Welcome Back Class 2

We have been here for nearly 2 weeks and have achieved so much! We have elected team captains and deputies, school councillors, written poetry, completed a marathon spelling test, not to mention settling in to our new maths groups. Phew!

Next week, we have our RE trip on Thursday. Please remember your packed lunches as we will not be back in time for school dinners. Check the weather forecast, too, as we will be walking whatever the weather. You may need an umbrella as well as a coat.

It has been lovely to get to know you all and we have all getting to know Theo, who has settled in so well.

Thank you to all parents who have offered to help. I am working on a timetable at the moment so please bear with me and I will be in contact soon.

Happy Weekend!

Mrs Mumford

Animation Antics

Today we embarked on our animation project. We took part in a workshop run by Wendy Griffiths from  Aardman Animations and Roger Young from software providers Kudlian.

First of all, we watched some clips of the making of 'The Pirates'. Then we handled Wallace and Gromit models and watched some clips from Shaun the  Sheep.
We were shown some of the 'tricks of the trade' and finally we were let loose with a camera, backdrop, a MacBook and a number of Lego/Playmobil models.
We noticed that guns and weapons were VERY popular in some groups! We spent around an hour creating our very first animations and realised just what a challenge we will face making a 60 second film next week. We're all so excited!
What with this, the cake sale and wearing our 'normal clothes', this has been an amazing end to a very unusual week!

Friday 26th April

This week (as you may have already geussed) we had 5 days to endure challenging lessons of English, History, Maths and Stretch and we have just recieved our homework. YAY!

On Thursday, a few boys from Henleaze in year six and five played a football  match against Hotwells. It was one of the semi finals and we were playing at home, giving us the advantage. We nailed them in the first half giving a 3-0 lead, all three from Kerian. Boh teams were unsteady in the second half with each team conceding one goal. Consequently the final score stood at 4-1. The final was waiting for us.

Throughout the week, groups of 3-6 pupils in class 2 have been creating mini clips about evacuation World War 2. Mrs Mumford told us to include elements of humour but a few facts to tell her that we have learned something. Today we finished, edited and watched our own clips (that were very  funny). We will be viewing each others next week and we may even put a few on the blog for you to see.

Fortunately, the weather was merciful on us and we have gone on the field almost every day. We hope it's the same where you are. From us two, its goodbye

Friday 19th April

After an exhausting week of tests, tests and more tests, we've just finished mock SATs and recieved our results of a reading comprehension, three maths papers and a levelled write. We all achieved our targets and some got higher than expected so well done to them!

 Throughout this week we have been studying the art of war artist Henry Moore. We saw how he used lines to create his masterpieces and used an effective white on black style. The class have started to decide what they will be using to re-create a sample of his work if it is a graphite pencil, some white chalk or charcoal. Everyone has practised his style and got used to it.

A group of children from class 2 have been to Claremont to particapate in an art project with some children from the Infants and Claremonts. Also, recently we have just started our new stretch with a selection of art, DT or music. It is were we select a subject of a few options and then do it once a week. We try to complete a task or challenge that Mrs Mumford sets us.

That is all for now...

Friday 7th December

CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!! We began this festive season with the amazing Henleaze
Christmas bazaar in the hall. Santa was in his grotto handing out some prezzies and the choir sang magically. Also many children marched, with their lanterns, around the dark and spooky playground. AHHHH!!! On the 1st of December our first lucky pupil, in class 2, was drawn out of the box for the new and delicious looking advent calendar.





In addition to that, Year Six went to an electrifying and heart-rending performance of Dickens classic novel, Oliver Twist, being showcased at Redland High School for Girls. They were extremely courteous and gave each of us a goody bag to take home, but they did not show us the entire masterpiece so as to invite us to the final showing on Saturday.



Literacy this week began with watching the seasonal film- The Snowman. We will create an account of this story in any genre we like. The story was brilliant and we all hope ours will be too.
So all in all we had another eventful and brilliant week leading up to Christmas. "See ya."

Friday 30th November

The last seven days we listened, sprinted, created and strummed our way to the end of the amazing week!

We started the week off with a fascinating talk on the Jewish religion by a parent named Mr. Weinburger.

On Tuesday, the whole of Year 6 inteviewed Mr Barber to gather information in order to practise our biography-writing skills.  Mr Barber gave a thorough talk on his career and life, whilst we scribbled down notes and asked questions for an hour and a half! We were very amused and surprised, especially hearing about his approach to learning times tables in Year 3.

The day after, a group of Yr 6 and 5's went to St Bedes to participate in a tiring athletics tournament. With enormous amounts skill, we won coming first with 278 points !!  Many members of our class participated and we were especially proud of Dylan who won the javelin throwing contest.

Wednesday was not just all about sport. Harry and Ollie helped some Year 4s with their homework, showing what great role models we are. We also pretended to present to Bristol City Council on proposed energy saving measures with ideas gathered from trials held at Totnes. We were interested to find out that they have a Totnes pound, just like we have a Bristol pound here.

On Thursday we were thoroughly entertained by the guitar assembly (which Christian took part in), then enjoyed French and PE in the afternoon.

Friday saw us finishing off our biographies, Charlie and Glori went to school council and we prepared the room for the Christmas Bazaar tomorrow. Phew!

Anushay was a great Star of the Week and we all enjoyed her thunk, 'What 6 things would we turn to gold and why.' Luke will be star next week. His thunk is 'If you could go into space, what would you most like to do or see?'

Oh yes...the Christmas tree is up, the postbox is ready and the cakes have been decorated. It's nearly time for Christmas!

Friday 16th November

Last Friday our school experienced the most spectacular firework display yet with massive rockets and loud whistlers to beautiful catherine wheels and sparkling shower!

If you had read the last post you would have read that we had started a great art project inspired by Andy Goldsworthy, the faboulas natural artist. As we continued this project, we started collecting items for our artwork such as leaves, stones and twigs. Then we quickly took photos of our colourful creations before they were blown away by the wind.  

Also this week, thanks to HENSA we had the most amazing assembly from a animal expert named Steve (not Steve Backshall). He brought in some fascinating wildlife such as: a slithering snake, a jumping genet, an amazing African grey parrot, a memorable meerkat, a prickly porcupine and a stinky skunk ( luckily it didn't blow). It was a great assembly and it was the best present ever. We give a gigantic thank you to Steve.

As this fantastic week continued, a group of year 6 boys particapated in a basketball tournament and, with lots of confidence, won it. If that's not enough sport a team of girls played in a football competition and brilliantly came 2nd. Christina is out this afternoon, representing the school in a netball tournament.

Also, Anja was a brilliant star of the week and we have a mind boggiling thunk : If you could eat 3 foods for the rest of the year which would they be and why?

So that rounded up our exciting week but with lots more awesome activitys for the next week!