Lincoln Cathedral Church School Festival for year 6

Year 6 spent the day at Lincoln Cathedral together with 420 other year 6 children celebrating their time at primary school.
Children took part in different activities during the morning.

looking at some images of saints

we made an origami Bishop's Mitre

making straw crosses

a "halo " effect?

drama activities - performing our verse of a poem

working with other year 6 children

another verse of the poem performed by us

watching and listening in the Chapter House to the whole poem

Amelia worked with another school on her verse

watching the performance

quite dramatic!

bell ringing-taking first instructions

watching too

almost ready to have a go

Oops-nearly pulled the bell off the tower-pulled a bit too hard!

getting the hang of it-not as easy as it looks

Serena really had a knack and was the first one to independently ring her bell

my group melodiously working as a group producing a peal of bells

well done

hand bell ringing next...

a musical morning

waiting just before the service

our school banner being paraded during the service

Every school was given a candle to light back at school to remember our Church School Family.

Change for Life Club

Some year 5 and 6 children have undertaken training in "Change for Life" activities. Through Inspire+ we have had a bag of equipment provided and the children were trained to use the equipment and to run a weekly lunchtime club. The club runs every Wednesday. Her children are enjoying using some of the exciting new equipment.

Great fun.

Science and our new room displays.

Science.

In science we are learning about plants. Children had a selection of flowers are were challenged with naming the parts of a flower. There were clues such as names of parts- stigma, sepal, stamen etc, books and photos. Using magnifying lenses children carefully examined the parts that made up a flower and were able to name most of the parts correctly. The next step was to relate the parts to their functions- again successfully achieved as a class.

daffodils, primulas,wall flowers...

carefully pulling the flower apart to reveal the internal parts

Any hay fever sufferers were warned not o rub their faces and  to wash hands!

No sneezing was noticed! 

                                                            Some Botanists in the making!

Our New Room and some displays

We are all very happy to be settled back into our classroom and have already got several displays up.

In book week we were read "The Day The Crayons Quit"- a book about the crayons getting fed up with their jobs. Red crayon was over-worked colouring fire engines,hearts etc- he even had to work holidays colouring Santa! Yellow and Orange crayon argued over who should colour the sun, Green crayon too felt overworked with grass and dragons, but poor beige crayon felt rather left out and was lucky if they had  colour turkey at Christmas dinner! Class 3 took on the role of a crayon of their choice and wrote complaining about their jobs. We also wrote back with counter arguments pointing out to the crayons how lucky they were to be chosen to colour certain things at certain times. A super display was the outcome.

Even the drape has crayons on it. Worth a close up read if you are in class 3- please come and read some of our work.

Our maths learning wall and maths area.

Our Saxon Sutton Hoo masks made last term at the end of our Anglo Saxon topic.

Beowulf Playscripts , Class Move,Anglo Saxon Villages Play Leader awards.

Beowulf Plays

Year 6 have been learning about writing play scripts. The culmination of this was to turn part of their own Beowulf Stories into a play script. Once the scripts were written a performance of each script was prepared.
                                           Sophie sharing her script with her cast.

Vincent reading his play.

The "audience" had to see if they could tell which chapter of the story it was and who the characters were.

Guards stopping Beowulf from speaking to the King.

Grendel emerging from the Lake of Demons

Another "Arrival " scene being portrayed.

Megan's script in action.

Conor's script with the ghost of Leofric appearing.

Serena found it hard to direct her cast of 9-she wished she had  fewer characters in her play.

Who's died?

Grendel has attacked again.

A toast enjoyed at the feast ( rather too much as 1 or 2  guards enjoyed the mead too much) according to Jess's script.

One drink too many and this is what happen!

An exhausted group after their exploits only to be woken to find the monster had struck again.

Beowulf killing Grendel's Mother and  soon to surface from the lake holding her head aloft in triumph( fortunately for Casper it was still attached to his body)

All 14 year 6 children produced their plays and all the class were involved in the acting and narrating of them. Each one could clearly be related to the story the class had studied last term with the characters and their deeds and actions.

Play Leader Awards

                            Class 3 after they had been presented with their Play Leader badges.

Class 3 moving back to their class room

All systems go- as soon as we heard we could move back into our classroom we started carrying tables and chairs from our temorary base in the hall.

Yeah! 

                                               The last few minutes in the hall

our new blue classroom

 tables and chairs ....starting to take shape

watch this space for more photos of the room with us in it!