Section: Classes

After our first activity we made some freeze frame role plays of different types of bullying. In each role play was a bully, a victim and a bystander. There was also a narrator to explain what was happening. Each character in the scene had to come forward and discuss their feelings and actions.

We started anti-bullying week with a short activity. We were each given a clean, fresh piece of paper and then we had to ‘bully’ the piece of paper. We discussed that we might harm it physically or emotionally. We then looked at how our paper had changed after a minute of ‘bullying’ and then we […]

This week we have been learning about figurative language which we are going to include in our descriptive writing. We learnt about similes, metaphors and personification as well as onomatopoeia and worked in groups to practise using these techniques. We also used our novel study book ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ to find examples of descriptive language. 

Mrs Magirr set us a challenge to find the cubed numbers for 1 to 6 cubed. We worked in groups to make cubes and find the answers! 

We have been studying Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries and have began to create our own impressions using glockenspiels. We have learnt to play trills, upward swoops and the main theme using C, E and G. We have had a lot of fun!