The children who visited Paris are homeward bound on Eurostar! All shattered but perhaps more cosmopolitan than they were on Wednesday.
Friday in Paris – visiting our link school!
Today children from year 5 and 6, on our trip to Paris, visited our link school in Paris – Ecole Saint Charles in 15th Arrondissement. They met penpals, shared school experiences, lunch and playtime! They travelled via Metro – it will be interesting to see how the children compare life in Paris to London
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A Parisian Birthday Party
Just because you are in France doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have celebrate your birthday – especially if you are 10 years old today. Have a wonderful day Birthday Girl!
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Thursday in Paris!
The Paris trippers! We are having a fabulous time – can you spot the famous landmarks? Can you spot Ariel from Gargery class?
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Bonjour from Eurostar!
Our Paris trip got off to a very early start this morning – 5.30am at St Pancras! Lots of very excited children. More photos to come…
The Inter-house Geography Competition – Try the KS2 Quiz!
This term Ms Adams, our Head of Geography, organised an Interhouse Geography Competition to encourage all pupils to learn more key geography facts. Everyone did brilliantly and lots of pupils won prizes for their new found general knowledge! A big thank you to Ms Adams for inspiring us!
Why not have a go at the KS2 quiz questions, including the year 5 and 6 ‘India Round’ to support their topic on India – you will need a world map which you can download below. Use an atlas and google to check your answers! If you can’t find out an answer then post your questions in the comment box and we will try to help.
Let us know how you got on!
World round
1) Label the 7 continents on the world map.
2) Label the 6 oceans on the world map.
3) Label, UK, China, India, Australia, France, Russia, Brazil, Canada, USA.
4) Can you name the capital cities of France, Spain, Ireland, Italy?
Picture round
1) What do these anagrams say? OREUPE DINAI LNONOD
2) Can you name the country these national flags (see images below) belong to?
3) Which countries are these famous landmarks (see images below) in?
India round
1) What is the capital city of India?
2) Name two other cities in India.
3) What is the famous River in India called?
4) Name 3 neighbouring countries.
5) What is the name of the bay surrounding India?
6) What is the ocean surrounding India?
7) What city is the Taj Mahal in?
Complete these sentences:
India is the _____________ biggest county in the world
India is _____________ most populous county in the world
UK round
Download this UK map – uk map to label
1) What are the four countries that make up the UK
2) Label London, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Dublin, Cardiff on your UK map
3) Label the two seas that surround the UK
4) What continent is the UK in?
5) Name 4 famous London landmarks.
6) What is the name of the River than runs through London?
Winston Nzinga – the art of oral story telling from Africa and the Caribbean
Today Winston Nzinga visited the school to enrich the Year 3 and 4 project on Africa. He also spent the morning with Years 1&2, reception and nursery classes, teaching them a wide range of songs and musical accompaniment. He certainly brought the sunshine with him today and one nursery child asked ‘can that man come back tomorrow’ . Sadly, no, but if your child loved his songs, there is a CD you can buy from his website
Winston is an amazing percussionist and storyteller from the Caribbean who filled the children’s eyes and ears with a blend of traditional and contemporary storytelling with music, riddle, call and response and song using African-Caribbean drumming and percussion. The year 3 and 4 classes learnt how simple story telling about animals can be used to explain quite complex issues in friendships. The younger children enthusiastically joined in long songs based on rhyme and telling the story of different folkloric animals.
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Hello From Mr Bailey In Montreal – look who he has found….
Hello everyone at Charles Dickens – I hope you are keeping well!
Imagine my surprise during a visit to a very informative museum in Montreal, called the Chateau Ramezay, when I spotted this bust of a familiar person! And I thought I was the first person from Charles Dickens Primary to make it to Montreal…..
Love from Mr Bailey
Dolls from Malawi
Here is a doll Ms Roberts brought back from Malawi – what name could we give her?
Ms Roberts arrived back from Malawi yesterday with lots of photos and experiences to share with us all.
Today, in assembly, Ms Roberts told us all about the weather in Malawi – the tropical storms and the heat!
We learnt what she ate – lots of fresh fruit, cassava and stews. Ms Roberts told us how the population of Malawi was very young – very different to this country!
Ms Roberts asked all the children to think of questions they wanted to know about Iponga School and pupils – what would you like to know?
News from Ms Roberts in Malawi
“I had an amazing time in Iponga Primary – I was made to feel so welcome! They celebrated by birthday with songs and poems. I had a football and netball match in my honour and have hundreds of photos, videos and letters to share with everyone at Charles Dickens Primary School! Sadly I still have no phone signal so you will all have to wait until I get back to school to see the photos. Today I met back up with the other teachers that I traveled with and we are doing some exploring. Hope you are all enjoying your half term. Love Ms Roberts”