Rawdon Littlemoor Primary School

The highlight of our week this week has been our Groovy Greek drama workshop with Matthew from Movable Feast Productions. The children have learned such an incredible amount about ancient Greek life and their love of the theatre. It was wonderful to see the children really letting go and going for it: every single person got up to act their part - we are really proud of you all. A special mention must go to Enzo though, as he ad-libbed a brilliant epilogue to bring the tale of Perseus to a dramatic end!

It's been  another maths and English heavy week as we continue our revsion sessions, and we have covered a great deal of work on pie charts, and ratio and proportion - keep going team, we're almost there. Light relief is being provided by our writing lessons at the moment, and we have now moved on to designing and beginning to describe the lair of our mythical beast creations.

In PE on Wednesday, the sun was beaming down on us as we practised our running skills as part of our Kestrel Mini Olympics - it actually started to feel like summer (well, for a brief afternoon anyway!).

Year 6s remember that next week is the last week for SATs booster sessions! I have cake and smoothies ready to go!

Have a lovely bank holiday,

Mrs Jarvis

We have been enjoying designing our own mythical beasts in English this week. We have looked at the wide variety of creatures that the Ancient Greeks used in their stories, then used elements of these to create our very own. We started to bring these creatures to life today, as we began to describe their appearance, the way they move and sound, and how they make onlookers feel. There's great enthusiasm in the room for this, and I think it will be a cracking piece of writing when completed.

 In maths we have been looking at angles and circles this week. We have all learned how to claculate the radius and diameter of a circle, and also how to draw angles using a protractor. It's been tricky, but the children have coached each other through brilliantly.

On a lighter note, we are lucky to have Miss Cosavella, a specialist music teacher, with us again this term and we have been learning some Greek songs with her - it's sounding fantastic in our room each Tuesday morning!

Next week we are welcoming back Matthew from Moveable Feast productions who will be leading a drama workshop exploring the lives of the Ancient Athenians and the trials and tribulations of the Ancient Greek gods. (I tried to persuade Mrs Nott to let us go on a jolly to Athens instead, but she was having none of it!).

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Jarvis

Welcome back to our final term of the year, and our final history topic: Groovy Greeks!

We are all eager to get going with this topic, and I have been amazed with how much some of our class already know about this fascinating period of ancient history! Today we have whetted our appetite by reading some of the more famous Greek myths, and got a flavour of Ancient Greek society and their beliefs. We will continue this work next week when we create our own mythical beasts for our hero Perseus to defeat!

In maths we have (finally!) wrapped-up our work on measures, and are now looking at the properties of shapes, which is all linking rather nicely to our Groovy Greek mathematicians (who knew triangles were so ... Greek!). While in PE, we have started to develop our athletics skills and learned about which events were invented by the original Olympians of Ancient Greece.

Year 6 have been working hard this week for the final push towards SATs - it's going to be a tough few weeks, but their attitude and determination to do well is just brilliant to see. They now have a SATs week timetable and 'Treats' letter in their planners (and parents should also have been emailed a copy from the office). Please note the invitation for SATs breakfast during the assessment week. We would love all Year 6 to be there, so please pop in/ email me if you foresee any issues and we can hopefully work somethinng out.

And finally, we are busy creating our class roleplay area, "Poseidon's Bargain Prices -  Seaside Tat Shop!" at the back of our classroom. If you have any loose change in euros, please may we have it to fill our till! Thank you.

Have a good weekend,

Mrs Jarvis

Happy Easter Kestrels!

Thank you for a lovely last week of term. We have worked our socks off this week, trying to get all of our Watery Worlds pieces finished and our Geography topic folders compiled, not to mention lots of measuring in maths and writing our recount in English. You all deserve a restful break now!

Then there was the excitement of the Easter bunny yesterday, followed by the Interhouse Crosscountry today. I was really proud of all of you: some of us were nervous, some of us confident and some determined just to improve on last year's position. You were all so supportive of one another, and proud of each other -it was wonderful to see. Well done Team Kestrel!

See you all after the holidays when we have our Groovy Greek topic to get our teeth into - it's going to be a good one!

Mrs Jarvis

Well, we were lucky with the weather on Tuesday for our trip to Linton, Grassington and Burnsall! It was a bit nippy, but the rain mostly held off and we were able to collect all of our field data, and have a wander round this beautiful part of the Dales. Linton Falls looked brilliant, and after all of the recent rainfall, it was really impressive. In Burnsall, we walked part of the course of the River Wharfe and even popped into the church to see some original Viking artefacts found in the village. We will use our research and experience to produce a recount, an OS map of Burnsall, and a graph to show the contours of the river bed, over the next few days. 

Remember, next week, we have the Easter Egg hunt to look forward to as well as our annual Cross Country Interhouse event! On Tuesday, Year 6s will also watch their buddies at the Foundation Easter Bonnet parade- which is guaranteed to be very cute!

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Jarvis