Friday, May 28, 2010
24th to 28th May
This has been Book Week at school and we have had a number of special activities in connection with this.
We have had a performance from Footprints Theatre of the story How Georgie Radbourn Saved Baseball which was very well done and we had an author visit school. This was Nick Tozcek, who gave a presentation of performance poetry (and a little magic) to the whole school before working with each of the Year 5 and 6 classes. (Years 3 and 4 had drama workshops from Partake on Monday.) Mr Tozcek gave us some tips for collecting ideas and developing rhymes then, later, we had the chance to create our own poems in that style, aiming to develop strong rhythms and include plenty of rhymes. Today we had a Book Quiz in the hall with prizes for this (and a story writing competition) being handed out by our local Member of Parliament, Vernon Coaker. Almost all the children and staff came to school today dressed as book characters.
Another major piece of work for us this week was designing and making bookmarks to go with a particular book. The idea of these was that they contained some "extra" feature - something that opened or moved or "worked" in some way and we had some fantastic designs. Most of us also had time to create puppets or a board game to go with one of our favourite books.
We have now broken up for our summer half term holiday.
School re-opens on Monday 7th June.
We have had a performance from Footprints Theatre of the story How Georgie Radbourn Saved Baseball which was very well done and we had an author visit school. This was Nick Tozcek, who gave a presentation of performance poetry (and a little magic) to the whole school before working with each of the Year 5 and 6 classes. (Years 3 and 4 had drama workshops from Partake on Monday.) Mr Tozcek gave us some tips for collecting ideas and developing rhymes then, later, we had the chance to create our own poems in that style, aiming to develop strong rhythms and include plenty of rhymes. Today we had a Book Quiz in the hall with prizes for this (and a story writing competition) being handed out by our local Member of Parliament, Vernon Coaker. Almost all the children and staff came to school today dressed as book characters.
Another major piece of work for us this week was designing and making bookmarks to go with a particular book. The idea of these was that they contained some "extra" feature - something that opened or moved or "worked" in some way and we had some fantastic designs. Most of us also had time to create puppets or a board game to go with one of our favourite books.
We have now broken up for our summer half term holiday.
School re-opens on Monday 7th June.
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