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  • 24/02/22

    Young Shakespeare Company

    The Young Shakespeare Company visited Whitehall today to perform 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' to all of Year 6 in preparation for their study of this Shakespeare text in their upcoming English lessons.  The performance was thoroughly enjoyed by all of the children and they now have a...
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  • 13/02/22

    Festival of the Month - Lohri​​​​​​​

    This week sees the start of the festival of Lohri, a North Indian festival celebrated by many Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims of the region which marks the end of the cold months of winter and the start of the incoming longer, warmer days of spring. As well as celebrating the brighter and sunnier day...
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  • 09/02/22

    Children's Mental Health Week

    Children's Mental Health Week this year took place between Monday 7th February to Sunday 13th February.  To recognise this week, Whitehall completed a wealth of activities in school to support children's mental well-being.  Each day throughout this week the...
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  • 02/02/22

    Festival of the Month - Lunar New Year​​​​​​​

    This week marks the start of Lunar New Year! The festival, also known as Spring Festival and Chinese New Year, always begins in accordance with the start of a new moon on the Chinese calendar. Rather than following the Gregorian calendar, which heralds in a brand new year every J...
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  • 15/12/21

    Year 4 DT Gingerbread Igloos

    Year 4 have been busy this week creating gingerbread igloos as part of their Design Technology learning. In groups of three, children designed, baked and constructed their gingerbread igloo. It was wonderful to see brilliant teamwork and children really enjoying their learning while practi...
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  • 10/12/21

    Whitehall's Christmas Lunch

    On Friday 10th December, all of the children and staff enjoyed their delicious Christmas lunch which was thoroughly enjoyed by all!  Music rang through the hall, crackers were pulled and everybody was certainly getting into the Christmas spirit!
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  • 01/12/21

    Festival of the Month: Hanukkah

    As well as Christmas being a significant celebration for Christians this month, December is also special for people of the Jewish faith, who celebrate Hanukkah every year around this time. Hanukkah (or 'Chanukah' in Hebrew which means 'dedication') is the Jewish winterti...
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  • 10/11/21

    Pedestrian Training

    Whitehall Junior School has taken part in Practical Pedestrian Training during November for Years 3, 4 and 5 pupils during the school day. This training was led by The Road Safety and School Travel Team, London Borough of Hillingdon and took place out of the school grounds on residential s...
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  • 04/11/21

    Young Shakespeare Company

    The Young Shakespeare Company visited Whitehall today to perform 'Macbeth' to all of Year 5 in preparation for their study of this Shakespeare text in their upcoming English lessons.  The performance was thoroughly enjoyed by all of the children and they now have a thorough underst...
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  • 02/11/21

    Launch of our New Reading Scheme!

    Today marks the launch of our new reading scheme! We are really excited to unveil over 2,000 books - a great mix of fiction and non-fiction reading, which is carefully tailored to match pupils' decoding and encoding ability. All pupils have had a personalised reading assessment which feeds...
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  • 01/11/21

    Festival of the Month: Diwali

    Thursday 4th November marks the start of Diwali - 'The Festival of Lights'. This festival (translated from the sanskrit 'dipavali' meaning 'rows of lights'), is celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and even some Buddhists across the world, between October and November, based on...
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  • 19/10/21

    Year 6 Bikeability Course

    During the week beginning 18th October, forty Year 6 children took part in a four-day Bikeability course that was led by instructors provided by the Hillingdon Local Authority.  Each child participated in a two-hour session on each of the four days of the course enabling them to progr...
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