Chrildren’s Mental Health Week activity:
This week, we have been celebrating children’s mental health and raising awareness for what makes us happy and recognising our own personal triggers that make us feel down. As recognition for what things make us happy, we created our own paper chain full of ideas. Some drawings included:
Here is our finished product!
On Wednesday, Year 5 visited an egineering company – OSL – where they took part in arange of activities linking to the subject. The activities included:
During these activities, the children learnt a substansive amount of knowledge about how to become an engineer and what the job role consists of.
Here are some images of the children during the day:
For the second half of the day, we then went to an architectural business – GGP. Here the children took part in an activity where they had to build their on bridge out of straws, which had to withstand a brick. We had so much fun!
Over this half term in year 5 we have been building our Spanish vocabulary to be able to become weather presents in Spain and explain to others what the country is like in different places in Spain looking both at regions (North, South, East, West and Central) and actual Spanish places. The children loved becoming presenters and did a fantastic job!
In todays clarinet lesson the children were able to increase their note knowledge and added the note Fsharp to their repertoire. They were able to use this note to practice and play the song Long note song.
In lesson today, year 5’s really delved into the question what do I believe in? They came up with some amazing answers including self belief, believing in peace and hope along with kindness and understanding. They were able to compare their beliefs with people who have faith and what they believe, and were able to see lots of similarities between peoples faith and their own worldviews.
The Y6 house captains and Y5 school councillors were given the fantastic opportunity to visit London to experience our capital city, see some of the famous landmarks and to find out about Democracy and how this country is ran by visiting parliament. Unfortunately, due to the rail strikes we had to postpone the date of our initial trip which meant that we couldn’t visit the Houses of Parliament.
On the 11th January, we set off from Hull to Kings Cross which took us just under 3 hours. When we arrived we headed straight to the underground and caught the tube to Tower Bridge. When we got there we ate lunch in the sunshine overlooking the Tower of London which made a fantastic spot to have something to eat.
We went into the Tower of London which is a historic castle originally built William Conqueror where he built a stone tower fortress overlooking London. Over the years we found out that it has been used for a multitude of things – a prison, a place to torture criminals, a zoo, the Royal Armouries, The Royal Mint and a place to protect the crown jewels. We saw the empty case where the King Edward crown had been taken to prepare for King Charles’ coronation!
After spending a few hours in the Tower of London we made our way onto Tower Bridge and identified all of the landmarks along the River Thames. Then we went to see the Horse Guards and made our way to Downing Street. Here we spent a bit of time learning about who goes to Downing Street, who lives there and why. We were lucky enough to see Rishi Sunak, well his car, whizz by into Downing Street – there were lots of police vehicles with the cars!
We then walked up to the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben and found out about what happens in these buildings and how decisions in these buildings have an impact on us. The Palace of Westminster and Big Ben are synonymous with democracy and have become a symbol of parliament around the world – our school council elections are based on the voting systems that happen in this country when electing a political party representative.
After this we went up to Buckingham Palace and walked through St James’s park before heading back to Kings Cross and back home to Hull! A fantastic experience!
What are British Values?
Fundamental British Values underpin what it is to be a citizen in a modern and diverse Great Britain valuing our community and celebrating diversity of the UK. These values are Democracy, Rule of Law, Respect and Tolerance, Individual Liberty.
Today the year 5’s visited Sirius Academy to partake in an amazing day of Creative and Performing Arts. The children loved watching the performance ‘The Adam’s Family’ before being part of the crew. Children were given workshops to enhance their drama skills and become an undead cast member before practicing and performing a dance routine. They also got the chance to add to the set of the final show through creating props that will be used on the actual performance nights!
Year 5 have really been enjoying comparing different databases today. They were very knowledgeable whilst identifying differences and similarities between computer based databases and paper ones. They could identify the different fields and could sort them using a range or information.
In todays lesson year 5’s really enjoyed looking at the music notes and breaking the codes using letter notations to find words. The children really loved refreshing their memory on how to read the treble base notes using the acronyms FACE for the SPACE and Every Good Boy Deserves Foottball when looking at notes on a line.
