We have loved poetry day so far. We began by exploring our poetry books and shared the ones we really enjoyed. We then watched some poems being performed online. We went on to make our own mini poetry books and decorated them. We filled them with our own poems- this started by writing one word poems and then some of us wanted to get creative and write different types of poems. We have practiced performing Brother Vs Sister by Neal Zetter (The poet that is virtually visitng on Monday!) ready to perform later in the day.

In art, we have been looking at Art Istallations. Next week, we are starting to create our own installations based on the work of Cai Guo-Qiang. He used explosions and stencils to create whole rooms of art. We will create our own ‘rooms’ by using splattered paint and stencils to create the same effect.

Children are working in small groups and will need one box per group. If you have any suitable boxes (shoe boxes or something similar) please send these in by Friday so we can ensure there are enough for next week.

Many thanks,

Mrs Beeley

Monday 7th October.

Our virtual poet visit last year was a great success and the children enjoyed it hugely.

On Monday 7th October, we will be meeting Neal virtually. Ahead of the visit, we will be reading some of his poems in school.

To cover the cost of the virtual poet visit we would be grateful to receive £2.00 per child via Parentpay as soon as possible.

To begin our RE learning this year. We have spent time thinking about how our faith can help us to help others. We talked about different problems that people in our world face from our school and our local community and then thinking wider to problems that are being faced around the world.

I was absolutely amazed by the thoughtful contributions that the children made. They created some brilliant raps, poems, songs and prayers.

We’ve had an amazing start in Y5/6. I’ve been so impressed by the amazing attitude and positive response from all the children. Every single child has shown the core values excellently this week and I’m sure we are going to have an amazing year together.

We have enjoyed getting to know each other and learning about how things are in year 5/6. We’ve enjoyed hearing our new story ‘The Final Year’ by Matt Goodfellow. In RE, we thought about Catholic Social teaching and created our own raps, poems and songs about issues that people in our world are currently facing. I’m looking forward to hearing the final results next week.

We have enjoyed reading time and sitting in lots of lovely spaces in our classroom and ended the week reading in the beautiful sunshine.

I was also impressed with their amazing attitude to their first arithmetic paper of the year. Everyone tried their best and we have a great starting point to learn from.

The Year 6’s (as a year group) have enjoyed some team building today. They listened carefully to one another and considered how to work together to achieve the end result. They had to complete an ordering challenge with the additonal pressure of balancing on a bench and not talking! Then they had to cross the field using only pieces of newspaper and get 3 hoops to travel round a circle without breaking hands. You can see some photos on the Y6 blog.

Have a lovely weekend.

In art, we have used clay and a variety of materials to create a sculpture that represents us. We thought carefully about how to put our creations together as well as how it represents something about ourselves.

Here are our amazing creations.

Here are our wonderful final theme parks. I have been so impressed by the effort and thinking that has gone into these projects. There has been incredible teamwork, engineering skills, logistical planning and creativity. I was particularly amazed by many moving parts, including a working water wheel, and many creative rides and activities including pools, a fantastic cable car , a stunning merry go round and a log flume.

We’ve had a lovely day enjoying books and reading. We’ve enjoyed hearing stories from a mystery reader. Throughout the day we’ve been working on our ‘Decorate your door’. We loved reading The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow earlier this year so that was our theme. We thought about ourselves as a reader and created posters of ourselves and then to end the day we built reading dens and enjoyed some reading time with our friends.

Some of our Year 6’s (from both classes) are in the midst of designing a theme park. They have been considering the customer and how they will use the park as well as creating some amazing rides. Mrs Beeley is particularly impressed with some of the adventurous moving parts! We are very excited to see the final designs next week. Here are some photos of the projects in progress.

CALLING ALL YOUNG ST WILFRIDS ARTISTS!

St Wilfrid’s has registered once again with the annual Art competition organised by the Abbeydale Rotary Club.

We have not had many entries yet, and there is still time to enter if you would like to! A certificate is awarded for each piece of work put on display.  The winner of each category will have their name inscribed on a silver salver, which will be sent to school to be exhibited until the following year.

Please give in your piece of work by MONDAY 4^TH MARCH if you want to enter, by giving it to your teacher or Ms Devitt.

THE ARTWORK MUST BE ON AN A4 PIECE OF PAPER, (NO LARGER OR SMALLER) AND WITH YOUR NAME AND YEAR GROUP WRITTEN ON THE BACK.

We can make entries in the following categories to the competition:

PAINTINGS:

Key stage 1: We can enter 10 paintings from classes up to up to Year 2

Key stage 2: We can enter 10 paintings from Years 3-6

MIXED MEDIA – UP TO KEY STAGE 2 = 10 PIECES

DRAWING – UP TO KEY STAGE 2 = 10 PIECES

There will be an exhibition of the successful work on the 26th April (10am – 7pm) and 27th April (10am- 3 pm), at the Central United Reformed Church Norfolk Street Sheffield S1 2JB.

We can not wait to see your beautiful pictures!