What an amazing experience to have shared this morning.
I was an experience not to forget for the selected children who were outside. It felt like an evening with the sky even going pink like it was dusk.
Thankfully the clouds parted and the a clear view was given for this once in life time event.
Miss Birmingham let the children safely see the eclipse by projecting it through a pair of binoculars onto a sheet of paper.
Simply amazing!
Photos taken by Rubi in Kestrels class.
Here’s a last look at the daffodils planted and grown by Year 5. They are now in the capable hands of Year 5 at home to plant in their gardens or in a bigger pot.
Please make sure you are still collecting donations at home too.
Now that Mother’s Day is over we can share the photos of the children making the cards. We hope all the mums, nans and aunties loved the effort and care put into these by Year 5.
Great work today in cricket this afternoon. What a massive improvement of Year 5’s bowling skills. They were able to show this in a match.
So many more children were getting hits and it felt more like a proper game.
Now we can focus on out batting skills to get even more runs.
Year 5 have have been exploring shapes and spaces. They have really worked on naming all sorts of 3D shapes and even went on a shape hunt to find the properties of 3D shapes.
With all this knowledge they then recreated a 3D shape by creating a 2D net of it using what they had learnt about their properties.
Please take a look at all the hard work Year 5 put in to their book day costumes. It was so nice to see such a range of books and characters.
Well done to Jacob for winning best Year 5 blurb for ‘Shadow of the Minotaur’.
A big thank you to Year 3 who visited us this morning to read with our class. It was lovely to see so many children happily getting the others involved with their book.
Year 5 were very enthusiastic and read with all the right voices for different characters to really get the Year 3’s interested.
This would be a lovely thing to do regularly.
It was Year 5’s second day of cricket training yesterday where the focus was on bowling.
It was incredible the change that was seen. We now have a class full of bowlers suitable for cricket. It took a while to get out of the habit of throwing but when they did, the difference was definitely seen.
Remember guys, T with your feet, one arm at 12 o’Clock and the other at 6, rotate your arms and let go of the ball when it’s at the top.
Over the next few weeks Year 5 Kestrels will be lucky to have football coaching from Aston Villa. The whole class will be able to fine tune and develop their football skills. Spring term seems to be the term for coaching in Year 5. Don’t forget Cricket coaching on Tuesday afternoons as well!
