Thank you so much to Purple Pig Farm for teaching us how to handle and care for all the animals today.
This is such a treat for us to look forward to as we all love our animals.
We have such kind caring natures and hands!
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Thanks so much to all who baked, bought, donated and helped out! Our Bake Sale was a huge success!
Today, the children in Year 4 explored, discussed and debated a range of photographic sources of evidence with the aim of identifying the significance of historic coronation events for British citizens of the past.
We first explored the Timeline of British Coronations over the last 200 years and utilised our mathmatical skills to determine the length of each British monarch’s reign.
In teams, we then explored, discussed and grouped our sources of evidence in a range of ways:
Photographic evidence
Paintings and portraits
Black and white photographic evidence
Colour photographic evidence
Celebratory images
Comparisons were made in relation to the validity of photographic evidence with that held within paintings of a monarch’s coronation. From this, the children deduced that paintings of historic coronations may not be a true representation of the event as some of the detail could have been enhanced or omitted by the artist; whereas the more modern photographic evidence provides a truer representation of each event due to it being recorded instantly.
Further observations of the ways in which British citizens celebrated historic coronations as a nation over time allowed the children to identify that each celebration was similar in that people dressed smartly, a special feast was shared and that communities were decorated with flags and bunting to honour the monarch of their time.
To complete our lesson the children then created a group mindmap to identify ways in which they will celebrate the coronation of our monarch – King Charles III on Saturday 6th May 2023.
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- Wear red, white and blue
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- Street parties and Barbeques
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- Bunting and Flags
From this, we were able to infer why the upcoming coronation of King Charles III continues to be an important event within British society today and deduced that it is an event which many British citizens continue to take pride in celebrating as a nation just like the historic celebrations of past monarchs were for our ancestors.
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.
This term Years 3 and 4 have been exploring the events of Holy Week from different aspects of events within the Christian celebration.
Year 3 explored why the cross is a significant symbol for Christians and what Jesus’ sacrifice taught the world. Through many discussions, we identified the ranging emotions that the followers of Jesus felt throughout the events of Holy Week (Palm Sunday – Happiness and Joy; Maundy Thursday – Solemness and Guilt; Good Friday – Bravery and grief; Easter Sunday – Confusion, Great Joy and wonder) which further showed how important Jesus was, and continues to be for the followers of Christianity. We also learnt that Jesus sacrificed himself on the cross to show the world that we should not be afraid of death and from this created our own El Salvadore Crosses to depict our own ‘Crosses of Hope’. To conclude this unit of learning, we explored the symbolic meaning of the traditional Easter ‘Hot Cross Bun’ before sampling…Yum!
Year 4 explored the symbolic meaning of the Bread and Wine shared by Jesus with his disciples at the Last Supper on Maundy Thursday as well as the meaning of the Paschal Candle which is lit in Christian churches around the world on Palm Sunday. Through discussion, we identified that Jesus knew he was going to die, which is why when sharing the bread Jesus described it as ‘his body which was soon to be broken’ and that the wine was ‘his blood that would be shared out for the followers of Christianity’. We then concluded that Christians continue to recognise that Jesus is the ‘Light of the World’ which is demonstrated by the lighting of the ‘Paschal Candle‘ throughout the Easter celebration of Holy Week.
We also explored the concept of ‘Betrayal and Guilt’ in light of ‘Judas’ betrayal of Jesus’ on Maundy Thursday as well as the ‘Denial of Peter’ on the same day. This brought about some interesting discussions and conflicting opinions with the conclusion that these two individuals only did what they thought what was right at the time. After viewing ‘Peter’s Denial’ through various artforms, the children worked collaboratively to re-enact this scene through role play in which we aimed to convey the emotions of ‘guilt, shame, despair and confusion’.
Super work this Term Years 3 and 4 and a Happy Easter!
Anyone for Tennis?
Throughout the Spring Term, Year 4 have thoroughly enjoyed building upon their knowledge of Tennis whilst developing strategies in order to win a game against an opponent. Through practice, the children have been perfecting their control of the racket whilst demonstrating their forehand and backhand techniques. as well as developing their knowledge of space and where best to serve the ball in order to score points against their opponent opponent.
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- Waiting in readiness for the ball being served
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- Forehand technique being developed
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- Adopting the stance serve and receive the ball
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- Making our opponent move in the direction the ball is served
Mindful Yoga
We have also thoroughly enjoyed our weekly Yoga lessons with Liesel in our Drama studio and perfecting the moves which we learnt in Year 3, as well as learning and practicing new skills and moves. Liesel helped us to adopt a better understanding of our core strength and energy fields and also taught us breathing techniques that we can adopt and utilise in any given situation such as square breathing, shark breathing and star breathing. The Havering Touch was a new technique that the children learnt this term, which is another strategy that we (children and staff) can draw upon to make us feel calm, relaxed and safe. In total, the children have learnt 34 Yoga moves which they have been happy to share and demonstrate and in doing so are well on their way to becoming Yoga experts!
Thank you and Namaste Liesel!
Today our talented Year 3 children came together to rehearse and perform all of the songs they have learnt with Lulu and Ling during our weekly Mandarin Music lessons. Over this last term, the children have learnt 6 songs in the wonderful Mandarin Chinese language of which 3 of these we will be performing in our upcoming ‘Chinese Whispers’ concert at the University of Hull’s Middleton Hall next term.
Below are just a few snippets of our wonderful singing and performing talents.
A familiar tune…Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes!
We have learnt to sing a song about one of the Chinese Written Characters to describe the strokes it is made up from to the melody of ‘Do-Re-Mi’ from the ‘Sound of Music’…
We have also learnt a song about ‘Springtime’ accompanied by actions…
We are all super proud of ourselves, and of each other, and cannot wait to perform for our audience at the ‘Chinese Whispers’ concert! Learning a new language through music has enabled us to absorb and retain a skill which we will be able to draw upon and share with others. Thank-you Lulu and Ling for this wonderful opportunity that you have provided us with!
We have loved giving out stickers to students who are eating their veg at lunch as part of the Eat Them to Defeat Them Campaign. It has been wonderful to see that so many families with the CPPS community are supporting the project at home too, rewarding their children for eating vegetables and making healthy choices at home. “You’re going down peas!”
Sorting Food Groups in Year 2
Our unit in PSHE this half term has been ‘Healthy Me’. Today we learned about different food groups. We then sorted different foods in to the correct food groups.
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- Creating our groups!
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- Sorting the foods!
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- Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?
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- Our finished work!
We learned that is important to have a balance of the food groups in our diet.
Mrs Robinson made some sensory bags for our tuff tray, to introduce the children to Red Nose Day!
We had so many giggles wearing our red noses.
Even the characters in our story had red noses!
Can you spot them?
We enhanced our fine motor skills by decorating and linking our paper chains.
Our paper chains will then be linked together with the whole school connecting us as one!
How wonderful!
For our Friday treat we decorated our biscuits with a red nose!
They were delicious! Mmmm yum yum!!!!!!!
This made us very happy!
Happy Red Nose Day!
We enjoyed fundraising for such a worthy cause!