Monthly Archives: February 2012

Radio 2 and 500 words

Radio 2 are running a story writing competition.  Children are invited to write 500 words on a subject ot their choice.  There are great prizes to be won, see the link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/500words/2012/

Neve from Class 12 has written her story and sent it off.  You can read it below.  (Remember to click on the image to enlarge it.)  Good luck Neve!

 

Write a horror story for World Book Day

Kiran and Lucy invite you to write a horror story for World Book Day.  Deliver your story to Class 11.

Year 1 Lego Day

A few weeks ago, Year 1 children spent a morning designing their own houses out of Lego.  They had spent time in the previous weeks walking around the local streets studying the different styles of houses and finding out how housing styles can change with time.  Year 1 had studied the materials used to build houses and talked about why these are used.  They then imported several thousand Lego bricks and every child built a house, complete with working lights! Finally the houses were all put together to form a village.  Some of the finished models are featured below.

What style of house would you live in and why?

What feature would your dream house have and why?

 

Year 1 Lego Day on PhotoPeach

What are the deathly hallows?

Caitlin, Alex, George and Kian would like to remind us of a famous story from a famous book.

What would you have asked for and why?  Be careful, remember in another story, King Midas asked for everything he touched to be turned into gold but he had not thought things through!

Good Work from 24th February

This was our first assembly of the new half term and the standard was set very high.  One child from each class is asked to share something they are pleased with.  Here is a selection of the children’s work.  Remeber to click on any image to enlarge it.

Liy’s drawings of Jessie J and Katy Perry as part of Year 2′s Pop Art project.

Chris and Connor wrote a fable, Connor was chosen for the huge effort he put in to improve his presentation.

Olivia’s independent writing about the battle of Hastings.

Alisha’s ICT drawn castle for the new king William.

Dylan’s non fiction text on mountains, this was page 1 of 2!

Chloe’s persuasive writing.

Pennine Walks

Could you tell us about any walks you have done around our area. Tell us about walks in the Pennines or the Dales. My favourite is a place called Coniston which is near Kettlewell. I love to walk through the peaceful dales and I really enjoy the rocky gorge at the end.

Mr.Clarke

Year 4 visit the Rainforest!

Calling all intrepid Rainforest explorers!

In Year 4, we have just started our new topic this week and Miss Samtaney and I would like to know what you already know about Rainforests!

Add a comment on this post with a fact that you already know about Rainforests.  You could also post a question with something you would really like to found out about during our topic.  We will keep checking the blog during our lessons and see if we can answer all the questions by the end of this half term.

We hope everyone is looking forward to our visit to the South Lakes Animal Park at the end of March!

Mission 2110: Time

Year 5 – Can you use all your knowledge of time that we have learned this week to help release the bio-rods so the evil roboids cannot re-power themselves.

Post your comments to let me and Mr Hodgson know how you have got on.

Good luck!

What a scurvy crew!

Recently Year 3 held a pirate week and finished the week by dressing as pirates. They made maps, treasure chests and ship’s biscuits (without the weevils).  They wrote pirate stories and sang sea shanties.  They worked at home too and their parents helped them to build the finest set of pirate galleons ever to sail the high seas. There is a small selection of pictures below to give you a flavour of the swashbuckling that went on.

Pirates on PhotoPeach

If you are in Year 3, post a comment to tell us what you learned during your pirate topic.

Molly’s Pancakes

Molly has been gathering facts for Today, Pancake Day or Shrove Tuesday..

Shrove Tuesday started in 112AD.

The traditional topping for pancakes is a squeeze of lemon and a pinch of sugar.

Basically sweet and sour (yum,yum,yum).

People wanted to get rid of food before they fasted in Lent (40 days before Easter) so pancakes were made from the milk, eggs, flour, sugar and lemons.

How did you celebrate Shrove Tuesday?  What was your favourite pancake topping?