Year 2 Independently writing about the impact of our changing world on polar bears.Â
Classes
Year 6 SATs
This week, our Super Year 6s have show dedication, resilience and determination in seeing their SATs through. We would like to say how incredibly proud we are of all of the children. They have tackled a wide range of questions based on Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling, Reading, Maths Arithmetic and Maths Reasoning. They have dug deep to show off the best of their knowledge and they know that they are so much ‘more than the score’ of their test papers. Here are some photos taken following the final test, demonstrating how witty, insightful and imaginative they are: see them taking part in some drama led by Mrs Church!
Henry Blogg Museum Visit
Reception Coots went by train to the Henry Blogg museum in Cromer.Â
Norfolk County Music Festival
We took two musical groups to play at this year’s Norfolk County Music Festival: a Year 4/5/6 ukulele orchestra (with a few guitars and a keyboard) and our Salsa Band (veterans of two previous County Music Festivals). As you can see from the videos, the children were incredible. Salsa Band kicked off the show with a Latin medley, before our ukulele orchestra played three songs: ‘So What’ (by Miles Davis), ‘How Great Thou Art’ and ‘House of the Rising Sun/Amazing Grace’.
This was a fantastic opportunity for the children and we are very grateful to our extended musical family: Mr Weitz, Salsa Band leader; Mrs Wright, our choir leader who worked on vocal harmonies; and Mr Bell from the Norfolk Music Hub who taught the children jazz improvisation on the ukulele.
Singing Assembly 7.3.23
Today we had special performances from Toby and Blossom. Since his last guitar performance, he has passed Grade 1 and is now working on some Grade 2 pieces. Blossom, meanwhile, has been hard at work on the piano and she demonstrated how she likes to sing the notes she is playing on the keys. Finally, Grebes played some jazz ukulele to Miles Davis’s ‘So What’ and Frankie even volunteered to improvise a solo on the spot!
Collective Worship 6.3.23
Mrs Church told the story of Jeremiah, an important Old Testament prophet, who was given a very difficult choice: stop telling people about God or else go to prison or even get hurt. What would you do?
Children voted: Jeremiah should show Courage and Perseverance and continue to do what he believed was right, even though it was dangerous.
And that is exactly what Jeremiah did.
Mrs Church interviewed teachers and children with these three questions:
- From 1-10, how much do you think you persevere?
- Can you remember a time when you persevered and it had an impact on you or somebody else?
- What are you persevering with right now?
Mrs King has persevered in learning about her ancestry. Noah persevered in a tough football match. Daniil has persevered to learn six languages. (SIX!) How about you?
Grebes – Music 28.2.23
Currently Grebes are learning to play So What by jazz legend Miles Davis.Â
We have learned to play the chords and are just beginning to learn the C Lydian scale so we can write and improvise our own melodies to go with the backing track. (Click here to hear the backing track.) We also enjoyed this jazzy version of a song we learned before Half-Term, Bon Jovi’s ‘Livin’ On A Prayer’.Â
