For the past few weeks, Year 5 have been learning to play the recorder. We have learned to play notes, such as B, A, G and E, and learned to play different songs using all the notes we have learned. We have really enjoyed learning this instrument!
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Sports Scholarship: Basketball and Beyond (week 2)
Today was week 2 of our ‘Basketball and Beyond Unit’.
After making fantastic progress on their passing and moving skills in week 1, this week children tried a new sport – Korfball.
Never heard of it? then watch this video.
After watching the beginners guide and getting to grips with the rules, we started to play the game. Children quickly applied their quick passing skills which we worked on last week to this game and had great fun. Korfball really challenged the children’s understanding of using space to attack and shoot. Being able to move all the way around a hoop created more space to score but also gave opponents chances to recover from a rebound. It turned out to be a fantastic way to consolidate netball style passing and moving.
Quickly discovering the best positions to shoot from and how to support and defend a rebound.
Learning to pass the ball around the whole space to spread defenders and create room to get into a scoring position.
3v3 Basketball
To finish the session, we looked at the new Olympic sport of 3v3 basketball. Made up of 2 teams of three playing in one half of a basket ball sport, it is a traditional street version of the game which promotes high levels of skill and quick thinking.
The children have been busy baking currant buns this afternoon!
First the children had to wash their hands. They then had to grease the baking trays before they began mixing all of the ingredients together. The children had fun singing the 5 currant buns song when we were making the buns.
When we finished all of the mixing we put the mixture on to the baking trays. We put a cherry on the top before they were ready to bake.
Finally we put buns were ready and we were able to have them for our afternoon snack. They were delicious!
The children were having lots of fun using all our amazing resources.They loved been in our winter garden and enjoyed playing outside. All the children enjoyed construction and made some fabulous pictures using all our materials.
Please find attached dates/times/links for the next HET foundation subject network meetings.
This will be our staff meeting for week commencing 14.6.21
Y5 Geographers
In year 3, we learned about how a volcano is formed but today we took our learning further as we researched how mountains are formed. Did you know that there were so many ways?
We worked very hard during the Spring term, some of us at school and some of us at home! We enjoyed being Historians during this topic and learning all about Beatrix Potter’s life and then during the Victorian period what life was like in schools and then what life was like for rich and poor children. We were all very glad we are at school today rather than then!
We worked independently to present all of our findings in History – we were all very proud of what we achieved!
Jessica recalled ‘If families were poor boys and girls would have to work in factories to get food to eat.’
Ava stated “Beatrix Potter is remembered for writing a book called Peter Rabbit and we like this story! She didn’t go to school and instead a governess came and taught her at home.”
In Science we have been observing and describing the weather that is associated with the seasons by observing the weather in spring.
We looked at a variety of different weather symbols and discussed what they each represented. We then took a look outside and observed that it was cloudy. All week we have been gathering and recording data such as the weather, temperature and rainfall related to Spring. We are excited to compare this to Summer.
I then challenged the children to come to the front of the class and using the map of the United Kingdom present a weather forecast. We looked at video examples beforehand. We then re-capped the 4 countries that made up the United Kingdom: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. We then identified Hull, we know this is a city not a country.
Here is Harvey presenting the weather for us! He did a fabulous job and even put on a ‘professional voice’. A weatherman in the making? Great job year 1!
The Great Fire of London
Y2 have been learning about The Great Fire of London. Today we looked at the causes and consequences of The Great Fire of London. We thought about the negative consequences and the positive consequences that came after the fire.
Only 1 more week to go and we will all be back.
As per the letter that was sent out to parents, you will see the school will run similar to the autumn term. I have updated the playtimes and lunchtime rota and attached here.
Over the next week please look at the desktop as many messages will come out about the start. We know you will all be amazing.
As always, any questions, please ask. x