We are now in the season of Advent. All the children have been given their 'Walk with Me' booklets and calendars for the season. In the pack, Mrs Girling has also included how to make your own Advent wreath. If you have made this at home, please could you bring it back into school to form part of our prayer focus. Well done to Jade and Kirsty for making their wreaths so quickly!
We are now learning all our songs and words for our Nativity. This week we will be making a number of trips to Church in order to practice. All scripts have been given out and first run throughs have been very enthusiastic. Keep learning your words!
Sunday, 30 November 2008
Sunday, 23 November 2008
Mr Incredible's Dilemma
On Friday Year 6 had to help Mr Incredible make a very difficult decision.
As part of our Visual Literacy unit, we stepped into Mr Incredible's shoes and identified all his thoughts and feelings as he decided whether to accept Mirage's mission or not.
We then proceeded to send Mr Incredible down 'conscience alley' as we shouted all the reasons 'for' and 'against' accepting the mission. We expressed our opinions clearly and with emotive language. Ultimately he decided to accept the mission. Well done Year 6!
As part of our Visual Literacy unit, we stepped into Mr Incredible's shoes and identified all his thoughts and feelings as he decided whether to accept Mirage's mission or not.
We then proceeded to send Mr Incredible down 'conscience alley' as we shouted all the reasons 'for' and 'against' accepting the mission. We expressed our opinions clearly and with emotive language. Ultimately he decided to accept the mission. Well done Year 6!
Monday, 17 November 2008
The Incredibles!
For the next two weeks in literacy, we will be basing our work around the film ' The Incredibles'.
Today we imagined we were top executives in an advertising company. It was our job to come up with an amazing caption for the film poster to persuade people to watch it. We worked in groups to identify 'wow' vocabulary and devices to encourage people to see the film. Many of our captions are now on our 'working wall' in class. Some of the captions are indeed 'incredible'.
Today we imagined we were top executives in an advertising company. It was our job to come up with an amazing caption for the film poster to persuade people to watch it. We worked in groups to identify 'wow' vocabulary and devices to encourage people to see the film. Many of our captions are now on our 'working wall' in class. Some of the captions are indeed 'incredible'.
Sunday, 16 November 2008
Book Week
Last week in school has been our annual 'Book Week'.
We had chance to take part in lots of exciting activities to help us understand how important and tremendously fun reading can be.
In our Literacy lessons we had the chance to look at the school book fayre ( and some of us returned to buy books after school!) We all wrote 'wow' book reviews about our favourite books and shared these with others in our class. In addition, our teachers shared their 'favourite' read with their class!
The high point of the week was last Friday when all children and staff had the chance to dress up. The theme for KS1 was Safari and the theme for KS2 was a book character. Everyone put in a huge amount of effort and we were all able to share our costumes in a special book assembly on Friday afternoon.
Reading has never been such fun!
We had chance to take part in lots of exciting activities to help us understand how important and tremendously fun reading can be.
In our Literacy lessons we had the chance to look at the school book fayre ( and some of us returned to buy books after school!) We all wrote 'wow' book reviews about our favourite books and shared these with others in our class. In addition, our teachers shared their 'favourite' read with their class!
The high point of the week was last Friday when all children and staff had the chance to dress up. The theme for KS1 was Safari and the theme for KS2 was a book character. Everyone put in a huge amount of effort and we were all able to share our costumes in a special book assembly on Friday afternoon.
Reading has never been such fun!
The Golden Key
On Wedneday children in Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 had the chance to watch an exciting and informative production in school.
A theatre company put on a special play in the school hall which presented us with lots of 'food for thought'. We watched as the princess was 'tricked' into eating a very unhealthy diet and now know just how important it is to eat 5 a day!
This was a very enjoyable play and will help us all be part of a 'healthy school'!
A theatre company put on a special play in the school hall which presented us with lots of 'food for thought'. We watched as the princess was 'tricked' into eating a very unhealthy diet and now know just how important it is to eat 5 a day!
This was a very enjoyable play and will help us all be part of a 'healthy school'!
Monday, 10 November 2008
KS2 Mass
Today KS2 celebrated mass in school with Fr David.
The theme of the mass was 'heaven is' . The Mass was led by Year 6 who all read well. Well done to all!
Afterwards Mr Kelly gave Father his special birthday present - can you guess what it was?
The theme of the mass was 'heaven is' . The Mass was led by Year 6 who all read well. Well done to all!
Afterwards Mr Kelly gave Father his special birthday present - can you guess what it was?
Poetry
This week in literacy we have been looking at various forms of poetry. On Friday we reminded ourselves what is meant by an acrostic poem and looked at various examples. To finish our lesson, we decided to write a brief class acrostic poem. We improved our ideas through discussion and this was our finished product!
Shining and shimmering like a golden penny over-seeing the whole wide world.
Unhappiness fades away as the sun creeps out of his bed.
Nothing can extinguish the golden sun - except for the folds of nightime.
Can you work out what we are describing?
Shining and shimmering like a golden penny over-seeing the whole wide world.
Unhappiness fades away as the sun creeps out of his bed.
Nothing can extinguish the golden sun - except for the folds of nightime.
Can you work out what we are describing?
Thursday, 6 November 2008
The Blitz
This afternoon Year 6 have been learning about the Blitz. We now know where the word comes from and what it means.
We all had the chance to look at some 'primary sources': historical photos and first hand accounts. This helped us to understand how deverstating the bombing was during the Second World War and what it would have been like to have lived through this scary period of history.
Next week we will continue to research the Blitz and write a non-chronological report containing all the key information.
We all had the chance to look at some 'primary sources': historical photos and first hand accounts. This helped us to understand how deverstating the bombing was during the Second World War and what it would have been like to have lived through this scary period of history.
Next week we will continue to research the Blitz and write a non-chronological report containing all the key information.
Monday, 3 November 2008
The return from Half Term
We return to school for the second half of our term tomorrow.
Over the half term break the children have worked on maths and literacy homework tasks linked to their targets and these need to be in school tomorrow.
We have a busy few weeks ahead; football trials, netball practice and swimming club start straight away! We will also be using all our new playground games this week with Year 6 organising their use. Play time will certainly be great fun!
Over the half term break the children have worked on maths and literacy homework tasks linked to their targets and these need to be in school tomorrow.
We have a busy few weeks ahead; football trials, netball practice and swimming club start straight away! We will also be using all our new playground games this week with Year 6 organising their use. Play time will certainly be great fun!
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