Class of 2019

The rain held off for us this morning, whilst we all enjoyed canoeing and kayaking on the lake. In the afternoon and evening we had a variety of activities to try out, including low ropes, crate stacking and axe throwing. 

The sun shone on us all day, as we climbed walls, built dens, negotiated the high ropes course and practised our aim in target shooting. We all took part in orienteering, with Mrs Anderson and Miss Huddleston narrowly winning (by one point!).

Year 6 set off for Lockerbie at lunchtime today. They have thrown themselves into the afternoon and evening’s activities with gusto, most of them ending the day covered in mud! 

Mrs Winder our resident Cheerleader talked to us today about the history of Cheerleading. She showed us some of the medals her and her team had won and we watched some experts show us how it was done. Mrs Winder then took us outside and taught us some of the basic moves.

Today Peter Nutsford came to talk to us about Endangered Animals of East Africa. He is a wildlife photographer and shared his photos, videos and experiences of mountain gorillas, rhinos and warthogs. Peter was amazing and the children enjoyed the presentation. At the end of the session Peter…

To help decorate our school for multicultural week we researched flags from around the world and chose one to draw ourselves.

As part of multicultural week we had a look at Mexico. 
We spoke about culture, food and music. 
We made guacamole to eat with tortilla chips. It was a bigger hit than the Greek salad!

We tried following an African dancing video as well as finding out more about the continent of Africa. 
In groups we then chose countries to research, we chose: Kenya, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Madagascar and Ghana. 
We created posters and presented them to the rest of the class. 
 

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To start Multicultural week we looked at Greece. 
We made Greek salad (with mixed reviews!) and looked at the evil eye tradition, by making our own evil eye charms out of salt dough.

In our geography lessons we have been looking at the UK and our local area. 
 

After a very warm walk to Williamson’s Park, we did some sketch drawings from the Ashton Memorial and spoke about human and physical features of Lancaster. 
We then had a walk around Friend’s Garden and had our…

Today we were lucky enough to have a taster cricket session. We practiced our batting skills as well as our fielding skills. 
 

Until the end of the year, our geography topic is the UK. Within this we will be practicing our map reading skills. Today we went outside to confirm our knowledge of an 8 point compass. We had a leader read aloud compass points and we had to throw the beanbag in the correct hula hoop. 
 

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