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This term Year 1 have been looking at the topic 'Animals including Humans'. This week they had great fun making new 'classmates' and labelling all of their body parts. They worked well together in teams and showed good self help skills when trying to spell the words they wanted to use.
STEM Club Attend the BETT Show. Last Friday, 12 Year 6 pupils attended the world renowned BETT Show at the ExCeL in London. The show, which was celebrating its 40th anniversary went down a storm with the pupils and staff that were supporting. The EdTech show included over 35,000 global education community visitors, over the three days – and our pupils were fortunate to be amongst them! The event was exploring innovations in technology around education, and gave just a taste of what the future may have in store for our pupils and school. Amongst some of our highlights, our pupils enjoyed using interactive floor mats for various subjects, using VR headsets in the jungle to explore the impact climate change is having on our world, playing noughts and crosses against a coded-robotic arm and the TSS stand where they had various physical computing kit! Some pupils even created their very own book using AI technology to use their ideas to create a novel. Speaking of novels and literacy, the pupils got to meet renowned author and storyteller Michael Rosen - who was kind enough to take pictures with pupils and even shared his autograph. To say the trip was a budding success would be an understatement; the pupils who attended are working on editing a vlog about their day, so keep a lookout across our social media channels for this in the coming weeks. Music Blog
After the delightful Christmas songs that were shared on social media in December, classes have settled into following the Charanga music resource where we learn some notation, vocabulary and a song each week. From Bon Jovi’s classic, Living on a Prayer to the epic instrumental of Gustav Holstz’s Mars and Jupiter, from disco era’s Mamma Mia (By Abba) to hip hop TV theme tune Fresh Prince of Bel Air. We learn about the history of the song, how the genre is formed, the artists life and then how to play them either with untuned percussion instruments such as bongos or with tuned percussion such as xylophones and glockenspiels. We are also in the process of many rehearsals within year 3,4 and 5 (No spoilers just yet though), the school rock choir are working on a new set list and our participation in the Thurrock music festivals (ks1 and ks2) have both been confirmed for July. “We really enjoyed creating our tube towers in Art.”Hallie.
“We have been playing with our friends really nicely. It is important that nobody is left out.” Isabella. “We make sure we listen to our teachers.” Bella. “We have kind hands and kind feet and kind words.” Dolcie. “We have been reading the Queen’s Hat in English.”Alfie. “We had a fire drill this week. It helps us practise how to keep safe.” Kajus “We have been looking at the weather everyday!” Dolcie Rose. “The bee-bots are very clever. We learnt how to make them move.” Kyrie. “We have been sharing toys.” Thiago. “I played teachers with my friends. We practised writing letters.” Abigail. |
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