Tonight our Y56 boys took part in the EFL Kids Cup qualifier event at South Huntley and what a cold night it was! The boys played a round robin against Elloughton, Brough, Airmyn, Anlaby Acre Head and Anlaby Primary. All of the games were very close, with our biggest defeat being 2-0. Overall we finished 4th but ended the night with a great win against Anlaby.
This morning, ten of our Y56s headed down to Hull University for the Hull Active School’s Timed Badminton Championships! The children had a great morning playing against teams from Griffin and Eastfield; we even played against ourselves. All of our children who took part are currently playing badminton outside of school so this was a great chance to use their skills to represent the school in a sport they love.
Some fantastic skills on show from our Y5s
A fantastic result for our Y6 team who finished 3rd!
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
Year 3 are loving our PE gymnastic unit this term.
We have looked at how to hold poses, what symmetrical and asymmetrical poses are and what points of contact are.
We have shown each week how we can create different poses with extension whilst ensuring we maintain 1 or 2 points of contact as well as using different levels on the equipment to differentiate our movements.
F2 are really loving our Tuesday P.E afternoons! We have had so much fun getting to know and explore the big spaces of the hall and dance studio! The last few weeks in P.E we have focused on good listening, attention and following instructions… and also practicing lining up and following leaders!
This week we explored finding a space in the hall and moving in and out of spaces. We listened to some music and thought about whether or not it was fast or slow music, this inspired us to move our bodies! We moved fast and slow and demonstrated brilliant listening skills! We then looked at following a leader and working together as a team! We loved doing this to music!
In the dance studio we loved looking at ourselves in the mirror, pulling lots of faces! We sang some songs- head, shoulders, knees and toes- and played lots of circle games which was lots of fun!
To finish our session we cooled our bodies down by listening to some relaxing music and focused on being still and concentrating on our breathing! The children were amazing at this and loved doing some yoga movement and poses! We tried cat, cow, downward dog, chair pose, flamingo and tree pose!
This term, Y1 are focussing on Playing Games and Running.
We have already learnt techniques about running safely and effectively, changing directions, listening to instructions and following rules of the game.
This week in our running game, we had runners and defenders, the aim of the game was for the runners to collect the objects while avoiding the defenders … it was wonderful to see the great team work that was shown by all the children.
F1 have been having a bit of practise in readiness for Sports Day next week. The children have generally listened carefully to the instructions for each race and everyone has had a go. Well done! Finger crossed the weather stays dry for Tuesday!
In literacy we continued with the story of the 3 B
illy goats, but this time we got imaginative and innovated the story. The goats changed to pigs and the troll turned into a scary dragon! We had great fun acting out our new story, and then used our phonic knowledge to write some fabulous sentences.
In maths we focused more on number bonds to 5 and 10, thinking of all the different ways to make these numbers. We’ve also sang number songs, our favourites are ’10 fat sausages’ where we need to take away numbers and ‘1 potato, 2 potato’ where we need to add
numbers.
In art we used our knowledge of paint mixing and got creative, painting our own concentric circles inspired by Kandinsky… they all looked truly amazing and individual.
In PE we continued with our circuit training. The children thoroughly enjoyed last week, so this week we invited Mrs. Marson to join us, and she did! After a good warm-up we had 60 seconds at each station… star jumps, burpees, walking lunges, step ups and planks… we all worked so hard, and then enjoyed a much needed cool down.
On Thursday Purple Pig Farm came to visit…we were all so excited! We saw a calf, sheep, pigs, rabbits and a 6 day old goat called Dora. We even got to hold a chick, which we all loved.
On Friday we all had ‘Freedom Friday’ as a reward for having the highest attendance of the week (Mrs. Buss/Miss Carrick’s class with 99%, amazing!) we get to wear non-uniform and have a flapjack treat… yummy!
We have also enjoyed our wonderful outdoor area this week … we’ve used tubes and pipes to make fantastic waterways, made sandcastles to keep the troll away, cooked delicious snacks for the goats in our mud kitchen and developed our physical strength on our climbing wall and pole…we love exploring and learning outside!
We hope you all have a happy Bank Holiday Weekend, we’ll see you back at school on Tuesday 6th May.
This week in F2, we have started our story, The 3 Billy Goats Gruff.
First, we read the book together, lots of us were familiar with it and loved joining in, especially with the “who’s that trip-trapping over my bridge?”
Next, we had great fun acting out the story…Mrs. Buss was the troll, she was very scary!
Finally, we read the story again, this time using signifiers to help to retell the story.
In literacy we have been sequencing the story, drawing a map of the story and adding dictated sentences (this is when we make up a sentence together, using the correct structure, including capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.)
In maths, we have been learning our teen numbers. We know that a teen number always has one set of ten, so we can put that in our head and count on.
In PE we took part in team games, taking turns and cheering our team members on.
In RE we found out that Buddhism is one of the largest religions of the world, it is based what Buddha taught people and they live by 5 important rules. Not lying or stealing are two of them, we discussed why these are important to our lives too.
We also learnt about the famous artist Wassily Kandinsky. He was born in Russia in 1866 and many people believe he was the first abstract painter. He didn’t paint objects and instead painted colours and shapes, often listening to music so he could try to paint what he heard and felt … next week we will be embracing our creativity and painting in the style of Kandinsky.
As always, we have spent lots of time learning and discovering outdoors…weeding and watering our tomato plants that have started to grow, checking our bug hotel for creatures, making troll bridges and a feast for the goats in the mud kitchen.
