Working with Dance charity UDOIT for the last six weeks has been an absolute pleasure and privilege for our Y4 children. Coached by dance teachers Jack and Sinead, both classes have learned different routines to different mixes of music. Our children have worked so hard to focus on and learn the moves, and their confidence […]
After the whole year goup took part in basketball during PE in Autumn 1, we took a team of 10 to our local School Games competition. Our children gave a great account of themselves, getting better and better in every game they played, and managed to win two and lose two. The teams we lost […]
Whilst King Ecgbert School children had an INSET day, Kyle Wright – our Forge School Games Organiser – invited us to spend an afternoon using the Sports Hall at KES to play dodgeball. It was a very energetic afternoon, with everyone playing about ten matches each. We had lots of flushed cheeks as we walked […]
We took a team of VERY keen footballers to a mini-tournament at St George’s Park, Graves. To say it was the first time they had all played togther as a team, they did extremely well, winning EVERY game and not conceding a single goal! Fantastic work girls!
Y4 spent a fantastic day in Sheffield city centre, attending the Sheffield Children’s Book Awards. At a very lively ceremony, we were entertained by ‘That Poetry Guy’, then saw the winners of the various awards, including the ones we had voted for when we were in Y3. The Lord Mayor of Sheffield presented the overall […]
As the final part of our ‘Amazonian Adventure’, Y4 took inspiration from Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes, who creates large collages which represent her life in Rio de Janeiro and the environment around her. We practised some of the techniques we might need in our sketch books, including working with straight lines, collaging with circles and […]
Taking inspiration from stories of some of the people of the Amazon Rainforest, and how they utilise many of the plants and fruits found in the rainforest, Y4 created a balm useful as a remedy for insect bites and stings from plantain (the grass not the fruit), olive oil and beeswax. We boiled the oil, […]
To tie in with our ‘Amazonian Adventure’, Y4 learned about the features of rivers, and how water flows through them. To embed the new vocabulary and test out some ideas (hypotheses) we had come up with, we visited Old Hay Brook on a Geography Field Trip. We sketched and annotated what we could see, using […]
We were lucky to be invited to take two teams of children to attend the Panathlon Games Ten-Pin Bowling competition. Our children had a fantastic time at the event, with our Y5 and Y6 team finishing seventh overall (out of 24 teams). The medals we received are lovely! Thanks to the folks at Panathlon and […]
As part of our ‘Amazonian Adventure’ learning journey, we studied how the flora of the rainforest can be split into different layers: emergent, canopy, understorey and undergrowth/forest floor. To conslidate this learning, children spent an outdoor learning session trying to recreate scale models of the rainforest using scavenged items.
