This is proving to be a very busy term for us at Ferry Lane. As you know, we had an Ofsted inspection in September and we are now working on our action plan and making sure we address all the areas that were identified for us to focus on improving. One thing we have felt very grateful for in this challenging time is the trust and [...]
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Congratulations Ferry Lane… We have done really well in the Educational Blog Awards 2012. Out of over 900 nominated schools, we were amongst the 10 shortlisted schools in three categories. We were shortlisted for y6.ferrylane.net as most influential blog of the year and best class blog of the year, and for ferrylane.net for best whole-school [...]
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On Wednesday last week we had an extremely special trip. Children will recall that some time ago they were asked to to think of some names for boats that go up and down the river. We had some really good ones! Here they are… Year 1: Mermaid (Rebecca) Rosie (Annabella) Emerald (Onyeka) Year 2: Angela (Samira) [...]
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On Friday 4 classes of children from Ferry Lane made the tube journey to the Royal Albert Hall to take part in a huge singing concert in preparation for the Olympics. It was amazing! There were schools from all over North London. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra were there and they played the songs that have [...]
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Today is the first day of Spring and we have had beautiful weather. We took advantage of this and started our Gardening Club today. So far, two children have been nominated from each class from Y3-6 and we went outside and planted potatoes today into grow bags. I am going to put up some photos [...]
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This week I really enjoyed my assembly and it started with a simple question… Why do gorillas have such big nostrils? Not a lot of children knew the answer to that one! If you know please keep it to yourself and send me a comment at the end… Then I asked a few children to [...]
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Happy New Year to you all! I hope you had a wonderful time over the holidays and enjoyed relaxing with friends and family. The new year brings lots of new resolutions and a chance for us to make a fresh start. Today’s assembly was all about finding solutions to problems and setting [...]
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We are very pleased to say that we recently had a visitor from HMI (Her Majesty’s Inspectors) who are part of Ofsted and came to see how we are improving as a school and to see the progress the children are making. As usual, pupils at Ferry Lane showed that they are well behaved and confident children who enjoy being at [...]
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Hei… I am writing this from Norway where we are visiting a school called Arvoll Skole in Oslo. There are also some teachers from Escola Carrilet in Spain and this is the start of our two year project together. We have been working out the timetable and thinking about the work we will each do [...]
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