Strictly Come Tudor Dancing!!

As part of our topic about the Tudors, Class 5 have been creating Tudor dances. After researching moves and steps on the internet, the children worked in groups to create their own Tudor dance....all with great success. After lots of practice, today we performed the dances all together in the hall for Mrs. Murray and Father Edwin. Have a look at our dances....we hope you enjoy them!!

 

Year 6 Enterprise Week

We started our enterprise week with a visit from local business woman Carrie Elspeth. She has her own jewellery business based in Llandow. She was inspiring and gave us lots of tips for setting up in business. We all went bead crazy and made some beautiful bracelets to sell.

 

Mr C. Janczewski works for Business Connect and helps people to set up their own business. He showed us how to write a business plan and told us what we would need to do step by step! I hope he'll be able to help us when we start our own business'. Dragon's Den here we come!

Year 6 World War 2 Experience

It was a great museum. We learnt a lot about the Swansea bombings. The best bit was being in the dark in the shelter and going to the pub!!! By the way the powdered eggs were disgusting!

Young Entrepreneurs

Yesterday (Wednesday October 9th) saw Class 6 and Class 5 combining as a "company" to begin manufacturing products to sell in school next week. This work is part of our work on Enterprise and has seen the children brainstorming their creative ideas, discuss expenditures, profits and their customer base before beginning work on production lines yesterday.
        All children were involved making products ranging from glass bead bracelets, bookmarks and

Christmas decorations to plant pots and friendship bracelets.
                           All children worked really hard in an effort to maximise their profits in our sale next week. We all hope lots of parents will be able to attend to support the children in this venture and to allow us to make a good profit!

A New Sport

On Friday October 4th, Class 5 (and the rest of KS2) had a great time being introduced to the sport of ....squash! Two coaches set up portable "walls" in the school hall and the children had great fun learning about the game and trying out new skills.

All of the children worked in groups to practise their new skills and had great fun!

We would all like to say a huge "thank you" to Karen and Chris who came to coach us and we hope to see them again in the future.

Tudor Explorers

In Class 5 we have been learning about "The Golden Age of Exploration " of Tudor times. Today we have started working in groups, researching one of the great English Tudor explorers.....Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake or John Cabot.

We have found out our interesting facts today and will look for more facts as part of our homework. When we have our facts and pictures collected together and sorted, we will work as a group to present our work about our chosen Tudor explorer to the rest of the class......we hope they learn as much about them as we have! 

Watch this space for photographs of our presentations ......coming soon!

Will we be Prefects?

Prefects:
We've written our letters to apply for the job of prefect. We posted them with care and fingers crossed we'll get an interview with Mrs Murray!!!

Visit to the Mary Rose, Historic Dockyards Portsmouth

On Monday September 9th, Class 5 set off from school bright and early on our trip to see the Mary Rose as part of our topic work about the Tudors. After a long three hour journey we arrived at the Historic Dockyard in Portsmouth and made our way to the brand new Mary Rose Museum.

Once inside we were warmly welcomed by the staff and immediately settled down to our first workshop called "Henry's Heroes". The children learned about the history of the ship and then had great fun dressing up in replica clothing of the ship's officers and crew while looking at and handling many replica artefacts from on board ship.

After our well deserved lunch, we went into the Mary Rose museum and again, were made to feel very welcome by everyone!

It took us ages to look around the museum because there was so much to see - about 20.000 items brought up from the wreck and of course, the amazing wreck itself! We all especially loved the glass lift between the floors of the museum where we had a fantastic view of the whole wreck and the people still working on it!

Seeing all of these amazing exhibits and with the added sound effects all around us, it was like being on board ship ourselves......a fantastic exhibition!
             To end our brilliant trip we had one last workshop.....the Gun Drill. We were taught how to clean, load and fire the cannons and were then split into teams. Each team then had to get the cannon ready, load it and safely fire it just as gun teams would have aboard the Mary Rose....it was great fun!

After all of our hard work, no trip would be complete without a visit to the shop and with everyone tired but happy we made our way back to the bus and back home to Wales.......some of us more tired than others!!

A huge thank you from Year 5 to everyone who helped make it such a great trip........the staff at the Mary Rose Museum education department, Roy the coach driver and all of our fantastic helpers - Mr.Collingridge, Mr. Phillips, Mrs. Willington, Mrs. Saye and last but not least, Miss Norton.....hope you all enjoyed!

Welcome to Year 6 20013

Welcome back!

We are all happy to be in year 6  and we are looking forward to becoming prefects in a few weeks. We have written our letters to apply for the job and hope that we all get an interview with Mrs. Murray !! Next week we are going on our trip to Swansea to the WW2 Experience. We can't wait!! Keep visiting our blog for more photos and news.

Class 6 and Mrs. Edwards

Rolling Back the Years!

As part of our topic work, all of the children have been working in groups to create a book about a decade of British history.....from the '50's to the '90's. They have all been researching their era at home and in school and have found out some fascinating facts and information about the era they are studying......ask them what they have discovered about their era and they should be able to tell you a lot!
      They are now hard at work creating a group book about their chosen era and will then present their findings to the rest of the class. Here they are hard at work........