Year 2 Design Technology: Super Healthy Sushi!

Kon'nichiwa!

This week is Health Week at Chilcote and Year 2 have been designing, creating and evaluating healthy vegetarian sushi meals. Well done to all the children for trying the seaweed nori sheets! 

St George`s day in Year 5

We had a great session with Mr Singh on Thursday 23rd April , learning to play the dhol drums. Bradley and Johnny from Year 6 gave us some demonstrations and then we all took turns to play some rhythms using both beaters. We created a happy sound-loud and fast! and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.
We also learned about where the dhol drum originates from,what it is made from and what special occasions it is used for.

St George`s Day in Year 2

Year 2 had a very enjoyable day on Thursday 23^rd April, firstly acting out the story of St George and the dragon in groups, then taking part in djembe drumming workshops with Andy. The children listened very carefully, copied different rhythm patterns and combined them to create some good pieces of music.

At the end of the day, we watched the 1^st Sedgeley Morris dancers perform a hankerchief dance and some different stick dances. It was a lovely end to a very diverse day- reflecting our society in Britain today.  

Year 2 Topic: Circus Entry Point Day

Our new topic is called, ‘The Circus is Coming to Town'. So, today we were treated to a visit from Richard, who is a professional juggler. He taught us all his amazing tricks using: scarves, juggling balls, peacock feathers, ribbons and spinning plates. We also discovered the science of circus performances by watching these incredible circus videos. It all built up to us performing in front of the entire school in assembly where we also wore the fantastic clown bow ties and hats we had made. We all received an enormous round of applause from our astonished audience and Richard capped the day off by balancing on a skateboard whilst juggling three large skittles!

We cannot wait to start our topic where we'll be juggling: English, where our class novel will be Claude at the Circus; Maths, where we’ll be investigating how money is involved in the circus; Computing and Design Technology, where we’ll be building and programming our own Crazy Clown robots; PE, where we’ll be creating circus dance sequences to music using props and the skills Richard taught us; History, where we’ll be researching how circuses have changed; Geography, where we’ll be mapping our own dream circuses and identifying where and why circuses are popular with different cultures around the world; Science, where we’ll be fair-testing materials for circus tents and thinking about how the circus can upcycle drinks bottles that people leave behind to help the travelling circus workers and performers; PSHE, where we'll be thinking about how animals are used in circuses and imagining life as a traveller; Art and Design, where we'll creating self-portraits as clowns! As if that wasn't enough, we'll all be bringing in our Circus homework projects for an exhibition on our Exit Point Day.

PHEW!

What a Choco-tastic Day in Year 4!

Year 4 had a choco-tastic time during our ‘Chocolate’ topic entry point day at Cadbury World where we learnt about how chocolate is made.  First we looked around the factory, learning about the history of Cadbury’s and how chocolate first came to Europe.  As we walked further into the factory we got to see some of the machinery that is used to produce and package chocolate bars.  As an added bonus, we were able to taste some melted chocolate with a choice of: white chocolate, popping candy and jelly babies as toppings.  At the end of the exhibition we were able to visit the 4D cinema, which we all thoroughly enjoyed.  To end our day we had a talk called ‘from bean to bar’ where we watched videos explaining how a cocoa bean is used to make chocolate.  To top off a fantastic day, we were given lots of free chocolate to take home and enjoy!

 

A delegation of Japanese educationalists, teachers and headteachers had a tour of the school late Friday afternoon as part of a one week visit to the United Kingdom.  Even though the children had gone home, I was still immensely proud of the school as the bright  and stimulating environment demonstrated the hard work and creativity of the children and staff.  Our visitors were hugely impressed  with the use of technology in the school along with the way the school's vision and values underpin the day to day work of the children and staff.