Parliament Trip – 14th September 2017

Safety Week – 18th September to 22nd September 2017

Tower Hamlets Enforcement Officers – Reach out to Children at Buttercup Primary School Tower Hamlets Enforcement Officers (THEO’s) made two visits to the Buttercup Primary School on Cannon Street Road last week in efforts to reach out to the younger community, amid a planned ‘Safety Week.’ Deputy head teacher Shaheda Khanom contacted Tower Hamlets Council […]

Year 5 & 6 Cambridge University Visit – 13th July 2017

This week Year 5 & 6  had the opportunity to visit Cambridge, one of Britain’s most famous universities. Cambridge University is home to over 18,000 students and each student is placed in one of the 31 colleges. We visited Clare College. We found out that  took over 200 years to build! It was completed under the reign of King Henry […]

International Week at Buttercup Primary school 22nd-25th May 2017‎

At Buttercup primary, we celebrated International Week. Every class was allocated a country that  the school councillors had chosen. The countries chosen were, Somalia , Algeria and Bangladesh this year. Early Years celebrated more than one country. Everyone had a busy week painting different flags, looking at artefacts, currency, and had the opportunity to learn […]

Live performance on TV

         

British museum trip Year 3 and 4 – 15/05/2017

Year 5 and 6 Canoeing session

               

Year 1 & 2 Field trip – 15/5/2017

 

Food Week – 27th March to 31st March 2017

What a fantastic week we have had in Food week! The children learned about healthy food and the many industries of food e.g. GM foods, Organic food and Fair trade. The food sale was a great success and Alhumdulillah we raised £321.33. Thank you so much for your kind donations and support. The money raised […]

Ready steady cook at Buttercup -31st March 2017

To end Food week with a bang, we invited Ian from the School food showdown company to demonstrate a live cooking workshop in the ‘Ready steady cook’ style. Teachers and children took part in cooking a healthy meal in front of a live audience. Ian spoke about the importance of eating a healthy diet and […]

Book Week at Buttercup

Book Week at Buttercup started off with a bang with the Hobgoblins theatre company who put on a fantastic show for the Key stage 2 children called ‘The greatest fairy tales ever told’ and they ended the week with another show of ‘Goldilocks and the tree bears’ for the key stage 1 and Early Years […]

Young Writers Award

A very big congratulations to Mehak in Year 5 and Saira in Year 6 for winning the ‘Young writers’ competition and getting their stories published in the ‘Crazy creatures-London’ book. The mini sagas were entered into the competition by their teacher and the stories were chosen out of hundreds of entries. The stories were selected […]

Science week

Alhumdulillah Science Week was a great success! Over the week, the children learned about the different aspects of Chemistry, Biology and Physics. They took part in different experiments and have had so much fun learning new ideas. Dressing up day was also a great success. We had doctors, astronauts, nurses, mad scientists, planets and even […]

Victorian lesson-Freshwater theatre company Yr 3 and 4

As part of Year 3 and 4’s topic work on the Victorians , the Freshwaters theatre company were invited to run a Victorian classroom session. The students were transported back to 1899 and were given a lesson they would never forget as the strict Victorian schoolteacher assessed handwriting, drill and arithmetic through role play of […]

Bike training

Cycling has many benefits; health and wellbeing, environmental, social and economic. It is an inclusive, empowering, inexpensive activity that is accessible to everyone.“The benefits of cycling run much deeper than balance sheets or carbon footprints. It’s a crucial life skill, giving children an early road sense as they take their first steps towards independence. As […]

Parliament Visit – 8th November 2016

Year 5 & 6 visited The Houses of Parliament on the 8th of November 2016. They learnt about the creation of parliament and how the monarchy gave up power of making certain decisions. Also, they looked at how members of the parliament voted for new laws to be passed and the voting system that was […]

School Council Election – 21st October 2016

Sleeping Rough Project with the Salvation Army

  10 children from Buttercup primary school will be swapping their beds for ‘sleeping rough’ to raise funds for a new scheme aimed at helping the homeless. The Year 5/ 6 pupils  are bedding down in sleeping bags in the school hall in April for one night to get a taste of what it’s like to be […]