Things to do...

It might be half term, but don't worry - there is plenty to keep you occupied if you start to get bored during the week.

Tuesday is Pancake day. Year 3 and 4, you can write a set of instructions about how to make a pancake after all your work on instructional writing over the past few weeks. Use Online Tools or Google Docs to write your instructions out. If you have a digital camera at home, you can take some images too to put in your writing.

For Year 5 and 6 - you could find out about the traditions of Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday. Why is it celebrated? What happens in other countries? Use Online Tools or Google Docs for your work too.

Don't forget that when you've completed your work, you can put it into your own learning space.

You can also add book reviews of any books you finish reading into your learning spaces too during the week.

To log into Online Tools and Google Docs use your school username (example 2236johsmi) and password (example porchester000). To post to your learning space, use your school email address (example 2236johsmi@porchester.net) and password.

And don't forget - there is an Inset day on Monday 22nd. You need to return to school on Tuesday 23rd.

Monet Art

Class 3 have been creating their own landscapes inspired by Monet's famous painting: The Regatta at Argenteuil.  Take a look at our fantastic pictures...

Download Kamiera

Download Catie

Download Chanel

Download Issac

Download Ellie

Download Tomas

Download Kira

Healthy teeth.... Listen to our Jingles

Class 3 have been looking at how to keep your teeth healthy... As well as making excellent posters, they have made some amazing jingles... Please have a listen....

JINGLE 5

JINGLE3

JINGLE 4

More House Emblem Research

Well done to Ethan and Ayana - both in class 3 - who have been finding out about their new house emblems.

Ethan has found out about the Kakapo; Download Ethan_kakapo

Ayana has found out about the Tasmanian Devil; Download Ayana_tasmanian_devil

Red Panda Research

I'm really impressed with Paige - class 3 - who has produced this wonderful booklet all about her new house emblem; the endangered Red Panda.

Download paige_redpanda

What a superb piece of independent work Paige.

Yr6 - win a laptop!

Fancy winning a lovely laptop, with access to the Internet for a whole year thrown in for free too?

Well the National Education Network are running a competition where you can win just that by becoming a reporter for a day.

Download Be_a_reporter

"Write a news story or a script between 250 and 400 words or make a video or audio recording (between 90 seconds and 120 seconds) that tells us how you think “technology is changing the way we learn”. Let your imagination go! You might want to report how technology is used in your  school today or the role that technology will have in future schools." 

Now let's be honest - there is plenty to report about changes in how we use technology in school over the past few years. Just think about the cool stuff we can now do on the website, both at school and at home, or the audio and video work you do, or how your parents can use technology the school has to keep in touch.

If you are really interested in this, mention it to your teacher, and then arrange to interview people for your report (teachers / parents / pupils etc). Once completed show your teacher your report. We can send one report from the school as our entry (although up to four pupils can collaborate on the report). The closing date for this is November 30th. Good luck! More information can be found here

Step Check!

Have you received your Pedometer (Step counter) from your class yet? If you have, you can take part in the Porchester Pedometer count. When you wake up on Saturday Morning, reset your Pedometer, then carry it with you for the whole day. At the end of the day, look and see how many steps you have taken. (You might want to write this number down somewhere so that you don't forget it!!). 

Then, when you get the chance, enter your step total, FIRST name, and class into the form below (NOW REMOVED). All the information will be put into a spreadsheet that you can see below

Make an Avatar

Linked to your ICT work this week, these sites will help you make the image that your teachers will explain to you.

• Lego Avatar maker

• Build your wildself

Year 6 Leavers

Download (for Apple Quicktime) | Download (for Windows Media Player)

Mini Beast Challenge

We decided to look at the effect the quiet area has had on our local wildlife. So armed with bug pooters, magnified specimen pots. Please take a look at our photos. Jasmine, Megan, Libby and Oliva made a movie set to music of our afternoon.

A Message for Year6

Take a look at our movie!

Note from Mr. Widdowson: Mrs Revill was shown an example of how to do this on Monday so she, and some children, used a visualiser, and the 2Animate software to make this movie. This was their first attempt and they loved it!!

QMC Visit

Today Class 3 visited the Queens Medical Centre as part of the I.M.P.s training.  The children were taught how to revive an unconscious person by following the 123 - ABC code, can you remember what it stands for? 

They also got a chance to look around the emergency departments, put someone in the recovery position, have their blood/oxygen levels checked, get a finger plastered, and many more exciting and interesting things. 

As always the children behaved beautifully.

Thanks you to Mrs Brown and Mrs Pilkington for coming on the visit with us.

French Alphabet

Class 4 has kindly recorded the alphabet in French for you. See if you can join in.

Download Alphabet Class 4

French Finger Rhyme

For those of you who want to practise your French at home, or teach your parents what you have learnt, here is a French finger rhyme that we  learnt last year. Good luck!

Download m_et_mme_pouce.wav

Upper School Concert

Upper school rehearsed ready for their parents performance on Thursday;

Listen to the Upper School Concert performed on Friday (please note that as this is a 30 minute concert it may take a while to load);

 

Download Upper_school_concert

Pupil Book Reviews

Upper school pupils should have noticed the posters in their classrooms inviting them to write book reviews to post onto the website. Lizzie has already posted two reviews since the start of term (here and here), and she is looking for other pupils to comment on them.

To post your own book review is easy. Simply write and save a review (using word or notepad), and then see Mr. Widdowson who will give you a username and password that allows you to log into website. Create a new article and copy & paste your review into it. Don't forget to put your first name at the end of the review too!
Mr. Widdowson will check the review once you've saved it, and then it will appear in the pupil section of the website.
All book reviews are comment enabled, allowing you to say how much you liked a review.

Year Six leavers

CC4G have spent the last few weeks taking photographs of the Year Six leavers at work, rest and play. The reason for this became clear at the end of the Upper School concert, when their Animoto Slideshow of Year Six was shown to the parents and children.

Download to iPod
(Simply save this file onto your PC, then create a new playlist in iTunes. Drag this file into the new playlist and the next time you sync, you'll have it on your iPod)

Year Five Creative Arts

Year Five spent some time at The Wheldon School learning about music, dance, drama and all sorts of other creative arts;

Good Luck