Steel Pan Workshop with Mr Arter.

Kingfishers enjoyed a wonderful session with Mr Arter learning about and playing the steel pans. They learnt that a steel pan is a musical instrument originating from Trinidad and Tobago, that steel pan musicians are called pannists. They learnt to play a piece of music and were able to showcase this in a special collective worship at the end of the school day.

We have been learning about how the plastic in the Ocean is effecting the sea-life.

They are not just being killed by plastic, but fish and other marine life are digesting it - this in turn effects many food chains. 

This was the empty structure  before the weaving of plastic and the filling started. 

On Friday 7th June, World Ocean Day is coming to thousands of schools in the UK, and we are participating!

The day will be packed full of creative and informative ways to increase our connection to the ocean and the connection the ocean has to us everyday. There are two themes that we will explore “Connection to Water” and “Impact on the Ocean”, and the day will be tailored to the age of your child and the schedule for the day. 

We will be following up at the end of the day with how to continue the learning journey for your child and the connection the ocean, for now all we ask is to send your child to school dressed in blue or even as their favourite sea creature!

Thanks for being a part of World Ocean Day for schools 2019!

“Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take, every drop of water you drink, every bite you consume. Everyone, everywhere is inextricably connected to and utterly dependent upon the existence of the sea.”  

Sylvia Earle

In literacy, children have written some super animal poems. Animal Magic inspired and taught all of us lots of new facts about a range on animals. It was a great 'hands on'  experience.

Kingfisher's  have also written a narrative poem about a whale's journey from the North to the South Atlantic. On his travels, he encounters a lot of plastic and destruction caused by it. Consequently, the whale decides to become a plastic hoover machine, and hoover up all the plastic in the Atlantic Ocean to save any more sea-creatures from dying and also help reduce the plastic pollution.  

Is plastic fantastic?

Or is plastic is drastically killing our Ocean Blue Planet?

Kingfisher Class  are  PI Investigators: 

We are investigating plastic and looking at solutions to reduce, reuse and encourage recycling on our planet.

WHY?

There are huge amounts of plastic in the world and it’s thought that around 12 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans every year.

That’s a full rubbish truck every minute!

45% of households  recycling a week in the UK.

Can we encourage more households to recycle plastic or at least REDUCE their plastic waste weekly?

We hope so, watch this space for our ideas and our work to show the effects of plastic on our precious planet.

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A Christmas Poem by Kingfisher Class.
21.12.2018

Christmas is a time for hugs and madness, 

There is no time for sadness, 

We will give lots of thanks for all we receive ,

We will try to sleep silently on Christmas Eve,

We will be helpful, thankful and active, 

We know that no manners or no smiles is so unattractive.

We shall read (Ebook and books) together, play games together, and watch a film together,

Family time is the best time, wouldn't you agree?

Stockings are hung, the mince pies are ready,

Santa we hope your sleigh goes steadily,

We wish you all a Merry Christmas, and a happy New Year.

We look forward to 2019, another year to shine.

We hope you get to school on time!

Derby and Derbyshire School Library Services .

Dear Headteacher,

Derbyshire and Derby School Library Service are holding several Open days in October and November to give schools across Derby and Derbyshire a chance to benefit from some of the resources before the service is decommissioned at the end of March 2019.

On receiving this sad news, Mrs  Stanley Wainwright and I went to choose some  amazing artefacts that will enhance teaching and learning across the school . This was bitter sweet, we have been using the service for many years and have a lot to be thankful for. 

Seven men plotted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. They made a tunnel but didn't get close enough. 

The children used the tables and all crawled underneath to mimic tunneling ,  then the rest of the story unfolded.

Afterwards, the children verbally retold the story and then sequenced it.

The children answered many science, literacy and numeracy questions throughout the day:-

• what do trees give us?
• how many apples do you think you can see in the tree?
• what do trees need to help  them produce food?
• what are the collect nouns used for groups of: cows, sheep, crows, owls and hedgehogs?
• how many different sounds can you hear?
• can you tell me a food chain that would exist in the ECO garden?
• what is 6x100=?
• what is 600 divided by 100 = ?
• If there were hundred children in the school how many apples could each child have?
• how many grams in a kilogram?
• how much do you think this apple weighs?

Plus more throughout the day because the children asked questions too. 

Children designed and made, in teams, a boat. They watched to see if their boat would float. Cubes (animals ) were gradually added to see how much mass the boat could take before it sank and the forces acting on their boat became unbalanced.