Year 3 Mixed Football Tournament

On Monday 29^th September some year 3 children (Lily, Anna, Harrison, Josh, Madison and Adam) represented Chilcote in a Baverstock sports partnership mixed 5-aside football tournament.  The tournament was held at Baverstock Academy. The children played 2 matches against 2 different schools. Firstly, they played The Oaks in a tough match. The Oaks took the lead and then grabbed a second goal, which meant they lead 2v0 at half time. The Chilcote team rallied and finally started to take their chances. They managed to score three goals in the second half to win the match 3v2. Chilcote’s next opponents were Hollywood who had beaten The Oaks 3v0, so this meant whoever won this match won the tournament. It was going to be a tough match. Chilcote made a flying start to the match and scored to go 1v0 up. Hollywood then equalised just before half time. Early in the second half Hollywood took the lead, but Chilcote battled back to grab the equaliser. Hollywood took the lead two more times, but each time Chilcote managed to get an equaliser. The match ended 4v4, and was a thrilling game. There was then a period of golden goal extra-time. Both teams had a good chance to score but spurned it. The match was eventually decided by a penalty shootout, with Hollywood triumphing 1v0 after 3 penalties each. The team should be very proud of their efforts as they did really well!!!

Year 2's Trip to Tesco

This week, we took a terrific trip to Tesco in Monkspath.

When we arrived, we were given our hats (to stop hair falling into the food!) and headed to the bakery where we discovered how the bread is made. To tie-in with our Computing unit, we learned how computers controlled all the machines. We also put icing on our very own cookies.

Next, we searched the fruit aisle to spot different colours. Whilst we were there, we beat the teachers and parents 4-0 in the food quiz and their penalty was to spend two minutes in the freezer at -22c. Brrrrrrrr!

After that, we identified different species of fish and tasted different varieties of cheese before heading off to the staff room for some fruity snacks and bread tasting.

Overall, it was an infor-licious day!

Trip to the Allotment.

On Wednesday afternoon we, Year 5, walked down to the local allotment and met Colin who told us all about vegetables. We needed to find out about growing vegetables for our mission to Mars, we could hardly nip down the local supermarket if we are on Mars. We interviewed Colin about how best to grow our favourite vegetables. It was a great afternoon out and the weather was fab too.

MISSION TO MARS!

 

We have had a great start to the year! We have started out TOPIC: MISSION TO MARS!

Last week we had our ENTRY POINT DAY. We trained hard in the morning to improve our physical fitness as you have to be fit to be an astronaut! In the afternoon we learnt to input sequences into devices such as roamers and Lego space craft so we could control our moon landing craft.

 

Year 1 Entry Point Day

On Thursday Year 1 had a very exciting adventure to the forest school and the local allotments to celebrate the start of our new IPC topic "Our World".   We played an exciting game of "123 where are you?" to help us learn about keeping safe in the forest environment.   

We great fun collecting a variety of natural resources such as feathers, acorns, fir cones and different leaves which we used to create some fabulous art work in the style of the artist Andy Goldsworthy.
  

Year 2 Science: Materials Testers

As part of our Topic, ‘Hooray . . . Let’s go on holiday!’, we’ve been looking at materials that have the right combination of properties for a suitcase. First, we watched two inspiring videos; we learned about the journey of a suitcase through an airport and how scientists test materials.

We then sketched out our plans for an investigation and thought about health and safety. We decided to make it a fair test by keeping the size and shape of the materials the same. After that, it was time to carry out our water-soaking, playground-dragging, hammer-smashing tests! We concluded that plastic was the best material: it had all the right properties to survive airports.

Year 6 Boys Football Tournament

On Friday 12^th September the Chilcote year 6 boys team played their first tournament of the year at Maypole FC. They were competing against 7 other schools. In the first game they played Yardley Wood and thanks to a Johnny goal won the match 1v0. After that, they played St Martins school and had a tightly contested game with few chances. It finished 0v0. The final group game was against Wheelers Lane and Chilcote needed to win. Unfortunately, the boys fell to sleep on their own goal kick and conceded a sloppy goal. This meant they lost the match 1v0. The boys didn’t qualify for the semi-finals but there were lots of positives in their first tournament. Well done boys!!!  

Year 2: Topic Entry Point Day

For our entry point to our new topic, ‘Hooray . . . Let’s go on holiday!’, we had a fantastic and memorable day by: being travel agents and using a computer database; booking our own holiday and organizing our passports; checking our luggage in and going through security; taking off in a plane and enjoying the in-flight entertainment, then finally arriving where we relaxed in the sunshine on our towels.  Luckily, the flight arrived back just in time for our parents to pick us up!

“My favourite bit was on the plane when we took off.” Grace, Lewis and Ben

“It was fun when we went through security to be scanned.” Max

“The best part was when we landed and sunbathed outside.” Tayla and Aleena

New Headteacher - EYFS and KS1

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Year 2 Computing: Lego WeDo Crazy Clown Circus Robots

New Headteacher - Years 3,4,5,6

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CaR pilot

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Thank you

We just wanted to say thank you for such a wonderful year, we have really enjoyed teaching your children. They have all made great progress and have shown a great amount of enthusiasm for learning. Thank you for all of the lovely gifts you have given us and we would like to wish you all a lovely, restful summer break.

Just one last thing, Miss Fellows' partner and Mrs Williams husband are walking 120 miles in 4 days starting at Beacon Hill and finishing at Barmouth Bridge. They are doing this for the Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group and will begin their challenge on August 22nd, with the hope of completing it on August 25th. If you would like to donate towards this amazing challenge, please visit the team's page at
uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/Walk4Dais

Thanks for a fabulous year.
Miss Fellows. Miss Amies, Miss Brown and Miss Casey.

Fantastic Football Kits in 2 Willow!

As part of our Health Week work we have been designing new and improved football kits for the World Cup teams. Today we got to transfer our designs onto t-shirts that we brought in from home. We worked so hard on these and our teachers were very proud of us! Here are some pictures of our wonderful work:



Year 4: Health Week AND Chocolate topic!

During Health Week, each year group was given a country to focus on. We have been looking at the United States of America. This fitted in well because in Design Technology we have been creating our own healthy chocolate bars as part of our Chocolate topic. In Science and PSHE and ICT, we discovered that sugar is highly addictive. This might explain why some sources we researched said over 70 million people in the USA are obese (this means dangerously overweight).

So, we designed and made chocolate bars that had less chocolate and more healthy ingredients in its place. It was great to be able to use of lot of what we had learned from our trip to Cadbury World. In Art and Design, we created packaging. In ICT, we wrote and developed animatics for TV ads that promoted our new chocolate brands by using the GarageBand and iMovie apps.

Overall, we decided that while we all loved chocolate, we have a responsibility to ourselves and to society not to eat too much of it! Check out some of our final products below . . .

 

 

 

 

YEAR 3 and MEXICO

 

 

Year 3 have been finding out about Mexico and the Mexican football team. We have also made Day of the Dead masks, this is a famous festival where people remember family and friends that have died. We have had a great week!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Greetings from France!

As part of health week the children in Reception designed and made their own salads! We started by tasting the different salad options and choosing which ones we would like. We tried carrots, peppers, beetroot, sweetcorn, celery, raisins, tomatoes and cucumber! Having designed our salads we then had great fun making  them and choosing our favourite dip! We then did the all important part of eating it. We also learnt about the importance of evaluating our salad afterwards and thinking about what we might do differently if we made it again.

We also learnt lots of facts about our world cup country, France!! We started by finding out where France is in the world using Google Earth. We learnt that France is in Europe and that you could sail to France on a ferry in no time at all! We know that the capital city is called Paris and has a big river called La Seine running through it. In Paris there is also a very famous tower called the Eiffel Tower! We learnt about the flag and how to count and say simple phrases in French!
We were very interested in learning about the different kinds of food you might eat in France.  We know in France they like to eat French onion soup, lots of smelly cheese, snails and frogs legs!!!

 

We didn’t fancy trying any snails or frogs legs but our teachers thought it would be a nice idea to have a French breakfast! We all tried crossaints, brioche, pain au chocolat, baguette and jam – it was yummy!!

Health Week in Year 2!

We have had lots of fun this week in Year 2 celebrating Health Week! We especially enjoyed hearing from our special visitors: a paramedic, police officers and some lovely ladies from Tesco who brought lots of fantastic, healthy food for us to try!

This week we have also been learning lots about Brazil because this is the team year 2 have been following in the World Cup. We found out about what this country is like, which sports are popular in Brazil, the wonderful carnivals that happen there and we have been trying delicious fruits from Brazil too! Our favourite part of the week has been designing new football kits for the Brazilian football team!



Year 6 Health Week

In Year 6, for health week our chosen country is Argentina. As the World Cup is on the same week as health week, we used the iPads to research about our chosen team, and have found some amazing as well as fascinating facts:

Did you know?

• ·        Argentina’s official language is Spanish.
• ·        The currency of Argentina is the peso.
• ·        The name of Argentina in Latin is silver.
• ·        Did you know that the official name of Argentina was the Argentina Republic?
• ·        Argentina has a population of 42 million people!
• ·        Can you believe that there are 30 national parks in Argentina?

As well as researching about Argentina, Year 6 have also been cooking healthy curries! We made these from scratch – there wasn’t a jar in sight! Have a look at some of our photos and let us know what you think.

Thanks, Izaah and Olivia.