Safer Internet Day 2019 - 1S

As part of our celebration of Safer Internet Day we decided to try and draw "The Internet." It soon became clear that "The Internet" meant different things to different people. Some of us thought we could use it to watch TV. Others thought we could use it to play games with our friends. A few suggested we could use it to send photographs or emails to people. We all knew it was something that we could use to communicate with each other. We also reminded ourselves of the rules about asking adults for permission and help when going on-line.  We just couldn't work out exactly what it was, so we decided to have a go at building our own.

First of all we made our own device such as a tablet, a phone, a games console, even washing machines and light bulbs. It's amazing what you can turn a paper cup into !

We spoke into our devices but soon realised there was no reply. We were all on our own and couldn't communicate with one another. A few of us decided to join all the devices on our own table together with string ( network cables)  and then we found we could talk to all the other devices on our table.

That was fine until we thought there might be interesting conversations going on at other tables. So, to find out what was going on around the whole room we connected all the devices on all the tables together with our string so that we could all communicate together.

Before long we had built our very own internet and had discovered that the internet is basically a lot of devices joined together by cables so that they can all speak to one another.

This also makes a lot of noise !!!

Next we're off to investigate the "magic" of Wi-Fi !

Y3 Music and Storytelling

Year 3 celebrated National Storytelling week in music. We listened to music that told a story and then we created music to help tell the story of the Sun and the Wind.

You can listen to our story here:

Y4 Musical Storytelling

To celebrate National Storytelling Week, Year 4 told the story of Baba Yaga using rhythm and song.

The story was a bit creepy and scary but we really liked it!

Learning about hip-hop grooves Year 2

Y3 Orchestra Trip

Year 3 had a wonderful time travelling to Portsmouth to listen to a concert by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

We listened to the music and joined in with our song and percussion piece. For lots of the children it was their first time hearing a live orchestra and they really enjoyed it.

Pre-nursery Car wash!

This week Pre-nursery have been working together to fix cars in the garage, fill up with petrol and wash the cars in the car wash!

Year 5 Yoga

Check out Year 5's yoga brain break - it was Pokémon themed! We had to use our bodies to make strong shapes, control our breathing and help catch those pesky Pokémon. We had so much fun!
You can try this at home - just look on YouTube for Cosmic Kids Pokémon yoga.

Y6 Flutes

The Year 6 Flutes have made a New Year's resolution to practice their flutes at home. This week they have been practising 'Dark Horse' and have made excellent progress.

See what you think?

Choir

Key Stage 2 Choir started today with a very full music room full of children!
There was lots of smiles and already we are making a great sound.

We are working towards singup day in March when we will be performing this song:

PSCO Louis comes to visit

Today we had a special visitor in Green Council, PSCO Louis De’Ath.

The children asked him some questions. Here are some of the answers - I wonder if you can guess what they asked him!

He said he started in 2016 after running a hotel. He works out of Redbridge Fire Station. He helps the community and then tries to fix things. If you have a problem or a worry you can talk to him.

He looks after vulnerable people especially if old people are lost. He also get calls about lost pets.  The last thing he did to help someone was knock on someone’s door because he was going to talk to their neighbour, and they actually did need help with their boiler which he was able to do.

He had some leaflets about road safety which was brilliant because as a Green Council, that is one thing we want to focus on next.

If you see PCSO Louis out and about in the community, don't forget to give him a smile and say hello.

Learning about hip-hop grooves : year 1

Look at this clever little man writing out the word ‘beat’ all by himself !

Brilliant bones!

Here in reception the children have shown a big interest in their bodies. We have been talking about our veins, hearts and skeletons. We have provided lots of activities to help the children support their fascination and look at what great work they are doing!

Autumn Term Music Awards

Each term the teachers from Southampton Music Services choose pupils to recieve our school music awards.

This year we are really focusing on taking instruments home to practice in-between lessons. This is vital to help make good progress.

The children chosen for the Autumn Term are:

For children who have practised regularly at home and made excellent progress.

Daniel Craciun

Dominique Cuanico

Yna Romelo

Liliana Moniz

Darla Ragpala  

Jesseree Barrion

Henry Garner

Well done, guys, keep up the good work.

Year 2 Gruffalo Dance & Music Project

We had a fun time creating a musical score for the Gruffalo woodland creatures then using 'verbs' to explore how these creatures moved 'over, under and around' objects.

Is it a solid? Is it a liquid?! NO! It's a non-Newtonian fluid!!!!!

Year 5 have been busy exploring solids, liquids and gases. Today we came across a substance which can be both a solid AND a liquid! These are called non-Newtonian fluids and it's all to do with the particles.

When the fluid is free to move by itself, the particles have time to move freely past each other. But when the fluid is impacted quickly, the particles don't have time to move and they get locked, meaning it behaves like a solid!

We were wowed by this and really enjoyed getting messy experimenting with it!

Miss Dickinson had a question. As solids are more protective than liquids, would a non-Newtonian liquid protect an egg when dropped from a height?!

Of course, we had to test this...

Miss Dickinson bravely scaled the climbing frame (no mean feat when you're older than 10!). After enclosing our egg in the non-Newtonian fluid in a zip-lock bag, she dropped it from the very top.

What do you think happened?

Spoiler: it was completely still in-tact!

Maybe we should all carry our eggs home from the supermarket in non-Newtonian fluid from now on...

Cinderella and Rockerfella

Rehearsals are underway for the Year 5 and 6 pantomime next week. The children have been working so hard at learning lines, songs, sound, props and scenery... it's going to be amazing.

Here's a sneak preview...

Carol Singing

15 Year 6 children sang festive songs for the Christmas Dinner at Carnival House. The children sang brilliantly and everyone was very impressed. They have even invited us on a tour of a cruise ship in the new year! We will be also visiting Rotary House to sing to the residents there. Well done Year 6!

'Twas The Night Before Christmas...

Well, what an amazing Christmas performance from Year 3 and 4! The children in 3H had such a great time and thoroughly enjoyed using their Talk for Writing skills to learn the whole of 'Twas A Night Before Christmas.' They performed it beautifully! The singing sounded great and we loved rocking out to 'I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday.' Thank you to all of the parents/ carers who provided Christmas pjs! We've decided that we'd love to wear them to school everyday.

RG are superstars!

A massive well done to all the children for their amazing Christmas performance! They did beautiful singing, amazing story telling and looked wonderful. I hope you all loved it as much as we did. All the teachers are feeling very proud of the children.

Democracy - Good Egg

In Shirley Warren, we know and understand the British Value of democracy.
This is where everyone has a say and we use a vote to show what the majority have chosen.

In our school, we have an award called the Good Egg, which is presented to one child in Key Stage 1 and one in Key Stage 2 at the end of every term. The child is someone who is shows kindness, respect and support as voted by their peers.

This is how the process works. 
First, children nominate someone in their class, with reasons why that child is a good egg.
Second, the class have a vote and the winning name is sent to our Green Council meeting.
Finally, Green council have the difficult task of listening to the descriptions of all of these amazing pupils and voting on the ones the governor will present the award to.

We keep that name a secret until the end of term assembly.
Today Green Council will vote for Autumn 2018's Good Egg.
If you were going to nominate someone in your class, who would it be and why?