Girls Football Gets Underway

By Mr S MORGAN26th September 2023

Tonight, our sporting year got underway with the Hull Active School’s Girls 7s Qualifiers. Attending the competitions were teams from Eastfield Primary, Kingswood Parks and Francis Askew. We had two teams attend, many of whom were making their footballing debuts for the school.

In the end, the results didn’t go our way and our teams finished 5th and 4th, so did not qualify for the finals. However, they improved their performance every game and played with smiles on their faces. A huge well done girls, we’re really proud of your efforts!

(L-R) Elsa, Tia, Danielle, Freya, Lily, X, Tegan

(L-R) Brooke, Evie, X, X, Lacie, Taylor, Emily and Elissa. 

The Science of Sound: String Phones!

By Mr S MORGAN22nd September 2023

In this half term, Year 4 are exploring the science of sound. Today’s experiment was a pattern seeking investigation using string telephones. Children had to explore how these basic items were able to transmit sound effectively. They tried them in a number of different ways. Our main finding was that the string had to be a straight continuous connection between the to cups and as a class we decided on the following ‘er’ sentences:

“The tighter the string, the clearer the sound”

Our first ever chess fixture!

By Mr S MORGAN27th April 2023

This afternoon, four children from Mr Morgan’s class represented Christopher Pickering in the school’s first every chess fixture.

After studying chess every Tuesday afternoon for the last term, we have now entered into the Hull District Junior Chess League. This afternoon was our first fixture against Hymers College. The games should be held remotely from schools, but as this was our first time playing online, Hymers were kind enough to invite us down to their school to help us get to grips with the online game system.

It was a steep learning curve for our children against some talented Y6 players from Hymers. Unfortunately, apart from one draw, our children lost their games. However, they were enthusiastic and showed real resilience and willingness to improve.

Thank you to the children of Hymers for being so supportive and kind to our Y4s – we hope to play you again soon!

Y4 Chess Team: Eden F, Rebecca G, Cael W & Eden T. 

 

 

Y4 Architecture Sketching Trip

By Mr S MORGAN20th April 2023

After being cancelled due to terrible weather last term, Y4 finally got to complete their outdoor sketching this afternoon! We visited Queen Victoria Square in the City centre to sketch examples of Roman inspired architecture.

The building surrounding this square all encompass some of the iconic designs developed by the Romans and still used to this day. Children completed a variety of sketches including overall drawings of the whole building or more detailed studies of specific parts of the building such as pillars, arches, vaults and domes.

Overall the children had a fantastic time and it was a great experience to spend an afternoon sat in the sun practising drawing. Well done children!

Children getting comfortable for a sketch of the town hall. 

Rebecca focused on the domed finnial of this building 

Feren’s Art Gallery was a popular building to draw – children really focused on the typically Roman entrance facade. 

Enjoying the weather, happily sketching!

 

Y4 Tennis – Final Week

By Mr S MORGAN27th March 2023

This afternoon was Y4’s final week of tennis! Mr Morgan’s class put everything into action which they had learned over the last 6 weeks into lots of singles games. 6 ‘central’ courts were set up with random pairings playing head to head for 2minutes at a time. Around the central courts, rally stations were set up. By the end of the hour, over 180 individual games had been played! Well done for working so hard over the last half term, it was great to see everything come together today.

The future of Wimbledon?

Autumn and Hannah battling it out.

Freddie demonstrating an excellent backhand return and recover.

Y4 Coin Purses

By Mr S MORGAN27th March 2023

Today was Y4’s make day for this term’s DT project. Children started the day by making paper patterns from their designs. These were transferred onto their fabric which was then carefully cut out and pinned in place. Children then sewed their pieces together using a range of stitches including running stitch, backstitch, overstitch and the challenging blanket stitch! Finally, children added embellishments and fastenings to their purses.

We are super proud of the products they have created! There is such a variety of styles, shapes, fabrics and fastenings. Well done Y4!

 

 

Y4 Begin Chess Tuition!

By Mr S MORGAN24th January 2023

Today, Mr Morgan’s class started their chess tuition sessions. Funded by Chess in Schools, Christopher Matthews will be coming in on a Tuesday to deliver an hour of chess, followed by an after school club.

The children have loved their first session where we began to learn about the individual pieces and how they moved, as well as getting the board set up.

Chess is not only great for the mind, teaching tactics and problem solving but also great for social skills. Honesty, self-belief and respect are huge parts of the game of chess and it was great to see all children start and end their games with a handshake.

 

Jayden and Brooke learning to use pawns.

Freddie and Rebecca got their board set up correct first time! 

Tommy and Rubin set up and ready to play. 

Y4 Active Maths Session

By Mr S MORGAN19th January 2023

This afternoon, Y4 took part in a range of fun, active maths actvities to help them learn their times tables. The activites were planned and delivered by our sports scholarship group who were challenged with inventing an activity which combined physical activity and times tables. A huge well done to our y56s who demonstrated excellent leadership and inventiveness.

Grace and Alisha’s activity used balance and co-ordnation

Evie and Lacie’s game required children to bounce a ball and recite a times table

Ethan keeping participant active whilst learning 

Miss Ewan’s Class and our Sports Scholarship group had a great time! 

Scholarship: Basketball and Beyond Week 2

By Mr S MORGAN10th November 2022

This week, our sports scholarship continued to explore games which require hand-eye coordination. This week, they tried the dutch game Korfball. This is an interesting sport where mixed genders go head to head in a sport akin to netball. However, there is a big difference in that the scoring hoops are not on the edges of the playing area but in the middle, this means that payers can shoot from any angle.

The challenge for children this week came with Korfball’s defending rule. Once a player is being defended (or marked), the attacking player can no longer shoot for a goal. This means players much use quick sequences of passes to find scoring opportunities. Children really enjoyed this element and some pointed out that it would be interesting to try this with other sports. Great thinking children!

Noah using the space behind the post which would be off court in netball and basketball

Having being defended, this player is looking for an unmarked player in a scoring position. 

Despite not being played much in this country, Korfball is popular across much of Europe. It is unique in that men and woman are required to play on the same team.