Y4 D&T ‘Make day’

By Mr S MORGAN12th March 2024

Wow! What a busy day we have had in Y4. Previously, children have investigated the features of different coin purses, practised various ways of stitching fabric together and have designed their own purse. Today they finally got to make the product. Children worked brilliantly throughout the day on their sewing pieces and it was great to see so much thought, care and attention going into their work – the end results were amazing. Well done Y4!

Super proud of their work: Scarlotte, Harvey, Lennie and Betsy. 

A wide range of fabrics and designs were used. 

Jacob focusing very hard on getting his stitches neat but secure. 

The blanket stitch was tricky, but children showed real determination! 

KS1 Girls Football Festival

By Mr S MORGAN8th March 2024

Today, 8 of our KS1 girls have attended a fabulous football festival at the Tigers Trust Arena. The festival was organised by the FA with the aim of getting more girls interested in football. The girls took part in a range of activities all themed around the Disney film ‘Frozen’.
The girls had a fantastic time and were a credit to the school. Well done!

3…2…1…DODGEBALL!

By Mr S MORGAN7th March 2024

Tonight it was the turn of our Y56 children to attend a dodgeball festival at Sirius Academy West. The competition was being hosted by Hull Active Schools with the objective of promoting three key sporting values – determination, teamwork and honesty. In order to receive a certificate, children had to demonstrate these values and complete a sticker chart. Well done to all of our children to achieved this and had a brilliant time! What a fab end to World Book Day.

 

An initial briefing from Mr Sherwood before the fixtures started. 

 

Rubin ready for battle! 

Molly and Mia working together to get the other team out. 

Our World Book Day themed teams: The Wimpy Kids, The Giant Peaches, Oompah Loompahs, Dumbledore’s Army, The Baddies and The Gangster Grannies.

YEAR 3 P.E: HEALTH AND WELLBEING – MIDFULNESS – YOGA

By Miss L STEWART5th February 2024

Year 3 have taken on a Mindful approach to our Yoga sessions with Mrs Cobby this Spring term.

The children have revisited, built-upon and perfected many of the Yoga poses we have practiced in previous year groups, as well as practicing some new ones…here are just a few:

The children really enjoyed ‘Dance Yoga’ too whereupon when the music stopped they had to strike a pose with a suggested letter of the alphabet!

We have also practiced our Mindful Breathing by practicing our ‘Box-Breathing’ skills alongside our ‘Havening Touch’ and ‘Shark Breath’ techniques, which are all relaxation techniques that aim to calm both our bodies and our minds. To end each session, the children adopted the ‘Lotus’ position whilst listening to the calmful, reverberating sound of the ‘singing bowl’.

Namaste…and THANK YOU Mrs Cobby!

YEAR 3 P.E – GAMES -INVASION- HOCKEY

By Miss L STEWART5th February 2024

Year 3 have thoroughly enjoyed getting to grips with our new hockey equipment in this Spring terms unit of Hockey.

We have focused on the core skills of how to hold the hockey stick in order for our own safety and that of others; dribbling in order to keep possession of the ball;  ensuring that we remain aware of attackers and keeping control of the ball when changing direction, as well demonstrating our knowledge of making an accurate pass to maintain possession in a game.

Once we had mastered all of our knew skills we put all of our new knowledge into practice and played some mini hockey tournaments.

Well done Year 3…Jolly Hockey Sticks!!!

stone age to iron age

By Mrs K SMITH18th January 2024

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 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.

Art exhibition

By Mrs K SMITH18th November 2023

We are so proud to have held our first Christopher Pickering Art Exhibition.

The whole school spent several weeks in preperation practising our art skills using different medias and exploring different artists work in order to create our art work. Some of us used collage, some used oil pastels, colour washing, paint, pencil and marker pens to name just some of the media in our final masterpieces. We drew on all the rt skills we have developed so far to help us create our fantastic art work and combined this with the influence of different artists including Tracey Savage, Van Gough, Paul Klee and Kandinsky.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We were all very proud when had the opportunity to visit the gallery and see our work displayed in frames and named just like true artists.

We hope that everybody who had chance to visit the gallery had a lovely time.

hull’s history

By Mrs K SMITH12th November 2023

Year 3 absolutely loved our trip to Hull city center to discover all about the fishing industry and how it shaped Hull as a city.

We spent some time at the beginning of the day recalling all the facts we already knew about the fishing industry. We knew lots of facts such as Hull’s first dock was built for whaling ships and was called The Dock.

 

 

 

 

 

We found out lots more information from our session with Children’s University. We were all very shocked when we discovered that Hull was once the worlds largest port.

Once we had discovered these facts we had the opportunity to go and ask members of the public the same information. We found out that older people knew lots of facts about the fishing industry in Hull however younger people did not know as much.

 

 

 

 

 

We spent some time finding out even more information about the fishing industry by conducting our own research. We got to find out what life was like onboard a trawler and and that fishermen only spent 3 days at home between fishing trips. This helped to give them the name ‘3 day millionaires’. We also discussed how important the Headscarf Revolutionaries were in preventing  many deaths at sea.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After our morning of research we got to see the influence of the fishing industry around the city. We visited many important sites including ‘The Last Trip’ memorial, the fishing gate where fish was taken to the markets from the trawlers and we saw one of the fish shops where lots of fish was sold in Hull.

treble clef stave

By Mrs K SMITH7th November 2023

This week year 3 have been looking at what a treble clef stave is and how to write musical notes one.

We have learnt the notes B, A and G so far and this week we have looked at where abouts these would be placed on a musical stave.

We found there are mnemonics we can say to help us where these notes go. We have practiced FACE for notes that sit in the spaces and Every Good Boy Deserves Food for the notes that sit on the lines.

We practised writing these notes on a stave before we played them on our recorders.

YEAR 3 P.E: GAMES – INVASION – NETBALL

By Miss L STEWART6th November 2023

Year 3 were introduced to the game of Netball today in P.E with the focus on the passing and receiving of the ball so as maintain possession.

After practising the passing and receiving of the ball utilising the chest-pass, we moved on to working as a team with the aim of creating and using the space around us effectively. Once we had developed our chest pass, we moved into a 5v1 game whereby the attackers had to create the space to pass the ball effectively before being intercepted by the defender.

Great TEAMWORK and ball skills YEAR 3!