Pupils learn about Egyptians, the Japanese and... Narnians?

New to the website this week, we have some great work from year 3 and year 4.

Earlier on this month, a group of 16 secondary school students from St Mary's C of E School in Japan visited Moor Hall Primary to perform a few songs for our pupils, and to teach them about various aspects of Japanese culture.

If you visit Year 3's page, you can view pictures of them learning some Japanese calligraphy and trying their hands at origami!

Jumping to a completely different culture, Year 4 have been continuing learning about the Ancient Egyptians - this time by dressing up as them!

On top of this, they have been practising their fantasy-writing skills during literacy, by noting down the thoughts and feelings of Lucy as she entered the world of Narnia. There's been some great results to this - have a look at them on the Year 4 page!

Year 3 - Japanese Visit
Year 4 - Egyptian Dress Up & Narnia Fantasy Writing

Abernant Day 4 continued...

Abernant Day 4

So the rain held off for a lovely morning's activities...... children enjoyed climbing and had great fun on the blind trail and loved the archery. Highlights of the day included lots of screaming children on top of the climbing wall; Mrs Clewer washing her hair; children caked in mud from head to toe and the washing down of muddy clothes.

You will all be very pleased to hear that the children are very weary and we are hoping for an earely night!! Please stock up on washing powder in preparation for the contents of their suitcases!

Day 3 pics continued....

Abernant Day 3 - More mud!!

Another fabulous and eventful day. After a hearty breakfast and a lot of deliberation about the best clothing to wear, the morning activities commenced!These were all centred around the lake and involved canoes, kayaks and water.... Mrs Menmuir soon discovered that the lake wasnt anywhere near as deep as it looked!

During the evening the children went for a long walk in the dark - the instructors commented on how excellent they were as a group. Children concluded the day with a very much needed sleep.

(Further updates this evening after 9pm.)

Abernant Day 2

Despite typical Welsh weather conditions we have had a wonderful day. Some of the activities we have done are low ropes, blind trail, survival skills, fencing and (a very long and wet) hill walk.

The children certainly got extremely wet and muddy.












Fencing

Year 4 Egyptian Work Continues... (& More)

This week, year 4 have been carrying on with their Egyptian art work with models of the River Nile, camels and tombs being constructed!

Also, as the weather has been getting a bit better, they have been outside to start on the first spot of gardening for 2010!

See examples of their work and pictures of them gardening on their work page:
Year 4 - More Egyptian Work & First Gardening of the Year

The coach journey!!

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Sunshine in Wales

Team games in the sunshine.

Orienteering - Monday evening

First photographs from Abernant.

10.15 Abernant Day 1

We've arrived!
After a very long coach journey we finally arrived in sunny (yes sunny!) Wales. All of class 5 have settled into their rooms well and made it very homely (I mean messy!). The first night meal of toad in the hole and apple crumble went down a treat, however there was still room for sweets before bedtime! Everyone is settled in bed now and looking forward to an exciting day tomorrow.

ABERNANT (and 10,000th log in!!!)

Children left school this morning at 10.33 all very excited about their visit to the Abernant Lake Hotel.

Communication about arrival will be via text. We hope to post the first pictures to you by 8pm this evening. There will be daily updates .... so keep an eye on our website.

We will be very interested who will be the 10,000th log in!! This is really very positive as the website has only been opened for a few months and is proving to be very popular.

New Work on the Website

This week we have a few new bits of work on the website.

Year 3 have been doing some work on instruction writing during their literacy lessons, and have also tested their craft skills by making Mother's Day cards!

Year 4 have been working up a sweat with some cricket training with Warwickshire County Cricket Club. Some photos of them hard at work are up on Year 4's page!

Have a look at all these pieces of work at the links below:
Year 3 - Instruction Text & Mother's Day Cards
Year 4 - Cricket Training

Year 4's Egyptian Project Continues

Year 4 have continued to work hard on their project on Egypt.

This week, they have been learning about mummies and sarcophagi!

Take a look on their work page to see the latest from their project:

Year 4 - Egyptian Project (Week 3)

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Website Updates This Week

There are a few new bits on the website this week, including an update to the events page with a few photos from Moor Hall's "Hats For Haiti" fundraising campaign.

Alongside this, we have some additional new work up on the Children's Pages:
Year 3 - SEAL Work
Year 4 - Egypt Project (Weeks 1 and 2)