Author: St Mark's Teacher

Year 1 have had a great end to their final project of the year, ‘Into the Woods’. We have enjoyed exploring the woods in our school grounds and found plenty of sticks there. We used the sticks to help our imagination and then wrote our own versions of ‘Stanley’s Stick’.

We loved learning about some different traditional stories, such as ‘Hansel and Gretel’, ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ and ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’. We changed the story of Jack and the Beanstalk and imagined what might be at the top instead of the giant. We had great fun turning shoe boxes into our imaginary worlds. We created worlds such as, Fish Tank World, Golden World and Police Land!

We also continued our learning of journeys by creating maps for the Bee-Bots to go on a journey. We worked together in teams to create our maps based on the story of ‘Hansel and Gretel’ and then used our knowledge of positional language to send them around the map.

 

The children have had great fun this term and over the year. We have loved teaching your children and watching them grow in confidence each day. Thank you for all your continued support this year and we wish you a lovely holiday with your children.

Year 1 Team

Our first official performance of Madagascar is tomorrow and the children are very exciting about performing in front of their friends and families!

Drops off and Pick ups

For our evening performances – on Tuesday and Wednesday evening – your child will need to dropped off at school between 6:15pm and 6:30pm. A register will be taken just after 6:30pm to ensure that everyone is present. If your child is part of backstage or needs their face painted, they will need to arrive at 6:15pm. Our play should finish at around 8:15pm so please arrive shortly after if you are picking up.

Photos

We have a professional photographer in school tomorrow who will be taking a photo of the whole year 6 cast and also friendship groups. We will be selling these later this week so keep an eye out for the proofs.

Donations

As I am sure you are aware, we have not charged for tickets for Madagascar but will have a donation basket available should you wish to offer a donation after the performances.

The children have worked incredibly hard this term rehearsing for their play so we hope you thoroughly enjoy it – see you soon!

Year 5 and 6 Team

Just a few quick reminders about next week.

The children in the production who have not already brought in their costumes, will need to do so on Monday morning. This is for the dress rehearsal on Monday afternoon to half of the school. Their costumes should be a plain brightly coloured t-shirt (sports day t-shirts would be fine) and blue denim shorts or jeans.

Secondly, we are completing our ‘Change the World’ projects next week.

5GP – are having their ‘Wear it Wild’ day on Tuesday, please see letter for further details

5T – are continuing their collection of animal products and old towels and blankets for the Blue Cross Rehoming Centre all week and will be completing their other tasks on Tuesday in class

5F – will be completing their project on Tuesday morning in class also

Finally, a massive well done to all children for Sports Day today, they all participated well and showed great resilience.

Have a lovely weekend

Year 5 Teachers