MADD Week!

This week has been MADD! That stands for - Music, Art, Dance and Drama.

Class 8 had the challenge of looking carefully at Discussion Dolphin - that's one of our new school values. Throughout the week we had to put together a class performance to show the other classes the story of Discussion Dolphin, to show what he represents! He say's 'look, listen and share' and shows us how to be good communicators. 

Some of us were narrators, some were dancers, others were musicians and the rest of us were actors and actresses! We really enjoyed practising and performing our performance. We even learnt a new funny song!

We also had the challenge of creating a large piece of artwork in the shape of Discussion Dolphin. We used powder paint and pointillism. We had lots of time to explore the technique and to explore mixing shades of blue's and grey's. 

Our visitor this week was from West End in schools. He taught us some crazy, strange and funny dance moves and we had to dance to lots of styles of music. The girls had to show lots of attitude and the boys showed lots of style! It was very creative and fun!

Jasleen, Mia, Aiden, Zakariya, Jasmine and Grace

School Council Trip

The school council trip was AMAZING! We went on a coach with the other school council children to the council houses. When we got there we were allowed to go upstairs into the Chamber. We all had a name tag to tell us where to sit. When the Mayor arrived he showed us how to press the button to talk through our microphones. It was cool! We got to ask the Mayor questions and hold our very own school council meeting right there in the Chamber like real Councillors!

We had the very important job of deciding which shaded area we would like to buy as part of the 'Sensation Activation' Rolls Royce project. We talked about the good and bad things of each type of shading and said what we liked and disliked about them. Eventually we decided we liked the wooden shading best because it is waterproof and it will help to keep us sun safe.

After our meeting we got to see the Mayor's office! He showed us a big clock and a chair that had been sat on by Queen Victoria! We liked the swords and weapons that he had hung on his walls.

The trip was awesome and we want to go back!

Jake and Oliver P

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