Weekly update - Monday 29th June 2020

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Madison Cooper - Crossing three different subject areas watching Asterix and Obelix; researching French artists and looking

into French scientists— all part of her Great French Challenge.

Wonderful Wall of Work

Send in your work or experiences and we can share them on our newsletter.

Use this QR code to watch some of our

year 7 keywork children perform the

Cup Song together. Well done to Evie

Hamilton, Mazie-May Johnson, Grace

Lipscome and Faith Bishop.

Ethan Preston 7MP sharing his lockdown experiences as a

picture collage.

Stan

Wasinski in 7MP

designing a Top

Trumps game as

part of his

Maths chal-

lenge.

Patryk

Budzik’s

(5MD) home

learning

about D Day.

Year 6 teambuilding

An impromptu forest school session broke out during the glorious weather this week. The trees had been trimmed and left lots of great branches for den making. Ellie noticed that we were collaborating and communicating well, while building a great den that allowed everyone to remain socially distanced in their own section.

Calling all children aged 4-11 years – sign up to the...

‘Silly Squad Summer Reading Challenge 2020!’

The annual Summer Reading Challenge for children aged 4-11 years is being delivered online this year and offers a perfect solution for a summer term project that supports reading and literacy and helps promote reading for pleasure. This year’s challenge launched nationally on Friday 5th June. The theme is Silly Squad with a focus on the enjoyment of reading for pleasure; children are encouraged to read anything that makes them happy and can register for the challenge here - https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/ They can read books available at home, provided by school or those free to download and borrow from Worcestershire Libraries. Remember, library membership is free and Worcestershire residents of all ages can join instantly online with a digital membership – a wide range of junior fiction is available from the digital library including a dedicated ‘Silly Squad’ collection of books in ebook and eaudio format using the ‘Borrowbox’ app.

Book Review—Please send your book reviews either to your teacher or directly to Mr.Daly

The Midnight Gang by David Walliams

This book is about injured hospital children that sneak out every night with the porter (who has no name!) to make dreams come true. I really enjoyed reading this story because much like most of Walliams writing, it is hilariously funny! It was also a very heart-warming experience. However, at some points it was also very sad as there was a mean paediatrician (a doctor who looks after children) who was very strict with the children. The book follows the story of Tom, a child who was hit on the head by a baseball by his mean boarding school principal. I would recommend this book to people who like to laugh and if you like it very much (which I know you will) there is also a film that is just as exciting.

Reviewed by Alex Taylor

Epraise points for this week -

If you send in your work, you will be

given Epraise points from your tutor.

Here are this week’s winners.

Top 10 students:

1. James Claridge 2. Mazie-May Johnson 3. Jakub Urban 4. Charlotte Evans

5. Jack Blake

6. Caitlyn Cleavely

7. Ellie-Mae Lloyd

8. Sam Bench

9. Daniel Moore

10. Vida Pearce

Top tutor Group this week:

6JD

Mathematical Minds— email your answers to Miss Dyer

Writing competition opportunity

500 Words Competition – Black Lives Matter.

A Black Lives Matter edition of 500 Words is being launched as the competition celebrates its tenth anniversary this month. This edition of the competition is for children aged 5-13 from all ethnicities and backgrounds. Children are asked to submit pieces of creative writing expressing

personal experience, empathy, learning and respect, building on the international conversation around Black Lives Matter in no more than 500 words.

The judging panel will consist of Angellica Bell and Michael Underwood who will be joined by former Children’s Laureate Malorie Blackman OBE; actor, comedian and author Charlie Higson; children’s author Francesca Simon, and screenwriter and novelist Frank Cottrell-Boyce. The competition runs from 6.30am Monday 29th June until Friday 3rd July 11.59pm. For more information visit https://500words.me/

Home | 500 Words

The Difference We Hope To Make. 500 Words celebrated its 10th anniversary during its 2020 Final on Friday 12th June. Hot on its heels, the new competition issues a brief intended to encourage important conversations at home, at school and across the nation, on the themes and issues emerging from the Black Lives Matter movements around the world.

Science at Home—The year 7’s were asked to create their own experiment on

diffusion at home. Duncan Chester has sent in pictures of his experiment,

method and some of his findings.

Week Four – Selfies

There are many examples of photographic Selfies in which the subject's face is obscured. This effect is a special feature of photography that doesn't feature so much in painting. The camera flattens three dimensional space so that some-thing in the foreground can appear to be on the same level as something else in the background.

Using either make-up, costumes, props or objects create a Selfie with all or part of your face obscured. Be creative and have fun! Deadline Monday 6th July - 3pm.

Last week’s entries: Capture a Moment.

Above and right: Nathaniel Bryan Y7.

Above and below: Patrik Budzik Y5

Megan Beaman Y7

Left and below Ella Poulton– Rowberry Y8

Write a Haiku

WRITE A HAIKU ABOUT OUR WORLD

YOU CAN DECIDE ON WHAT THAT MEANS TO YOU

COMPETITION DEADLINE:

FRIDAY 3RD JULY

What is a haiku?

• It is an ancient form of poetry that originated in Japan

• It has a simple structure based on the number of syllables in each line (5,7,5)

• Haikus are usually written about nature or one moment in time

• They are rarely given titles