AFRICA DAY IN YEAR 4

Year 4 were transported to Africa without even leaving the school grounds! The children were treated to a rotation of activities. We had a some very special visitors from Senegal to teach African drumming, dancing and singing. Mrs.Martin and Mrs.Howe cooked banana bread with the children and Miss Aston had the children drawing ancient African petroglyphs (rock art) on sandpaper.

The rest of the school were then treated to a performance of singing, dancing and drumming led by our visitors with the support of Mrs. Aston, Mr.Rodway and the whole of year 4. The teachers were so inspired by the music that they all came to the front and performed the dance (with a little persuasion)!

Thank you to everyone involved in this wonderful day!

Mrs.Moore

Mad Hatters Day!

In aid of Children in Need we all came to school wearing some rather interesting hats! As well as paying for non-uniform day Mrs Graves made some delicious Pudsey cakes and put them into one big hat for us all to buy.

Some enterprising children have been selling bookmarks, posters and bracelets to raise money for Children in Need. We will put some more pictures on and let you know our final total as soon as we can.

Thank you to everyone for supporting our fund raising activities.

Year 6 Logo

Year 6 have become computer programmers this week and have used 'Logo' to create some interesting patterns and to draw an Aztec temple. We have had fun with repeat, repcount and angles to create some fantastic work.

What do you think of our creations?

KENTE CLOTH WORK

WOW!! Well done class 3 on producing some absolutely amazing artwork. The children looked at some examples of African Kente cloth and then went on to design their own patterns. They then weaved their two designs together to create these amazing pieces of work.

Seeds for Africa update

THE SEEDS FOR AFRICA MONEY HAS BEEN COUNTED AND BANKED. A HUGE THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO SENT IN DONATIONS. THE FINAL TOTAL WAS.............
AN INCREDIBLE........................
£66.76 !!!!
THIS WILL NOW BE ADDED TO THE MONEY ALREADY COLLECTED FROM THE HARVEST SALE AND SENT TO THIS VERY WORTHY CAUSE.

THANK YOU AGAIN FROM EVERYONE IN YEAR 4

(Thanks also to Chris in the canteen for the loan of the amazing counting machine)

Parents Get Lost! (PGL)

Year 5 have just returned from a FANTASTIC weekend at PGL, Marchants Hill, in Surrey!

Over the weekend, we got up to loads of fun and sometimes scary activities, including:

• Giant Swing
• Zip Wire
• Power Fan
• Abseiling
• Quad Biking
• Rifle Shooting
• Initiative Exercises
• Ambush
• Orienteering
• Jacob's Ladder
• Aeroball
• Whacky Races
• Disco

Here are some pictures of what we got up to!

The children were impeccably behaved all weekend, so much so, that the instructors all wanted Coalway Junior School children in their activity groups! What does it say - Coalway Junior School really is the best!

Watch out for some more about our fantastic weekend away, including some films of the activities and our thoughts about our time away!

Eco-schools day

Nathan and Amy were invited to an Eco-schools day at the Wilderness Centre where they attended several workshops . This one shows them placing items of rubbish on a timeline according to how long they thought it would take for each item to decay. Everyone was amazed at how long some items took to disappear. Nathan and Amy both felt this activity is one that all pupils at Coalway should do so that they could understand the importance of re-using and recycling.

Pig Poo!

Today, Mr Duncan from Christian Aid came to talk to us about pig poo!

People in Nigeria are using a 'digester' to turn pig poo into a gas that they can cook with. This gas lasts for two weeks, after which time they just add more poo!
We talked about the environmental advantages of using this method rather than non-renewable sources as pigs renew their poo very regularly!


Thankyou to Mr Duncan for coming into school once again to talk to us about the work carried out by Christian Aid.

SEEDS FOR AFRICA APPEAL

A huge thank you to everyone who sent in their coppers for the Seeds for Africa Appeal. The year 4 children had a great time filling in the outlines of fruit and vegetables! As you can see from the photographs there is a huge number of coppers (and some silver and even a couple of pound coins) to count so we will let you know the total raised when we have finished counting!

Thank you again to everyone who donated to this appeal.

From everyone in year 4

PGL TRIP

Year 5 children have arrived safely at PGL. The children are all settled in their rooms and have enjoyed an evening of playing hide and seek (made harder by playing in the wooded area and even harder as it was already dark) GREAT FUN!!!

Year 5’s Fantastic Suprise!

On the 2nd of November, year five had a Victorian afternoon. Mrs. Dixon and Miss. Frowen were dressed up as Victorian teachers. Miss. Frowen had the boys who had to walk with their hands behind their backs and Mrs. Dixon had the girls who had to walk with their hands by their side.

Girls.
Some of the badly behaved girls had punishments. Girls, girls, girls, they have to be a little naughty. The girls had to read out loud to the class and if they got stuck on a word it was tough luck so they had to sound it out.

Boys.
The boys were naughty and got more punishments then the girls. Boys, boys, boys, how rude to be naughty. They drew stuff on slates and learnt a lot of things.

Lessons.
Every person, boy and girl, enjoyed every lesson. Everyone did the three R’s which are Reading, wRiting and aRithmetic. We also did drill which is exercising.

Fun!!
It was a good day and we would love to do it again!!!!!!

By Megan and Skye, Class 5