Here are Class Jacob enjoying a hockey lesson in the playground.
Jolly Hockey Sticks
Monthly Archives: September 2014
Cultural Diversity Day
On the 18th September our Year 6 children went to Congleton High School to take part in a Cultural Diversity Day where they had the opportunity to take part in many different workshops. Here are some photos kindly taken by Mrs Armitt who accompanied them on the day.
Have a heart
In Science today we looked at how the heart works and worked in teams against the clock to label the various parts of the heart. Here is a great link (which will be included in your children’s homework tomorrow) that shows just how the blood flows around the body and in reoxygenated by the lungs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/triple_ocr_gateway/the_living_body/
circulatory_systems_cardiac/revision/5/
The shape of things to come
In our Numeracy lessons this week we are learning about the properties of complex 3D shapes. Today Class Jacob worked in different groups to list properties of pyramids, prisms and to construct different polyhedra from nets. One group measured and designed the nets themselves according to their knowledge of faces, vertices and edges.
Mad Science Assembly
Today we were lucky enough to have Cozmic Ceri lead our school assembly. Here are some photos of her mad science in action.
Dost thou comprehend me Sirrah?
Today we began reading Romeo & Juliet and learnt some words that would have been used in Shakespeare’s time. Here are some that the children should be able to define.
Doth, thou, wast, writ, beseech, alack and sirrah.
There is an interesting PDF in the link below that describes how Shakespeare effectively used language in his plays and prose.
http://www.rsc.org.uk/education/resources/shakespeares-language.aspx
September News Bulletin
Hello. I hope you had a nice weekend and are ready for another busy week at Astbury. Mr O’Leary has asked that his newsletter be posted on teachers blogs in order it might reach as many people as possible. So here it is – click on the link below. 🙂
Time for tables
Thank you to those parents who came to this evenings ‘meet & greet’ session. I hope you found the meeting helpful and as promised here are the timetables for the week and the year (topic). I hope by clicking on them you will be able to save/print them at your leisure. Thanks again to all who came and in particular to Mr Goodier for the batteries.
An arm(our) and a leg.
Thanks very much to Megan (and Mum) who sent this picture of Henry VIII’s armour on show in the Tower of London. This armour would have been worn when he fought on foot rather than on horseback. Analysing his suits of armour, the researchers discovered that by the final years of his life, the 6ft 1in Tudor boasted a whopping 52in waist. He really was King size!!
Exploring our Lungs
Having a new baby has it’s advantages! Here the children are turning Jake’s empty baby milk bottles into lungs in order to demonstrate how the lungs work in conjunction with the diaphragm. Ask your child to describe the process – I hope they will remember!!
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