PE planning with Sapphire Class

This afternoon I popped into Sapphire class and discovered them working with Pru to design and plan their very own PE warm up games for this term’s PE lessons. They were watching clips of different sports from the Get Set website. They were creating warm ups that used features of the different sports in them. Well done Sapphire Class!

Olympic Posters

Ebony and Bronze classes have been busy with an art project with their teachers and with Ann and Carina. They did some life drawing and sketched an athlete. Then they used paper collage to make figures of athletes. They covered the image with transluscent paper and added paint. Finally they screen printed a banner to turn their images into posters. The final posters are all over the school.

So much has been going on...

The school has been really busy with Olympic themed displays and activities.
Mary and Olly have been continuing to focus on The Olympics in their assemblies. In the last 2 weeks we have been focussing on the Olympic and Paralympic values. And children have been demonstrating them to the school.
We have changing Olympic displays in the Middle Hall and in the Lobby. Philippa has just added a countdown to the games.

Olympic Assemblies

The whole school is looking forward to the Olympics and Paralympics. To help us prepare, Mary and Olly have started London 2012 whole school assemblies every Tuesday.

Alien Visitors!

Year 1 were visited by some special alien guests!
Unfortunately the aliens didn't know how to speak in any human language.
Luckily Amber and Jade classes had read all about Beegu the alien and they understood how hard it was to communicate.
The children helped the aliens to settle in by giving them names for everyday things in the classrooms.Now the aliens seem very happy in the year one classrooms. When the children go home they can be found doing all sorts of things!

Debating

Silver class year 5 have been learning debating skills.

They have been thinking about our local area.

They are learning skills that will help them in the future.
They have been taking turns to chair a meeting and each of them have prepared to speak either for or against a motion.

The Research Conference

The Research Group were invited to speak at a research conference at the Institute of Education in central London.

The group were the opening speakers at the conference and shared what they had learnt about research and how to do it. They wrote their own presentation and spoke to more than 60 other adult researchers and pupil researchers from other schools from around the country and the world.
The group talked about what research is and about some of the difficulties they faced.

Professor Kathryn Riley welcomed them all as important guests and they enjoyed lots of little extra treats in the day like juice and pastries at coffee time!