Stocksbridge Junior School

In the y5 topic art we have been making paper sculptures. In Y5K they have been making mythical creatures. After they had made the sculptures we wrote a story about them.  We have also sketched our scultpures and written evaluations about how well we have done.  Mine was called Tonguezilla!

Ewan, Y5 Reporter

In our history topic we learnt about anglo-saxons we learnt that they need to live near a river so that they can get food and water and use the water to cook and they only used to have little houses instead of using bricks they used wood.

The Anglo-Saxons lived in houses with thached roofs and instead of having doors they had gaps instead. They used to have special animals to help them plough the fields.

We can’t wait to learn about the Romans next term!

Callie & Thomas, Y3 Reporters

On a Tuesday Y4b, play instruments such as a trumpets and clarinets. The teachers are Miss. P, Mr D and Mr S. It is hard to play the trumpet because you have to make a buzzing sound. This is the only class in  the whole school that get to play the instruments. The fun thing about playing is you get to play this copy game at the end but if the teachers do the same sound you can’t do it.  Hopefully, some of us will carry on learning to play these instruments after Year 4!

Imogen & Kate, Y4 Reporters

Recently in year 6, we have perormed a World War II play based on ‘Bombs and Blackberries’ for our parents. The play was about a family from Sheffield whose children get evacuated to the country during the heavy bombing.  The children were very homesick so their mother came to rescue them from the nasty housekeeper of Kite Hall, unfortunately the phoney war was phoney no longer. 

Throughout the performance we sang a variety of songs including: Run rabbit run, Hang out the washing on the Siegfried line and We’ll meet again. At the end , we drew the raffle for the GIANT Toblerone. Thomas K (y6) was the lucky winner!

Edie & Patrick, Y6 Reporters

This blog is about main types of enployment in Kenya.Over thier,many people are safari truck,as many tourists go on safari.Men and women can do this.

In The Citys……

Many people work at train stations,supermarkets,such as Asda,and in offices.These citys include Nairobi,which is the capial,
Mombasa,Kismu,Eldoret and Nakuru.

In The Country….

In
Kenya,75-80% of the population make their living from the land.That includes coffee and tea,Did you know that?

AMOS=G By Thomas W

Kenya is twice the size of Britain. Every easter they have a cross country motor race. Some volcanoes in Kenya are still active. Lava and other through cracks and craters and thats how Rift Vally was created.Lava is 1000 degrees celsius.Did you know the Tana and Galana rivers are the biggest in Kenya. Rivers in north Kenya dry up easily because of the lack of rain.   

AMOS =Green   Luke.C.

Kenya has lots of different fruit and vegetables.A popular snack in Kenya is Mandazi which is a small doughnut.In Kenya they make biscuits like simsim biscuits.Leafy,green kale is a cheap and popular vegetable.In Kenya people have supper at 7:00.

Abbie AMOS yellow

What are the landscapes of Kenya like?.The center of Kenya is mainly mountains and lakes.The most famous mountain in Kenya is Mount Kenya it is the biggest,tallest and widest mountain in Kenya.The rest of the landscape is grass,which is where lions,zebras and leopards live.

Lucy shaw y5b   amos

My report is about housing and schools in Kenya. The houses have the main house which has five rooms. The floors are made from wooden planks and they have a gutter to collect rain. The roof is made of to wooden planks aswell as the floor. They also have a bathroom.It has two rooms and it is made of wooden planks. The roof is made of one metal sheet.

This paragraph is about schools. The schools in Kenya are much more poor than us. This is the children’s day,5:45 the children get up and 6:15 wash and get dress. At 6:15 they start eating there breakfast.

Amy Cockbill-AMOS-GREEN

Is Kenya what you think it is?

Food 

In Kenya most Kenyans will only eat the best crops because they are a bit fussy. Celebrations in Kenya,like Christmas and New Year, include buying a goat taking it home and killing it for the main course. Many bananas are grown in Kenya because it is one of their main crops. Lots of British people buy coffee from Kenya because Kenyans have many coffee crops and the British have no coffee crops.

Animals

Animals in Kenya are plentiful. There are animals such as giraffes, lions, tigers, cougers and even leopards.

Zakk AMOS

Tourists come from all over the world to enjoy the Kenyan life. The worst time to go to Kenya is from April to May, because it rains very heavily.Kenya has lots of beautiful sites such as Mount Kenya,which is a huge 5,199 meters tall and is the second largest mountain in Africa,and the Rift valley, which runs 4,000 kilometers through Kenya.You can find much about Kenya by looking at photographs,brochures and postcards.Kenya is a very long flight from the U.K,usually about an 8 hour flight.Kenya has some of the best hotels and lodges in the world.From the luxury hotels and lodges they have superior dining and conference facilities. There are many top quality tour operations in Kenya. Most maintain high quality standards and are active in the promotion of tourism sector.Kanya’s national parks are wildlife and botanical sanctuaries set aside to conserve their unique species. Kenya is a land of true wilderness areas snow capped mountains,tropical rainforests, waterfalls and beautiful beaches, all these things inspire tourists. 

Kate I - AMOS = Green

Kenya is a popular tourist destination.

HOTEL’S

Kenya has some of the best hotel’s and lodges in the world.The luxury hotel’s with Superior lodging dining and conference facilatis are often visited by tourist’s.

PARK’S

Kenya’s national park’s are wildlife and botanical sancturi’s set aside to conserve the’re unique spice’s

PLACES VISITED

Kenya is a land of sher wilderness area’s snow capped mountin’s,Tropical rain forist’s,waterfall’s and beautiful beache’s all these thing’s inspire tourist’s.       Jessica   Godley

Year 5 Literacy in ICT 

Learning Objective: To post a report about Kenya

Success Criteria:

• Use relevant technical language
• Use of paragraphs/subheadings
• Use of the present tense and third person
• Use images to help to give information more clearly
• Use websites and library books to find factual information about Kenya

Tourists come from all over the world to enjoy the Kenyan life. The worst time to go to Kenya is from April to May because it rains quite heavily. Kenya has lots of beautiful sites such as Mount Kenya, which is a whopping 5199 metres tall! As well as the Rift Valley which is 4000 kilometres wide! You can find much more things about Kenya by looking in holiday brochures and postcards. Kenya lies on the equator, so pack some suncream if you’re going. It’s a very long flight from the U.K to Kenya, usually 8 hours. Kenya may be hot but on the summit of Mount Kenya it is covered in snow and ice. Hotels and Lodgings are avalible in Kenya have been commented for their exellent dining and conference facilites. There are many different top quality tours so you can see the beautiful beaches and sun - glazed savannahs. Most tours maintain high standards and are active in the promotion of tourism sector. Kenya’s national parks are wildlife and botanical sancturies set aside to conserve their unique species. Kenya is a land of true wilderness, snow - capped mountains, tropical rainforests, smashing water falls and glamerous beaches, all these things inspire tourists. The capital of Kenya is Nairobi, a popular place for markets and stalls, and most tourists from around the globe are fasinated with the Kenyan artifacts and sweet, juicy, farm grown food.

Hannah C - AMOS

Watling Wonders are at the top of the overall league with 97 points! Chasing behind them is Wright FC, both managers are in Year 3. Bottom of the league is The Compos with 22 points! The top teacher is Miss R and bottom of the teachers is Mr H!  I think Mr H needs to speak to his secret adviser again for some transfer advice!

Ewan and Natalie, Y5

All this week, in year six, we are practising our SATs which we are planning to do in May 2007. For our SATs, out of all of the lessons we take, we only have to study for tests in English, Maths and Science. On Monday we took both Science papers(A and B). On Wednesday, we are taking the reading test and mental maths test, Thursday we are taking the writing assessment and Friday it’s maths.

Edie & Patrick, Y6

On children in need day our school had a non-uniform day to raise money for charity. We also had a big cake stall and lots of children brought in a variety of cakes and bisciuts to sell…yum yum! Altogether we raised £230. In the afternoon we did a fantastic talent show and some acts were very funny and others were a little weird. Overall it was FANTASTIC!

Joshua & Imogen, Y4

We have been  using Flowol to make flowcharts which control the traffic lights.  A couple of people managed to get the sequence right but others are definitily going to confuse the traffic - what should they do if all three lights were lit?!

Earlier this morning, a very special assembly was held- a pupil named Thomas.H, who has just moved up to High School and is my best friend, returned to school with the BBC, who last year had held a special hands on experience- BBC News and Sport on Tour. Thomas had tried being a weatherman, and had ended up recieving a very special trophe from the BBC! I am very proud of Thomas, and, as he said: “Wow!”

I like the girls football team I am in it the one thing that i would like to improve is the time limit.  We don’t have enough time to get ready and we only have twenty minutes to practise. We have it twice a week (Mondays and Fridays).  Most of my friends do it and they really like it. I think its fantastic!!! 

I really like being the oldest year in the school because we get to do project leap with the year threes and it’s what i would like to do when i am older (working with children).

I do project leap with my two friends Sabrina and Courtney and we really enjoy doing it. We play lots of games with the year threes - I think their favourite game is tig and we really enjoy it two! I really enjoy doing it but i dont do it very much because there is alot of year sixes doing it aswell!

Being in year 6 is fantastic! You get to do all sorts of different things such as: be prefects, be in the athletics team and be the oldest year group in the school. When I was first in year 6, I thoght it would be realy hard and scary;but I was wrong! Ever since I was in year 6, I have felt a lot more confident! I tried out for the athletics team, I tried out for the y6 girls football team and guess what, I got into both of them! Being in year 6 is great!

As it’s writing week,the whole school is using their imagination as at the start at the week our deputy head showed us a picture that projected onto the big screen, so no-one had any excuses from seeing it! So far nearly every pupil had edited an opening for their story, you can read some year 6 openings on the year 6 narrative page of this blog.

On Saturday my three best friends (Natalie, Georgina and Alice) and I are going to Bolsterstone with the school choir. Afterwards Alice and I are going to a swimming Gala.

Recently in year six we have been studying and creating miniture fairground rides in D.T and  I.C.T. To start with we had to design our rides to get the main idea of they were going to look like. When we had created our design, we made and decorated the frame which held our ride together. Later on in the process (after we had finished decorating) we attatched our ride to a control box and created a flowchart using the computer program, Flowol.  When we ran our flowchart, the ride span much faster than when we just used a battery powered circuit.

Edie & Emily, Y6 reporters