Kingswood

Hope all you Year 6 are packed and ready for our early start tomorrow! Get an early night tonight and have a good sleep. See you all in the morning. :) Ms Gifkins PS Don't forget the suncream

DanceMyWay - McKee

On Friday night McKee and Lewis took part in the Chauncy dance show. It was a great experience for all the children; from waiting back stage, to dancing, right through to front row seats to watch the rest of the show.

McKee enjoyed dancing to Under the Sea from the Little Mermaid and their bright sparkly costumes were beautifully set off by the sea creature they had painted in class during the week.

Olivia - I liked being on stage. It made me feel very happy and I enjoyed watching the other acts.

Alfie liked watching the other dancers. Emily – I liked making the circle best and felt very excited to be on a stage.

Daniel – said the dance made him very happy and he like the kicking the legs bit best. 

 

Grace was very excited and liked holding her nose and doing the wavy arms best of all. She was really, really, really pleased that over 300 people watched the dance.

Evie – The best bit was jumping over the fabric. Rebecca felt happy dancing on stage; she loved it. 

Luca was happy because it was fun and he liked the star jumps best.  Daniel – enjoyed doing the dance and said it was fun being on stage. He wants to do it again.

The children were supported by a large number of their family and friends ,who commented that they thought the children very brave to dance in front of so many people, that they all looked smiley and happy and that it was their favourite dance of the show. Others loved the sea creatures on the children's shirts and everyone agreed the whole show was excellent and complimented the children on their enthusiasm and dancing skills.

"Well done McKee class, I am proud of you all" - Mrs Matthews

"Under the Sea" dress rehearsal

On Thursday McKee class and Lewis class went to Chauncy school to attend the Dress rehearsal of "DancMyWay". McKee are dancing to Under the Sea and Lewis to Hard Knock Life; below is a video of Mckee class rehearsing.

Look out for more photos of both of the classes and video of Lewis. We hope to put them on the Blog sometime next week.

Living things

Remember the trees Mckee planted? This is what they look like now.

There were also some potatoes!

It seems that all the wet weather we have had has helped our garden grow.

Animal day

As well as interacting with the animals, Carle, McKee and Inkpen spent Wednesday (and the next couple of days) undertaking different animal activities. Both Carle and Mckee held a farm challenge with different activities for the children to complete. Well done to all of you for taking part.

This is what we got up to in Mckee class.

Made and enjoyed piglet cakes and sheep biscuits.

Read farm stories.

Made origami sheep.

Coloured, cut out, sorted, stuck and calculated farm animals!

Made "hand" sheep.

Played with the toy farm

Painted masks.

Made pig finger puppets.

Made stick puppets.

Put on a puppet show.

Cock-a-doodle-doo

The children also completed a maze sheet, colouring sheets, activities on the computer, watched some video clips, sang farm animal songs, wrote about their day, drew pictures, added up animals on a maths sheet and acted out farm stories.

Well done to all of McKee Class

you will get a certificate soon.

Lewis class

Lewis Class have been learning all about the Christian story of Creation from Genesis. We have used our artistic talents to represent the 7 days of Creation in stained glass windows. We have put them on display so that we can enjoy looking at them.

In literacy at the moment we are exploring persuasive writing. As part of this, we wrote letters to Mrs Vaughan trying to persuade her that she shouldn’t ban play times. We wrote some great letters using lots of persuasive language

Animal Quiz for The Gambia

My name is Joseph and I am a massive animal lover. I am running a quiz to raise funds for our partner school in The Gambia. 

If you would like to enter the quiz it will cost £1 per person, it is essential you answer the tie breaker question - in the event of a tie I shall decide the best answer. 

The winner shall receive 4 free tickets to Paradise Wildlife Park, worth £50!!!!

If you would like to enter please collect your animal quiz from the office and give your £1 to Mrs Short.

Jospeph M Tolkien Class