Year 4 ‘Kick Out’ Bullying with BCFC!

Posted on May 23, 2013 by

Today Year 4 went to Bradford City. We went to learn about bullying. There were lots of fun activities like the graffiti wall (see above) where you have to write how you feel when someone has been bullied. We were learning about what bullying is. We had to try our best and collaborate.

Children who collaborated really well were chosen to win a prize. The teachers also had to chose a winning team but they couldn’t because we were all so good! Claire from the Positive Lifestyle centre had to pick one out of the box. It was team Amber.

So from now on do not bully anyone because it will hurt their feelings. Year 4 say NO to bullying!

What would you say to bullying?

Written by Safah Jabeen and Abdul Aman Rashid.

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Health Week

Posted on May 23, 2013 by

We had a special visitor during our health week. Harold the Giraffe from the Life Caravan popped in on Wednesday lunch time. He loved meeting everyone and was pleased to see children enjoying their healthy packed lunches and school dinners.



Harold would like to know what you would put in your ideal healthy packed lunch.

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The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster

Posted on May 19, 2013 by

The Tacoma Narrows Bridge opened on July 1, 1940, and dramatically collapsed on November 7 of the same year. At the time of its construction, the bridge was the third longest suspension bridge in the world.

Watch this dramatic video of the event and then have a go at writing a newspaper report about it.  You could:

  1. Create a great headline using tricks like alliteration and puns.
  2. Write an opening paragraph using the 5Ws (Where, when, who, why, what happened).
  3. Write the story, making sure the story sounds dramatic (you may even add a few bits, which are not quite true!)
  4. You could even include an interview with an eyewitness.
  5. Add a picture (just like a real newspaper uses photographs).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=j-zczJXSxnw

or

Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster

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Year 4 Need YOUR Ideas!

Posted on May 19, 2013 by

In Year 4, we have been working on making persuasive leaflets to go to Lister Park.

We have learnt a persuasive text that will help us to write our own leaflet. Then we identified the Toolkit, so that we can imitate it and use the same features in our leaflets. Then we thought of some parts of the park, made notes about them and planned the layout of our leaflets.

Now we need YOUR help!

Can you tell us which is your favourite part of Lister Park? Can you explain what makes it your favourite part?

Written by Malaikah and Taiba in 4WS

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Year 3 3D dinosaurs

Posted on May 18, 2013 by

Year 3 have been studying dinosaurs and in DT we created some 3D dinosaurs using different DT skills. We stretched our planning muscle to create designs, drew our own outlines and cut them out. Next we added newspaper and enjoyed getting messy using papier maché. Then we painted the base layer and finally we carefully added detail to make our dinosaurs as realistic as possible.

What do you think of our work?

Which learning muscles do you think we had to stretch?

3IH 3D dinosaurs on PhotoPeach

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Food Chains

Posted on May 18, 2013 by

As part of Year 4′s work on Habitats, this week we will be learning about Food Chains.

Try out this game to see what you already know!

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So very close…

Posted on May 18, 2013 by

It will not be very long until we reach our next landmark on the blog, as we are currently very close to hitting 200,000 page views; yes, 200,000.  I wonder when we will hit this magical landmark?

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Learn how to build a bridge with this great game!

Posted on May 17, 2013 by

Year 6 will be using this game to help them with some maths and design technology challenges next week. However, you could use this cool game to learn all about bridge building too!

Its starts really easy, but you will have to use all of what you know about designing and using shapes to build strong structures as you progress through the levels. You will also have to have pretty sharp maths skills to keep a check on how much your bridge has cost. Your perseverence muscle will be stretched to the limit!

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Year 3 Myths

Posted on May 12, 2013 by

Year 3 have been writing their own Greek Myths in Literacy. Here are some examples of what we did. Both these children included the vocabulary we discussed together to great effect!

Mustafa used some wonderful words like ‘deserted‘, ‘fearsome‘, ‘spotted‘, ‘defeated‘, ‘dodged‘ ‘located‘ and ‘lair‘ , and he even uses a simile. Can you spot it?

listen to ‘Mustafa 3IH Myth’ on Audioboo

Wadana used lots of the outstanding openers, amazing adjectives, super similes and cool connectives that we have learned and practised over the past few months. Here is her WAGOLL:

Opening

listen to ‘Wadana Myth Opening’ on Audioboo

Build-up

listen to ‘Wadana Myth Build-up’ on Audioboo

Problem / Climax

listen to ‘Wadana Myth Problem / Climax’ on Audioboo

Solution / Ending

listen to ‘Wadana Myth Solution / Ending’ on Audioboo

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Our Nursery Artists…

Posted on May 10, 2013 by

This week in Nursery we have been using our noticing and persevering  muscles to do observational drawings of plants and flowers.  The children were able to produce controlled marks to create recognisable pictures and were able to name the diffrent parts of the plants and flowers using the correct vocabulary.

By Zaynab Hussain

 

By Hamza

By Raheem

 

By Haseem

By Halima Khalifa

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