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Year 7 Trip to Holy Trinity

Year 7 walked to Buckhurst Hill Station to make the journey to Holy Trinity Church to meet Rev Abi Todd. They had some quiet reflection in the church before ringing the bells for worship. Rev Abi explained the significance of worship, Lent and fasting, Stations of the Cross ahead of…

Year 3 & 4 Humanities Trip

Year 3 and 4 practised their map skills by using an OS Explorer map to navigate from School to Woodford Wells via Knighton Wood and Lord’s Bushes. Pupils identified symbols on the map to navigate their way using roads and footpaths,  aiming for All Saint’s Church. They discovered that some…

Year 7 to 9 Box Set Challenge

Braeside pupils have been researching, planning, and creating their own box set designs for a Year 7-9 competition. With the soundtrack of Wicked playing in the background— a show they’re eagerly anticipating seeing soon— their creative energy is soaring. They are thoroughly enjoying the process, experimenting with ideas, and sharing…

Oak-Tree Tag Rugby

Our year 6 tag rugby team came 2nd overall at the annual Oak-Tree Tag Rugby tournament! They beat Normanhurst 8-2, beat Coopersale 6-5 in a very close game and narrowly lost to Oaklands 3-1. Summer-Rose, Lara and Ruby scored some brilliant trys! Well done!  

Year 1 & 2 Viking Longboats

Year 1 and 2 have been learning all about Viking longboats. They worked as a team to row their Viking longboat, each holding an oar. The class then designed and made their own Viking longboat out of card. Afterwards, they made Viking longboats out of Lego and explained how they…

Kindergarten Go Bird Watching

It’s been all about bird watch here at Kindergarten. We have made bird food and distributed this. Built bird nests, made binoculars and used our bird identification charts to look for birds. In Kinder we have been learning about animals from cold places. We made our very own penguins using…

Year 6 Visit All Saint’s Church

Year 6 visited All Saint’s Church in Woodford to explore the work of the wider Church across the world and the local community. Ella, who is a Youth Pastor, showed Year 6 around and explained the journey of a Christian through the church from Baptism to the end of life….

National Storytelling Week

Thank you to Mrs. Eaglestone who delivered a heart warming assembly about the power of words through story telling and to Isabella and Year 8 who supported the story of ‘Yet’. We also celebrated pupils who have had their work published in a book.  

Young Voices 2025

Pupils from The Oak-Tree Group of Schools had an amazing time at ‘Young Voices’ at the o2 last night!! The atmosphere was electric and we couldn’t be prouder of their incredible performance. They loved every moment of singing in a choir of over 8000 children! Their hard work practising the…