News & Events
March 2025
Year 5 enjoyed a trip to The British Museum where they took part in workshops linked to Ancient Greece. They enjoyed a tablet tour of The Parthenon Room.
Y5 British Museum
World Book Day 2025. Author, Jason Korsner, visited the school and read his book 'A Zoo in my Shoe'. Children designed their own story boxes for their favourite books and dressed in their pyjamas.
World Book Day
February 2025
Year 5 enjoyed a great trip to Barnet Environment Centre for their 'Living Things' science topic. They learnt about life cycles, went hunting for bugs and tried pond dipping!
Y5 Environment Centre
Y6 enjoyed a trip to Barnet Museum to support their topic of The Battle of Barnet. They enjoyed re-enacting The Battle of Barnet which was fought on April 14, 1471, between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians during the Wars of the Roses.
Y6 Barnet Museum
January 2025
Year 1 visited the Transport Museum to explore the development of means of travel in London. Children were able to sit on a steam train and omnibus as well as numerous other interesting historic transport options. We also attended a workshop where children were taken back in time to the late 19th century and were able to try a specific route, pretending to be travelling on contemporary means of transport such as horse drawn carriages etc. They had a fantastic time!
Y1 Transport Museum
December 2024
Year 3 enjoyed a beautiful Christmas Carol Service at Westminster Cathedral! They watched a retelling of the Nativity and sang Christmas Carols. Two of the children took part in the offertory, giving a donation from our school to the Catholic Children's Society. They were an asset to OLOL!
Y3 Westminster Cathedral
Year 4 visited the Natural History Museum and did a Lego workshop about climate change. The children worked in groups to think creatively and design different ways of living that would help improve our climate. After the workshop, we had a look around the dinosaur gallery which the children really enjoyed!
Y4 Natural History Museum
On Wednesday 4th December Year 6 visited the London Docklands Museum to learn more about Victorian London. The children had a great deal of fun exploring the exhibits and taking part in the interactive activities.
October 2024
Year 3 enjoyed a trip to The Science Museum where they explored the Wonder lab and had a session on the topic of Space. The children also developed and extended their understanding of Earth and rocks (looking at planet Earth and geodes) in the interactive galleries.
Year 3 Science Museum
Year 4 had a workshop on food chains and classifications. They did pond dipping and explored the woodlands, identifying different living things that they found.
Year 4 Environement Centre
On Tuesday afternoon, Miss Kilcommons, Mrs Dawson and a number of parents accompanied our school running team to the Barnet Schools’ Cross Country event. Despite the rain, the children ran their races with great determination and resilience!
Cross Country 2024
September 2024
Our Year 6 class enjoyed their residential trip at Grosvenor Hall in Kent. They have been on a (rainy!) adventure of fencing, fire lighting and have faced some high adrenalin challenges on the ‘Leap of Faith’ and 3D swing! We hope the children will continue to build on their confidence, resilience and sense of independence from this trip.
Year 6 Residential
On 27th September, we hosted a coffee morning to help raise money for MacMillan Cancer Support – The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning. It is Macmillan’s biggest fundraising event for people facing cancer – last year alone, they raised over £18 million through the event. The children enjoyed decorating cakes and thank you to everyone who donated.
May 2024
Congratulations to all the children who represented OLOL at Barnet Primary School Athletics Competition, at Stone X Stadium. We were absolutely delighted with the results; we came 2nd in the field events, 3rd in the track events and 3rd overall!
Athletics 2024
Year 5 enjoyed a trip to Barnet Environment Centre to learn in the great outdoors! They were able to take part in activities linked to their topic of Life Cycles. The children explored the meadow and took part in pond dipping.
Y5 Barnet Environment Centre
April 2024
A huge congratulations to our Mini Marathon runners who represented OLOL at the TCS Mini London Marathon. Thank you to everybody who supported the team; we have raised (including Gift Aid) almost £4000 for the NSPCC! Thank you everybody.
Mini Marathon
March 2024
The children enjoyed a lovely World Book Day this year with classes joining up to read their favourite stories to each other and taking part in a range of activities.
World Book Day 2024
Congratulations to the Year 6 pupils who represented OLOL at the Barnet Schools’ Dance Festival at the Arts Depot. They performed a very impressive routine to the song “The Greatest Showman”.
February 2024
The children enjoyed a fantastic day at an indoor athletics event. Well done to all who participated!
Indoor Athletics
On Wednesday 7th February, Year 5 enjoyed a trip to The British Museum to enhance their learning of Ancient Greece:
Y5 British Museum 2024
On Wednesday 21st June, we had a wonderful International Day which began with a true celebration of our multicultural community. Children from Reception to Y6 participated in our International Day assembly; we had children singing in Polish, German, Kenyan and Nigerian. Thank you to all the parents who supported the event and served food after school. Thank you also to the parents who visited classes to share stories and songs from their countries.
International Day
