Autumn 1 Highlights – Oliver Goldsmith Primary School

Science trip

We wanted to thank the parents and carers who supported on our year group trip to the South London Botanical Institute.

This was a very interesting experience for many of our children who had the opportunity to observe edible plants using a microscope! The children had opportunities to explore an exciting variety of food plants in the beautiful botanical garden, and they developed a better understanding of parts of plants which are edible.

Best Black Briton

For Black History Month, year 3s got to know about Mary Phillip. Mary Phillip is a retired English footballer who made history in women’s football. She played as a defender for the England national team and became the first Black woman to captain the national team. Mary played for clubs like Millwall Lionesses, Arsenal, and Charlton Athletic. During her career, she won five Women’s Premier Leagues and seven FA Cups. Did you know that she was born and raised here in Peckham? What an inspirational individual to learn about!

To show what we learned about Mary Phillip, we created a display board for our school’s Best Black Briton competition. Have a look at our board below.

Emotion Explorers

Year 3s had interesting sessions across the term with Rebecca, Dilshad and Charlotte from Groundwork London. We hope you had the chance to look through the folders they brought home before the half-term break. They discussed the different Zones of Regulation and were able to develop some strategies to manage the different emotions they experience throughout the day. The children were taught how to get into the Green zone or stay in the Green zone through Positive Self-Talk (where we say kind and positive things to ourselves, such as “I am kind”, “I try really hard with my school work”, “I am a good friend”), doing a Body Scan, and thinking about what makes us happy!

We will continue to build on the work done during Emotion Explorers throughout the year.