We're ready for Christmas.

We're ready for our presents.

Our Christmas play

In Year Five we are performing a pantomime about a witch. Come and see it!

Year five have been reading!

Roald Dahl is a good book to read it's funny.

Our trip to Quarry Bank Mill - in pictures.

The boys get to work in the schoolroom.

Straight backs, arms crossed, eyes down - well done girls!

The boys practise their alphabet.

What a naughty girl!

The fastest bed makers!

Rushing to be next.

Emptying the chamber pot - eugh!

The gentleman. He was Mr Shallcross' favourite and got to sit in his own chair!

Leeches - old fashioned medicine.

The massive waterwheel - it powers the whole mill!

Excited to see the wheel in action.

'I love seeing the wool being spun!'

Wool samples ready to show prospective buyers.

The inside of a mill workers house as it would have looked in Victorian times. We saw the outside of these houses in Styal Village.

The large spinning machine in action - it was really long!

A carding machine making the raw wool into long strands.

At the wheel shaft - still very excited!

Venturing into the tunnel to look up the old chimney.

Inside the chimney - it was very cramped!

Our 'Decorate an Easter Egg Competition' entries

Will any of them be selected by one of our esteemed judges?

Preparing For Kingswood

In April year Four, Five and Six are going to Kingswood. Everyone who is going is preparing for a sunny experience(hopefully). The teachers that are going are Mr.A, Mr. Ellis, Mr farell, Mrs. Cropper, Mrs. Mather and Mrs. Mobs.

Key stage 1 production

On  Monday 8th of December key stage 1 had their production. First Ms Mather welcomed the audience. Then they sung a fabulous opening song. Some of the nursery were dressed as stars the rest were dressed as sheep. Children in year 1 were shepherds, angels, kings or chickens they were fabulous costumes .

Christmas Production

In our school play I was playing the part of a parent my lines were ( I don't believe it my Megan's playing an Angel too how about that my own little angel is an angel I'm so proud I don't ..... I can't ...  )

And I sang a solo with nafisa, Aisha and sumayya we sang the first verse the dinner ladies sang the second verse and the T.A sang the third verse and I really enjoyed it. My favorite part was the dinner lady scene because they we're wear in wigs and pretending to ladies!! I enjoy all of our Christmas play. 

    

                                                                         By Luna

In our school play I was on the left-hand side. I was in the chorus line, one thing I enjoyed is that my brother had fake glasses a tie and a beard.

Our transport surveys

What transport do you use?

We are studying the impact of local transport links on the choices we make when travelling. We would like to know what you think. Can you spare a few minutes to answer one of our questionnaires?

Click on the link to take you to the survey of your choice.

Arran & Ibraheem

Luna & Saskia

Mariyah & Aribah

Jack& Ruhban

Hamzah & Rowa

Sumayya & Ayah

Nafisa & Aisha

Amaar, Harry and Ahmed

Amaan & Leighton

Umair & Hassan

Saira & Amina

Yara, Imaan & Maria

This is the completed list. Thanks to everyone who has filled one in. If you would like to try another, we'd love you too!

We met The Great Britain cycle team

We year five did a bike ability thing for our whole class and a couple of people volunteered. We did a u  turn and how to ride a  bikes on the road and stop and look it was really fun and on the second day the second group that was going in the afternoon saw the Great Britain cycle team. The group were like "OH MY GOSH  ITS THE GREAT BRITAN TEAM". The children were all exited but their cycle inspector (Tim) Said they have to go and carry in their bike training so they left and kept talking about. When the children got back to school the told the whole class and their teach and every body wanted to see them. 

By Rowa Ismail

Going to kings wood

I can't wait to go on the quad bikes and all the activitse.    By jack

What's happening in Year 5

This week Year 5 welcomed their new teacher Mr Kerrigan, and a new TA Mr Walker. They also welcomed back Mrs Shahid. We are all very much looking forward to working hard together for the rest of the school year.

This week in Year 5:

ICT Week - We spent time learning how to design and create games using Espresso. We developed some very professional backgrounds and some interesting gameplay. We showed our work in the Sharing Assembly; Hamzah received a special mention for his ingenious Dinosaur Burger game and Aisha was praised for her impressive game design.

Fair trade fortnight - We watched a video clip about Fairtrade's 'Fair Play' policy. We saw how many people are involved in the Fairtrade process and that all of them benefit from it. We designed 'Fairtrade is ...' slogans and linked the words and images that we used.

This is the video we watched - paste it into your browser to view.

Click here for Fairtrade video

Literacy - We look at a painting by Renoir, 'Bal de moulin de la Galette'. We imagined what the people in the picture we feeling and doing. We discussed what might have happened to them just before and just after the painting. We role-played these ideas to help us to write descriptions of our chosen characters.

Upcoming events:

Tuesday 11th and Wednesday 12th March - Bikeability

12 children will be put thought their paces on cycling road craft, bike safety and maintenance and cycling skills. Children taking part need to bring their bicycle to school both days, along with a helmet if they have one and suitable clothing for riding bikes in.