Year 6 Visit the Imperial War Museum

My Trip to the Imperial War Museum. In history we have been learning about what it was like during World War Two, so the teachers decided to take us to the Imperial War Museum to learn more about it. Read more...

Dance Awards

Many of our pupils are being taught various styles of dance in their lessons with Mrs Turpin. They include Ballet, Tap and Modern Dance. Several girls recently took part in the Rainbow awards scheme and were successful in gaining certificates. Congratulations! Read more...

Saxaphone Fun

Year 6 recently spent their music lesson listening to three expert professional saxophone players perform a range of music which demonstrated the history of Jazz. They started in the 1900s with Scot Joplin’s Maple Leaf Rag, and moved through various styles, ending with a piece that demonstrated the sounds of Funk Jazz. As a treat, their finale was a toe tapping version of the Simpsons TV theme. Read more...

Salters' Festivals of Chemistry

This mystery was solved by four Year 8 students who took part in a Chemistry challenge held at the University of East London. The day involved carrying out various analytical experiments in a University laboratory in order to identify suspects in a fictitious crime. Read more...

Good luck to Year 11

Good luck to Year 11 (pictured at their pirate-themed Leavers' Breakfast), who are now on study leave prior to commencing their GCSE exams later this month. Read more...

The Queens Guard

Last Wednesday Old Colfeian and ex CCF Squadron Cadet Jo Butterfill, who has recently returned from Afghanistan where he won the Militay Cross, invited Major and Mrs Cherry, Cadet Sgt Maj Simon Cox and Cadet Cpl Gareth Kennedy-Brown to the Queens Guard. Read more...

STOP PRESS

The new Disney film, The Prince of Persia, is out today (14th May) starring our very own Year 10 pupil, Charlie Banks. Charlie is sharing the screen with those slightly less well-known stars, Gemma Arterton and Jake Gyllenhall.

Old Colfeian Tipped As Arsenal's Next Young Success

Conor Henderson, who left Colfe's in 2008 to pursue a career in football, has been tipped as Arsenal's next young success story following his appearance on the Arsenal 1st XI bench for the recent Gunners match at Wigan. Read more...

Arkwright Success

The Arkwright Scholarship scheme encourages young people to study design and technology at advanced level with the idea of attracting them into engineering and industry where there is a need for people with creative and technical skills. Last term a number of Year 11 pupils took the Scholarship exam and two were successful in getting interviews with potential sponsors. Sarah Loughlin and Phoebe Roth were invited to Cambridge University where a day of aptitude tests, interviews and problem solving tasks were arranged. We will hear the result of the Arkwright Scholarship panel towards the end of this term but Sarah and Phoebe can be confident that their ability as designers has already been recognised.

2010 Biology Challenge

We have just received the results for the 2010 Biology Challenge, the national competition for students in years 9 and 10 to show their knowledge in the Life Sciences. Five Colfe’s pupils: Isobel Britton, George Charalambous, Catherine Cheesman , Julia Cummings and Alastair Porter were outstanding and have achieved Gold Awards. This is the first time that gold has come to Colfe’s in this competition. Special mention must go to George, who won a Bronze Award in last year’s competition when he was in year 9. Silver Awards were won by Tom Bedford, Harry Fisher, Alice Foster, Alex Graham, Ben Khoshnevisan and Manish Patel. This is a tremendous result for the school and reflects the excellence of our students in a national context. Congratulations to all of our award winners. Read more...

Colfe's U15 7s Rugby Team Enjoys a Day of Coaching at Twickenham

Colfe’s U15 7s rugby team (who recently won the prestigious London Oratory School Sevens tournament in March), spent a day with England Head Coach Martin Johnson at Twickenham last week. Read more...

House Cross Country 2010

On a rather chilly Friday morning the entire school descended onto the playing fields for the annual House cross-country competition. Boys and girls competed against their own year groups and ran two laps of the field (three for the Year 5 and 6 boys). Read more...

Latin Reading Competition

On Wednesday 10th March Matthew Buck and Sam Stone in Year Eight were a force to be reckoned with in the recent Latin Reading Competition held at City of London School. Their dynamic performance with superb pronunciation and performance skills blew the comparatively static renditions offered by other schools out of the water. Read more...

Year 10 visit The Museum of London

To supplement the GCSE Latin syllabus a group of six Year Ten students ventured to the Museum of London with Mr Corstorphine and Mr Symeou on Friday 30th April. In the morning we were lucky to receive a talk from the much-televised Curator of the Museum of London and we subsequently handled authentic pieces dating back thousands of years. Read more...

LEISURE CENTRE - CLOSURE DATES - 3rd, 6th & 7th July

The Centre will be closed on the following dates due to School CCF Day and Presentation Evenings: Saturday 3rd July - 12pm onwards (School CCF) Tuesday 6th July - All Evening (School Presentation Evening) Wednesday 7th July - All Evening (School Presentation Evening)

Year 11 Pupil's Poem Wins Two Competitions

Recently Year 11 pupil Francesca King wrote a poem called ‘Puma’ which she submitted to two competitions. She was delighted to learn that she had, in fact, won both competitions which meant that her poem would be published in two anthologies: Bust-A-Rhyme and Sparks of Inspiration. Read more...

Geography Trip To Iceland

During the Easter break, Ms. McAuliffe took a party of 29 students from Years 8, 9, 10 and 11 to Iceland. This proved to be a timely experience, as they were amongst the first to witness the now famous Eyjafjallajokull volcano erupting into life. Ms McAuliffe writes: We enjoyed a truly exceptional trip to Iceland at the end of March, a week after the first eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull fissure volcano in the South of the country near Vik. After a rigorous risk assessment and the reassurance of various experts, it was decided that we should go ahead with our expedition, and I am really pleased we did. Read more...

Year 3 Kenyan Talk

A huge thank you to Dr.Thirkell and Mrs.Basham, who gave up their time last Friday to come and speak to the Year 3 children about the landscape, food, housing and schooling of people in rural and urban Kenya. Read more...

My World War II Workshop Experience

On Thursday 29th April Year 6 were taken down to the hall to learn about WWII. Waiting there were two men dressed in World War II clothes pretending to be actual soldiers from the war, one man who is actually in the war today and a woman. The men dressed as WWII soldiers had dull green jackets and heavy backpacks with various other smaller bags. One of them had a Lee Enfield bolt action rifle, a 2 litre water canister and they both had green army caps. The modern day soldier was dressed in a camouflaged t-shirt, shorts and hat , along with some black boots. Read more...

My Sleepover at School

On Friday 23rd April 2010, Year 3 had a sleepover at school. The boys were divided into two classrooms and the girls were all put into one classroom together. We put our luggage in these rooms then went to the hall for a quick kit-kat and drink – yum! After our tasty snack we went to the swimming pool. We had lots of fun, the floats were out and we played games with our friends. Around 6pm we all had dinner. I had saveloy and chips along with orange juice to drink. After dinner we went outside to play football and kingball. This was fun and we really enjoyed it. We finished playing outside at 7pm. Read more...