The grand opening of our Sensory Square!

Last week we had a special event to announce the opening of our school's Sensory Square. We've been working on our Sensation Activation project for a very long time. Class 8 had to do lots of jobs to help create such interesting sensory pathways including measuring for materials and choosing where we wanted them to go.

We were very lucky because two VIP guests came from Rolls Royce to help with the Grand Opening. Miss Coburn has been updating them about all the hard work that we've been doing so they knew all about the project. 

The whole school gathered around the edge of the sensory square feeling excited and happy. Miss Coburn said a few words about how hard all the children and grown ups have worked. Next was the big moment! Miss Coburn and Sam cut the shiny red ribbon to announce that our Sensory Square is open and we can all enjoy it now and have lot of fun.

By Jack, Pele and Amreet

Pirate Day

Last Wednesday we had a special Pirate day and were nasty Pirates! We came to school in our best Pirate outfits including lots of eye patches and skull bandanas! 

'On the way to school I was so excited because I love learning about Pirates' - Oliver. 

At the start of the day we had an assembly but we were very shocked when a real Pirate walked into the hall! Captain Burwash told us all about famous Pirates like Blackbeard and about why he was wearing the clothes he was. We listened to him tell us all about how he was trying to steal a ship in Hull. He even set us a challenge to make a scary flag for his ship and a wanted poster to hire a crew.

After the assembly we went back to our classroom and we worked in groups to complete the challenges. 

'On our flag we put lots of fire coming out of the skulls mouth to scare other Pirate ships when they see it' - Liyana. 

Captain Burwash visited our classroom and showed us all of his Pirate weapons like guns, swords, axes and grenades. We got to stand at the front and hold his sword whilst he told us about how they use them and why. Did you know that if a Pirate jumped on another boat and got too close to another Pirate they would hit them on the top of their head with the bottom of the sword handle!

We really enjoyed Pirate day because we got to know lots of Pirate secrets and we learnt lots of scary things.

By Hana, Oliver and Liyana

Ahoy! Pirates!

After our nice break from school we came back to find out that are new topic is all about Pirates! We were very excited to hear about all of the interesting things to do with Pirates and their lives at sea. 

So far we have written acrostic poems about Pirates. These poems don't have to rhyme but the first letter of each line spells out a word going down. We made our poems spell out 'Pirates'. 

Last week we made 'Wanted' posters. They have photos of us dressed as mean and angry Pirates. We had to write a description of how the Pirate looked, the reasons why they were wanted and we even offered a reward for their capture! After we wrote on our posters we coffee stained them to make them look old and dirty. Our final job was to gently tear the edges to make them look like historical wanted posters. 

We are extremely excited to have Pirate day where we are allowed to dress up as Pirates for the day. We hope to learn about where Pirates visit and how they find the treasure so easily just using a map during this half term.

By Arzoo, Jaskiran and Leianna 

R.E Trail

Last week we were very lucky to go on our first school trip in Year 2 to the Mosque, Mandir and the Gurdwara. When we came to school we were so excited!

First we went on a large, blue coach to the Mosque. When we arrived we had to cover our heads to show respect to the people who follow the Islamic religion and use the Mosque. Then we took off our shoes and went into the prayer room. There were lots of boxes on the carpet to show where people can use each square as a prayer mat. In the Mosque we learnt that Muslims pray 5 times a day but at different times in the summer and the winter. We also saw some Arabic writing. Did you know that you read Arabic from right to left?

Next we went to the Mandir, this is the Hindu temple of worship. We had to take our shoes off here too. We saw lots of beautiful statues showing the Hindu gods, one of them had 8 arms! We walked around the statues, and saw some people pouring milk and water on a special statue of a snake and then we got a tasty sweet. 

The final place of worship we visited was the Gurdwara. Firstly we had to cover our heads and remove our shoes again. Then a lady taught us about the 5 K's that Sikhs follow. Then we went into the Lungar Hall and we were lucky enough to try some curry and chapati's! This was our favourite part because we got to try new foods and they were delicious!

By Deanna, Isabelle and Rohan

STEM Day 2!

On Wednesday we had the second of our STEM days as part of the Sensation Activation Rolls Royce project. First Miss Coburn told us what we would be doing in a whole school assembly. She explained how we would be better technologists and engineers by designing and making models of a new story chair for our playground.

Our first mission was to design how we wanted the back, arms and legs of our new chair to look. We looked at other chairs and used our imaginations to think of new ideas. We had some super ideas like a king themed chair, a beauty and the beast themed chair and a book themed chair! 

Next we had to copy our ideas onto our final designs. This was when we could make little changes to our designs to make sure they were amazing and unique to our school!

In the afternoon we made models of our final chair designs using foil and sticky tape. We found the foil really tricky to build with because our models wouldn't stand up. In the end and after lots of hard work our models looked great. 

By Ebaney, Oliver and Harleen 

When we went to the Church...

Today we came into school feeling ecstatic to be going on a trip to the Church. First we had to go on a long walk to get to the Church, it took us 20 minutes! On the way we talked to our partners to make our journey go quicker. 

When we arrived we looked at the grave stones that were outside the Church. We learnt that round the back of the church there was an area of really old graves. Next we went inside the gigantic, beautiful Church. The first thing we did inside was sit down on chairs to listen to a man tell us all about Christianity and the Church. He asked us lot of questions and we tried to answer them with what we learnt at school. 

Then the teachers gave us work booklets and we had to look all around the Church to find the objects that were on the first page of our booklets. We also had to draw our favourite parts of the Church - ours were the Font and the Organ! 

Before leaving we were treated to some juice and a biscuit, which were delicious! Then we had the walk back to school but it was much quicker on the way back. 

By Kaynan and Lewis

Mysterious Me

Our new topic this half term is called Mysterious Me and we shall be learning about other peoples lives and thing that make us all special. 

At the start of our topic we made shields. On these shields we had to draw and write about our family and friends. We also had to talk about some of our favourite things and things we are good at.  We made these shields to put on our topic display so we can learn lots about everyone in class 8. On this display we have put up pictures of us with our families, us in our favourite places and pictures of us with our favourite things. 

Next week as part of our topic we are going on an exciting school trip. Our trip is to lots of special religous places. We shall visit a Church, a Temple, a Mosque and a Gurdwara. On this trip we hope to learn lot of new things about the places we are visiting, maybe even about the food they eat and what clothes they wear!

Written by Lewis, Tanvir and Kaynan