Junior Choir at Symphony hall

On Tuesday 16th July, Junior Choir, accompanied by Mrs Drew,Mrs Bundy, Mrs Rafter and Mrs Thomas, had a fantastic afternoon rehearsal and evening concert at Symphony hall as part of the Birmingham School`s Youth Proms.

We sang with over 350 other children from Birmingham Primary schools and had the opportunity to listen to and watch performances from the Junior Strings ensemble, the Azad Dhol group, the Training Wind orchestra, the Guitar ensemble and the Wind Orchestra.

 We have been working hard learning the songs for a few months prior to the concert and were praised by Ruth the Head of the Vocal team running the event, as well as one of the conductors - so well done Chilcote! You all sang beautifully and enthusiastically and were super representatives of our school. Thank you very much to Mrs Bundy, Mrs Drew and Mrs Rafter for their support and practical help as well as their lovely singing. 

What a great end to the year for Junior Choir! 

Summer School Games

On Friday 12th July 2019 ten children from Year 5 and nine children from Year 6 represented the school in a Year 5 Kwik Cricket competition and a Year 6 mixed handball competition. 

Both of these competitions were part of the Birmingham School Summer Games and the teams qualified courtesy of winning their local partnership events. 

The cricketers played four group games. They won three of those games quite comfortably and only conceded fourteen runs. The fielding and bowling was simply superb. The other game was an incredible match between two very good schools. Chilcote unfortunately lost the game by one run (209-210)! The school they played went on to win the whole competition so shows how close Chilcote came. 

The handballers played five group games and despite having a slow start in terms of their performance won all five games and qualified for the semi finals of the competition.

The cricketers finished second in their group and played the school who finished second in the other group in the third and fourth place play-off. Chilcote bowled first and redtricted the other team to a score of 198 (they started on 200). Chilcote just needed to be sensible in their batting and not throw their wickets away. This is exactly what they did, Batting a very mature and risk free innings to score a total of 236 runs. Therefore they finished in third place in the whole of Birmingham - a wonderful achievement!

The handballers had a tough semi-final match but took the lead early on and despite the other team keeping close to them they managed to always keep the lead in the scoring. They made it slightly more comfortable towards the end and ended up winning by 5 goals to 3. Thus they qualified for the final. They had a very tough match against an unbeaten opponent in the final and unfortunately for Chilcote it was just a step too far. They lot the game 4v1 but gave everything. Still they finished as the second best school in Birmingham for handball which is a remarkable achievement!!!

Well done to all of the children involved who, as always represented the school superbly well and gave everything to the Chilcote cause!!!

Health Week in Year 1

Year 1 have had a super week this week. We have really enjoyed joining in with wake up shake up in the mornings and during the week we have taken part in a huge variety of activities.

On Monday, we had a brilliant trip to the allotments. We saw all sorts of plants and found out about how different foods we eat grow. There were beans, peas, apples, carrots and lots of flowers. We also spotted some of the insects and mini beasts we have been learning about in our 'Flowers and Insects' topic.

On Tuesday, we baked some delicious oat and honey biscuits. We were lucky enough to have a visit from Colin the Bee Keeper last week and we learnt all about where honey comes from. We enjoyed tasting it in our cooking!

Here is a copy of the recipe we used:

INGREDIENTS

Serves: 15

100 grams porridge oats
100 grams flour 100 grams caster sugar 100 grams butter 1 tablespoon honey

METHOD

1.Mix oats and flour.

2.Gently melt butter, sugar and syrup or honey in a pan. Combine well and then using 2 spoons form into balls evenly spaced on lined baking trays.

3.Dampen a spoon and press each ball lightly.

4.Bake for 15-20 mins til golden brown at 180. They will harden a little more when cooling so don't overcook.

5.When out of the oven remove to a cooling rack after about ten mins.

On Wednesday, Tom kindly brought his ambulance to Chilcote and we learnt about being a paramedic. We measured Millie's heart rate and talked about how to contact the emergency services. Tom also showed us inside the ambulance and put on the lights and sirens for us. Thank you Tom!

On Thursday morning, Mrs Adams ran a relaxation session for us. We learnt some ways to help our bodies relax for example gently stroking a feather on our faces. We really enjoyed chilling out! Thank you Mrs Adams! Year 1 also watched the staff rounders match and liked cheering on both teams.

On Friday, Year 1 took part in a fencing session. We learnt to use the foam sabres and using lunges to help us stretch further. After that we took part in the health week quiz. In teams Years 1 and 2 answered questions about sport, cooking and PSHE. Sapphire house won the Key Stage 1 quiz - well done Sapphire!

During the week Year 1 took part in a competition to see which class could complete the most laps of the Chilcote Kilometre over the week. The Key Stage 1 winners were 1 Elm! As well as this we have taken part in a range of mindfulness activities. Year 1 particularly enjoyed using Cosmic Kids Yoga.

Year 1 have worked very hard this week and have enjoyed Health Week. Well done everyone!