Around The Classes

Pre-Prep Music

In our music lessons this term classes in PrePrep have been learning a song about Winter, called When the cold wind blows. This song mentions things that happen in Winter, such as bare trees, animals hibernating, birds flying south, snow, short days and long nights. Pupils added actions and worked hard to learn the words from memory.

After all their practising they were very keen to perform it to their friends in the Upper School and, now that we are able to have assemblies together, they gave a fantastic performance on Tuesday. 

Mrs Barnes
Director of Music
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Florence Nightingale Calls On Year 1

Year 1 took on the roles of nurses and soldiers when they met with the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale, during a special drama workshop with The Freshwater Theatre Company.  The classes are studying Florence in their History lessons and the workshop really helped to bring the topic alive.

Florence visited the school to tell the children all about her life. Starting with her childhood, her governess and her lessons and then onto her travels and her motivation to become a nurse. The children enjoyed engaging with drama activities such as role play and tableaux to explore her life.

Year 1 became nurses and travelled to the old Barrack Hospital in Scutari, her base during the Crimean War.  They then re-enacted life in hospital, improving the conditions by taking on tasks such as cleaning and caring for the soldiers. They also heard about the work of Mary Seacole who set up the British Hospital behind the lines in the war.

Mrs Symons commented, “The children were really impressed with Florence Nightingale, and enjoyed the practical hands-on experience of the session. They discovered lots about her life and her nursing legacy and came back to their classrooms enthused and excited and able to share lots of information.”

The children said "Florence Nightingale came to Crescent this week to tell Year 1 children all about her life.  We found out that she lived in Victorian times, she really wanted to be a nurse and she was excellent at cleaning hospitals. We loved it when some of us got to be nurses and bandage the injured soldiers".

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Class 1LS Learn About St Valentine

Class 1LS learned all about St Valentine this week and made cards to celebrate for our family and friends. It was lots of fun choosing who to give them to.

Mrs Symons
Class 1LS Form Teacher
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Year 3 Maths – Perimeter In Real Life

To finish off their work on perimeter in maths, this week 3Y broke out the trundle wheels and headed out on to the play ground to calculate some perimeters in real life! They were able to accurately measure all the way around the outside of the playground, the playzone, the gazebos… and even double checked to see whether Mr Knowles had painted his netball courts the correct size!

Mr Adkins
Class 3Y Maths Teacher

 

WW2 Day

A flurry of evacuees arrived in school on Monday morning, all set for a morning of activities to bring to life the Second World War. The children looked every inch the part with their gas mask boxes and name labels.

We were joined virtually by George the WW2 ARP warden. He regaled us with details of life on the home front during the war and was able to show the children the different types of gas masks that were used. He went into detail about the types of bombs which were used and even had some fragments to show us. We discussed rationing and the children had great fun making their own WW2 carrot cookies which would have been made from the weekly rations. They tasted delicious! 

The children really enjoyed being evacuees for the day but were very glad to be returning to their own homes at the end of the day.

Thank you to all of the parents for their excellent costumes and support of the day.

Mrs Yates
Head of History
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Year 4 WW2 History Project

Year 4 really embraced their World War Two homework project. The work they produced showed a range of historical skills including research and interviewing of people who experienced WW2 firsthand.

Many of the children were able to find out and present information about people in their own families who had been involved in the war and enjoyed sharing these stories with the class.

The creativity and level of detail in the projects shows the effort the children have put into their work and it makes a great display in school. Thanks to all the children and families for their efforts.

Mrs Yates
Class 4M History Teacher
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Class 4M Do An 'Imagination Workout'

After our fantastic Growth Mindset Day on Friday, we carried on the theme over the weekend, where the children completed the 'Imagination Workout' - a creative activity where they have a grid of twelve squares, each with a mark or shape inside.

The challenge is to turn these marks into pictures and images as creatively as possible.

The results awere brilliant, and very creative, and I can't wait to put them on our wall. Here are some examples.

Well done, 4M!

Mrs Monteith
Class 4M Form Teacher
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Art Competition- Queen's Platinum Jubilee

Creative kids can contribute to a unique art project to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee by helping to decorate a giant rugby ball.

The Arts Development Team at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum have launched a project to decorate a giant rugby ball with designs from primary school children, with the ball taking pride of place in the town centre during the jubilee celebrations.

In Art this week, Years 3 and 4 have been creating imaginative and brightly coloured artworks that celebrate the Queen's historic reign.

Mrs Thackway
Art Teacher
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Class 6W Maths

This week in Year 6 maths, we investigated the range and mean average of sets of data. In groups, we collected data such as how many jumping jacks each group could do in one minute, our heights and bounces of a ball. We then used this data to find the range and mean average and compared them to other groups. 

Niamh Quirke
PGCE Trainee Teacher

 

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Class 6W DT Boats Video

I thought you might like to see the video of the children testing their boats on Little Swiss at Princethorpe.

Boat Testing

Mrs Johnson
Head of Science and DT

Class 6W Are History Detectives

On Monday Class 6W went to the County Records Office to become History detectives. They enjoyed looking at Primary documents about the Bilton area from Victorian Times. I think they will agree it was extremely interesting and linked together much of what we had been learning on our walks around Bilton.

Many thanks to the staff at the County Records Office.

Mrs Webb
Class 6W Form Teacher
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Co-Curricular Gymnastics

Children have been enjoying All Star Dance Gymnastics this term after school.  Lots of fun was had getting into formations this week. The children were very excited to have their picture taken.

Crescent School