This week, we have had a bumper stars of the week assembly as the Year 5s have returned from France and Miss Lucile has chosen some stars of the trip!
Congratulations to this week’s stars and friends of the week. Keep up the hard work!
Havisham Class Assembly
Today, reception and years 1, 2 and 3 were treated to a musical extravaganza about castles by Havisham class. We learnt all about turrets and portcullis’ as well as what castles are made out of and what makes them so strong!
We heard many beautiful songs sung clearly and confidently – even one in French!
Thank you very much Havisham Class!
Stars of the Week!
Congratulations to this week’s stars and friends of the week!
There were lots of certificates celebrating mathematicians this week – let’s see what they will be for next week!
Well done and keep up the hard work.
Stars of the Week!
Congratulations to this week’s stars and friends of the week! You have all come back from the holiday wonderfully, showing your intent to be as lovely as usual and ready to learn – Keep it up!
Nickleby’s New York Fairy Tale
Well done to Nickleby class children who shared their learning all about New York this term. They retold their version of Snow White in New York with original songs, scenery made up of brilliant home learning ( sky scrapers and New York landmarks) and some excellent acting.
Nickleby class wove in maths learning on symmetry, newspaper reports written in English as well as geography knowledge about New York.
Thank you to Mrs Jenkins, Ms Gemmell and Ms Carver for helping the children with developing their assembly in less than a week!
Art Through Technology “Video” – Eisteddfod 2016
Every entry into this category was excellent so we thought we would share them all! Well done everyone.
The theme was change! The creators of each film all entered under a ‘fake name’ to make judging fair so we have some very ‘creative’ names as well. They are all unlisted on youtube which means that you will only be able to access them via these links here and they are non searchable via you tube. If you do not want to share your video, please let the office know.
Here is the first Entry by Special Junior in Year 6.
This next one is a stop motion film by The Professor in Year 1.
Next up is a video by Darf flappy Bird A3 Paper! The film is called ‘Time Travel’. It has been created using models, illustrations and music ( both on the recorder and beat boxing).
Another contribution from Year 6. This one is by ‘The Creator’ and is called ‘The Adventure of Changing’.It is a very special film about a little boy growing up through a series of family photographs.
From year 5 and ‘Tom Drummond’, ‘Changes’ with a David Bowie soundtrack and lots of fun lego animation. We loved the space scene and the use of lego throughout.
Another Year 6 entry. Well done to ‘Thechosenone’ for some excellent programming skills for this animation. Mr Bakas would be very proud.
Year 4 was well represented by this excellent entry from ‘Help,I can’t think of a name!”. We imagine thats because all their creative energy went into the making of this short film which tells of the evolution of man.
Key Stage One Winter Show! Around the World in 80 days
Well done to all the children in years 1 and 2 for a brilliant performance of their show. Parents who joined me will agree that every child sang beautifully and seemed to be enjoying themselves as they told us about the customs of other countries where Christmas is celebrated including Australia, Spain, the USA and Malawi. During all the applause that followed each performance I gave a special congratulations to Daniel (INIckleby Class) who sang a beautiful solo and bravely stood on the stage during the afternoon performance. Thank you to Mr Eggleton and his talented team for staging such and enjoyable show for everyone.
More photos are on the way!
Nickleby Class Assembly – The Owl and the Pussycat
Well done to all the children and grown ups in Nickleby class for their assembly. We all greatly enjoyed your musical rendition of the Owl and The Pussycat and their subsequent wedding celebrations. The singing was just lovely and you wowed us with your persuasive writing – no wonder the pig gave up his nose ring and Mrs Buchanan wanted to dance with Thahir.
Key Stage One and Reception Sports Day
Fuelled by lots of water breaks, and the sun made bearable through time under gazebos ( thank you to Trinity Newington Residents Association for the loan of the gazebos), 180 children had lots of fun at their annual sports day.
The sporting offer was a mix of running, jumping, balancing and lots of teamwork. The favourite ‘station’ is always ‘pass the sponges’ where the children work in their house teams to transfer sponges from the front to the back without losing lots of water to fill a bucket.
As you can see from the photographs, the main aims and more important than winning, were having fun and working cooperatively – the children did an excellent job at both! Well done everyone for great listening skills and super behaviour.
Thank you to all the parents who came along to watch – the children were very impressed when they saw some of the banners to cheer the teams on!
Thank you to Mrs Worley for organising such an excellent afternoon. Thank you also to her team of Year 5 pupils who led the different activities and did an wonderful job of showing the younger children what to do – you were all outstanding role models!
Suzuki Violin Performance 19th June
On Friday, 19th June, Charles Dickens Primary School’s Suzuki Method violinists performed their repertoire near the Barbican at St Giles-without-Cripplegate church. Along with students from other schools who are taught in this method, they played in two rehearsals culminating in their wonderful hour-long performance. Mrs Manning, Mr Cole and some parents of our violin students were very impressed by the children’s playing ability, sensible behaviour and the camaraderie between our students from Years 2 to 6. They were superb representatives of our school throughout the day.