Yesterday was the first of our school Behaviour Credit Card Days. The vast majority of the school who have behaved well this term and recieved their Bronze award were invited to a cinema afternoon in the hall wearing their own clothes. Mr. Kirkpatrick even told the children that they could bring in a chocolate bar too! So much for being a ‘Healthy School!’
Everyone had a great time and it was well deserved!
This term year 4 have been studying the Tudors, they have found it to be far more exciting than they ever realised history could be.
As year 4 just couldn’t get enough of the Tudors, we have created an online learning experience, where the children can complete activities, play fun games and extend their knowledge of the Tudors.
Above each image or title you will find some notes and links each of which, when clicked on, will take you to some terrific Tudor sites.
This week we have been looking at narrative poetry. These are poems that tell a story. We decided to tell the story of a day at our school. We wrote most of it together and then added our individual flair at the end.
We use Audacity to edit and add sound effects ontop of our poetry. Tell us what you think!
This post is a little later than expected due to technical difficulties, many thanks to Mr Burrows for sorting it out!
Last week we looked at the way in which Greek stories were passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth. We tried in our groups to find out about the legend of Daedelus and Icarus which was great fun in itself. We then tried to retell this story in our own words. This was much more difficult than you would think! Here are our attempts, we hope that you can follow the story!
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Over the past few weeks we have been working together in a different way. Almost all of our work has been in small groups and partnerships. This has not been easy to do as we have had to learn how to get on with each other and cooperate in teams.
Mr Kirkpatrick asked some tricky questions to the children to try and find out what they thought about the past few weeks.
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In Maths this week we have been concentrating on using our times tables and being able to write numbers as words. We used Discovery Puzzlemaker to create our own crosswords to practice these skills.
This week we have been looking at Greek Myths and legends as part of our new topic. We’ve read all about Theseus and the Minotaur and Perseus and the fearsome Gorgon Medusa. As part of our Literacy we decided to ‘act out’ the punctuation from sections iof the story to show just how much punctuation we need to include in our own writing next week.
We look rather silly doing it, but it’s made us realise how many of those little marks we need to include to be understood. Here are our videos – apologies about the sound levels!
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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
Yesterday was World Book Day at school. Almost everyone got dressed up as a character from their favourite book for the day – including some of the teachers! We arranged a book swap for everyone and then had an assembly in the afternoon where everybody showed off their creations. Here are some videos and prefentations to show the sorts of things that went on :
Keep checking this page as it’s going to be updated over the next few days!
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Year 5 have been learning about World War 2 and the important people asssociated with it. They have created their own stories about what it would have been like to have lived through the blitz. The children enjoyed creating these stories and we have you enjoy them.
Jack and the air raid
It was a freezing cold night, it was 1942 and there was a destructing war going on between Great Britain and Germany. That night Jack was asleep and his parents went to the pub for a quick drink. But his parents got drunk and forgot about him and they heard an air raid siren go off so they ran to the shelter. Meanwhile he was still in bed cold, frightened and alone.
He had heard the siren and remembered what his teacher Miss Harris had told him “when you hear the siren wait 15 seconds so your eyes can get used to the dark”. So he did 15 seconds he waited he heard the plane engine getting louder and louder. he approached his parents room but as I turned the cold handle shakily he noticed his parents were not there, so he ran out side and headed to the nearest shelter, but on the way he saw his neighbour who people called Aunt Sally and said no no no why here she didn’t deserve to be bombed and nearly killed and he carried here to the London underground railway system and she said thank you, you are a real good boy and hugged him. He heard a bomb drop and he got really scared like any 10 year old would Aunt Sally was scared too. Then he heard a noise of a drunken singing couple, and he felt reassured. It was mum and dad so he ran up to them and hugged them and held them tight, he said “do not ever go to the pub and leave me alone” his mum said “what is Aunt Sally doing here” “I carried her here” I said “oh you are a good boy” and fell over on dad because they were really drunk. I just laughed and said “that’ll teach them not to leave me on my own and not go to the pub, well not in he middle of an air raid but when its over they will be in there every night” aunt Sal laughed and said “ don’t be cheeky but you are right”.
And I and my parents moved in a house with Aunt Sal. They moved to the country in a little village in Yorkshire because my mine and aunt Sal’s house has been blown up the house was a lovely cottage in the middle of Yorkshire.
By Jack
The Explosive Night
If you are reading this I am dead!
My story begins in 1940. I started to hear an explosion. But I just lay there. Finally I got out of bed. I went outside and before my eyes I saw total destruction.
I stepped outside in to the unknown. I saw planes flying above my head. Then I heard a cry for help. I ran to see. I saw someone trapped under the rubble and I started to help them. I didn’t feel scared and I just managed to pull the boy from the rubble just be fur a bomb was dropped. We ran for our lives.
We saw roaring fires and people running and we heard screaming. We turned around and we saw somebody trapped in the houses. A bomb was heading street for the house. It hit the house and then it exploded.
After the smoke had cleared, we saw the house was nothing more than tonnes bits of rubble. I felt really angry about what they were doing.
We kept running and the boy said to me thank you for helping me. We ran to the air red shelter and the we fell to sleep.
By Adam
Thursday 12th February 2009
The day the blitz started
One dark winter’s night in the centre of London, I was snuggled tightly and safely into my cosy bed. As I was sleeping I was tossing and turning. A second later I heard the wailing of a loud awakening noise approach. I awoken with a start and leapt right out of my bed. At first I heard the loud squealing of a siren. I crept slowly into my mothers and fathers room. The door screeched as I opened it slightly. Suddenly I heard a loud BANG! I knew for shore it was a bomb landing. I scurried into my mums room to see she wasn’t there ,I searched the house but the only thing I seen was darkness. Very calmly I walked out of the house. I seen the aeroplanes chasing me so I had to run as fast as I could, Luckily there was the warden he safely picked me up and carried me to the bomb shelter. As I walked down the steps of the shelter I seen my mother lying silently on the floor. I pulled her towards me and I felt her pulse, just then I burst into tears there was no pulse on my mum she had died. The warden tried to calm me down but I didn’t listen. After the planes had finished and there was nothing but blackness. The warden was so kind to me that he brought me up and he’s still with me today. I still live in the same house because it has all my memories there.
By Lauren
