Week Beginning 30th June 2008

Hi everyone,

Hope you are all well rested after our busy week last week.

The children who took part in the dance at the Parr Hall were fantastic and the behaviour was exemplary considering it was such a long day, thank you children.

Mrs Clancy and Mrs Hemmings were extremely impressed with the children they took along to the Steel Pan Workshop last week. They were amazed at how much the children took in such a short amount of time and also congratulated the children on their excellent behaviour. Thank you to Mrs Clancy and Mrs Hemmings for taking the children to the event.

Most of the Year 5 and 6 children took part in 'The Kids of Steel Triathlon' on Friday morning. This was a great event which the children really enjoyed, we were really lucky to be able to take all of the children and we had a great time.

It was also Spanish week last week and the children did lots of work on Spain and the Spanish language. They came in with some fantastic homework on a famous Spanish person. They also enjoyed the Flamenco dancing on Thursday, even the boys, who weren't too keen at first. We even had children Flamenco dancing out of school on Friday afternoon!!

This week is also a busy one, so much for lazy summer days!

We will start our preparations for Sports Day this week. We are really hopeful that the weather will be kind to us as we love Sports Day, but as I am writing this the sky has just gone black and I have had to run outside and bring the washing in!!
Anyway we shall persevere and sort out which races the children are in tomorrow. We may have to go outside at a moments notice this week (whenever the weather allows) so it is important that the children have their PE kit in school at all times. They will need a white t-shirt and blue shorts and suitable footwear. It is also a good idea for them to have suncream, a cap and a water bottle in school each day.
If the weather permits Sports Day will take place in the 8th July, the 10th July is our reserve date in case it has to be cancelled, hopefully it will go ahead.

On Tuesday our Year 6 children have a teacher from St Gregory's RE department coming in to school to start a transition project with them. She will come in this Tuesday and next Monday.

Most of this week will be spent putting together our production. The date has still not been finalised yet and hopefully we should be able to do this tomorrow and let you know. Because we have been so busy over the last few weeks we have hardly had any time to practice, therefore most of this week will be spent on preparations.

What with Sports Day practice and Production practice you will be wondering if we can fit in any curriculum this week but as always the answer is yes!

We will be continuing with our work on Spanish artists and also making clay models with Mrs Fox.

We also have our modern day Shakespeare stories to write after we planned them a few weeks ago and we have myths to write which we also planned a few weeks ago.

In maths we will be reviewing our learning over the past few weeks as we have not had to the time to do the subjects we have looked at in enough detail.

Please see the last few weeks blogspots for information and websites.

Thanks.

Year 5/6 Team.