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We thoroughly enjoyed our workshop this afternoon with Kirsty from Compass. It was a fantastic opportunity to talk about healthy relationships and discuss how to manage turbulent times by communicating honestly in respectful ways to overcome our problems. We're looking forward to more wonderful workshops with you to focus such valuable time on learning strategies to mange our emotional and mental wellbeing. 
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In years 5 and 6, we were lucky enough to receive a visit from the Mayor of Barnsley (Cllr Caroline Makinson) who visited us to award some of our Year 6 children with certificates for a competition that they entered last year. The competition was for children to draw their Key Worker heroes from the Pandemic. The winning entries were then created into a Bronze Relief which has formed part of the Covid Memorial Sculpture and can be seen in Barnsley Town Centre. The five children who also entered, but didn't win were also awarded a certificate. Well done everyone! Whilst the Mayor was here, we also asked if she could present our Learners of the Week certificates which she was more than happy to do. We had a fabulous day celebrating reading and sharing our favourite books today. Thank you to everyone for joining in with cool costumes and great ideas.  Our Year 6 children have shown great resilience and patience finishing off their wonderful Greek Headdresses. There were a lot of tricky skills involved in modelling with the wire, attaching pieces to strengthen their designs and getting the Modroc to stay where they wanted it, but they have done a fabulous job and really enjoyed decorating them. Keep posted for our finished Y5 designs coming soon... I was really impressed with everyone in Class 8 this week in our dance lesson. The children worked in groups to choreograph their own 1 minute 30 second routine to demonstrate our learning in PE over the last few weeks. Every group incorporated canon, unison and travelling; it was not easy and lots of people felt a bit shy but they were incredibly brave and showed wonderful kindness and support towards each other. It was a real treat to see some excellent leaders shine in the groups too- they really helped out their teams. We have been learning all about Anglo-Saxon Britain in history this week and there were clues hidden all around our classroom so we could find out lots about daily life in the early middle ages. We had to hunt for clues in teams and then work out which (if any) of our questions the information would answer. It was great fun and we worked incredibly well together. We have created a beautiful display of space art work. First, we explored the colours of the planets using water colours, pencils, chalk and pastels. Then, we tried to recreate the colours of each planet using marbling inks. Initially, it was tricky to get the ink to behave as we wanted but with some good persevering we have created a fabulous solar system display with classes 7 and 9; we are really proud of it. Joseph really brought the story alive in our class today with different characters and anecdotes to help us think about remembrance. It helped us to understand and respect how people's faith can help them through difficult times. Thank you for a great workshop. What an amazing time we had at the National Space Centre Museum! We loved exploring the galleries and finding out all about the space race, what it is like for an astronaut to travel and work in space and explored wonders of the universe. The planetarium show was incredible and we felt as though we were travelling through space. We explored how gravity works on different planets, how planets orbit the sun in our solar system and even managed to experience what it might be like to be an astronaut by climbing into replica space rocket, which was a very tight squeeze, and communicating to Earth using the communication system.    We had a fabulous time making our salads this week. The art room was bursting with delicious, fresh scents of the Mediterranean foods we used and everyone worked so well: sharing, safely cutting and preparing their food together. Great job Class 8!  |
Class 8
Claire Belfield
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