School News

Courtwood celebrated British Science Week 2023, focussing on the theme – connections. Each class was set an investigation looking at different connections, ranging from boats in Reception, rockets in Year 3 to Morse code in Year 6. As well as in class learning, we hosted our first ever science fair. The children had been amazing […]

Every child at Courtwood has been working hard with Mrs McCormack and Mrs Worboys to remind us of a really important message. Inspired by Marcus Rashford and his wonderful book, children worked together to create a brilliant piece of art work to display! We had a very special reveal during our Merit Assembly last week.

Huge congratulations to Logan & Spencer, Y6, who represented Croydon at the London Youth Games Cross Country event, following their own outstanding individual performances in the earlier Croydon event. Delighted to present them with their bronze medals for 3rd place at the LYG!

We were delighted to receive our Grow Show Award from Trees for Cities for outstanding work supporting the community with our harvest. Thank you Mrs Farrington and all the children across the school who help look after our edible playground. 

Year 4 have been designing some fantastic book covers for their current class text ‘Hic Sunt Dracones’ (Here be Dragons). The class have been looking at what they think will happen in the story to inspire their own book cover design. Fantastic art work Year 4. 

On Thursday 4th March 2021 Courtwood enjoyed their first virtual World Book Day. The children spent the day sharing and discussing their favourite books and completing a range of fun, book based activities. The teachers loved seeing photos and videos of the children building reading dens, cooking up book themed recipes and reading extracts of […]

HOT OFF THE PRESS!! Cross Country results are in. What an amazing achievement for all of the children that took part in the event at Lloyd Park in October. A special mention to Logan and Spencer who finished 1st and 2nd in the Year 5 boys race. Amazing achievement! Another special mention to our Year […]

Children in Holly Class, Year 3 and 4 have been taking part in the Grow Your Own Potatoes project. Back in February we planted some seed potatoes. We have tried to remember to keep watering them over the past few months. This week we harvested our crop! We had to weigh them to enter into […]

Courtwood’s World Book Day celebrations were all focused around vocabulary. Children and teachers had a great time dressing up as their favourite word! The day started with a ‘word parade’ in the hall and the children then spent the rest of the day celebrating all things word related in the classroom. The children enjoyed teaching […]

On Thursday 30th January pupils at Courtwood were lucky enough to visit Churchill Theatre, Bromley to watch Billionaire Boy. All children participated in a book club before the trip, lead by our English Lead Mrs Cleaves, giving them the opportunity to discuss the book by David Walliams. We had excellent feedback from the children who […]