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We have been working really hard exploring the narrative poem ‘The Highway Man’ over the past week.
Today, we worked in groups using dictionaries and iPads to clarify any advanced vocabulary we were unsure of in the stanzas allocated to our groups. We then moved round in a carousel so that each group leader could feedback to us.
We now have an excellent understanding of the language used in this dramatic and detailed poem! Excellent work Miss Stainton’s class!
We have had lots of fun in Y5/6 learning to sing the Mexican song, ‘La Bamba’. It was very tricky as it is sung in Spanish, but we tried hard and soon picked up the words!
Once we had become confident singing the song, we then looked at the notes and learnt to play it on the glock. We have some brilliant musicians!
Our new text in Year 2 is ‘The Jolly Postman’. In this unit we will be learning to write letters. This week we have been looking at a range of letters and identifying the features. Next week we will be thinking of questions to ask the characters in the story and writing our own letters to them.
Year 2 have been learning about why we wear poppies this week. They have learned about what happens on Remembrance Sunday and looked at the poem In Flanders Field. Today we held a minutes silence to remember the soldiers that fought in the war.
Year 56 have had a wonderful time today celebrating The Day of Dead as part of their ‘Who Like To Party?’ topic. Each child undertook four fantastic activities: a D&T activity making wearable skull heads, learning ‘La Bamba’ on the glochs, using paper to craft headdresses and making tributes and memorials out of clay.
The children had an excellent time and produced some fantastic work. Well done!
Y5 Boys making their ‘Skull Head’
Miss Jeffrey was making colourful headdresses out of paper.
Mrs Whitton has created a fantastic display of the children’s clay memorials.
Last week our children attended the Hull Active Schools inter-school cross country championships. These children were selected because they finished in the top 32 in our intra-house races held at school a few weeks ago.
For us, the day comprised of four races: girls B, boys B, girls A and finally boys A. The A races were ran by our top 6 intra-house finishers and they had the chance of qualifying for the county finals!
The results on the day were fantastic in both the B and A races. In the girls A race, Tamzin L finished 5th with Macy P finishing 8th which meant automatic qualification to the county finals. However, this wasn’t our only success. In the boys A race, Harry M, Nico A and Luca A also finished in the top ten (5th, 6th and 7th) meaning we already had five county final qualifications.
The unknown result on the day was the team events. In all races, the first four runners from each school formed that school’s A team, the next four B team and so on. The finishing positions of these runners are added up and compared to other schools. These results often take a week to come in so children had to wait patiently to see if how they had done.
We were not disappointed! CP have won the team event on both the boys and girls A races!! In the B races, CP wont the A, B, C and D races in both the boy and girls!
These are incredible results and we are very proud to be taking two teams to the county finals to represent Hull!
Full, detailed results here: Results – Cross Country (Hull Active Schools Primary)
Girls A Team (L-R): Macy P, Lexi S, Tamzin L, Mya Mc, Brooke W & Indiana H.
Boys A Team (L-R): Nico A, Harry M, Willian G, Luca A, Martin J, Alfie M.
Tonight our boys got their football season underway by winning the Hull Active Schools 7-aside football qualifiers. The boys played exceptionally well, winning all of their group games without conceding a goal. In the final game, an early goal eventually led to extra-time. With no-goals scored, penalties followed.
Top-scorer Alfie M settled the boys down by scoring the first penalty and things got even better when star keeper Matthew Southwick saved the next two shots. A few wide shots and post collisions followed, but CP were the eventual winners and go on to the Grand Finals on December 1st.
This was the first outing for captain Harry Maskell, who worked hard in the middle and partnered up with cousin Alfie; enabling to score an incredible amount of goals!
Well done boys.
Full results here: Results – U11 Boys 7-a-side Football 3
(L-R) James C, Charlie B, Matthew S, Harry M, Alfie M, Vinnie H, Nico A, Ewan M.
Captain Harry Maskell with his winner’s medal.
Making scoring goals look easy, Alfie M.
Today was our annual intra-house cross country competition. Like other years, the stakes were high as children were not only competing to help their house win, but to earn a place on the team representing the school at the Level 2 inter-school competition in two weeks.
Both races were fantastic to watch and every runner showed great determination and self-belief. The winner of the girls race was Tamzin L and the boys race was won by Luca A (after and incredible battle with his twin brother Nico).
After both races had finished, the finishing positions for each house were added up, with the lowest aggregate score being the winner. This year’s winners were Wilberforce house, closely followed by Sullivan (Morley 3rd and Johnson 4th).
We really do have some strong runners in Y56 at the moment and fancy our chances at the upcoming inter-school competition.
Well done children!
Wilberforce House celebrating their victory.
Nico (left) and winner Luca (right)
The start of the boy’s race.
This half term we are very please to have Callum from Hull FC coming in to deliver rugby coaching to staff and children in Y6. So far the sessions have been going very well and children are really enjoying themselves. We hope this extra focus pays off in the upcoming competitions!
The year 6 children were given another scientific task yesterday – to launch rockets for Miss Stainton’s Mexican party!
We used what we already knew about chemical reactions and mixed an acid and a base to create carbon dioxide. Using a cork, this built up pressure inside our rockets and the results were amazing! Some of our rockets went as high as the school building!
Fantastic work.
