During our World Book Week in Year 3, we enjoyed spending extra time with books! Our class librarians helped lead an assembly and also read to the Year 2 class. We welcomed the Year 6 librarians reading to us. We read and wrote about Paddington as part of Our Whole Class Reads. The children were delighted that our Mystery Reader was Jodie, who read…Paddington at the Zoo. Of course Thursday was our favourite day, when we all got to dress as a Word or a book character…didn’t they look brilliant! The day ended with us trying to be just like MC Grammar, and write our own book inspired raps – which were amazing!
What a wonderful, fun day of reading we had today! There were two performances of Jack and the Beanstalk – the characters played by both staff and children! This story was also innovated by The Rainbow Fish (FS2) group, becoming Sammy and the sunflower. The Caterpillar Group (FS1) enjoyed two stories from Ghana about Anansi the spider and created their own story maps. The Gruffalo Group listened to Ten in a Bed loving the rhythm of the story. The children also looked brilliant in their costumes and enjoyed admiring each other.
The children gathered quietly for our Ash Wednesday Liturgy. They sang ‘Jesus Loves Me, this I know’, listened to scripture from The Gospel of Matthew – ‘When you pray, talk to God in your heart. He listens to you’. They received ashes on their heads to remind them to love God and others and to remember to say sorry when we make mistakes. Their mission, linking with our Jubilee Year promise was to help, care and share with others.
In music this term, Year 6 have been learning about the composer Florence Price, who was an American classical composer, pianist, organist and music teacher. They were inspired by her music and learnt how to play her music using a range of instruments. Take a look at our final piece…
The time has come to learn the songs for this year’s Crucifixion performance. Below are the instrumentals to the song – try it without your lyrics in front of you when you’re ready. Let’s make it a performance to remember – have no regrets! #BRWSpiritStrong
This is My Body
God I’m Scared
My Soul is Sad
I’m Not That Man
Pilate’s Song
Walk Alone
Born For This
Because He Lives
He Lives In You
Year 3 have been very busy working on their writing skills. Having read ‘The Sheep-pig’ by Dick King-Smith we set about writing a persuasive argument as to why Farmer Hogget should train Babe the pig, to become a Sheep-pig. They have done a brilliant job, lots of persuasive techniques and thoughtful word choices have made some brilliant pieces of work .If you were Farmer Hoggett, would you be convinced?
Professor Lucy Cragg visited us to share some science with us and invite children from Year 4 to 6 to join us on a Tuesday after school, for a FREE club.
It’s not to late to sign up! Check your emails for the link to sign up.
Year 1 presented their class assembly to the whole school and their parents last week. They told everyone all about their learning in Year 1 so far.
They confidently retold the story of the Three Little Pigs, explained how we have been watching the changing seasons, described how Guy Fawkes plotted to kill King James I and preformed poetry. We even had time to talk about how Maya Angelou inspired us with messages of hope and determination.
The Year 1 children are growing in confidence, learning so many new things and blowing us away with how they rise to every challenge. They make us so proud!
This week, all the children in Foundation Stage have visited our church. They were learning how the parish gathers together to celebrate Mass and what the different places and artefacts are called. They were awestruck by the size of the church and by the beautiful window. They were also fascinated by the font, thinking about when they were baptised there as babies.
On a wonderful, cold, bright and frosty morning, the children were really busy working together to build shelters. They were really creative making ‘camp fires’ and ‘toasting marshmallows’; building beds, kitchens and sofas. Well done to everybody for working so well together.
