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Another year over…and what a successful one it was!
Check out this video to see a snippet of some of the wonderful memories we have made this year! ☺️
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We wish you all a wonderful summer! ☀️
You can find magic wherever you look! Sit back and relax, all you need is a book!
Our Big Red Bus is now OPEN!!
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Very proud to see St. Andrew’s in the
@thesundaytimes
Top 250 State Primary Schools in England! Well done to EVERYONE involved - pupils, parents and staff!
A truly incredible achievement for our amazing school.
We are officially ranked at Number 4 in The Sunday Times Top 500 Primary Schools 2024 list.
Well done to our brilliant pupils, staff, parents, governors and community.
#FaithUnityExcellence
@thetimes
We are pleased to let you know that the Governing Body has appointed Mr. Levenson as the permanent Headteacher of St. Andrew’s, with immediate effect.
We are confident that St. Andrew’s will continue to grow and flourish under his leadership, along with our excellent staff team.
“St Andrew’s is in the Top 1% of primary schools in the country”
Mr Levenson opened a wonderful letter this morning from
@DamianHinds
, Minister for Schools. We are extremely proud of our pupils’ achievements and very grateful to our staff, families and community. 👏
We are so proud of past pupil Mia who is now a scientist working as part of a team sequencing viral genomes! That’s Mia in the photo in yesterday’s Times!
#inspiration
Very proud to see St. Andrew’s, OUR amazing school, in the
@thetimes
Parent Power Schools Guide. 276th out of nearly 17,000 schools puts St Andrew’s in the top 2% of schools in England! Well done to EVERYONE in the St. Andrew’s family!
St Andrew's have been crowned Lambeth & Southwark Division A League Champions 22/23. A fantastic season, well deserved. The team are the best 9 a side team in Lambeth & Southwark!
Well done to all the players and Mr Redman on a successful season!
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We are very grateful for this lovely gift! The St. Andrew’s teddy bear, who is named Cornelius, will keep an eye over all of our readers on the Big Red Library Bus for many years to come! Thank you! 📚🐻
St Andrew’s has ranked in the Top 5 most successful schools in the whole of England, according to our average Reading, Writing and Maths score!
Well done to EVERYONE in our school community!
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@Telegraph
@RC_Southwark
@LSPLambeth
Year 6 would like to thank everyone who contributed to the Mother's Day Afternoon Tea event and to those who were able to attend and make it so special. Here are some lovely moments from Friday. 🩷
This young man wrote a letter to the Prime Minister
@10DowningStreet
about deforestation and he received a response to his passionate viewpoint on saving the planet! 🌍 🌳
A huge thank you to our wonderful kitchen staff and ever supportive Parents’ Association for making Christmas Jumper Day so special for our children! We are lucky to have you! 🌟🎄🌟
@st_parents
A lovely visit to the life saving team at King’s College Hospital High Dependency Unit this morning! We handed over a cheque after raising money by growing moustaches in November - thank you to all who donated and took part
@KingsCollegeNHS
On the 18/9/18, L4 sent a signed flag from St. Andrew’s to Mr Crabtree who promised that he would place it at Mt Everest Base Camp for us. Today we received the exciting news that there was a piece of St. Andrew’s at the base camp of the tallest mountain in the world, Mt Everest!
Year 5 had the opportunity to listen to Patrick Hutchinson's amazing story, of how one act of kindness changed his life.
#BlackHistoryMonth2021
@UTCAI_
A popular tradition returned to
@StAndrewsSW16
this morning... The Easter Bonnet Parade! Thank you to all the parents who attended and cheered on all the children as they sashayed down the catwalk. 👒👏🏿👏🏻🐰
Our very own Mr Kofi (Music teacher at St. Andrew’s and world famous musician when not at Polworth Road) spent the weekend performing in a concert at New York’s Central Park. Here are some snaps from his rehearsing and the final performance. Well done Mr Kofi! 🎶 🎷 🌃
Our St Andrew's Christmas Fair Advert is here! 🙌 Courtesy of our newly appointed and eager School Council Team, featuring the Chair of the PA, Pat
@st_parents
! 🎅🎄
A great start to the new academic year with a whole-school assembly. We’re grateful to all come together again and also welcome our new joiners. And what better way to begin the day than with a beautiful hymn? ☺️ We’ve missed this wonderful singing! 🎶
Congratulations to our St Andrew's Platinum Cake Winners 😋🇬🇧🎂
Don't forget: You have the opportunity to buy one of these delicious cakes and many more wonderful ones from 3pm today!
A super morning for our pupils (as well as Mrs Meyern & Mr Redman!) at The Kia Oval, home of
@surreycricket
🏏
They enjoyed the behind the scenes tour, meeting the England Women’s team and all the catching, bowling and batting! Howzat!
@SurreyCricketFd
We are incredibly proud of all our talented musicians here at St Andrew’s who have blown us away, yet again, with another wonderful Summer Concert!
#JubileeCelebrations
It takes a village!
Our ever growing army of Unity Group volunteers were hard at work today, making resources for our children and classes. We are grateful for all the effort that goes into making our school as successful as possible! 🙏
St. Andrew’s, thank you for ALL of your postcards, you are brilliant! A superb mail delivery to start the school year! It looks like you all had an amazing summer and we are looking forward to displaying the postcards in the main hall. 🌎 🌍 🌏
We are VERY PROUD to announce that our very own Mr Redman has been nominated as an Active School Hero! Please click the links to find out more - we will keep you updated on the award process! Well done Mr Redman!
@ActiveSch_Hero
We are proud to be teaming up with Pets As Therapy (PAT) - Archie, our Reading Dog, will be joining us on a regular basis from March onwards. Woof! 🐶 📖
Staff Wellbeing is incredibly important to us. One of the initiatives that our Wellbeing Lead has got up and ‘running’ is our Staff Walkers and Runners Club. So if you see a team of St. Andrew’s staff keeping fit around the common after school, then you know why!
#endorphins
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A lovely email from the Rt Hon Nick Gibb MP!
“…one of the top 200 performing schools in England for the multiplication tables check.”
Well done to our current Y5 pupils and to our staff for helping our children be so confident with their number facts!
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@educationgovuk
A huge thank you to the Unity Parents' Group for once again ensuring the cakes were prepared and ready for the childen to buy at the cake sale. We couldn't do it without you 🧁😊
Tonight, we were treated to a musical journey showcasing Christmas through the ages at our UKS2 Carol Concert and have left feeling immensely proud of each and everyone who took part.
We hope these snippets give you an insight into what a truly magical evening it has been! 🎄
We are saddened to hear the news that Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II has passed away. Her humble commitment to duty and service was inspiring. We had such joy in celebrating her Platinum Jubilee at school this year and we will treasure these memories for years to come 👑🙏🏼
Our KS2 results were published on Tuesday & they were EXCEPTIONAL! Individual results will be shared with pupils & parents next week. A huge well done to our pupils, our Year 6 staff & to everyone at St. Andrew’s for making these results possible. We are incredibly proud of you!
Thank you from
@standrewssw16
&
@st_parents
to everyone who attended, volunteered, donated, cheered, supported and helped out at our Summer Olympics Fair.
All four seasons in a day, lots of smiles & an incredible amount of money raised for the children of St Andrew’s!
#Unity
Very proud of the now World Famous Miss Phillips on her wonderful account of how St. Andrew’s is a peaceful school - what a brilliant school community we are!
#HowToBeAPeacefulSchool
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Here are some of our most talented writers reading their very own poetry to the one and only Brian Moses! Thank you
@moses_brian
for your excellent feedback and inspirational words. A magical day was had by all!👏 ✍️📚🪄🦎
It was another busy day for the Unity Parents' Group on Friday. They made decorations, served refreshments to the dads and helped out during the Carnival Parade. 👏🏼👏🏾👏
#Windrush75
#volunteering
A huge thank you to our AMAZING
@st_parents
for the incredible donation of £12,000 today! A huge fundraising effort from everyone involved and we are very grateful! This money will be used to improve the school playground and buy maths resources as soon as possible! 🙏
#stapa
Congratulations to our elected School Council Team. Thank you to every candidate who applied. We know that your classes had to think very carefully for who they voted for 🙂
Our magical KS1 Nativity was performed to a full house today. Thank you to our dedicated families for being such an enthusiastic audience and for your never-ending support! 🌲
School Food Matters ,who we worked alongside during the first school closure, have very kindly donated contents for breakfast hampers which we will share with our families over the comings days.
@sfmtweet
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We are incredibly proud of all our talented musicians here at St Andrew’s who have blown us away, yet again, with another wonderful Summer Concert!
#JubileeCelebrations
Our KS2 results were published today and they were exceptional!
Individual results will go out to pupils and parents shortly.
A huge well done to our pupils, our Year 6 staff and to everyone at St. Andrew’s for making these results possible.
A proud day for our school!
Our fantastic Year 6 pupils hosted their annual post Father's Day Read and Tea event. It was a lovely opportunity for pupils to enjoy time in the sun, soaking up their literature favourites with their dads. 📚🫖☕️
#welovereading
We are just blown away by everyone’s efforts for our annual
@NSPCC
#NumberDay
. Here’s to a great day of celebrating the importance of maths in our everyday lives!!☺️
It has been lovely popping out to pick up special projects from some of our pupils over the last few days - we even had a musical treat at one of the houses! Well done to all the pupils who have completed these projects! (1 of 2)