This talented little boy played for the first time in Celebration assembly. He was very excited and note perfect. What a brilliant performance!

These children are working together to create their favourite piece of playground equipment.

On Wednesday 19th May Upper IV had their suitcases packed ready for the residential trip to Dobroyd Castle in Todmorden.

The weather was good, the food was excellent and all the activities proved to be fun yet challenging.

We all returned on the 20th May exhausted, but we had a wonderful time.

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Upper IV have been looking at people in action, in particular the interesting shapes that bodies create when they are “in  action”. Here the children have chosen an interesting figure to use as a stencil, then very carefully they draw around the shape using felt tip pens to create a visually creative piece of work.

The children have been learning about journeys. They have looked at maps, in particular signs and symbols that are used, here the children are creating Aboriginal inspired paintings using lines, dots and symbols just like the Aborigines use. The children use the bristles and the wooden end of the brush to achieve fantastic results.

On Thursday 20th May Lower IV visited Crossley Heath Grammar School as part of their ongoing learning this term about library and thinking skills. 24 children and 3 members of staff had a very pleasant walk in the sunshine to and from Crossley Heath to visit their Learning Resource Centre (LRC).

The LRC at Crossley Heath is an area which combines a library, multi-media, magazines and newspapers, as well as linking their VLE (Virtual Learning Environment), which is a system that pupils can use to complete some of their homework on line and send it direct to their teachers. It even lets children do their photocopying and printing as well as allowing them to buy their pencils, rubbers, rulers when they might have mislaid them at home!

Mrs Taylor, who is responsible for looking after the LRC, very kindly took us through the school and told us some of its very interesting history, as well as explaining how the LRC works. On the way to the LRC, the children enjoyed looking at some fantastic art exhibitions throughout the school, which had been displayed at last week’s art show . The children were provided with tasks to complete, by finding books and magazines in a very big LRC, and asked some very interesting questions.

Charlie and Edward managed to hunt out a copy of the Rugby magazine from the LRC, which particularly made their day. James, Carmen and Hannah had fun  trying on some of the old school hats that were part of the uniform many years ago. Dylan and Angus swiftly sorted out the computer catalogue system, whilst you will see many of the other children enjoying reading books and magazines. Mrs Taylor showed Freya and Ruby a fabulous scrap book which contains cuttings and notes from many years ago when the boarders and orphans wrote about their trips and visits to local places.

 All of us had a wonderful time and were only disappointed to learn that we couldn’t spend more time at the school.

Members of Lower School Choir meet up every Tuesday afternoon.  The choir members enjoy various singing for fun activities.  They always do a fantastic job when they perform in our Birthday Assemblies.

This week we made lamb kofte with a spicy tomato sauce served with pitta bread.  Minced lamb was mixed with onion, ground coriander and fresh mint then formed into sausage shapes.  We used harissa, a spicy chilli paste, to give our tomato sauce a fiery kick!

Harvesting the mint.

Chopping the red onion.

Forming the kofte.

Tasting!

MIV in action during a tennis lesson.