Article 29: You have the right to an education that helps to develop your talents and abilities.
This week we invited the amazing Adam Bushnell into our school. Adam is an inspirational author who delivered a workshop to each of our classes linked to the upcoming Olympics and Ancient Greece. Children will use this inspiration to plan and create their own fantastic pieces of writing. Look out for some examples of what was produced next week!
Adam took the time to personally sign a fan’s books and we also had an extra visitor!
As part of our ongoing community work we were all asked to contribute to designing a window display to celebrate a special awareness day on July 5th 2021. The NHS, Social Care and Frontline Workers’ Day reflects an important date as on July 5th 1948, a historic moment in our country’s history is marked as this was the day our pioneering National Health Service (NHS) was first began. This annual day of thanks provides us with the chance to express our gratitude to all NHS and frontline worker staff as well as remember those who have lost their lives and been impacted by the current pandemic. In school, we have reflected on the many amazing qualities we have seen from lots of different people including bravery, determination, resilience, flexibility and kindness. Every class has helped to create this wonderful window artwork which will be displayed in a local council building to show how thankful we all are at CHJS for the inspiring care that continues to take place and be available. Thank you to all of our wonderful key workers!
Linked to Active Week last week, children in Year 6 created biographies about famous sports personalities in a creative and unique way.
We are very proud to unveil our new vending machine for books! When children are chosen as our Reading Miles winners, they will receive a special token to use in the vending machine and pick a brand new book to keep.
Year 3 got creative when working on shape this week by creating their own 3D shapes using cocktail sticks and sweets! Ask them about which 3D shapes they can name and describe!
In Maths, Year 4 have been working on telling the time. We have explored telling the time on an analogue clock using o’clock, half past, quarter to, quarter past and also time to the nearest 5 minutes.
In Geography, Year 4 have been exploring what happens when the land meets the sea. We explored the similarities and differences between different coastal regions in Europe and used our map reading skills to locate these on the atlas. We then used the atlases to identify rivers in the UK and used this to find the sea that each river flowed into.
Year 6 have been learning all about famous Pitmen Painters, Norman Cornish and Tom McGuinness. Children were amazed to find out about the different tools and resources that were often used to paint with- including boot polish! The children experimented with shoe polish in order to create their own fantastic pieces of art!
What amazing effort and determination shown by our year 5 pupils in their recent art topic! Children learnt different stitching and sewing techniques in order to complete a flower embroidery pattern. We think the finished products are fantastic! Well done year 5!
Great British Bake Off! Year 6 have put their culinary skills to the test by learning all about a balanced diet and seasonal foods in order to plan a delicious seasonal meal. Every child designed a meal and we then voted for our favourites. 6H decided to cook a ‘big breakfast’ including seasonal tomatoes, seasonal new jersey potatoes sliced, mushrooms, bacon, sausage, beans and eggs. What an amazing time all the children had cooking then sampling their delights. Watch out – we have amazing cooks in y6! Here are some photographs to show off their skills. Enjoy!
