Great Walstead is about so much more than simply what happens inside the classroom, and this is the perfect place to discover just what else we get up to.
James C from Year 7 talks to us about what is encouraging the youth of today to come up with ideas to change and challenge the old, established systems?
Read moreThe last 2 lessons our Year 3 and 4 pupils have been focusing on Aboriginal Art and its was so much fun we thought we would let everyone join the lesson!
Read moreWe hope you enjoyed last weeks Great Walstead; Great Reads. We are excited to share this weeks recommendations from our Head of English, Mrs Rees and the teachers at Great Walstead.
Read moreAs we all try to find our own rhythms in these difficult times, we have put together a list of ‘Great Walstead: Great Reads’ for the week. The books are categorised into (fluid) age groups, so whatever your age, adults included, we hope we will identify something that appeals. Hopefully, we can all find some time in the day to curl up with a book.
Read moreGood luck to our talented actors and actresses for their performances of Aladdin! Everyone has been working incredibly hard and we can't wait to the see the final result!
Read moreAs part of their eco activities this year, the juniors have been making ecobricks out of non-recyclable single use plastics. They have made an amazing 61 ecobricks so far, with a special mention to our most prolific ecobricker A. Montier who has made over 20 ecobricks of her own!
Read morePi Day is on Saturday so we spent today celebrating! Year 6 experimented with bubbles to find the circumference of any circle and Year 7 and 8 answered tricky circle questions in order to ‘Pi’ Face their opponents! Special congratulations to A. Andrews who recited an outstanding 220 decimal places of Pi!
Read moreYear 3 pupil C. Howard will be running the Brighton Marathon Mini Mile on 18th April to raise money for the Evelina Children's Heart Organisation and the Evelina London Children's Hospital.
Read moreYears 2-4 treated us to a wonderful Poetry Festival this morning, with some fantastic individual and class performances. We were lucky to be joined by children's author Nikki Sheehan who gave the children some lovely feedback and we even had a special guest performer... Mr Calvey!
Read moreYear 4 had an action packed Egyptian morning, making clay face masks and their own lip balm! Thank you to 'Clares Face Painting' for getting the children into character, they had a fantastic time! #WalkLikeAnEgyptian
