Well done fellas!

Here is an enormously flattering picture of our Star of the Week and Headteacher’s Award recipient.Well done to both of you and keep up the good work!!!!

Poetry: the best words in the best order. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

and finally …..

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words – Edgar Allan Poe

Here are some more poems from the enviably talented Class Jacob. Hope you enjoy them!

Hurray! (I think)

Exciting news! A little flashy icon just told me we have more than 20 followers. Is this good? I hope it’s lots of parents sharing learning with their children. Whomever you are, thanks for following!! More poetry soooon.

Poetry is painting that speaks – Plutarch 46 – 120 AD

Recently we have been critically evaluating poetry. We started by looking at ‘On Flanders Fields’ and moved on to ‘Slam Poetry’ as performed by artists in New York in the 1970s. We particularly liked ‘What d’ya wanna be?’ by Wilf. In the spirit of performance poetry we learnt some of our favourite poems for homework. Here are the first eight. More to follow ….

Newsletter

Here is the latest school newsletter. Please read. Thanks.

20th November 2014

Marseilles in Colour

Last week in Art we created some vaguely abstract watercolour pictures based on areas of Marseilles. I am sure you’ll agree they are really amazing. I have asked a couple of children for autographed copies already ….

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Light & Shadows

This half term our Science topic is light and over the past couple of weeks we have looking at light sources, and the nature and behaviour of shadows. Last week we built torches using our knowledge of circuits and electricity. This week we have put together a shadow play using puppets that we designed and made in our Art lesson.

Click on the link below to see the results of our shadow puppet making. We hope you like it!

http://youtu.be/KXyXe3vPZ3M

We will remember

For those who have fallen and for those who still fight.