Morningside NewsletterMessage from Rachel and Jo At the end of our first term as co-headteachers, we would like to thank the Morningside community for all your support this term. It has been a busy term with trips, workshops and fabulous learning in all classes. It has...
At the end of our first term as co-headteachers, we would like to thank the Morningside community for all your support this term. It has been a busy term with trips, workshops and fabulous learning in all classes. It has been such a pleasure to see so many of you at school events – there are more of these coming up in the summer term which you can read about below.
We are incredibly proud of the hard work, creativity and kindness we see from our children every day, and we are grateful to be leading such a vibrant and welcoming school community.
We are sad to be saying goodbye to Jess, one of our wonderful kitchen team. She is moving on to new opportunities after 13 years helping to feed hundreds of Morningside children. We wish her all success in the future.
After Easter, we are happy to be welcoming Paul as our new Pastoral Manager. Paul is a very experienced practitioner and will be a huge asset to Morningside. He will be in the playground before and after school each day, and there is an opportunity to meet him at the pastoral drop in on Wednesday 23rd April at 08:45am.
Wishing all our families a restful break and, to those celebrating, a very Happy Easter. We look forward to seeing you in the summer term for more learning, laughter and community togetherness.
Have a great break.
Rachel and Jo
It was great to see the children in their homemade bonnets today. They looked fantastic. Thank you so much for your support with these and to all of you who attended the event today. We hope that you enjoyed it as much as the children and staff did. We are pleased to announce the winners below. Congratulations to them and to everyone who took part. What a lot of talented children we have!
| Nursery | All the children | Reception | All the children |
| 1M | Denis | 1S | Ayvah |
| 2M | Liam | 2S | Elijah |
| 3S | Deniz | 3M | Teghraj |
| 4M | Dylan | 4S | Shazyah |
| 5S | Amina | 5M | Rico |
| 6S | Iris | 6M | Chloe |
To all our families who will be celebrating Easter this weekend, we send our warmest wishes for a joyful and peaceful time with your loved ones. May this season of hope and renewal bring happiness to your homes and hearts.
From all of us at Morningside, Happy Easter!
It has been lovely to see so many families at our community events this half term. Please see the flyer below for the details of summer 1 events.
Do you have a child who will turn 2 or 3 before the 31st of August this year? If so, applications are now open for our school nurseries for September 2025. We have full time and part time places available (15 or 30 hours). Please state your preference on the application form. Places will be allocated using Hackney’s nursery admissions criteria. The closing date for applications is 30th April 2025. Any applications received after this date will be allocated if spaces are available. Please look out for an email with the application form next week. You can also get a paper copy of the form from the office.
Attendance Class of The Week This week, we want to celebrate 6S who have 93.1% attendance. A HUGE congratulations and keep up the excellent work, it has a great impact on learning and progress. You can help your child’s class win the weekly fruit platter by making sure they are at school everyday.
Our next group of 100% attendance winners were very happy to receive their prizes on Monday.
As you can see below, attendance has been a little lower than usual. We hope to see everybody back refreshed and healthy after half term.
| RM | 1M | 2M | 3M | 4M | 5M | 6M |
| 80.3% | 89.2% | 86.9% | 93% | 84.9% | 86% | 84.6% |
| RS | 1S | 2S | 3S | 4S | 5S | 6S |
| 89.9% | 82.7% | 87.8% | 87.4% | 84.9% | 84% | 93.1% |
The sustainability squad has been distributing some aloe plants and spider plant cuttings as part of our efforts to improve air quality inside classrooms. They made some small information tags to go along with the plants too....
We had fun using our bodies to hula a hoop around our waist for longer then 3 seconds....
In science, year 1 have become plant investigators by drawing, dissecting and labelling daffodils🌼...
Year 2 have been learning to write non chronological reports. We researched all about snails and used the information to inform our writing....
For science, in year 3 we have been investigating forces and what friction is. We experimented with different fabrics to see which had the least friction going down a slide. Watch our videos here....
In science, year 4 were investigating the rate at which water evaporates, by wetting 3 socks and placing them in 3 locations. We found that the sock on the radiator evaporated the quickest, because this was the hottest location!...
Year 5 have loved their sculpture learning in art, inspired by their Ancient Greece unit in history…final pieces to come!...
Year 6 are enjoying letting off some steam in PE after a busy half term’s work....