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The Patten Pages the William Patten Newsletter for Parents and Children The Patten Pages The William Patten Newsletter for Parents and Children th Issue 127 Thursday 29 March 2018 Dear parents, Back in time … We are at the end of a very busy term, which Years 1, 2 and 5 participated in a Victorian started with the fabulous Dancer in Residence Schools workshop this week, as part of the WP project and ended with our Local Heritage Project Local Heritage Project. Each class were looking (there has been a lot going on in between too!). William Patten is so fortunate to have such a at how school might have been for children back super staff team, who always do more than what is when WP first opened as 'Church Street School' expected or required of them. We simply could not in 1892. Mr Murphy showed us lots of artefacts do all of these wonderful projects without their from the time, including finger stoppers, back support and hard work. This is what makes our posture boards, slates to do their work on and school so special, together with our very lovely clothing children wore. One or two unlucky ones children and super parental support and from each class even got the chance to try out engagement. Thank you! We had an exciting day yesterday with the very how 'the cane' felt!!! (Not quite how it really felt first WP whole school Easter Egg Hunt! Large though... phew!) eggs, small eggs, mini chicks and bunnies were A very interesting workshop had by all. Thank hidden around the school and the children had to you to Kim for organising it, and thanks to Years find them. If they were lucky enough to find one, 1, 2 and 5 for participating so enthusiastically and they had to bring it to me to read the Easter asking such excellent questions about school life fact attached before collecting a chocolate egg or in the past. bunny. Lots of fun and excitement was had by the children, as they searched high and low and everywhere! The egg in 4M’s class was very well hidden and only found this morning! I learnt lots of new facts about Easter too. The hunt was Natalie’s idea and I have already asked her to make sure that we put it in the diary next year. The planning application for the green screen has been re-submitted and we hope to hear within the next 12 weeks if it will go through (the council had to look at the implications of the screen on the overhanging trees). If successful, the green screen will probably be put up in the summer. I will be sending a letter out to parents the first week back after Easter about the meeting (air quality in the playground) the school had with the council last month. We are starting a boys’ gymnastics club after Easter, which is very exciting and it will be run by school. I’ve spoken to some children who are very keen to join and I hope others will too. More information about that when we are back. More information about clubs in general too! I hope you all have a lovely break and we look forward to seeing the children back in school on Monday 16th April. Best wishes Karen Visit our website www.williampatten.hackney.sch.uk Local Heritage Project As part of our local heritage project, we were very pleased to welcome some former pupils of William Patten this week. Olive and Ava’s (Y3) Grandma, Betty Manning visited on Monday with Pam Guest and Brenda, and again on Tuesday, with Jean Dawson. Pam and Jean both attended the school during the time of the war, so the children were able to find out about their time at school during this era. The children also listened to Brenda’s experiences of evacuation and found out about how different it had been to go from living in London to helping out on a farm in Somerset. The children were very welcoming to our guests and had lots of Year 2 welcomed a special visitor into class this very well prepared questions about what the school week. The children participated in Q&A with Al used to be like. Some of the children were also able Johnson, a former resident of Stoke Newington, to handle some of the artefacts brought in by our whose family have lived in the area for over 5 special guests. Both Pam and Jean brought some generations! Al told the story of how her family photographs of their childhood in Stoke Newington survived a bombing during WWII on and Jean showed the children a ration book and Londesborough Road. She described how her identification card. Brenda brought in an item of uncle and her mother, who were just children at clothing she had made in a needlework lesson the time, hid in the cellar of their house, under an during her time at the school, which the children old wooden table made by her grandfather, who passed around. Thank you Betty for spreading the was a skilled carpenter. A bomb landed right on word of our project to your friends so that we could top of their house, destroying the property and welcome back so many former pupils and thank properties nearby. She explained how after the you all for supporting the work of the school and bombing, her family was dug out by neighbours enabling so many children to learn about the past and firefighters, and were extremely lucky to from your own experiences. survive. Her uncle was 9 years old at the time, and to this day has little to no memory of the incident, but has since lived a very happy life. This shows how distressed and shocked many were at the time of the Blitz. The children got to ask Al many questions and she explained her answers clearly and thoughtfully to the classes. It was also great to hear that many of Al’s cousins went to William Patten School and loved their time here. Thanks Al for coming in and sharing your family story. Visit our website www.williampatten.hackney.sch.uk Welcome back Kathleen! This week 6B were treated to a special visit from Wendy and Carole who attended William Patten with their sister Jill (and who now all work at the school!). The children asked various questions about what was school was like during their time here and the changes they have seen over different periods of time. Some of the children’s quotes included “I really enjoyed it when Carole and Wendy came to our class because it was very informative; I got to know things I didn’t know before!” Eliz Mete. Kezia Davis explained “One of the most enjoyable things about listening to people who came to this school was the amazing sensation I got listening to them and knowing what school was like. I really enjoy learning about what our school used to be like”. 6B would like to thank Carole, Wendy and Jill for sharing their experiences with us. Can you spot them in the photos below? Top to bottom: Wendy, Carole, Jill. Former pupil of William Patten, Kathleen Housden, visited the school for a special ‘Welcome back’ assembly last week. Kathleen was at the school in the 1920s, when it was known as ‘Church Street School’. To mark her recent 104th birthday, the KS1 children sang happy birthday and she was presented with flowers and birthday cards that the children had made. Kathleen shared some of her memories and the children looked at photographs from her time at the school. The children also learnt that Dora Gibbs, who was at the school at the same time as Kathleen, went on to represent Britain at the 1928 Summer Olympics! Following the assembly, Kathleen took part in some filming and answered a number of the children’s questions about what the school and Stoke Newington used to be like, so that others can learn about the past from her memories and experiences. Thank you Kathleen for supporting our local heritage project. We would love for you to come and visit us again soon. Thank you also to Jonathan Gebbie and to Betty and Jeff Manning (Olive and Ava Y3) for your part in supporting the visit, and also to John Guest, twin brother of Pam Guest, who also attended the assembly and took part in filming. Visit our website www.williampatten.hackney.sch.uk Year 2 went on a local heritage tour of Abney Year 2 enjoying their Abney Park Cemetery tour with John Park Cemetery last week. John, who works for the Cemetery, provided us with a very interesting and informative history tour, telling us SO MANY facts! He said it was a pleasure to provide tours for our classes, that they were so well behaved, and are a credit to us and the whole school at William Patten. Facts about some key graves/memorials within Abney Cemetery: Lady Mary Abney and Sir Thomas Abney whom the cemetery is named after, lived in the Abney House, a grand property which was situated at Church St entrance, prior to the site becoming a cemetery. Dr Isaac Watts, who lived here for 36 years with Year 1 visited Sutton House this week to support the Abney family having visited them for a cup of our topic of ‘Buildings in Hackney’, with a link to the tea, wrote over 750 hymns and poems, as well Tudor times. We time travelled through the ages, as a diary.
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