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This morning children arrived at school to find a unicorn in the playground! Where had she come from? Why was she in our playground? After meeting the unicorn, children wrote stories, reports, poems and even instructions on how to care for a unicorn; all inspired...
No 309, Friday 27th May 2016 Dear Parents and Carers, We’ve had a superb last week of this half term at Betty Layward and can’t believe that we are only seven weeks away from the summer holidays! On Monday of this week 12 children from year 5 went...
No 308, Friday 20th May 2016 Dear Parents and Carers, I hope you’ve had a great week! On Monday I did an assembly on current news and we discussed the very important subject of Eurovision! As always our BL children were aware of current news topics and were...
Click here to listen to the fantastic track that Year 4 Fuschia recorded last week on their trip to a real music studio! [audio mp3="http://betlay.creativeschools.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Y4-Fuschia-Motown-Song.mp3"][/audio]...
No 307, Friday 13th May 2016 Dear Parents and Carers, I hope you’ve had a great week! This week our Year 6 children undertook their SATs tests. The news is awash with comment on the tests and the adverse effects they can have on children. We as a...
No 306, Friday 6th May 2016 Dear Parents and Carers, It’s been a very busy but beautifully sunny week at Betty Layward! I hope you enjoyed your bank holiday! This week has seen some exciting school trips, including a visit to the Vue cinema in Angel on Thursday...
Dear Parents, Please see below information regarding Year 6 SATs for this coming week. Also, click here for a link to information for parents regarding the process: Thank-you and good luck to all students across Years 2 and 6 for their SATs in upcoming weeks....
A big THANK YOU and WELL DONE from all the staff and children to the Chair of the PTFA Adam Roland, for running the London Marathon and raising funds for Betty Layward. In Adam's words, "It was another amazing experience and, bizarrely, one that went...
No 303, Friday 22nd April 2016 Dear parents and carers, The week started with much excitement across the school with Wow Day on Monday. In Year 5 they had a visit from Kimmy’s mobile zoo. They enjoyed finding out about and handling animals such as flying squirrels and...
On 18.4.16 Simone Hayes from the Safeguarding in Education team from the Hackney Learning Trust presented an information session to parents of year 5 and year 6 students. Click here for the session information: HLT Safeguarding Parent Session 18.04.16 Net aware: Parents review kids’ social networks, apps &...