danced their way through childhood phobias including dogs, spiders and being scared of heights. A memorable show and excellent workshop afterwards. Big thanks to Green Candle Dance, and to Stepney Green Maths Computing and Science College for hosting the event.