Blog archive
This half term Kipling class have looked at the life and works of Rudyard Kipling. Each class member has produced a Rudyard Kipling biography, created their own ‘Jungle Book’ character and have done some creative script writing using ‘The Jungle Book’ for inspiration.
We have read the book ‘Zom-B’ by Darren Shan which highlights issues around racism alongside the ‘Show Racism the Red Card’ scheme.
This term Rosen have enjoyed reading ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’. They had a great time exploring the story through sensory activities including walking through mud, feeling long wavy grass and splashing through water. They also enjoyed making their own bear cave and a bear trap. This then helped them role play and re-enact the story supporting the development of their speech and language. The children went on to draw pictures and write sentences related to the story.
Walsh group have been reading the book ‘Wonder’.
The book ‘Wonder’, by R.J Palacio, is an inspiring fictional story, but the writer was contacted by the parents of a boy who, after reading the story, felt the character was almost identical to their child.
They felt that the book, although fictional, helped other children understand their son’s condition and helped him to become more accepted by his peers.
Tennyson class have had a fantastic start to this new academic year. We have welcomed pupils into our class who have started new to the school. Tennyson pupils have worked hard in literacy learning about the poet Lord Alfred Tennyson. The pupils enjoyed researching the poet. Each pupil created a piece of art work inspired by the poem ‘The Eagle’.
It's been a great first half term in McGough group.
We welcomed three lovely new boys - Oliver, Tyler and Jahid, who have settled in well.
Our group is named after the Liverpool poet Roger McGough. We emailed him some questions via his literary agent and….. he REPLIED!!! - to each individual child's question - we were so thrilled!
We've chosen Roger as our 'artist' to study for our Discover Arts Award - every boy in our group has achieved this - we are very proud. We are looking forward to receiving our certificates from London later this year.
Lear Class has had a super start to the new academic year. We have been learning about the poet Edward Lear and we have completed an Art Award ‘Discover’ around his poem ‘The Owl and The Pussycat’ .
We have been out and about, visiting the Lakes Residential Home for The Macmillan Coffee Morning as part of our Intergenerational Work. We baked some delicious cakes and sold them at The Lakes and also at school. They were a sell out!!
The children in Gray class have had a fun packed half term. We have been learning all about animals and their habitats, from what lives in a desert to what lives in the sea and the rain forest. They have learnt the difference between living things and things that were once alive. We have also been doing some art work and activities based around habitats.
This half term we have also covered Remembrance Day and talked to the children about why we remember. We did some poppy art work creating our own poppies using lots of different materials. They are currently being displayed in Hyde Town Hall for the public to view.
The week commencing 22nd October we had a’ Funky Freaky Halloween Week ‘ where the children dressed up and took part in lots of fun activities, for instance, pumpkin carving, baking, and decoration making for both the coffee morning and the classroom.
The children have settled in well for their first half term back. We look forward to our second half term on the run up to Christmas.
Dr Seuss was chosen as the name of our class. The pupils have been learning about Theodor Seuss Geisel – a popular children’s author well known for children’s books such as ‘The Cat in the Hat’, ‘The Lorax’ and ‘Oh the places you’ll go!’
In Literacy, the pupils have been learning about Performance Poetry. They understand the importance of expression, using gestures, projecting the voice and smiling when reading poetry. All pupils have had a go at reading ‘The Cat in The Hat’ to the rest of the class.
This term in the Fossey classroom, the pupils have been practicing their creative writing skills. Pupils have been given a single sheet of paper with a picture on it, such as a paper man running, OR a burnt piece of toast, and they have had to produce a short story based on these images.
As it was Holocaust Memorial Day during the month of January, Fossey class have been reading ‘Number the Stars’, which detailed the plight of Danish Jews leaving Demark for Sweden. In addition to this, we have researched Civil Wars that have happened in the past.
Earth Matters
‘Volcanoes’ have been our topic this half term.
All pupils have really enjoyed learning about various volcanoes around the world, and in particular Mount Vesuvius which erupted in 79AD. We researched what happened to the people of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
On 5th February, Daniel, Owen, Teejay and Kian represented the class for our class assembly. They showed the rest of the school what we had been doing for our Arts Discovery Award and how we had researched Japanese Artist Hokusai who is famous for painting pictures of Volcanoes.
Lamarr group have been busy studying fairytales and how the original stories were in fact written for adults. Pupils have enjoyed reading some of the originals.
We have been looking at the role of the ‘big bad wolf’ and how he features in lots of fairy tales.
We have also been looking at the judicial system as part of our Citizenship and have been presenting a defense case on behalf of the wolf.
A few members of the group chose a suitable fairytale to read to our younger pupils. This is a skill that forms part of their Asdan Award.
After Christmas Fleming class welcomed two new children to the class: Oliver and Brydon. We have enjoyed getting to know them and helping them settle into our school routine.
We have had a very busy half term learning about our environment. We made it our mission to help clean up the school and surrounding areas and then recycled all the rubbish to help save our planet.
The children also used some of the recycled products to create their own model.
In Curie class we’ve had a busy half term leading up to Christmas! As a class we watched a group of adults aged 60-90 who came into school to perform ‘I have to stay at Grandmas for a week’. We really enjoyed the performance and William had the opportunity to take part in the workshop after the show!
This term for sport we have been doing athletics; we’ve been traveling to Sports City every week taking part in lots of different activities which the children have loved including high jump, long jump, shot putt and many more!
Well, it's been a VERY LONG TERM and here in Logie Baird, we're all tired out from all our learning and fun. We're soooo ready for our Christmas break!
We've learned all about Norse Myths in our ‘Myths and Legends’ work in English and made clay models of Odin and Thor.
We enjoyed making a piece of collaborative art for Remembrance Day which is displayed in Hyde Town Hall if you want a look.
This term we have been busy learning all about Europe. We have tasted food from several countries in Europe .
We have enjoyed a trip to the European Christmas Markets in Manchester.
As part of their work towards their Asdan Awards, Connor and Caleb have taken part in a community project making Christmas dinner for pensioners at a local community centre.
We really enjoyed the intergenerational Drama group who came to visit. The story they told us made us really think about how the older generation are thought of, and treated, in our society.
This term we have welcomed John and Jamie to Fleming class. We have spent a lovely few weeks getting to know them.
We have been very busy learning all about ‘Our School’. We took our inspiration from the Story ‘Rosie’s Walk’ by Pat Hutchins. The children looked carefully at the inside of ‘Our School’ and created a map. They then hid treasure somewhere in the school and directed Miss Artus to the treasure using positional and directional words.
‘Countries of Europe’ is the topic of this half term. Pupils can name the continents of the world and have looked at Europe and the countries in it. Some pupils have researched individual countries and produced their own fact sheets for our class display.
