Year 7: The Penguins: Blog items
Topic Day 1- Art, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 17th Jun 2018 @ 1:49pm
Topic Day 1 - Science, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 17th Jun 2018 @ 1:46pm
Topic Day 1 - DT, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 15th Jun 2018 @ 9:00pm
Today 1 group of children put their creative and designing heads on to create a self powering boat. They researched on the ipads how to make one. They draw a design and thought about the equipment they needed. They made their boat and then tested it. They evaluate their design, working out what went well and what needed to be changed / improved. They contined to tinker with their boats and tested again at the end of the day.
I only have videos of the first tests I'm afraid. The children were superstars, not giving up and extremely supportinve of each other helping out and holding things while people stuck bits together.
I special thanks to Mr Kennedy who supervided the glue gun!
Paddington Bear biscuits, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 15th Jun 2018 @ 8:13am
We have been following instructions this week in a English. Yesterday we made some biscuits in the shape of a bear. Thank you to Mrs Gray for helping us. They taste yummy.
Thursday Assembly Blog, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 15th Jun 2018 @ 8:11am
Today in assembly we talked about how we have three words that are important every year: CARE, GROW and SHINE! We talked how this term we are going to shine.We were then talking about a celebration which people will be celebrating this on Friday or Saturday. This celebration is held by Muslims. We talked about how Muslims fast, they fast because it is to teach them to focus on god and be generous, once fasting ends they have the celebration called Eid al-fitr.The celebration goes on for one,two or maybe even three days. How they celebrate is a bit like Christmas, they send Eid al-fitr cards out and dress formally, they also have big feasts and they wish each other a happy celebration!
We were also reminded about some special events that are coming up! If you want to be in the talent show you need to fill in the form, which is at the bottom of a parent mail that has been sent out, by tomorrow, you will need to print off the form and give it in. We are also have a own clothes day tomorrow, to be able to wear your own clothes you need to bring in some chocolates or a bottle of wine or a yummy beverage.
by Gracie and Abigail
How to make a Paddington, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 13th Jun 2018 @ 1:59pm
Today we made our own videos to show how to make a Paddington Bear using a cardboard roll. We are now going to use iMovie on the iPads to create a full video.
Paddington - how to look after our teddy., by Mrs Catterall
Date: 13th Jun 2018 @ 1:55pm
This week we started our work on Paddington. I wrote about how I would look after my own Paddington Bear and then the children wrote instructions for how to care for their bear.
Father's Day lunch, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 13th Jun 2018 @ 1:52pm
Thanks to all the people who have joined us for lunch over the past 2 days. I hope you had a lovely time, I know the children appreciated you coming in.
Walking Bus, brake charity awareness, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 13th Jun 2018 @ 1:45pm
Thank you very much to all the children and parents/grandparents who joined us on our walking bus this morning, it was lovely to see you all there. We certainly made a long bus this morning.
It was a lovely start to the day, the opportunity to chat with a friend, enjoy the lovely weather as well as a bit of exercise. Remember we walk every day from booths, leaving at 8:30.
Here are a few photos.
Fathers day, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 12th Jun 2018 @ 9:41pm
The week ahead - 11th June, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 7th Jun 2018 @ 10:56pm
I hope you have had a wonderful relaxing holiday. The weather has been amazing, let's hope it continues.
This week we will be a busy one, we have dance from the heart on Tuesday, Fathers Day lunch on Tuesday and Wednesday, also on Wednesday we will be thinking about road safety as part of the charity Brake. On Friday it is non-uniform day to bring in items for the Summer fair next week.
In class
English. We are starting a Paddington themed unit this week. When I've discussed it with the children I will send more details of our plans. This will link into writing instructions this week.
Maths - our focus will be on Place Value this week. Adding and subtracting 1,10,100. Ordering and comparing numbers. Problem solving and reasoning tasks related to these aspects.
P.E. tennis skills, we will also be starting our daily mile run/walk. Over the holidays a special track has been created around the field, if finished we will be able to give it a go this week.
R.E. our unit this half term is Church as a community, leading others. This week our focus will be on the work and lives of Desmond Tutu and Martin Luther King.
Art - we will be creating some cards for Father's Day.
PSHE - Jigsaw. We will be finishing off last terms unit by focusing our relationships with the world in regarding to supporting charities. Our focus will be on the work of UNICEF
DT - On Thursday we have hoping to do some baking to link with our English work on following instructions.
On Friday of this week we will be devoting the whole day to our topic work. The children will be in a group of 6 and carry out a number of tasks linked to one of our topic curriculum areas - History, Geography, DT, Art, Science. Over the next 5 weeks they will experience a day for each of the topic areas.
Mrs Catterall
Arts Week - Barbados Day, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 7th Jun 2018 @ 10:38pm
Our theme was Barbados. We carried out activities to find out about this Commonwealth Country.
We used the iPads to research; the flag, size of the country, population, capital city, animals that could be found there as well as other interesting facts.
We found out about the important festival known as he 'Crop Over', which celebrates the end of the sugar cane harvest. At the end of this they have a huge carnival style parade. We made bright and colourful masks like they might wear.
We also looked at the work of another artist who creates scenes of the colourful beach side huts.
The children really focused and concentrated, some of the designs were very detailed.
We finished off the day learning a dance from Barbados. It was fantastic, Mrs Catterall joined in and had a great time.
Arts Week - Tuesday pm, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 22nd May 2018 @ 10:03pm
This afternoon we looked at the work of Malawi artist, Hamban Mhone.
We copied his work then put our own spin on it to create a UK focused piece.
More photos to follow.
Arts Week - Tuesday, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 22nd May 2018 @ 9:57pm
Today we had a visit from an artist, Caroline. She explained to us how she turns a sheep's fleece into wool, how she uses onion skin and daffodils to dye it and then how she uses it to weave.
We had a go at weaving wool, it was a bit fiddly and tricky, it took a long time. It looks amazing, we are very proud of our work.
Arts Week -Monday , by Mrs Catterall
Date: 22nd May 2018 @ 9:40pm
On Monday we wore badges of the 53 commonwealth nations. We stood in a circle and passed the string from country to country in the order in which they joined the Commonwealth to create this web. We found out that some countries such as South Africa joined, then left, then joined again!
What links all the countries is the common language of English along with sharing common values and principles as set out in the Commonwealth Charter. We also used atlases to locate the different countries and had a guess the country flag competition.
In the afternoon we drew action poses to show the different sports in the Commonwealth Games. Then 2 Science teachers and some 6th form students came to class. We tested different foods for starch and fat. Athletes need the energy from these foods when carrying out their sport.
Roman Mosaics, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 22nd May 2018 @ 9:38pm
Shape challenge, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 22nd May 2018 @ 9:36pm
Royal wedding lunch, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 22nd May 2018 @ 9:33pm
Maths - Shape, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 22nd May 2018 @ 9:32pm
Tennis, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 22nd May 2018 @ 9:30pm
Yoga, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 22nd May 2018 @ 9:29pm
Seed planting, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 7th May 2018 @ 10:42am
The week ahead - w/c 30th April, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 30th Apr 2018 @ 7:23am
Good morning
The sun is shining, fingers crosssed it stays this week.
Another great week in school is planned. On Thursday we will be going in our trip to BAE, we are leaving at 9am so please make sure you are all here on time.
On Tuesday afternoon we get to watch the year 4 production, I'm sure it will be fabulous.
In English this week we will be writing and practising our class assembly in preparation for next week. Although I have a rough plan the children will be creating this themselves. Writing their parts and organising there props etc.
In Maths we are focusing on arithmetic on Monday and then the focus will be money. They will be creating a shop and buying and selling their products with play money as well as developing their addition and subtraction of decimal numbers.
P.E. - developing our tennis skills.
Jigsaw - Relationship unit.
Music - Mrs Bolton
Science - planting seeds and looking at plant variety. How many types of plant do we have in our school grounds?
Assembly blog, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 27th Apr 2018 @ 7:32am
Friendship was the theme in today's assembly. When we walked into the hall there was a question, that question was what does being a good friend mean to you ? We had a challenge where we had to finish a sentence with a different thing about our friends. One of the sentence starters was my friend is different to me because... we came up with because we are all unique! We then had some time to think about the qualities of our best friend. Good friends listen, so we looked at, the rules of listening. The rules of listening are: be still, look at the speaker, nod and look interested and ask questions that relate on what the speaker is saying. We were talking about how a good friend says nice things to us and how it makes us feel happy. We said that you can give your friends a positive stroke. We don't physically stroke them, but we give them a compliment or say well done. This makes the person you said it to feel happy, just like when you stroke a cat, it feels good and makes them happy and purr.
by Gracie and Abigail
Picture News - British Values - w/c 23rd April, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 27th Apr 2018 @ 7:27am
Sorry for the dealy, I didnt make it go live!
If you have Gracie and Abigail's Assembly Blog from Monday you will have discovered our topic for discussion this week was Loneliness.