McMillan coffee morning

The McMillan coffee morning was a success this morning – thank you to Mrs Matthews for organising it and all the staff that helped set up. A huge thank you to all the parents/carers/staff and children who donated cakes and biscuits in order to make it successful. We had a good turn out and we […]

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National Poetry Day

Yesterday, Orama, Angelina and Lee went to a poetry writing workshop with Donovan Christopher. They wrote this amazing rap about respect: And today is Notional Poetry Day so we have studied this poem, looking at the wonderful use of vocabulary to create atmosphere:

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Sports Day

KS2 were lucky enough to hold sports day at King Edwards on the athletics track. Everyone took part with great sportsmanship and tried their absolute best. Here are our winners: 100m sprint Javelin Long jump Clothes race

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Arts week

The new year six have been enjoying working on beautiful and creative art work for our new classroom. We wrote descriptive poems and made tents to put them in to recreate the front cover of the novel Holes by Louis Sachar. We are also reading Northern Light by Philip Pullman and everyone painted their own […]

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Fencing in year 6

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Putting our skills to practice.

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Comic Relief

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Clarinet Concert – Monday 27th March 2017

Year 4 and Electives Clarinet Concert 27 March 2017 Just a quick reminder that on Monday 27th March 2017 at 9:15 am there will be an opportunity for Year 4 and the electives from Year 5 and 6 to perform their clarinet pieces in their first concert of the year.  We hope you can join us!

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World Book Day

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Our visit to the Black Country museum

We had an absolutely amazing time on our trip to The Black Country Living Museum. We learnt about life in the Black Country during the Victorian era.

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It’s Up To Me To Choose

Here is the recording of the song “It’s Up To Me To Choose” that Mrs Baker has taught and recorded with KS2 last week. Have a listen Song taught from the Singing Connections resource.

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Using our own compost and planting more bulbs

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painting pots

Last Friday Y5 and Y6  gardeners were very busy painting pots for our bulbs we planted and researching Bug Hotels and thinking about how we will design our own one for the field.

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A day in a Victorian school

Year 5/6 have started the new term by going back in time! Here we are experiencing what life was like in school for Victorian children – what an experience it was!

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Christmas Disco

Year 5 & 6 had a blast at their Christmas disco. Mrs Arshad learned a few new moves:-)

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Happy Holidays

Have a look at our snowman inspired Christmas cards.

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WW2 themed calendars

This year our calendar theme is based on WW2. The theme links in with our current topic. Look at how great we look in our outfits.

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Hot-seating

Hot seating as Erika from Erika’s Story. The question and answer session helped us to write our newspaper reports.

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George’s marvellous medicine

Wow we had the most amazing travelling to the theatre by train and going The Alex theatre to watch George’s Marvellous Medicine. The show was great and we even had a special visitor come with us too, Mrs Rahul 😝

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Calligraphy Artist

Renowned calligraphy artist, Haji Noor Deen visited us at Tiverton all the way from China, and what an experience it was. Haji Noor joined us this morning during our assembly, to tell us a little about the world of Islamic calligraphy and boy were we hooked. He later worked with both year 5 & 6, […]

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Chinese calligrapher

We had the most amazing assembly to start a Monday morning, we had a famous visitor from China that did calligraphy in Arabic and Chinese. He spoke in Chinese and had a translator to help us understand what he was saying. He called up children to copy his writing. They were amazing!!

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Children in need

Super Choir were super excited to perform live for BBC Children In Need at The Black Country Museum on Friday 18th November. What an experience for us all.    

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Cannock chase museum

Year 5 and 6 had a fantastic day at Cannock Chase Museum today as we explored what life was like on the home front during WW2. We spent the day at the museum and discovered life during: the blitz, rationing, evacuation as well as life at home throughout the war.

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Knitting progress!

Today, Zayden finished his first glove! What do you think?

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Gardening Club is Growing!

This half term, Mrs Edwards and a team of Key Stage 2 gardeners have been getting to grips with Autumn in the garden and preparing for Winter.

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WW1 workshop

Year 5 and 6 were lucky enough to welcome a very special visitor in our classrooms today. This very special visitor was Mrs Wyatt (Miss Wyatt’s Mum) who talked to us all about her visit to Ypres, Belgium. She shared with us some amazing photographs from her visit and even told us about some of […]

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Children in Need

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Inspire workshop

We had a great reading workshop with some of our parents today. We read an extract from James and the Giant Peach and had to partake in variety of reading activities. These included: inference, predictions and questioning.

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Knitting Club

Some year six children have been learning to knit at lunchtime with Miss Brewster and Miss Wyatt. We all find it very calming (unless we get in a tangle!) and we like the feeling of making something new. Our first project is fingerless gloves. Do you like our choice of wool?  

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Fractions, Decimals & percentages

We have been going fractions, decimals and percentages mad this morning with us all challenging ourselves with a variety of different tasks.

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Diwali fun

Happy Diwali to all, we’re wishing you a happy new year.

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Private Peaceful Drama

Today we acted out some of the scenes from our class text; Private Peaceful.

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Diwali parties

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First ever knitting club

Miss Wyatt and Miss Brewster launched the first ever knitting club today and what an amazing session they had.

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Give one – get one

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WW2 Drama

What a fantastic treat this morning for us all in year 5&6 this morning. We were visited by The Take Away theatre company who introduced the topic of WW2 to us through a theatre performance. The show was full laughter and tears; we were hooked from start to finish.

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Mental Calculations

Rally Coach – coaching each other on mental maths questions.

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My mate fancies you

Another great theatre performance given by Loudmouth about the issue of puberty and growing up. Loudmouth have a great way of tackling the subject through drama, humour and small group discussions. Year 6 were great at listening and asking some great questions.

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RE:Leadership

Children were given the task to plan and teach y2 how to hula hoop. This week we talked about how to lead others to achieve something successfully. Year 6 practised on themselves first. Many states that it was difficult as their partner had different learning styles but were really pleased when they finally achieved it.

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Eid Mubarak

Eid-up-Adha also known as big Eid is the second most important festival in the Muslim calendar. This year it took place on Monday 12th September. We learnt about the festival and the story if Ibrahim and celebrated the occasion with dressing up and eating some special homemade foods.

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