A fabulous first week back! We have been looking at China in our Learning Means The World theme ‘Come fly with me Asia’. We have been looking at Chinese artefacts, writing our names in Chinese and we even made a Chinese restaurant in our home corner! We also talked about Remembrance Sunday and made poppies, our tree is looking amazing!
Bitesize Shows are back for October Half-Term
Sweet Caroline and the Football Boots by We Make Culture is coming to South Tyneside.
29th October at Brinkburn CIO
30th October at Valley View Primary School
31st October at Perth Green Community Association CIO
1st November at Hebburn Sports Club FC
Sweet Caroline and the Football Boots is a fun, interactive, music-led performance for all the family with local musicians Ashleigh Lowes and Paige Temperley.
The songs in this performance have been co-created and inspired by girls football teams from across South Tyneside. The story is about the journey of “Sweet” Caroline, a small girl from South Tyneside who is desperate to be a footballer and who teams up with her older neighbour to take on the boys! It is an engaging story of discovering your talent, overcoming stereotypes, finding your team and having confidence in yourself, with a fun, uplifting message for a young audience.
As part of the ticket price, there will be themed food served after the show – and as it is football-themed, there has to be Bovril, sausage rolls and pies!
Running time – 45 minutes
Tickets can be purchased via Eventbrite link HERE
Get yourself booked up and come and see the fabulous story of ‘Sweet’ Caroline… (Ba-ba-baaaah)
This week the children have learned all about Celtic music and it’s origins. We even had the opportunity to compose some of our own.
As part of our LMTW theme ‘Food Glorious Food’ we have been looking at ‘sweet foods’ We have used the story ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ throughout the week including Drawing Club. The children have been building the bears house using 3D shapes which was part of our maths this week. We talked about which shapes would be the best for building and why. They recreated the story, wrote captions, read instructions of how to make porridge and used their maths skills of full and empty to recreate the porridge scene, also using size to make sure the bears were in the corrects chairs! We tasted honey and talked about how it is a healthy sweet option and why. We then ate a variety of sweet foods and timed how long it would take to eat them. We talked about which took the longest/shortest times and why, using our science skills of how chocolate melts and why. We looked at and discussed which sweet foods are healthy and which are not healthy, ask your children to tell you, they were experts!
This week in Music, we have been learning about notation. We learned the technical names for the notation and how many beats they are. A semibreve is 4 beats, a minim is 2 beats and a crotchet is 1 beat. In groups we created a four bar rhythm with four beats in each bar using glockenspiels and then performed it to the rest of the class. After our performances, we evaluated our compositions.
We have started having the amazing Mr O join us on a Tuesday morning for music and singing. We looked at counting beats and rhythmn. It was great fun and we can’t wait for next week!
Year 2 are currently enjoying weekly music sessions with Mr Olatungi.
So far they’ve concentrated on the timing of beats, challenging themselves with beats and rest and have now moved on to rhythm.
We’ve also practice these skills in our PE theme, dancing like water.
Each team showed outstanding communication and teamwork in creating water-like moves to perform in unison then in cannon.
We have been looking at the Inuits and their way of life in our Learning Means The World Theme of ‘Come Fly With Me: Arctic Circle. We have been looking at how they expressed various art forms and we have discovered that they used rocks and stones to make markers in the area. These markers then became symbols and ways of celebration. We created our own Inukshuk art. We have also looked at their art of dance and music and we have learnt some amazing origional Inuit dances and have been learning how to play the drums, which is a big part of any Inuit celebration.
This week in music, Year 4 have been looking at call and response drumming, as part of our Africa theme.
We learned that Africans often used music as a form of communication, especially across different tribes, where they may speak a different language.
To start our new Learning means the world theme ‘Cry Freedom’, 7 Blue listened to The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughn-Williams. We discussed what pictures the music created in our minds and how it made us feel. The soaring melody reminded us of bird’s soaring through the sky so the children wrote a Haiku poem called ‘Freedom of the Birds’
