Water Cycle film, Year 3

Lots of you asked for this to be put on the site so you can see it again! Finally managed to track down a copy that is possible to transfer. Here you go… Click on the image to enjoy listening to how you sounded in Year 3 and see your first go at animation.

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Netball on Monday

Remember Netball has been cancelled after school on Monday because of the play performance in the evening. Everyone needs to be back to school for 5:45 pm to get ready for a 6:00 start of Kids in Space.

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A Midsummer Nights Dream – Letters to Theseus

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Netball victory!

More good sporting news on the netball front. A close fought game with Long Itchington with St. James edging the winners. Well done!

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Great Cross Country running!

Well done AG! Fabulous run on a muddy Hatton course on Saturday in the Central Warwickshire Cross Country trials to come in 6th and get through to the county championships! Brilliant running all season!

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RSC Midsummer Night’s Dream and Shakespeare Celebrations

Screen Shot 2016-03-03 at 22.56.46We are lucky to be able to go to Stratford in a couple of weeks to take part in the primary school open day activities as part of Shakespeare week. If you want to find out more about some of the free events going on in Stratford (and other places) during this year to celebrate 400 years since Shakespeare’s death, follow the link left.

You can also find out more about the very funny production of Midsummer Screen Shot 2016-03-03 at 23.00.32Night’s Dream by the RSC by following this link (right).

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Shakespeare: Midsummer Night’s Dream

We have started work on Midsummer Night’s Dream and have had a lot of fun this shakespeareweek acting out the first part of the play to try to work out who the characters are and why they act as they do. We have also been investigating where to put actors on a stage and how they should stand to try to show who the important people are in a scene.

We have been writing news reports about the start of the play when Egeus complains to Theseus that his daughter wants to marry Lysander instead of Demetrius who has chosen for her. He insists that if she will not do as she is told, she should die! We imagined how this news might be reported and we tried to think about what kind of jobs each character might have if we were staging the play…

News flash: Will Hermia live or die?
Court reporter: HW

Yesterday evening preparations were being made for Theseus Redstick and Hermia Hangton’s wedding after winning the elclassico war against Amazonia. Egeus Sackatomolos, 64 years of age from Stratfudton City, interrupted the plans at the castle and wanted Hermia, aged 16, to marry Demetrius Payet, French born football star aged 31. Local people said that Payet was a mean, selfish fellow who deserved no girlfriend.

Lysander and Hermia have been seeing each other for two months but were extremely overwhelmed when Egeus Sackatomolos declared that the law was to obey your father’s demands or else you will be executed by the king’s men. The couple protested, “We only love each other!” Lysander was allegedly buying gifts and singing for her.

Despite her father, Hermia still loves Lysander and hates Demetrius but the true question is will she die or live her life?

News flash: Is Hermia going to die?
Court reporter: JF

Yesterday afternoon, as Theseus was planning his wedding of the century, he was interrupted by 67-year old Egeus Kalbroje who stormed into the palace hall. He complained that his daughter, Hermia-L-Kalbroje, was secretly going out with Lysander, a famous poet and part-time astronomer, when she was engaged to Demetrius Xol, famous magician and former soldier.

Hermia and Lysander were shocked at the fact that Egeus was complaining about them being together. Lysander was so annoyed that he marched out of the palace and he didn’t communicate with anyone for the rest of the day. Desperate to see what would happen to her, Hermia calmly said, “What is going to happen to me then?” The servants of Lord Theseus and Hippolyta complained of the noise as they were trying to get to sleep.

The day before that incident, Demetrius broke up with his fiancé, singing sensation Helena of Midsummer Maids. The devastated Helena was too heartbroken to comment but everybody feels sorry for her. As soon as Demetrius found out about Hermia and Lysander, he cut off their marriage and started to love Hermia. Seeing as Demetrius is so famous, he thinks that everybody loves him, but, having seen what Helena has been through, people now hate him.

The last time Hermia and Lysander were seen was when they headed off into the forest before Egeus was able to do anything with Hermia.


News flash: Will Hermia live?
Court reporter: JL

Late last night, during vital planning for the wedding between Hippolyta and Theseus, Egeus, a local tradesman, burst into the palace doors with a complaint. He claims his daughter, Hermia, had been dishonourable to his family by not obeying her father. She had disobeyed her father’s orders to marry Demetrius, the world champion footballer and ex-‘ace’ soldier.

During the meeting, Hermia, 17, observed the conversation with Lysander, her wanted boyfriend. It is reported that Egeus called Lysander a ‘spell caster’ to lure girls in. Angry to hear this, Lysander was heard shouting at Egeus, saying he was … “as good as that * idiot Demetrius but I actually like Hermia!”

Later yesterday, Theseus reminded Hermia about the consequences if she continued to stand up for her relationship.

Further pressure will be put on Hermia. Will she make the right decision and survive?

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Darwin biographies

Enjoy reading some of your great biographies of Charles Darwin.

darwin 1Charles Darwin was born in 1809 in Shrewsbury. His dad worked at the hospital and his mum died when he was only eight years old. Charles Darwin was famous for finding animals that no-one had seen before.
    At an early age, that was 9, he went to school and got called Gas for making experiments in the garden shed. He also had four sisters and one brother named Erasmus.
    He also did a club named the Gourmet Club. He ate all different kinds of animals like birds and beasts and he also ate an old brown owl. He thought it was so bad, he said it was indescribable!
    When Charles Darwin got older, he finally married his cousin Emma Wedgwood and had ten children. He also went out to sea on HMS Beagle with 75 other men. He went to the Galapagos Islands. When he got back he liked spending half an hour every day playing backgammon with his wife, Emma. (J.D.)

darwin 2 Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire on the 12th February, 1809. He was the son of Robert Darwin and Susannah Darwin. Charles Darwin is one of the most famous British scientists. Although he was ill for a long period of time, he was a successful grown man.
Charles had four sisters and one brother. Marianne, Caroline and Susan were his sister’s names; Erasmus was his older brother. Darwin went to school at Shrewsbury School. He started school in 1818-1825. Then he went to Edinburgh University but then went to Cambridge University. Charles loved nature but didn’t like school!
Charles got invited to join the expedition of HMS Beagle as a naturalist. They set off on 27th December 1831 when Darwin was aged 22 and were almost gone for five years. They visited a place called the Galapagos Islands. Darwin enjoyed visiting it. The wildlife there has almost all the reptiles and half the world’s plant in three islands. At the time they were not found anywhere else. (A.B.)

Charles Darwin was one of the most well known and clever scientists in England and the slothworld. His life was full of adventure and curiosity but, at 8, his mum passed away and Charles went to boarding school along with his five siblings.
     When Charles left school, his father wanted him to got to Edinburgh and study about being a doctor but when Charles had been there for two years, he left. He found it dull andhated the sight of blood so he headed to Cambridge for a general degree. His dad then hoped for him to become a vicar but, again, this was not what Charles wanted to be. He became fascinated in natural history and set off on his first quest.
    Charles lived in a ship (HMS Beagle) which was dirty and full of dust for most of his journey. His exploits were stuffed with rare and endangered animals, e.g. an iguana and a giant ground sloth from the ice age! (O.D.)

Charles Darwin was well known for his interest in science and the theory of humans coming from apes.
He was born on the 12th of February 1809 in Shrewsbury. His father, Robert, was a famous doctor and his mother unfortunately died when he was just eight years old. Charles had five siblings but his brother, Erasmus, was his best friend and closest companion. Darwin’s nickname at school was ‘Gas’ because he and his brother had a laboratory in the outside shed.
To his father’s delight, Charles Darwin attended Edinburgh for medicine. Surprisingly, he didn’t like the ‘dull’ lectures and hated the sight of blood. He then went to Cambridge for a general degree. Robert Darwin wanted him to become a vicar but he spent more time with animals. Whilst he was in Cambridge, he collected over fifty different types of beetles; he stored them in a box which later came to go into a museum.
gapalapagos In 1831 he set off on the HMS Beagle expedition which travelled to South America, South Africa and Australia. Although Darwin loved to be at sea, he often got seasick. The place he liked the most were the Galapagos Islands, which were near Ecuador. He discovered a lot of new animals there, e.g. the giant tortoise, blue-footed boobiesblue footed and many more. He also studied the different types of birds on each island and found over ten different species. (M.C.)

 

Charles Darwin was one of the most famous scientists in British history. He explored places which would be a dream to some people and, for others, it would be their worst nightmare!
    Charles was born on the 12th February 1809 in The Mount, Shrewsbury. Charles Darwin’s parents were Robert Darwin, who was a very wealthy doctor, and Susannah Wedgwood, who was from the family famous for making Wedgwood pottery. As a child he enjoyed collecting beetles.
   When he was sixteen years old, he went to Edinburgh University as his father wanted him to study medicine, but he didn’t like the sight of blood so he left. A year later he went to Cambridge University so he could aim to be a vicar (that’s what his dad wanted him to be). In Cambridge he founded a club called The Glutton Club. It was a club where they would get an animal that wouldn’t normally eat and try it. They ate many things including armadillo. ostrich and even a giant tortoise. Darwin’s favourite meat was thought to be a capybara but by far his least ftortoise drawingsavourite was an old brown owl which he said was stringy and foul!
   When Darwin was 22 years old he was invited to join HMS Beagle and he was the Captain’s companion. On the ship there were 75 people crammed into little cabins which were filthy and dusty; Charles would often get seasick. Darwin’s favourite place was the Galapagos Islands which is where he found Giant tortoises which can live up to 100 years old (- he even rode one), colourful iguanas and 13 different types of finches. (D.B.)

 

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Darwinopterus

Screen Shot 2016-02-20 at 12.43.20Here’s a link to find out about a dinosaur named after Darwin… (click on the image!)

Did you also know that 12th February (Darwin’s birthday) is International Darwin Day!

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fave characters from star wars!!

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