Stocksbridge Junior School

Our star manager, JW from Y3, has acheived an amazing feat. He has the potential to become the next England manager and maybe even take them to lifting the world cup!  So far he is in 6th position in the region (yorkshire and the humber) out of 13,000 children and 66th in the national league out of 125,000 children! This has earned him the title of Overall November manager of the month at school, beating EK of Y4, FH from Y5, JK of Y6 and Miss W of the staff!Watch out Steve Mclaren, he could be the next big thing! 

By Thomas and Kieran, Y6.

In our nativity play it took a lot of practice to get all the songs and lines sorted. We avenshally got it all sorted so pepul had parts.  They praformend it in front of the rest of the y3,s and y4,s.  On thursday our mums and dads are coming to watch.  were very nervus!

Callie and Thomas, y3 reporters

In Y5 Joshua (team leader), Natalie, Alex, Ewan and Emma collect recycling boxes full of waste paper. There is one in every class, there are different colours on each box. We collect them in on every Monday and Wednesday, then give them back out on Tuesday and Thursday.  One of the teachers or sometimes Mr Scott takes all the paper to the dump it down the road.

By Natalie and Ewan, Y5 reporters.  

In D.T y4 have been making torch models with cardboard tubes and coloured paper. First we designed the torches then we decided which colours to have. When we made the torches some of us made changes to them. When we had finished we put them on a shelf and it looked really cool. The good thing about them is everyone did some thing different.  There were snowmen torches, poilce torches and even a torce with a poem on it! It was all fun.

by Imogen and kate y4, reporters.       

During art in Year 6, we have been learning  how to use perspective in our work. Perspective is using vanishing points and overlapping fine detail.We have been trying to create a footpath/road leading to the horizon line and including people or trees getting further and further away- getting smaller and smaller as they go.

Edie and Patrick, Y6 Reporters

Today some children from year five and six went to perform at the winter gardens in the centre of Sheffield. There we played the handchimes, sung Christmassy songs and also some people had to do some solos. On the handchimes we played O little town of Bethlehem, Silent night, O come all ye faithful and away in a manger. The songs we sung were Midnight and The Gift.We had lunch at the winter gardens and Miss Freeman nearly forgot to get the handchimes out of her car boot! All in all we had a brilliant day!

Charlotte and Alice Y6G

On Thursday 23rd eight children from each Y6 class, who had filled their PFWA reward books, went down to the sports centre for an indoor lacrosse tournament. There were three other schools taking part: Nook Lane primary school, Deepcar St. Johns and of course us, Stocksbridge Junior School. We were split into three teams - Mrs G’s class, Mr H’s class and Ms R’s class. I was in Mrs G’s team. First we played Deepcar and lost 3-1. Then we played Nook Lane and lost 4-2. We then played Ms R’s and drew 2-2. After that we played Deepcar and smashed them 4-2. Finally we played Mr H’s and drew 1-1. Our ref was Mr M, AKA the all powerful wrath, who had taken our coaching sessions at school. We had a really good afternoon and will be very happy to go again. 

Thomas

Last night a squad of 20 Year 6 pupils travelled down to Hillsborough college for the first round of the Sheffield Schools Basketball Tournament.

Mrs G sorted us into an A team and a B Team, each competing in separate groups.  We competed against Oughtibridge, Deepcar, Nook Lane Bradfield Dungworth and Wharncliffe Side.

The A Team lost their first two games however came out fighting in the third game against local rivals Deepcar.  The A Team stretched their lead to 10-2 but some clumsy defending caused the game to finish at 10-10.

Our only training session obviously paid off as the A Team smashed Nook Lane 12-2.

The B Team won 2 games, drew 1 and lost 1, therefore finishing in 2nd place (joint with Deepcar B).  In any normal competition this would mean that as Runners up, the B team would go through to the semi final however, one of the rules of the competition means that a B Team cannot go through so Bradfield Dungworth school went through even though they hadn’t even won a single game! 

It was a very exciting event even though we didn’t go through to the next round.

Alice & Olivia

PS Congratulations to Mollie who was talent spotted by one of the Activity Sheffield sports coaches and invited to the Basketball academy!!!

Last week, the Knight family won an ENORMOUS toblerone in the school raffle. After eating a bit themselves, they kindly split the rest up into 300 pieces (one for every child in the school)! T.K, a member of the Knight family, brought the pieces in a bag round to each class. Thanks to the Knights as the chocolate was YUMMY!

In D.T. we are making cams,which are going to be moving toys.  We have just cut out the pieces of wood for the border. We are working in pairs to make the cams next we are going stick the pieces of wood together with glue. After that we are designing what the toy is going to look like!

Y5 reporters, Natalie & Ewan