Stocksbridge Junior School

After the success of their Greek Extravaganza Performance, the Y5s decided to record the songs onto a CD to sell to their parents as a momento of their assembly.

“It was all very professional and we had to be extra specially quite between the songs so we didn’t record ourselves giggling!”

On the 23rd of March Y5 performed a Greek assembly. All the y5’s had a part, Peta Potter (Thomas) was the star, he sold lots of pots and told story’s about them. There where 9 different songs the best song i think was Dancing round the mountain! It was really funny and the best part was the song with Zeus (Callum) Jumping out with a microphone (he looked like the new Elvis presley! 

Yet again SJS is holding the annual Easter egg competition. You have to think of a theme, boil an egg and design a scene  with your egg in it, the best one will win an easter egg. Some children have done things like egg band, eggcelent holiday and even one named after places and holidays e.g. eggaria (Bulgaria).There will be three winners and they will get one egg each, if they did it with more than 1 person then they have to split the egg between them. There has been many enteries and many different ides but they are magnificent and a vast improvement from last year. 

On Friday 16th of March, the athletics squad went to The Insutute Of Sport to compete in the city final. When we got there, all of the schools , who where competeing , went to sit on the floor. There was a man who introduced a athletics champion. He was invited to compete in the comenwelth games. He raced in a very lond race and he came 1st.

After that, the boys where racing 1st. They all did very well and most of them did extremly well! While they where running, the girls where doing their field events. Megan won on the target through. I was her partner. We both did our best. It turned out fab. After, the girls where racing. They did very good and the boys did well at their field events.

At the end of the competion, we found out where we had come. We came 4th out of 80 schools. When the man read out our school, we all stood up and recived a trophy. It was a great excperience and Miss was pleased. It was good and we all did a great job!!!

In the teachers’ competition Mr H had to throw the javelin.  compared to the other teachers we didn’t think he’d do too well.  We were very wrong! He made a whooping throw, way past the other javelin’s.  Miss W even took an action shot!

On Friday 23rd March 2007 Y5’s  performed a production.It was about  ancient Greece. It lasted approximately 45 minutes. The main storyline was about a pot seller in Athens that told stories of heroes that had conquered all they saw. In the end Athens fell to pieces as Macedonia attacked Greece. During these 45 minutes all three classes showed how Greece fell into decay. With songs, instrument and acting this play was interesting and amazing.

Hannah C + Kate I

Y5 went Mayfield study centre to learn about the geography topic rivers. We walked about 2 1/2 miles and when we came back we were all ready for dinner. On the first day we had fish+chips and jaffa sponge and custard, and on the 2nd day we had pizza and beans and  for pudding we had flapjack and custard. Then we got our wellys one and started walking again and we saw some alpacas. When we got back we were tired but we  liked that.

by Natalie and Amy   

On Monday 19th March 2007 Y6 and Y5 girls team played a match in the freezing cold weather!!

 There was 9 girls 8 playing (1 sub); but they took turns in being the subs! We were against one of the best teams in our league from Sacard Heart. As usual, the team was late due to taffic and that their school is quite far away from our school. We kicked off about 4:30 pm. Sacrad Heart Started with the ball but about 5 seconds after M.L Stole the ball and headed for their goal. Although M.L is a great player, their goalie showed great skill be saving the ball. 0-0  

She kicked the ball down to our goal but luckly for O.B Stocksbridge had a pair of great defenders. They dribbled the ball down to the pitch and passed to the mid fielders.

Returning for revenge Sacrad Swooped the ball and Headed for our goal. Suprisingly our brill defenders were defated and it was up to O.B to save the goal.

She tried with all her might and saved it.

0-0.

Half time. We had a pep talk the it was the second half.

 The second half was just like the first and so at the end the score was 0-0. 

By Olivia, Y6

On Friday 16th March SJS did a limited edition Comic Reilif  ‘Stars in their Eyes’. The day before the show Miss Freeman held some auditions for anyone who wanted to take part in the show on friday.

Kirsty Y6R

On Friday 16th March nearly everyone (including me) did a particular act of their choice for the Stocksbridge Junior School’s limited addition of stars in their eyes for comic relief!!! The day before Miss Freeman (the organiser) held auditions for all of the people who wanted to participate in the wonderful event!everyone was either wearing  fancy dress or a costume-they all looked extremely funny (especially when they did their act).

Megan Y6R

Congratulations to this CC4G member who won an iPod shuffle when she introduced a friend to the club!

On Sunday 11th March 2007, six children from Stocksbridge Junior School competed in the Sheffield Schools Trampolining competition at All Saints School, Sheffield.  Far more people were there than we ever expected, which made the experience rather daunting.  Team A was made up of three Year 6 girls and Team B consisted of three girls from Year 4.  This was the first competion for all six competitors so we thought we’d just have a go and try our best.  Our first routines went without a hitch… or at least we thought they were good.  Miss F recorded them with her digital camera then we watched them back and Miss W pointed out our flyaway arms and messy feet so we could improve for final routine.

We waited for the presentation whilst everybody else completed their routines.  Amazingly the Year 6 team finished 3rd out of 15 schools with one of our competitors finishing in 2nd place out of over 55 trampolinists!

On Tuesday 6th March 2007 y5 went on a trip to Ewden water works, we learned about what germs and bacteria was in the resivior when it has just come in to the works. We had a look around were the water got cleaned, and did lots of activitys on the computers. They told us lots of imfomation about the works and how we could save water. We also looked at some bacteria that were in the water and we found out the names of some of the jerms, the one that makes the water brown is called peat. We looked at some screens and one were showing us were the pipes ran. The different colour pipes were blue for water, yellow for electicty and green for gas.

Amy and Natalie, y5 reporters!

 Today a circus came to school we did all sorts of things like spinning plates,  juggling, stilts and pedals. The man who came worked at a company called JOKER. And we all took it in turns to play with each piece of equipment . Then we came out for dinner and went back in for another half an hour.Thankfully, Martin didn’t bring any circus clowns because Miss D is very scared of them!

Callie & Thomas, Y3 Reporters

Today a circus came to school we did all sorts of things like spinning plates,  juggling, stilts and pedals. The man who came worked at a company called JOKER. And we all took it in turns to play with each piece of equipment . Then we came out for dinner and went back in for another half an hour.Thankfully, Martin didn’t bring any circus clowns because Miss D is very scared of them!

Callie & Thomas, Y3 Reporters

The trick is to make it spin… Don’t try this one with your mum’s best china!

My, my how you’ve grown in the last 30 seconds!

Follow the leader, the leader, the leader…Follow the leader, the leader, the leader… 

How to balance a stick that’s double the height of you!

Gimme space, gimme space, I’m going to flip it…

In p.e this month we have been doing a very exiting sport called foots-all!In this sport you have to use a really hard ball and dribble it with the sole of your foot. Sometime this year there is going to be a foots-all tournament with one team as boys and one team as girls(i hope i make the team as i enjoy this sport very much

In y4 we have been doing tudor portraits. Y4 have been drawring tudor monachs. (Henry VIII) We could either do Mary I, Edward VI, Elizebeth I, Henry VIII or Henry VII. It was the best thing in y4’s tudor topic. We used a 2b drawring pencil. It was lots and lots of fun we couldn’t use colours so we had to shade in. First we had to decide which kind of paper to use, you could either use A4 or A3 paper. The Y4’s had a good time drawing and the pictures are great! When they have been mounted, we’ll post a picture for you to appreciate them too!

by Y4 Reporters Imogen and kate.    

On Tuesdays, various Y6 and Y5 children travel down to Stocksbridge Leisure Centre. On the ground floor, in the basketball court, the children vigorously train for field and running events. The field events include: seated throw, target throw,  long jump and high jump. Running events sited there involve: relay racers in several varieties, along with sprinting and distance. Training finishes at 3:10.

We hope all of their hard work pays off next week at the Sheffield Schools Indoor Athletics Final! Good luck to them all.

Nathan and Patrick                   Y6 Reporters

On Friday, both football teams headed down to Sheffield Wednesday’s Middlewood ground-our mission to secure a place as the team representing them in the regional finals.

The y6’s started well, winning both their opening games 1-0 ; unfortunatley one of these was against the y5’s. Despite their early defeats, the y5’s fought on to gain a place with the y6’s in finals.

The first semi-final was not between us and it went right down to penalties. Then it was our turn. The y6’s gained an early lead and managed to hold on for a win. Sadly, this put the y5’s out of the competition.

Then came the final- y6’s to do us proud. But that was not to be. Despite a flurry of goal chances at the end, they lost.

Lee Bullin, a Wednesday 1st team player, handed out the certificates and we went back to school for a normal afteroon.  

 In Y6 there are many different lessons that take place including: English, maths, RE, PE, Geography, History and many more! After being in this school for many years now i have learnt a lot about the subjects we have covered!!! i loved making our DT fairground move in ICT.

 Megan Y6R