As Junior 6 should have been in France this week, Madame Tatton set the children three challenges: to dress as a French person, to eat or make some French food and to make a model of a French landmark. Most importantly, we wanted them to have fun! Here are some of their entries.
We are also pleased to share some videos sent to Mrs Wildey by Junior 6 as part of their Drama lessons.
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It’s been yet another busy week in Junior 5; the children have been up to all sorts! Anabel and Rosa have been making pasta with their new-to-them ‘retro’ pasta maker and have also baked a cake for the NHS (see the photos). Thankfully, this was before Rosa fell out of a tree and fractured her thumb – we're sending healing sparkles her way! Anabel also sent Mrs Lammas an acrostic poem, which was such a lovely surprise! Have a look at the photo.
Henry W’s dog, Poppy was feeling too hot with her ‘lockdown locks’ so mum took her to the groomers. Poppy, as you can see from the photos, was very relieved and has lost half her body weight now!
Max’s parents installed a bird box a couple of years ago and hadn’t had any visitors until now – there's a family of blue tits currently living in there. We will try to share the video with you later.
Amelia decided she wanted to make something with her lollypop sticks, so not only did she make a catapult, she made a tiny easel, too! How cute it looks in the photo.
In maths, Noah made a violin out of co-ordinates! See the photo.
As you can see from the photograph, Maria has been honing her gymnastics skills by doing somersaults on her trampoline.
Thomas, who enjoys playing cello and is working towards a Grade 3, had, in the half term holidays, planned to take part in an orchestra course offered by the English Symphony Orchestra’s Youth Section. Despite the course not being able to go ahead, ESO Youth offered Thomas to join the intermediate group of a virtual orchestra project, preparing the BBC's Ten Pieces arrangement of Gustav Holst's 'Mars', and Hans Zimmer’s 'Earth'. The pieces were performed by 100 musicians (including Thomas’ sisters Andrea and Erika, both ex Crackley Hall and now students at Princethorpe College). The online premiere of 'Mars' was held last Friday. ('Earth' will be released in about three weeks.)
The performance can be seen and heard by following this link:
Thomas thoroughly enjoyed the experience, and is looking forward to the next virtual project with ESO Youth in June.
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Junior 4JM have had another amazing week. Their listening skills are improving daily! This week they have enjoyed the story 'The Cloud Tea Monkeys' and experimenting with vocabulary in Poetry. It has also been super to see them learning independently and improving their mental maths by using Century Tech.
In RE the pupils have been learning about communicating messages and have even learned some basic sign language. This would be an excellent new and useful skill to learn during our time at home.
They have also been studying the Vikings in history this term and found out about Viking writing called 'runes' last week. Kyra worked particularly hard on her detailed drawing of a Viking long boat.
Junior 4W have been learning about the story 'Treasure Island' in Drama and Music this term. The children have been reading the script, learning pieces of prose and have even written their own dialogue inspired by the characters. Marley created a treasure map after studying 'Treasure Island' and Alfred designed a costume for Long John Silver.
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It has been another amazing week of learning in Junior 3, and both Mr Stedeford and Mrs van Zyl have been astonished and well entertained by the delights created by our enterprising pupils. We have acted out Greek myths, added and subtracted fractions, discovered the geography of our local areas and explored the life-cycles of plants. Everyone has contributed in their own brilliant way.
The highlights from 3V have been: Isabella’s cornet playing, Miley’s seed germination investigation, Lexi’s audio diary entry, Olivia’s piano playing, Elena and Jia’s magic tricks, Ralph and Mairen’s retelling of the myth of Icarus, Leo’s giant strawberry, Andrew’s super adding fractions with different denominators, Kate’s kindness calendar, Lawson being awarded his ‘Pen Licence’ and everyone enjoying ‘Crazy Hair Friday’.
The highlights from 3S have been: Everyone celebrating Mr Stedeford’s birthday by dressing up crazy silly for a day! Penny’s lovely geography presentation, after her walk around historic Warwick. Joseph and Seb working really hard with their maths work, on fractions. Esme, Evie, Jack, Amelia, Lucas’ and Chloe’s wonderful re-enactments of Daedalus and Icarus, which included some excellent cameos from parents! And of course, we cannot forget to say a big Happy Birthday to Arisha, who turned 8 on Thursday.
Mathletes from Junior 3 are: Amelia, James and Kate
Well done to Ralph who has been enjoying 'The Legend Of Podkin One Ear' so much that he drew a picture of Podkin for Mr Cottrill without any prompting.
Please see the links below for all the videos we are able to share this week:
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Junior 2 have been learning all about non chronological writing. The children were tasked with writing a fact sheet on Garden Birds found in the UK which has resulted in some stunning work. Blythe and some of the other children have become ‘twitchers’ even using the right clothes and binoculars to spot different garden birds. Blythe’s focus was the Swallow. Here he is in full ‘twitcher’ mode.
Junior 2H have been enjoying the ‘Castles’ topic in history, finding out about these ancient, stone fortresses, and more important who lived....... and maybe died inside them. The challenge set, was to create a knight's outfit from literally anything they could find and Mrs Holmes received some pretty spectacular efforts. Well done knights.
Junior 2M have been exploring recyclable materials in science and thinking about how important it is to recycle for our planet, as well as creating their own native American Indian art and designing knight's armour in history. It's been a jam-packed week!
Congratulations to Ted, Junior 2H's Mathelete of the Week.
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This week Junior 1 were finding what sort of tastes they could taste with their taste buds. They had lots of fun trying foods such as marmite, honey, salty crisps, lemon, ginger biscuits, fizzy sweets and chocolate! As you can see by Harrisons face it you had to be brave!
Jude has been busy taking over his mum's desk to keep up with his beloved maths, nothing can keep this boy away from a mathematical challenge!
Evelyn has been writing a letter to Max from 'Where The Wild Things Are', remembering to use questions marks. Amelia also enjoyed this task, by the look on her face.
Amelia also has been showing her support for the NHS again, this time with a wonderful poster.
Evie took on the task of re-creating a cup and ball game that was popular in the past, although I think her version is a little more colourful.
As you can see Shuvan is a happy worker, with a great desk to write on, helping to make sure his presentation is always neat and clear to read.
Mahnoor has been using her time wisely at home baking up delicious treats to share with her class and show kindness to them. A great way of bringing joy into your home after we thought about it in Collective Worship.
Our Mathlete this week is Manhoor.
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This week, Reception have been learning about the concept of ‘doubles’ in their maths lessons. They had to look around their house to find things which were double and learnt to identify the double of each number. They also counted in twos to 20 and turned ladybirds into doubles by adding the correct number of spots to the ladybird’s wings. The children had lots of fun playing doubles with dice and dominoes and even made butterflies by putting the same amount on each side. At the end of the week they solved lots of ‘doubles’ word problems involving pizza and cake! We are doubly proud of their efforts.
Then also, as part of our topic on ‘People Who Help Us’, we have enjoyed learning about firefighters, the importance of fire safety and dialling 999 in an emergency.
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Last week, Niamh in J5, was awarded a Da Vinci for her wonderful animated science presentation. We can now share her video with you here Well done Niamh!
Lots of children are working towards a full Da Vinci; keep up the good work and we look forward to hearing when you have achieved your full award.
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