YRW hosted an ‘Easter Stay and Play’ session. First, we welcomed our family members and thanked them for attending. Then, we sang some Easter songs. Next, we decorated eggs in various colours and designs. We had lots of fun and we all had an eggcellent time!!! What do you think of our final creations?
Today we had a special visit from the ‘Tiny Tweeties’. We sang fairytale songs, clapped, danced and tapped to the beat of the music. We had so much fun!
Year 5 have completed a lot of work recently on Greek myths, particularly looking at Herakles and his twelve labours.
Each class was tasked with acting out one of Herakles’ labours. All groups worked together to produce a fantastic… and very dramatic performance!
Props were used and character’s lines were created by the children.
4E and 4J have been learning about soul music this term. They have been singing Lean on Me by Bill Withers and improvising rhythms using glockenspiels.
They have listened to different artists including Beyoncé and Walter Williams, Mary Mary and Elvis Presley who have all recorded a variety of soul and gospel songs. The children loved listening to the music and comparing these songs to Lean on Me.
We have some fantastic and talented singers in Year 4!
Here are 4J practising on the glockenspiels and singing Lean on Me:
This week, Reception invited our adults into school to decorate an egg with us. Our creations were EGGCELLENT! We then performed an Easter concert for our adults singing lots of spring songs. Our adults were so proud of us!
Last week, Y6 took part in a Macbeth Workshop with Splats Entertainment. This was to help support the children with their creative writing around the play of Macbeth. The children acted out four scenes adopting different roles such as Macbeth, Banquo, King Duncan and the witches.
The children also helped to make make parts of their costumes including raven masks and helmets.
Henry in 6T said “I really enjoyed making the costumes and found doing the performance for Y4 and Y5 exciting and they all seemed to enjoy it”.
Reception have been just as busy as Santa’s elves celebrating and preparing for Christmas!
We loved taking part in Christmas dinner and Christmas jumper day, playing games and dancing at our Christmas party and performing Christmas songs for our family during the Reception carol concert.
We have been very creative in the classroom, exploring lots of different materials and making Christmas decorations to fill our homes with!
A very MERRY CHRISTMAS from everyone in Reception!
A huge thank you to all of our parents and carers for their support at our summer Stay and Play events! The children’s summer song performance was excellent and it was great fun to be able to celebrate your child’s success in Reception with you there. Class of 2022 you have been SUPERSTARS!
We were lucky in Year 5 to have a drama workshop all about the Maya, which is our current History topic. We started with some true or false questions, then created freeze frames of different parts of Maya life.
Here we are acting out Pok-A-Tok (a Maya ball game where the players could not hit the ball with their hands, and the objective was to get the ball through a stone hoop at the end of the playing field.)
The Maya built many temples and painted them red, although we can’t see the red colour any more.
The Maya had a hierarchy in their society: slaves were at the bottom, followed by farmers, warriors, astronomers, priests and finally the king (known as the ajaw).
To finish off our workshop, we acted out the Maya creation story.
The two creator gods were able to think of anything they wanted, and it would appear. So they thought up trees and mountains. Then they realised they needed something that would praise them, so they thought of animals.
However, they realised the animals couldn’t speak to praise them, so they made people out of clay. But the clay people just crumbled to the ground.
The gods then decided they needed the people to be stronger and harder, so they made men from wood.
These men could not speak to praise the gods, so they destroyed them. Finally they made men from corn paste. These men could speak and praise the gods, but they could see too much so the gods removed some of their vision. They didn’t want the humans to be as powerful as them.
We had so much fun and tried so hard with our acting!
In Literacy this week, Year 3 worked in small groups to write and perform our own individual poems to the music of ‘What a wonderful world’ by Louis Armstrong. Our poems consisted of wonderful things in our lives. We focused on the following topics for our verses: special people in our lives, important moments and memories, examples of kindness and the environment and animals. As a class, we picked our favourite verse and discussed what we liked most about them. We are all very proud of our performances and our poems!
