DRAX visit for UKS2

7th November 2023Stacey McClare

A great day at DRAX exploring the power station! Tomorrow we will reflect on the trip, thinking about what we observed and discussed and how it links back to our guiding question. We hope todays visit will also help us to answer our guiding question 🙂

French – Crew Hamill, Crew Thompson and Crew Mcloughlin 🇫🇷

7th November 2023Sarah Mcglone

During French, we have been looking at ways to communicate feelings. We looked at the new vocabulary before playing a number of different games to try and better our understanding. First, we played ‘Thumbs Up’ which involved us working with a partner to hide gestures representing each feeling ‘I am good, I am very good, I am sad, I am very sad, and neither good nor bad’. Our partner had to guess, in French, which gesture they thought we were hiding behind our back before it was revealed to us! We then played a game of ‘Captions’ where we had to listen carefully to the phrase that Miss McGlone said. We then had to choose the correct picture from around the room to go and stand by that we thought was the matching image to the phrase. To finish our lesson, we had a go at applying all of our knowledge so far in the form of a conversation.

In Crew Mcloughlin, we deepened our understanding of feelings in French by working with a partner to practice our pronunciation. One person pronounced one of our new phrases whilst the other drew the matching face. If the face was correct, the drawer got a point. If it was incorrect, the speaker stole the point for themselves!

Ready position

6th November 2023Lauren Marsh

Over the last two weeks, we have been working on our net and wall techniques. This has meant we have needed to be able to do the ready position in order to be able to pass and receive the ball over the net.

I have been so impressed with how well the children have improved their technique in just two weeks!