We are starting to get really confident with our basketball skills now!
Basketball club 🏀
Category : Personal Development
Personal Development
French – Crew Shields
Today we have been looking at how to identify someone’s hair and eye colour. We talked about the difference in using either a masculine or feminine spelling/pronunciation of a word before looking at different translations of hair colours. We had a discussion about how the French language translates into a different order than the order we are used to speaking. For example, we would say that someone has brown eyes, however, in French it would translate to say that someone has eyes brown. Once we had mastered the French way of constructing sentence, we turned our detective skills on and managed to translate certain sentences to match the description with the corresponding picture.
French – Crew Hamill and Crew Thompson
This week we have been looking at how we greet people at different times of the day (good day, good evening, good night). Once we had mastered our pronunciation and practised matching pictures with the correct greeting, we tested our new knowledge by playing a game of corners. There were pictures up around the classroom showing different activities at different times of the day. Miss McGlone said a greeting and we had to decide which picture matched the time of day for that greeting. We then moved to that picture and waited to see if we had chosen correctly!
Year 1 music – using untuned percussion instruments to keep the rhythm 🥁 🎶
In Year 1, we have added untuned percussion instruments to the song we have been learning ‘The Menu Song’. We listened carefully to instructions and found the beat to the song and first showed this by clapping our hands in time. We then moved on to finding the beat with the percussion instruments, and we even pushed ourselves to try singing at the same time! It was tricky, but we are already looking forward to practising again next week and getting even better! ✨
Year 2 music – playing the tune to Tony Chestnut on the glockenspiel 🎼 🎶
Today we have taken our song ‘Tony Chestnut’ and looked at how to play a call and response melody on the glockenspiel. We made sure that we knew the sequence of the notes we needed to play and practised repeatedly. Miss McGlone started the piece by playing the ‘call’ part of the melody and we then played the ‘response’ part as a crew. We showed great resilience when practising to perform together and gave critique on what we did well and what we needed to do better next time. The end product sounded amazing and we can’t wait to get even better next week and add in singing whilst we are playing too! ✨
Cooking club 🍞🍎
This week the children made apple French toast, hope everyone enjoyed eating it for pudding tonight!!
Challenge Crew in Crew Boswell
This morning in our challenge crew session, we looked at ourselves and how frustration can affect us. The task was simple: follow the instructions to make ‘The Harrier’ (a simple, effective paper plane). We learned that following instructions can sometimes be tricky and that it can sometimes be difficult to ask for support, especially when those around us seem to be finding something easy. Our debrief gave us the opportunity to think about how to overcome these reservations and frustrations during lessons so we can be the best versions of ourselves and develop our resilience!
Young Voices 2024
Rehearsals are well underway for our performance at Young Voices 2024. We have kicked off our preparation by learning ‘Today’s Gonna Be a Great Day’. We’ve totally mastered it in just 2 rehearsals! Fab work guys! 🎤
Note B ♩
In Year 3/4, we continued our musical journey to learn the recorder and practised playing the note B in multiple ways to create a melody. We looked at how some notes only last for one beat (crotchet) and how others last for two beats (quavers). Using these different notes, we were able to play 2 short pieces of music and eventually performed these without Miss McGlone’s help! Even our learning coaches are learning something new and playing their own recorders alongside us! Great work everyone! ✨
Creating sound effects for The Pink Panther theme tune 🎶
We began by discussing the character and mood of the music – we agreed that it was mysterious and sneaky. We then thought about how the dynamics and timbre gave the piece a certain feel and said that the way the composer used short, quiet sounds and then long, loud sounds really matched the action of the cartoon.
We watched a video that showed us how sound effects can be made for cartoons and identified that not only can instruments be used, but body percussion could also be used to give an action more meaning.
Using untuned percussion instruments and body percussion, we watched a short clip of the opening sequence and began to think about the sounds that could be used to match the action on screen.
