Prepare for your audition
On Wednesday, Year 5 and 6 will have the opportunity to auditions for parts in our upcoming production…
Robin and the Sherwood Hoodies.
If the children want a speaking part (no matter how big or how small) they’ve been asked to be ready to give a very short demonstration of their acting skills and will have the opportunity to identify which parts they’re interested in. Obviously, we won’t be able to give everyone their first choice but we’ll aim to give anyone who wants a speaking part some lines. Anything can be prepared for the audition but I’ve attached some scenes if the children want to use use those.
We’ve also discussed the importance of other roles in theatre: lighting, props, sound, stage hands, front of house. Any children not wanting an acting part will still be involved in the singing but may wish to take on one of these roles instead.
Break a leg!
Making Music
Our mini-topic for the next two weeks is Making Music. Here’s what we’ve been up to…
On Monday, we learnt how to play some chords on the ukuleles. We worked in pairs to help each other get our fingers on the correct frets. We learnt how to play and sing row row row your boat.
On Wednesday, we practised our ukulele playing and wrote out own words to row row row your boat.
On Thursday, we made our own mouth organs. We discussed how the elastic band vibrated and made a noise. We also explored how blowing harder and softer affected the noise made.
Today, we had a look at some decorated instruments and decided to create a design to go on our mouth organs.
Look at our skills!
Some of the year 1 children were improving their skills this lunch time!
Toys
In our topic lessons, we’ve been looking at and playing with Victorian toys. The children had to reason about what the toys were and how children would have used them. If they didn’t know or couldn’t figure it out, they used secondary sources to find out. The whip and top foxed them the most!
Brilliant Homework
WOW! Year 1, I am so impressed with you! You were very creative and have made some wonderful things about your favourite toy. I particularly liked Ethan’s edible homework which unfortunately had to go home, but we have a photo on the wall. Rayn’s rocket is eye-catching and he used lots of different materials to create it. Pollyanna created a marble run which you can really play! Hifza made a hobby horse which is so pretty and shows off lots of skills. Everyone should be proud of their work this week. Well done!
National Smile Month
As part of National Smile Month, we will be having a calcium filled lunch special menu on Tuesday 24 May.
If your child would like to have a school meal on this day, please inform the office as soon as possible.
Bonsoir
Year 3 were developing their conversational French this afternoon including greetings, how they were feeling, numbers and their age.
With some children holidaying in France this year, they were keen to learn more so this website covers some of the basics.
À bientôt!
Films in the making
As part of our child-led film topic, we’ve been working on creating our own stop motion animation films. We worked really well together today to develop some short films that we’ll share with you soon.
We’re going to try our hand at some editing next to see if we can give them a more professional finish and audio too. We’ll then analyse our efforts, think about what we need to improve and have another go at it before half term to see if we improve. …Just like they’d do in the films!
Creative Art Homeworks
Here are our favourite homeworks from last week. They were all great so it was very hard to choose!
Fun in the sun
We had some fun in the sun today and we had some very proud moments. Children who, in the past, couldn’t jump up high enough to reach the higher equipment in the playground can now do it! We’ve been determined and resilient… and we’ve grown a bit taller too! 
As the sun was glaring down on us, some children made a safe choice to enjoy their fruit in the shade.
