Monthly Archives: June 2017
Year 4 ICT
Kenilworth Castle
Year 2 have visited Kenilworth Castle as part of our fantastic castle topic. We had a brilliant day exploring all of the different parts of the castle. We learned lots about what happened in castles and imagined being alive when it was a working castle. We found out how heavy armour is, how tall the towers are and how scary the cellars are!
Year 2 were incredibly well behaved and were brilliant role models for the school – well done!
Year 5 Trips to King Edwards School in Edgbaston
Jason and the Argonauts
Stay and Play
This week, we had an amazing turn out for St Clement’s Stay and Play.
The children enjoyed interacting with their friends, exploring equipment and building on their developing skills.
Fun and laughter was had by all during song time. ‘If You’re Happy and You Know it’ and ‘Head Shoulders Knees and Toes’ got all the children and adults moving.
Come and join in the fun next week!
Sand in the sand pit and sand in our toes!
Over the half term holiday we had a delivery of a huge bag of sand. Some of it has been put in to our outdoor sandpit. This week we have been exploring how the sand feels, building sandcastles, practising turn taking, talking to our friends, digging for treasure, using our imaginations and practising putting our shoes and socks on. Few, what a busy week!
Performance Poetry
This week the focus has been performance poetry. Year 3 have been considering what makes a good performance and offering ideas and suggestions for improvements to their own performance and also to the performances of their peers.
The week started with a poem called The School Kids’ rap which allowed Year 3 to explore the rhythm of the poem when performing. Followed by Fruit Picking by Jack Ousbey. For this poem Year 3 were challenged to compose and perform a percussion accompaniment. The end of the week Year 3 looked at a poem called No Word of a Lie by Jackie Kay.
Have a look at our videos of our rap performance of The School Kids’ Rap 🙂
PHSE – What does ‘Safe’ mean?
In Year 2 today we did circle time and we discussed what the word safe means. I asked the children when they they feel safe and when they feel unsafe, one by one in our circle we all talked about different times when we felt safe and unsafe. All the children worked well and there was a good discussion.
PHSE – Feeling Safe
In Year 1 today children had to recall a time when they felt really safe. Children had to sit in a circle and ask them one by one to pick out a feeling card from the feelings bag. I then asked the children to relate feeling to a safe or unsafe situation. Children worked really well.