Another Super Week!

We have had another great week in St. Clare's Class!

On Wednesday, we visited the LifeBus. We had an interesting lesson and learned lots more about our bodies and the importance and dangers associated with how we treat them. We learned about drugs, smoking and alcohol and how they can be harmful to us. To end the session, we spent some time considering how to make the right choices and how to say 'No,' when we need to. It was a fascinating session and we came away with a greater knowledge about how to stay safe and well.

On Thursday, we had a fantastic trip to the Dulwich Picture Gallery. We worked with Jo, a professional artist, in the workshop to design and make our own World War One medals.

Firstly, we designed the symmetrical ribbons, using wax pastels and inks. We used this resist technique to make the ribbons look old and worn.

Next, we designed and made the tiles to print our medals.

Then, we applied the metallic printing ink.

We used the printing press to create our final images.

On Friday, after our marvellous performance in our assembly, we neared the end of our class novel; The Silver Donkey, and wrote some fantastic pieces to show how we think the book will end.

We also enjoyed analysing a poem about conscription and discussing the emotions involved for those left behind in the Great War.

In the afternoon, after another excellent P4C session, we spent some time writing Christmas letters and cards to our Post Pals. They have been posted off this weekend, so we hope that they will arrive soon to put smiles on the faces of some children who will be in hospital, or very unwell, over Christmas.

Next week, we have a very busy festive week!

Monday: Your last swimming session- don't forget your kit!
Tuesday: All of Upper School will be going to St. Thomas More for the Advent mass.
Wednesday: Christmas lunch!
Thursday: We will be watching the Key Stage 1 Nativity Play and we'll write our list to go up for the class Christmas party (food and drink!)
Friday: In the afternoon, we will be heading to church again for the Christmas Carol Concert.

The following week:
Monday: Our class Christmas Party!
Tuesday: CARE awards assembly, possibly Toy Day and the last day of term! School will close at 2pm.

Well Done!

 Source: http://sgpc.floriana.skola.edu.mt/category/assemblies/

A HUGE congratulations, St. Clare's Class, on a very successful class assembly on Friday! You were wonderful!

Everyone performed brilliantly and the films were enjoyed by everyone in the audience. We have had lots of lovely comments from children, staff and parents/carers- everyone loved your performance. Well done.

I'm very proud of you and you should all be very proud of yourselves!

Thank you to all of the parents, carers and families who came to support the children. We hope you enjoyed it.

CARE Awards and Class Dojo Winners!

Congratulations to our CARE Award winners for the Summer term!

 
Consideration: Jada

Achievement: Kenan

Respect: Justin

Effort: Sophia

Well done!

Congratulations to Maria, who won the class prize for having  the most Class Dojo points this term! Super effort, well done!






HUGE congratulations to Daniel and Owain, who earned the most Class Dojo points this year. They collected points for great behaviour, hard work and a fantastic attitude to school. Well done, gentlemen!

Super Speedy Year 5!

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Yesterday, you had a wonderful morning at Dulwich College for St. Anthony's Sports Day! Unfortunately the weather didn't behave itself in the afternoon, so we finished off the events today. This morning we did the sprint events, to find out who the fastest girl and fastest boy in Year 5 are.

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After the heats, our finalists were:

Girls:
Erhun
Rebecca
Elizabeth
Bella
Jada
Venus
Sophia
Blessie

Boys:
Jack G.
Isaac
Owain
Lewis
Jeremiah
Francis

Huge congratulations to our winners, who received their medals in the closing ceremony this afternoon:

Fastest Girl in Year 5: Venus
Fastest Boy in Year 5: Owain

Well done everyone for your participation, great sportsmanship and for creating such a wonderful atmosphere!

Congratulations!

Source: http://sgpc.floriana.skola.edu.mt/category/assemblies/

Congratulations St. Clare's Class on a fantastic assembly! It was 'out of this world...!'

You all performed brilliantly today and we were very proud of you! We had lots of lovely comments from children, visitors and the other teachers; they all thought it was an excellent assembly and they were very impressed by your acting talents. Well done!

Thank you to all of the parents and carers who came to support the children. We hope you enjoyed it!

We will see you all next week, ready for our big adventure...

UK Blog Awards 2016!

On Friday evening, Mrs Parrott went to the UK Blog Awards to represent St. Clare's Class Blog. Sadly, we didn't win, but we were congratulated on reaching the final and being officially one of the ten best education blogs in the UK! Well done! Here are some photos (as promised after many requests from the children in St. Clare's!!):

A Fascinating Day Out!

On Friday, we went on an adventure! We went with the charity Thames Explorer, to investigate the foreshore of the River Thames at Bankside, in front of the Globe Theatre.

 We learned about how the quality of the water in the Thames has changed over time and did some experiments ourselves.

 Also, we had the opportunity to be 'mudlarks'! In the 18th and 19th centuries, some people (usually children) in London would scavenge in the river mud to look for anything they could sell. We had a chance at being mudlarks on Friday, during low tide.

After searching the river foreshore, we discovered all sorts of treasure! What was the most interesting thing you found?

Finally, we sorted the items we had discovered into groups and discussed what they might be and when they might be from.

A fascinating day! Huge thanks from everyone in St. Clare's to Miss Bower, Mrs Cook and Mr Gibson!

Marathon Superstars!

 

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Congratulations to Mr. O'Neill and Ms Yuill for the wonderful achievement of participating in the London Marathon today! Good luck!

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CARE Awards!

Congratulations to our CARE Award winners for the Spring term!

 
Consideration: Jack N.

Achievement: Jessica

Respect: Jack G.

Effort: Daniella

Well done!

Congratulations to Christopher, who won the class prize for having  the most Class Dojo points this term! Super effort, well done!

A Wonderful Easter Liturgy

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Well done for your fantastic performance today. It was a truly special and moving recreation of the Easter Liturgy. The readers were clear and confident, the acting was sensitive and believable and the singing was incredibly beautiful. Well done! We are all very proud of you.

Tomorrow is the last day of term- we will have our CARE awards assembly! Remember to bring in a carrier bag and if you haven't yet spoken to your French penpal on Skype you need to be in at 8:30am tomorrow morning. You can all bring in a small toy tomorrow- nothing electronic, battery operated or valuable please! School will close at 2pm tomorrow!

A Very Busy Week!

Wow! What a week we have had!

Yesterday, we held our very successful Fairtrade Snack Sale. We have been cooking all week to prepare for the sale- planning, costing and cooking lots of recipes using Fairtrade ingredients.

We sold smoothies and hot chocolate to accompany our banana loaf, flapjacks, fairy cakes, Florentines, chocolate covered marshmallows, fruit kebabs, pizza with pineapple and many other treats!

The aim of our sale was to raise awareness of the importance of Fairtrade, as well as raising money for Oxfam's Fairtrade projects.

 Source: Oxfam

We can now announce that we raised a fabulous £95.70 profit, in just half an hour- a real achievement! Well done!

 

Our visitors also voted for our Snack Attack products- we will be announcing which team has won the school heat next week.

This week we finished our TV adverts, produced our magazine/poster adverts and made radio advertisements with jingles and catch phrases. Finally, we wrote our reports about what we had learned- the most important requirement of the competition. Good luck everyone!

On Thursday, we had a fun day- Miss May organised a super Science Day, with a helicopter competition. DANIELLA in St. Clare's won for UKS2! Well done, Daniella!

On Friday, we also enjoyed a play on the theme of 'Mercy' by the Ten Ten Theatre Company. They performed different plays all day for each phase group in the school, because we are celebrating the 'Year of Mercy' this year.

On Wednesday, we loved watching 'Amazing Love'; the Middle School Easter Play. It was wonderful!

Next week, we will be performing our Easter Liturgy on Wednesday at church. Remember, you must bring in your costume on Monday. Also, Madame Severine needs you to bring in your letter to your French penpal on Monday.

Have a lovely weekend!