Visit to St John’s Church

On Friday 17th May Mrs Cogbills Class and Mrs Kings Class visited St. John’s Church on the Graig. This visit was linked to our R.E. work on the ‘Church and Community’.

Father Michael greeted us and spoke to us about his role in the church and the wider community. He then went on to explain all about the different internal features of the church. Pupils in both classes answered questions sensibly and asked their own questions too.

We were then allowed to wander around the church to look more closely at its features. We particularly enjoyed playing the organ and ringing the church bell!

We all agreed that St John’s is a beautiful church.

The visit has really helped us with our learning and we are looking forward to doing follow up lessons with Mrs Jones and Mrs Jones when we are back in class. We took lots of photographs to help us with our future work in our R.E. lessons.

Many thanks to ‘All at St. John’s’ and to Mrs Jones and Mrs Jones for arranging our visit. 

 

Our New iPad!

Our New iPad

This week our class received a brand new Apple iPad. It has caused much excitement!! We will be using it to improve our I.T. skills and to help us develop our skills across a variety of subjects.

We have all been learning how to use the iMovie App. Pupils in Year 6 have been helping us to create our own film trailers, on a variety of themes such as ‘Expedition’, ‘Fairy Tale’, ‘Scary’ and ‘Superhero’.

We have also been using the Maths Evolve App to help us with our Maths skills. We have particularly enjoyed the multiplication games. Mrs King is really hoping it will improve our times tables!!!

Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown

For Literacy week the class were reading Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown.  The class really enjoyed reading the book. Pupils have all written a letter to a 'famous person' asking them to have their photograph taken with the Flat Stanleys they have made.
When we googled Flat Stanley, we found out that Barack Obama and Clint Eastwood have had their photos taken with Flat Stanley.
We have used our measuring skills to make an accurately sized model of Stanley.  Our lovely work has been put on display in the class writing corner and in the hall.