Clore Tikva Primary School

Israeli Dance Festival
All children in Years 1 and 2 participated in the KS1 Israeli Dance Festival 2023. After weeks of learning the dances, we were joined by visitors Yael and Ilai who led the children (and staff), in the hall for a morning filled with Israeli dance and music.
A wonderful time was had by all!

30 children from Year 5 went to KIng Solomon on Friday to represent Clore Tikva in an inter-school sports event. The children were a credit to the school - demonstrated amazing teamwork and fantastic skills!

Come and join in all the fun at our School summer fete on Sunday 2 July 2023.

All are welcome to join in with all the fun activities like face painting, bouncy castle, sponge the teacher, and much more!!! 🦸‍♀️🦸🦸‍♂️🍦⚽️🎨🎼🥁🎭

It's that time of year and Summer is here 🌞☀️🌞

Summer camp is back again with so many activities to choose from. Run by Premier Education UK

Time to get booking so the children don't miss out on all the fun 👩‍🎤🦹‍♀️🦸🦸‍♀️🦸‍♂️⚽️🏀🏓🛝🏹🥅

Get your children booked in as spaces are limited to first come first served.

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We had a wonderful day at Clore Tikva celebrating the King's Coronation! Everyone had an afternoon tea with scones and jam, the children dressed up in red, white and blue and we even had some royalty visit!

Back again so soon!!! ⚽️🎭🎨 Half-term holiday camp run by Premier Education UK

With so much exciting things to do your children won't want to miss out.
Get your children booked in as spaces are limited to first come first served.

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Key Stage 2 staff and children came together today to remember the six million Jews that were murdered in the Holocaust. Through a family in our Clore Tikva community, we learnt about how important music is when remembering.

Mrs Saville told the children about two orphans who came to a synagogue in Elshad, Lithuania, and were asked to sing the melody of the Lord of the World (Adon Olam). These two children later died in the holocaust. One of the worshippers, Moshe Saville (one of our pupil's great grandfathers) taught the music to his children. These children continue to teach their grandchildren.

Listen to the song, make others listen, sing it and share the post in memory of those orphans and the millions of innocent people who perished in the holocaust.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=V1ti98lvwYU&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1nbLfiCPL4mY6b0lAEvnN-16cI_FPlNFif62E32ORxNO3xzQ3vCCGm9-g

אדון עולם ניגון ששרד ניגון אדון עולם ששרד את השואה, זכרון אחרון לילדים יתומים מליטא

Seder Celebrations at Clore Tikva Primary School!

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs!!!

Purim Fun at Clore Tikva Primary School

The whole school, have had the most wonderful day celebrating the festival of Purim. We welcomed Rabbi Lev into our Key Stage 2 assembly who read the Megillah. Key Stage 1 had their very own fashion parade where we saw a huge variety of wonderful costumes including bananas, wizards, superheroes and even John Lennon! The children took part in games, sang songs and made mishloach manot to share with eachother. Some children also got to make their very own hamantaschen with Louise Dorling, our Chair of Governors. A big thank you to Delicacy who kindly donated hamantaschen to all of the children and staff!

CLORE TIKVA CHILDREN ‘MEET’ THE FAMOUS AUTHOR MICHAEL MORPURGO!
The children of Clore Tikva in Years 4, 5 and 6 were fortunate to have the opportunity to meet the famous Michael Morpurgo on World Book Day. He told us his life story and how he started to become an author.📖

We are back with the first holiday club of the year for February half term, run by Premier Education UK.

Get your children booked in as spaces are limited to first come first served and the children won't want to miss out.

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A.I.M High writing workshop with Seth Burkett

Children from Years 5 and 6 had the opportunity to go to Glade Primary school for a biography-writing workshop with Seth Burkett, an English writer and futsal player and former professional footballer.

Our children were introduced to the different types of biography. Together, the group came up with interesting points that a biography should cover. After discussing some examples, tools to quickly draw readers' attention and add suspense were shared. Following this, the children started to write some amazing autobiographies about their own lives.

Next up, children worked in pairs to ghost write the first chapter of each other's autobiographies. They interviewed each other, coming up with interesting questions to ensure interesting answers. Writers were encouraged to listen carefully to the way their partner spoke, noticing any slang or favourite words they heard so that they can expertly catch their subject's voice.

The final part of the workshop asked the children to come up with a biography of Usain Bolt. They watched a clip from when Usain Bolt won the 100m London 2012 Olympics and had to describe that special moment in their biographies.

The children set such a wonderful example and represented Clore Tikva in such a positive way. In fact, the other schools that attended were blown away by our enthusiasm, English skills and knowledge!

Clore Tikva would like to say a big thank you to for the wonderful treats to celebrate Chanukah, the doughnuts were delicious, yummy, delightful, fantastic, fabulous and we loved them!!! 🍩🍩🍩

Happy Chanukah Sameach!!!

We are reaching out to all of our Clore Tikva Community and asking you to vote in Redbridge's first ever education awards!
The awards are an amazing opportunity for you to say thank you to a teacher or member of staff who you think deserves to be recognised and celebrated for all they do for young people in Redbridge.

With 14 award categories to choose from, there is something for everyone. If you can think of an individual or team who has made a positive impact on your child’s learning, development, or extracurricular activities, now is the time to give them something back!
If the person or team you nominate are shortlisted, they will be invited to a spectacular awards ceremony to be held in Wanstead next April – it will be a night to remember!
Making a nomination couldn’t be easier, simply head to www.redbridge. gov.uk/Redbridge-education-awards. Please also encourage your child/children to make their own nomination!

If you have any questions or need assistance making a nomination, please speak to a member of staff, or contact [email protected].

Mitzvah Day 2022

A group of Key Stage 2 children accompanied Mrs Bendon to present our Mitzvah Tree laden with leaves of messages from our pupils to the members of RJCC at Woodford Forest Shul. They in turn presented us with their tree. This intergenerational project will involve both us here in school and at the centre reading a leaf a week, bringing motivational and heart-warming messages from our children to the elderly members of RJCC and vice versa.

Queen Elizabeth II (1926 - 2022)
The staff, pupils, governors and families of Clore Tikva school are deeply saddened at the news of the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Our thoughts are with the Royal Family at this time.

Don't forget to book your child's place on our October half term activity club!!!

Welcome back to our Clore Tikva children and parents, we hope you've had a lovely summers break. 🌞

We'd like to welcome parents within our community to Swesrs "Tots and Toys Fridays" which will be held at Clore Tikva School, where new parents of children ages 0-4 years can meet other parents within the community and the children can play and make new friends.
South West Essex and Settlement Reform Synagogue
This will be held every Friday starting on (Friday 16th September) from 8:45-10am.

Click link below to book you place.

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/swesrsadmin?fbclid=IwAR31IgYXgNFtfb0YRWizwKoj-i4v2Hk1ceRdNLFmVpunNIxt4nusW1XSoYM

After our fantastic performance in the previous season of robotics competitions (read about our story here), we would like to give more of our students the opportunity to experience this tremendous learning journey. Please support our cause!!!

Help Robotics Club open new teams After our fantastic performance in the previous season of robotics competitions (read about our story here ), we would like to give more of our students the opportunity to experience this tremendous l

Years 5 & 6 Visit the Natural History Museum!!!

Some of our Clore Tikva children had a great opportunity on Wednesday and was able to attend the National UK Commemoration at Jewish Care.

It's back again!!!

We're introducing our July/August Summer camp again this summer which is run by Premier Education UK. Keeping the children busy during the summer with all the activities we have in store for them. 🎭🎨👩‍🎤🕺🚴‍♀️​
So get your children booked in as spaces are limited to first come first served and the children won't want to miss out.
The Summer Camp will be welcoming Clore Tikva Children and Children from the wider community again.
Like and Share with all your friends and let's get camp ready for summer. 🌞🌞🌞
For more info on booking:
https://www.cloretikva.redbridge.sch.uk/school-clubs/

We WON! 🏆

Clore Tikva Robotics Club won 1st🥇and 2nd🥈 place in their final Regional Competition.

In addition, one team won the Design Award for very precise and detailed documentation of their design process and the Robot Skills Champion Award for being the best in Drivers and Coders at the competition. That is a whooping 4 awards for both teams! Both teams have now qualified for The VEX IQ Challenge UK National Championships 2022 (Elementary School) in Telford on the 24th – 25th of April 2022.

Due to their outstanding performances in all their competitions this year, they are also one of five primary schools in the whole of the UK, invited to represent the UK Primary schools in the 2022 VEX Robotics World Championship - VEX IQ Challenge Elementary School Event in May 10 – 12 2022, at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Centre in Dallas, Texas United States.

What an achievement indeed!

It is customary at Purim to give Tzedakah (charity) and this year we felt it was extremely poignant to be able to help in the crisis in the Ukraine and have set up an online fundraising page in partnership with World Jewish Relief.

We believe this is a very worthwhile cause. The donations can be as little as 50p or whatever you can manage.

If you wish to make a donation, please click the link below.

Samantha's fundraising page for 'Clore Tikva Fundraising Ukraine Appeal' We are proud to partner with World Jewish Relief in support of people affected by the crisis in Ukraine.

On Thursday 3rd March, Clore Tikva celebrated World Book Day. They took part in a book swap, drank hot chocolate and listened to lots of different stories. Everyone came into school wearing their pyjamas!
Mrs Saville read The Freedom Bird in assembly to all children and they then produced some wonderful work based on the story. We have examples of poetry, story maps, bookmarks and art work linked with this wonderful tale. We finished the day with a very successful book fair where children had the opportunity to purchase lots of different books. We would like to thank all of the parents that volunteered to come in and read a story to children in different languages.

World Book Day!!!

Year 1 children listened to the story of the Freedom Bird and created their own birds using oil pastels, collage or colouring. They also created five different parts of the story, working in groups.

Just over a year ago, we asked the children of Clore Tikva to donate any unwanted books to our Books2Africa fundraising scheme. So many families generously gave some wonderful books to the cause. We would like to thank you all for the 447 books that were donated.

396 of these books so far, have been distributed to children who may not be able to afford books themselves.

Here are some pictures of the children that have benefitted from your generosity!

Thank you all again for donating.

Is the Earth Spherical or flat? 🌍
For homework, the Year 5 children were asked to make a model of Earth; this could be flat or spherical. They then had to write a letter to a flat Earth theorist persuading them that the Earth is spherical.
Following this, we had a class debate where we discussed, questioned and used evidence to make our own decisions on whether the Earth is flat or spherical.

Year 4 have been studying rivers in their current topic called ‘Flow’. The children made boats using paper and wrote interesting facts about rivers on them. They were then asked to research a specific river.

Here are some examples of their fantastic work.

Wes Streeting visited us at Clore Tikva School.

Thank you Wes Streeting for coming to visit the school and talking with the children at their Kabbalat Shabbat assembly.

Wes Streeting visit to Clore Tikva School

Clore Tikva Primary School encourages children to know and understand the world around them, whether natural or man-made. It is important to us that children understand democracy and the role that MPs and government play in society. We were fortunate to welcome our local Member of Parliament Wes Streeting to school for the Kabbalat Shabbat assemblies for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 on Friday 14th January.

https://essexjewishnews.co.uk/wes-streeting-visit-to-clore-tikva-school

All the children from Year 1-6 wrote individual Chanukah cards as part of Jewish Care's Cards of Care. Here is a sample from the many batches that were written, all of which were collected today and will be handed out to residents of Jewish Care homes this Chanukah. Wishing you all Chag Sameach.

Mitzvah Day 2021

Thank you to everyone who donated food for the Redbridge Foodbank, which was all collected today. Thank you also to Lenna Rosenberg and Rukhsana Yaqoob from Nisa Nashim who baked cupcakes with our pupils which will be handed out at the Friday Night Cafe of Hope at Jubilee Church, Ilford, to feed the homeless. Finally a huge thank you for those who have donated toys for the Camp Simcha Toy Drive. These will all be collected next week so there is still time to donate. Shabbat Shalom

All pupils and staff at Clore Tikva observed a two-minute silence to remember and honour those who fought and died for our country. This display represents our responsibility and how we all have a responsibility to promote peace and kindness within our community and within our world. 🌺🌺🌺

Anti bullying week takes place from the 15 to 19 November 2021.

The week will begin with odd socks day on Monday 15 November, so all children are welcome to wear their odd socks and donate £1, which will go to Anti Bullying Alliance.🧦🧦🧦

Readathon Success!
We are absolutely thrilled to announce that we have now purchased some wonderful books for the whole school. This is thanks to all of those people that donated to our school Readathon. All classes have received new books for their book corners as well as many packs of books that will be used for the teaching of Guided Reading.

Can I also take this opportunity to thank the many families that come to me with fantastic quality books that they have kindly donated to our school library. This will all contribute to our school being a place where we all love to read. Here are some photos of our children enjoying the new books.

Calling all our Tottenham Hotspur supporters!!! ⚽️⚽️⚽️

If you are a Spurs supporter, or know anyone who is, we are currently raising funds for the school by auctioning a signed Tottenham Pennant (Signed by 2020 Tottenham Hotspur 1st squad)

The link will go live at 9am on Friday 15th October for 10 days via eBay

Please can you share it through all channels. All funds raised will go to School.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/133900960292 - This wont be live till Friday morning.

Redbridge have been successful in their bid for the Mothers’ for Change programme this year delivered by Groundswell Project.

This is a popular programme for mothers around the area to see threats that children face and how best they can support their children.

The course starts on 3rd of November and will be held at Fullwell Cross Library.

World Mental Health Day!

Year 5 & 6 visit the Allotments!

As part of our Sow, Grow and Farm topic, Years 5 and 6 had the opportunity to visit our local allotment. A thoroughly structured tour by expert volunteers ensured that staff and children experienced a hugely educational and enjoyable time! Each group of pupils followed a map around the plot, where they visited a number of different sections.

Pupils were surprised at the large variety of crops being grown and saplings were distributed to staff so that we could continue growing them at school.

In addition, the experts were able to inform pupils about bio-diversity, soil structure and the obstacles which can be faced when growing crops in this area.

An inspirational visit was had by all!