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This term Year 3 have been doing Yoga in PE and we were very proud of ourselves for remembering lots of poses we learnt in Year 2. Can you spot our tree?
As part of mental health week we talked about how Yoga can help us to clear our minds and help us to relax.
We tried lots of different breathing exercises such as box breathing and shark breaths. We all loved how calm this made us feel.
Year 3 are loving our new computing unit using the scratch programme.
We have spent time learning how to make our Sprite move, make sounds and even sequence a short string of sounds and movement together.
Some of us have made our Sprite walk across the screen before shouting, some of us have made our Sprite sing and dance to music.
We have also explored how to change a background when creating our scratch clips and even change our Sprites to different things.
We can’t wait to create more clips on Scratch.
As part of our Mandarin music lessons this term. Year 3 were very lucky to learn about the Luna New Year from our Mandarin teachers.
We found out about how important the New Year is and how this special time is spent with families. We discovered the importance of red envelopes and how these are given to younger members of the family with a wish for health for the coming year, as well as containing money.
We also discovered how houses are decorated with lots of red decorations and lanterns and the types of food that are eaten. lots of families spend time making dumplings together before they have their special family feasts.
We were excited to find out that lots of us were born in the year of the Rooster. Did you know this year is the year of the snake?
Year 3 are starting our new topic this week. It is called Stone Age to Iron Age. Lots of us realised we are going to be learning about a period of history that happened a long time ago. We discussed the word ‘prehistoric’ and its meaning as well as how we use the letters BC/BCE and AD/CE to define what time periods we are discussing. We were all fascinated that ‘prehistoric’ means pre history and that archeologists are our key to that time period along with artefacts that are discovered.
We had the exciting opportunity to start our new topic by looking at artefacts that would have been used during these periods. We looked at things such as animal skins, shoes and tools that would have been used to make life easier during this time period.
We in Year 5S are thoroughly enjoying our weekly lessons with Mrs Stallard, who is teaching us to play the amazing clarinet. We have discussed the various families that an array of instruments belong to (woodwind; percussion; brass and string) and even learnt the value of different musical notes (minims= 2; crotchet =1 and quavers =1/2).
With steady hands, we have mastered putting our Clarinets together in order (Bell; Barrel; Mouthpiece; Reed then the Ligature): and through much practice, perseverance and determination, we have even managed to create a tune…which can be quite tricky!
Budding musicians in the making! ENCORE YEAR 5!!!
This term, Year 5 are revisiting and building upon their previously learnt skills in the beautiful game of Football. This week’s lesson saw the children revisiting and demonstrating the skills of dribbling, passing with the aim of maintaining control of the ball.
From this, we went on to play various ‘3v3v3 and 6v3’ games where both attackers and defenders had to draw upon and utilise the skills and knowledge they have acquired from playing football in previous year groups.
Great resilience, determination, teamwork and respect was shown throughout our lesson today…Well done Year 5C!!!
In P.E this term, Year 5 we have been incorporating both counter balance and tension balances into our Gymnastic routines. With our P.E partner, we built upon and practiced our routine each week using different apparatus. To add complexity to our balances, we rehearsed different ways to move out of a counter balance to a counter tension balance on both high and low level apparatus. Using both canon moves (where we transitioned from one move to another individually from our partner) and unison moves (where we transitioned at the same time as our partner), we created routines which incorporated a range of balances.
Counter balances incorporate a pushing force
Counter tension incorporate a pushing force
Here are a few of our complex routines in pictures
In Year 6 this term, we have contemplated the times that we all say…
‘IT’S NOT FAIR!’
It all started with Miss Stewart treating just a few children to chocolate treats, dojos and special privileges, whereupon it was not long before many children became disgruntled and called out ‘IT’S NOT FAIR!’ We then had a class discussion as to why some children felt the injustice of Miss Stewart’s actions before everyone realised that it was all part of the planned lesson.
We then had the opportunity to share some of the injustices that we believe are not fair in our own lives…
From this, we then undertook a philosophical debate on the injustices specific groups and communities may feel within society today today…
Race
Gender
Religion
Disability
We established that whilst the trivial things in our own lives may not seem fair to us, that all people should be treated equally and with the fairness and respect that they deserve to ensure that there is justice and freedom for all in the world that we live.
To clarify – In order to make it fair…Miss Stewart did ensure that all children received a chocolate treat and a number of dojos!
This term the children in Year 5 have been exploring the ways in which people of faith express themselves. Through observation and discussion, we have identified that clothing, symbols, religious rituals, ceremonies and worship practices allow a person of faith to express themselves, their identity as well as their devotion to their faith. We then made comparisons in the way Autumnal religious festivals (Harvest, Diwali and Rosh Hashana) foster a sense of community, belonging and pride within faith groups. As a tasty treat, we tasted one of the traditional foods eaten during the Jewish festival of Rosh Hashana, which celebrates the beginning of the Jewish New Year in the Hebrew Calendar.
‘Apples and Honey’ symbolise the hopes for a sweet and prosperous New Year.
Year 3 were very excited to start our music lessons this week.
Over the year we will be learning to play the recorder. This week we begun with getting used to holding our new instrument and practising where to place our fingers.
We had a go at making sounds and discussed how we will make different notes with our finger placements. We had a go at making soft and loud sounds by blowing gently through the mouth piece. We were very excited to start to look at the different notes and could confidently identify the first note.
We also talked about how we look after instruments and how to handle them correctly.
