This week’s home learning is located in the Year 5 home learning drop down menu on the right hand side of this page.
Year 3’s Thanksgiving Mass
Today we had a Thanksgiving mass in school to celebrate many of the Year 3 class members taking their First Holy Communion recently.
It was a lovely chance for the children to celebrate this special occasion with each other. I also think they enjoyed getting to wear their special clothing and share it with their friends. They all looked so smart and grown-up!
Thank-you to the parents for sending in their outfits and for the kind donations of food and drinks for our celebration afterwards!
Year 5 Home Learning Summer Pt2 week 3
Dear Parents and Carers,
The English homework this week will be reading comprehension on evacuees and a Grammar sheet on word play.
For maths, everyone has been set some work on ‘mymaths’ ( fractions – Mr Creaton and Decimals- Mr Sallis)
Please complete the homework by Wednesday.
Children have been given hard copies of the English homework.
Thank you for your support,
Mr Creaton
Judaism Week
This week we were lucky to have Rush from Judaism for Schools to teach us about her faith. On Thursday she led a workshop for year 1 and provided lots of information about The Story of Moses which we have also be learning about during RE.
Year 1 had lots of fun learning about Judaism and sampling some of the food they have during Passover.
Miss Perry
Year 6 Isle of Wight Thursday
Wednesday evening:
More fun in the sea:
Thursday Morning 7 am:
“Morning boys”
(No answer)
Louder- “Wake up boys.”
“Ugh Ugh”
Yes, its getting increasingly difficult to get the boys up in the morning, so soundly are they sleeping after a day’s activities. Today is surfing then Robin Hill then the Disco – I’m already toying with the idea of a sharpened stick for tomorrow’ early morning wake-up call.
We went surfing with the same company as last year (I-Surf) and once again, they totally engaged with the children bringing the best out of them. The children had a thoroughly enjoyable time.
After this it was off to Robin Hill where we had lunch, tried the 4 D Cinema and Swinging Galleon Ride.
Then came the maze challenge.
For the maze challenge, two groups of boys are pitted against two teams of girls and they race against the clock to complete the maze. Mr Creaton and Mr Sallis coaching the boys while Mrs Hawkes coached the girls. I’m informed that in the last 15 years, the boys’ teams have only beaten the girls once. How can this be? That question was soon answered when Mrs Hawkes drilled the girls with her pre-maze prep talk with the conviction and ferocity akin to that of an competitive/ambitious mother to her baton-twirling, 9 year old daughter just before entering a Texan Beauty Pageant.
The girls beat the the boys again.
But there was a twist….
How about Mr Sallis and Mr Creaton V Mrs Hawkes and Mrs Butterworth? Game on.
Mrs Hawkes and Mrs Butterworth emerged from the maze in self-congratulatory mode only to see that Mr Creaton and Mr Sallis had already finished 1 second earlier. After it had sunk in, Mrs Hawkes gave a perfuntory ‘Well done’ and then went strangely quiet. However, she was later to recover her voice:
“I wouldn’t say we let you win, but we weren’t really trying”
and:
“Besides, the girls were still the overall winners”
and:
“It’s not really fair and doesn’t really count because Mr Sallis had a height advantage”.
Better luck next year Mrs Hawkes!
There was still some time for an ice-cream and a ride on the toboggan run before catching the tractor ‘train’ back to the car park.
Its time to pack the bags and get ready for tonight’s dico.
As a footnote, all the staff and pupils would like to say a big THANK YOU to Vinnie, our coach driver from Welham Travel, for whom, nothing was too much trouble and who has been proactive in helping us at every turn.
Year 6 Isle of Wight Wednesday
Tuesday Evening
Just as some meals look really delicious but taste bland, the sea looked l as calm and inviting as a tropical lagoon but was freezing! However, our children are made of stern stuff and were determined to not let the opportunity pass.
Wednesday Morning
Not a boy was awake at 7am when they received the early morning call and there was a similar story with the girls. Breakfast soon put things right and we headed off for Black Gang Chine.
When we arrived, some of the children spied the silhouette of the Cliffhanger (roller coaster) and felt that the occasion was ripe for some bravado: ( (loud voices) “Is that it?” and :“I’ve been on much more scary rides on my (all-inclusive) holiday last year” – the boys in the party had suddenly developed a swaggering gait. However, the children were soon to learn that talk is cheap and once on board: the squealing began; their voices went from baritone to falsetto;the swagger replaced with a wobble. It was a similar story at the water slide- “Plughole”.
There was much for the children to do and it was great seeing them enjoy the simpler pleasures of mazes, adventure parks and slides – some of us even forsook extra time in the gift shop for a visit to fairyland.
We’ve worn them out again but, just in case there are any children out there planning to keep the adults and others awake tonight, its off to the beach again after supper.
Year 6 Isle of Wight 2019 (Monday night and Tuesday)
The beach is just a short walk away and so we were able to play a couple of games of football on the beach.
Tuesday
Down to Alum Bay for our boat ride to the Needles followed by a chance to spend their allowance in the shops nearby.
The children were up by 7 am and ready for breakfast at half past. The children were well rested and ate heartily.
Carisbroke Castle- The weather was glorious as we played on the ramparts, wandered around the museum and keep and learnt about medieval weaponry and life in the castle in general
The needles.
After tea, it’s back to the beach (by popular request).
Year 5 Freedom and Responsibility
The themes of our next topic are inter-relating and reconciliation.
The Topic is called ” Freedom and Responsibility”.
The children we look at situations where responsibility has been given and how we are required to use our judgement and exercise our freedom sensibly.
In scripture , we will look at the Ten Commandments and discuss how rules give us the opportunity for choice and freedom.
How do the Ten Commandments contrast with the Beatitudes?
Finally, we will see how, when rules are broken, the need for forgiveness and reconciliation are paramount.
The Big Question for this topic is: How do rules bring freedom?
PRAYER:
God our Father, you have given us freedom in our lives.
With this freedom we can bring sorrow or joy to ourselves and to others.
Help us always to use our freedom in a responsible way.
We make this prayer through Christ our Lord. Amen.
FREEDOM & RESPONSIBILITY HOMEWORK TASK (For Monday 17 June)
Imagine you were asked to write a Class Charter of about five rules or guidelines.
Write and decorate your Class Charter .
Think about ( for discussion), why you chose these rules and guides and what actions should be taken if someone breaks the rules.
SPEC 2019 Thursday Evening / Friday Morning
Thursday PM
There were opportunities for chatting in the sunshine, perhaps some games or that final fine tune to the talent show act.
Then came learning about and preparing for Mass.
Father Mark gave Mass in the chapel and was brilliant with the children, explaining the theology and history behind the prayers and rituals during the Mass, making complex ideas very simple and well, obvious. Even the adults came away thinking: ‘So that’s why we do that’ or ‘I never thought of it that way before’.
The Talent Show
The evening started off with a rendition of ‘My Lighthouse’ by the Year 5 resident Boy-Band with everyone off their feet joining in with their coordinated moves and grooves. Then some breath taking gymnastics ; mesmerising magic from our own man of mystery; a brilliant solo dance display to ‘Count on Me’; powerful singing with vocal dexterity homage to Imagine Dragons; and finally we all went wild when an impromptu duet led us all through the routine for ‘Hold my Hand’.
After prayers it was bed.
In the words of Dinah Washington: ‘What a difference a day makes’. The children were begging to go to bed and a much quieter (and restful) night was had by all.
Friday Morning:
We’re all packed up. There is time for a few activities, a final explore and play before lunch and home.
The children have had a fantastic time. The setting has been breathtaking. Good, wholesome meals and above all, fabulaous staff here at SPEC who have made our stay one that will bring lifelong happy memories.
SPEC 2019 Thursday (daytime)
Breakfast over, it’s time for meditation and prayers. A very calming experience and for several of the boys – eyes closed, drifting away listening to the gentle strains of waves upon the shore proved to be too much after last night’s exertions and they had to be shaken from their slumber at the end of the meditation.
Next it was learning about the Mysteries of the Rosary which involved identifying certain mysteries to complete their own Rosary Beads. Then came artwork based on discipleship. Lunch and then more fun and games where the children had their latent, inner child of the 60s or 70s awakened and enjoyed the delights of running around playing tag or similar in the woods with not a an electrical device in sight.
That worked up our appetites!
Some work on the Beatitudes now before preparing for tonight’s Mass and of course taking some time out for rehearsing for the Talent Show.
