Following the French tradition , Middle IV children started the term with acelebration of ‘La Fête des Rois’, remembering the kings who brought gifts to the baby Jesus in the stable in Bethlehem. The lucky children who found the ‘fèves’ in their piece of the crown-shaped cake, were crowned as kings and given permission to…
Category: Middle IV
Carol Singing at Ing Royde
On Thursday afternoon Upper and Middle IV children visited our neighbours at Ing Royde residential home. The children sang a variety of Christmas carols with the residents and greatly enjoyed chatting to them afterwards.
Carol Singing at Lloyds Banking Group Head Office
On Thursday 12th December, children from Upper and Middle IV headed down the hill to Copley Data Centre to sing for the staff of Lloyds Bank. Teaming up with the musical talent of Ravenscliffe School, the children performed a number of Christmas favourites. Our children then went on to a second performance in the Trinity…
Chinese Dance Workshop
On Tuesday 12th November, Miss Lu from Arts of China in Manchester paid us a visit and MIV had the opportunity to learn about Chinese dance from her. The workshop started with an upbeat and energetic warm-up session. After that, the children practised some basic steps and elegant hand movements for the Hàn tribe（汉） Chinese dance.…
The Gleddings Language Competition
This year, we have helped to trial a new competition format for the Utalk Challenge (formerly the Junior Language Challenge). Our competition was held within school and was open to pupils from Lower IV – Upper IV. The children who chose to enter have been learning Spanish through the medium of computer games, on computers,…
Performance of the Week
This week’s performance features all the children of Form III, Lower IV and Middle IV singing our new song, “Higher and higher”:
Robin Wood Residential
Middle IV greatly enjoyed their trip to Robin Wood. They all took part in a wide range of activities that included: Archery Indoor Caving The Piranha Pool! The Crate Challenge The Trapeze Climbing and Abseiling Exploring the local rocky hillsides More photos from their trip can be seen here:
History in Middle IV
Middle IV have enjoyed learning about the American Revolution in History. The children carried out research in pairs on the Revolution using a range of online sources. They then had to present this research in the form of a poster and oral explanation of events to the rest of the class.