Articles from April 2012



Princeville Olympic Medal Table Week 2!

Well, we are already at the end of our 2nd week learning all about the Olympics! All the displays around our school look great and there are flags everywhere to celebrate each country involved. Mr Swales has been awarding Olympic medals in PE lessons again this week for those classes who have worked well, shown [...]

Maths Puzzles of the Week Summer 2

Can you help the wrestler work out the total number of medals that he has won? Hi, I’m Kakoora and Im a sumo wrestler. I have won so many medals I struggle to count them all. I put them in fours and there were two left over. I counted them in fives and there was [...]

Olympic Games 1896 – 2012

The Olympcis are edging ever closer with just 91 days until the opening cermony.   Year 3 thought this would be a good opportunity to share their research on the Modern Olympics,  from back at the 1896 Athens games all the way through to modern day London 2012.                 [...]

Meet Wenlock and Mandeville story map…

Year 3 have been working hard to develop a Story map for their book ‘Meet Wenlock and Mandeville’. Wenlock and Mandeville are the official mascots of the London 2012 Olympic games and Year 3 have given each of them some fantastic actions. Grandpa George Romeesa’s Mandeville action. Malaika’s Mandeville action! Shamilah’s Mandeville action. Simra’s Wenlock [...]

All about Germany

4PN are going to be adding lots of information about Germany to this blog post. Feel free to help them and add anything you know about Germany.  

All about Brazil

4LH are going to be adding lots of information about Brazil to this blog post. Feel free to help them and add anything you know about Brazil.  

All about Great Britain

Year 3 and 4 are going to be adding lots of information about Great Britain to this blog post. Feel free to help them and add anything you know about Great Britain.

All about France

3AM are going to be adding lots of information about France to this blog post. Feel free to help them and add anything you know about France.

All about China – 3AG

3AG are going to be adding lots of information about China to this blog post. Feel free to help them and add anything you know about China.

Princeville Olympic Medal Table Week 1

This week we all started our Creative Curriculum topic; The Olympics. As part of this, each class is studying a country and in PE Mr Swales is awarding our class-countries medals based on their effort, teamwork and behaviour during PE lessons. After one week this is how the medal table looks; Well done to those [...]

Multiplication Medallist Champions

I hope you all enjoyed the assembly as much as I did, it was very exciting and a close competition. Congratulations to our Upper Key Stage 2 champions from Year 5, who managed to beat Year 6 in each category! Congratulations to our Lower Key Stage 2 champions from year 3, who managed to beat [...]

Maths Puzzle of the Week – Summer Term 1

Can you help the pirate to calculate how many pieces of treasure that he has found? Remember to work logically and check each number once you think you have found the correct amount. Good Luck!

Year 6 Boosters Work

Year 6, your task is to write sentences about the characters from How To Train Your Dragon. We are practising Level 4 sentences with emphasis on green phrases (to add extra information) so I’m looking for use of commas and brackets to add a clause. We can then ask our blog readers and visitors to [...]

100 Days until the start of London 2012!

Its officially only 100 days until the start of the Olympics. Princeville is gearing up to go Olympics crazy and realising that the biggest sporting event in the world is just 100 days from starting here has got me very excited. Which sport are you most looking forward to seeing? I personally cannot wait to see the [...]

Barcelona group report on the day.

Barcelona group in 3AG are going to be giving updates on the lessons we have been learning and sharing some fun information with you.                   This morning we have learnt that we can use an answer sheet to answer a question and not estimate and also how [...]

Some new ideas from Breaktime Bloggers to keep you fit.

Breaktime Bloggers have been investigating interesting ways to keep fit and healthy. Here are some of the suggestions. Football Football is a good way to keep you fit and healthy because the more you play the better you will get. FIND OUT MORE ABOUT FOOTBALL Badminton Badminton players at the London 2012 Olympic games will [...]

Sara’s Blog!

Some lucky children in Year 6 learned how to set up their own blogs. They used WordPress and created accounts. Although we still have lots of work to do with individual blogs, one blog in particular that is worth a look at is Sara’s. She has uploaded a couple of stories so far and would [...]