Tag Rugby Tournament October 20, 2009

Some of our Year 5 children took part in a Tag Rugby tournament at  Eccles Rugby club today.  Teams from all over Salford took part.  In the first round of matches we played really well and scored lots of tries.  We ended up winning one game and narrowly losing one.  In the second round we played two really good teams and although we lost both matches, the team played really well.  The children had only had three coaching sessions before the tournament, but despite this they were fantastic.  Well done to Jermaine, Cawley, Grace, Callum, Connor, Reece and Dan.  You were a credit to our school!    Mrs Ferry

MCFC comes to Charlestown October 6, 2009

Year 1 and 2 children were lucky enough to have some special coaching from Manchester City Football Club this week.  Darren , the coach, played some warm up games with the children and then showed them how to dribble with the ball.  Unfortunately, it was a really rainy day so the session had to take place in the hall.  Despite the lack of space, the children all had a good time.

 

Charlestown’s Fun Run! July 7, 2009

Last week the whole school took part in a sponsored fun run to raise money for school funds.  The Key Stage 1 children ran around our school field twice, while the Key stage 2 children ran around 4 times.  Even some of the teachers joined in.  Each child received a medal and the first 3 in each class also got a certificate.  Everyone had fun and we are hoping to raise as much money as possible for our school. 

 The winners were as follows:-  Rec – Keelan, Year 1 – Bradley, Year 2 – Benjamin, Year 3 – Joao, Year 4 – Angel, Year 5 – James, Year 6 – Deusa.  Congratulations to our winners and well done to everyone else for taking part.

Splash! June 10, 2009

Water Sports Club is back again.

Eight children from years 4,5 & 6 have started going to the Water Sports Centre on a Tuesday evening. This week was kayaking – next week; sailing.done

Cha Cha Cha at Charlestown May 18, 2009

This morning Mrs Batty took the whole of year six for a ballroom dancing lesson.   We’ve even entered a competition!   Mrs Batty was a great teacher and we all tried not to step on each others toes too much!

Revision – boring? April 27, 2009

Last week in school we continued to work our hardest towards the SATs tests that we will be taking in a couple of weeks.   However if you read the blog regularly you’ll know that we tend to do things a little differently in Year Six.

This week it was the turn of something called ‘Spaced Learing’.   The ideas comes from neuroscience research on how the brain learns.  The research suggests that the brain creates memories in short sharp reapeated blocks with gaps in between – that’s where the spaced name comes from.   Pupils at Monkseaton School have been at the forefront of putting this idea into the Secondary classroom and some classes of GCSE students have achieved amazing results as a result.    If it’s good enough for them…

Revision?

We built our session around solving maths problems.   Everyone had to complete two sides of revision questions (about 10 mins work) and then go outside and take part in a hula hoop challenge.   Then they came back in and did some more maths and another challenge.   We did this about 3 or four times.

And the square root of 49 is...

Only time will tell how effective this has been, but we can say that it was a great session that had us all in fits of laughter at points and really brightened up our revision for the day!

Street Dance in Year Six March 27, 2009

Today Year Six learnt a street dance in PE.   All of this was coreographed and learnt in one session.   I think you’ll agree that it’s very impressive in such a short space of time!

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Karate!! March 17, 2009

Year 4 have been lucky enough to be selected to try out  some karate taster sessions.  Amanda and two of her assistants came in to show the children how to do  karate blocks and kicks. (Year 4 I’m sure you know the correct words!!)    The children really enjoyed the session and are very much looking forward to next week.

Year 2 Dancing March 9, 2009

This  is a clip of some of Year 2 dancing the waltz.  So far we have learnt the waltz, cha cha, quick step and jive.  I’m very pleased with the progress everyone has made!

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Year 1 PE March 3, 2009

Year 1 have been working with Chris Yates in PE.  Chris has been doing multiskills with the children, working on ABC.  This stands for ; A – agility, B – balance, C – co-ordination.  As you can see the children have lots of fun!