Year 5 Music

 Musical Sentences...

Year 5 have been using syncopated rhythms to create melodies. They listened to a Tudor Dance, and worked out the repeated rhythm that it used. The children then added note pitches to that rhythm to improvise their own melodies. They worked in pairs to create longer musical phrases. The children then listened and felt the beat to create a seamless link between person number one and person number 2.

Year 6 fashion descriptions in French

This week in French we have been practising our writing skills, by using all our learning so far to describe clothing using the 3rd person, whilst ensuring our adjectival agreement is correct. 

We have revised lots of prior learning such as gender of nouns, indefinite and definite articles and the verb porter to describe what people wear. This is all part of our fashion project where we hope to organise a French fashion show later this term.

¡Bienvenidos a Español en año 3!

As part of our school curriculum development, Year 3 are the first group to learn Spanish for our MFL lessons, whilst the rest of the school continues to make progress in French. 

So far we have learnt some greetings, how to ask how someone is feeling and reply for ourselves, plus we can now introduce our name in Spanish, and finally, say farewell. 

We are really enjoying playing lots of games to practise all different types of language skills - here are some photos from our recent Quiz Quiz Trade games where we got to pretend to be lots of different people!

We also practised writing Spanish question and exclamation marks - what do you notice about them?

 

The Manor Way Debating Team

 On a rainy Friday morning, Mrs Seaton met with the Debating Team. 

We first discussed what makes a good debate and what skills we need to practise to be great debaters. Then we discussed some important environmental topics which we would like to debate more thoroughly in future. We listen to five members who wanted to volunteer to be our school representative for the UK Children's Parliament Virtual Event in October, and held a democratic vote to decide who we would choose as our MP. 

Well done to Laju who was shortlisted to represent our school and local area, to Amber and Lewis for being runners up and all other children who put themselves forward for the vote.

We hope our candidate is formally selected by the official organisers to represent us and look forward to working with him and the yr2 debaters to support him by helping prepare debates for the event.