Year 3/4 and Yr 5/6 were involved in the fantastic team building Bridge STEM challenge this term. The aim was to build a bridge using Jenga sized pieces of wood, that had the widest gap in the middle.
Yr 3/4 managed a whopping 35cm! Best so far! Dare you take on the challenge?
KS2 had a fantastic day this week travelling through the decades of the 20th century. We sang the Blues in the 1920’s, danced our way through Swing and hand jived in to the 1950’s! It was all Peace and Love in the 1960’s (complete with duvets!) and we all realised we all knew a lot more about music from the 1970’s than we thought. Finally on our journey we took part in a Battle of the Bands in the 1990’s, along with our very own Liam Gallagher! The children gained an insight in to iconic music and artists from these decades as well as the cultural effects they had on the world. Of course, we all dressed up for the part, the order of the day definitely being David Bowie! From Elvis to the Spice Girls, Paul McCartney to Kate Bush we all looked (and sounded!) the part.
Just before Christmas we enjoyed another trip to Willow House with the Musical Connections project. We had fun singing and dancing and even had a snowball fight (with balloons!). Fishergate is very lucky to have a link with Willow House and are proud to be able to help older people in the community to enjoy music and socialising with others in a residential home environment. For more information on this project please see the Musical Connections website http://www.musicalconnections.org.uk/
KS1 & Year 3/4 Parent’s and Carers are invited to join us on Thursday 10th December at St Lawrence’s church at 2pm for a carol service joint with St Lawrence’s school. Please come along and join us if you can!
The book fair is back for November! Come along to browse and buy on the lower hall.
Wednesday 18th 3:15-3:45 – EYU
Thursday 19th 3:15-3:45 – KS1
Friday 20th 3:15-3:45 – KS2
Monday 23rd 3:15-3:45 – all years!
Our Y3/4 children were invited to the cemetery on Remembrance Day to lay special poppy crosses on the war graves. We had a very peaceful afternoon, with some real reflection, thinking about the people who had given their lives in battles since the First World War.
The children also observed a two minute silence at the War memorial at the cemetery and two children were chosen to lay a special poppy wreath in memory of the fallen soldiers. We feel very privileged to have been asked again to take place in this very important day by York Cemetery.
York Veterans shared their experiences of WWII with Y3/4 children as part of our learning about Rememberance.
The Yr 3/ 4 children enjoyed making Hawaiian bread as part of the global introduction to the year….
…and it tasted scrumptious!
As part of our Summer topic, ‘Living Things’ we had fun over at the cemetery finding and investigating different habitats. The highlight by far, as voted by the children, was the pond dipping. We found and used some classification keys and pictures to label loads of amazing pond creatures!
We watched this video from the code.org website to help us think about how we can work effectively as a team when using technology. Sometimes two heads are better than one!
