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?
Y5/6 have been listening to Vaughan William’s ‘Lark Ascending.’ This piece of music is a musical setting of George Meredith’s poem of the same name. ‘The Lark Ascending’ has a beautiful violin melody, depicting the soaring skylark flying above the fields near Margate. The piece was written just as WW1 was breaking out and, a hundred years later, it is still shoing its enduring appeal – in both 2014 and 2015 it topped the Classic FM poll and was voted the nation’s favourite piece of music!
The children responded to the piece of music in different ways, including painting, writing a word picture, and creating a composition which contrasts the peacefulness of the bird, with the horror of war.
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.
On Wednesday 20th January Year 5/6 children really enjoyed a samba workshop! They had opportunity to play some rhythm based games, and learnt how to perform a samba on a selection of Latin American instruments including ganzas, agogos, tambours and drums. It sounded great! It also tied in brilliantly with the work we have been doing in class, as we have been learning all about Bernstein’s ‘Mambo’ from ‘Symphonic Dances’ from ‘West Side Story.’ Amazing!
As part of our R.E. lesson Year 5/6 paid a visit to York Mosque on Wednesday 18th November. We were enthusiastically and warmly greeted by the Imam, Abid Salik, who spent around an hour talking to our children. Although the trip was fundamentally to learn about the teachings of Islam and the way York Mosque serves the local community, the Imam was open to all the children’s questions. He answered with humour and sensitivity. He then went on to talk about the terrible situation in Paris, how the perpetrators ‘do not represent Islam’. We then held a minute’s silence, which felt even more poignant within the Mosque.
I am sure all the children came home full of wonderful stories about their morning spent at the York Mosque! We were made to feel very welcome and it is well worth a visit.
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