Year 5 and Year 6 stepped back in time in their History lessons to learn about rationing during World War 2. They carefully planned some wartime recipes in their Design Technology lessons using only the ingredients that would have bene available 80 years ago. Finally, they spent a day using a range of cookery techniques to cook some delicious jam and biscuits.
Year 5 have learned a range of clay modelling techniques in their Art lessons, including rolling, slabbing, pinching and coiling. The children created these ancient Greek Olympic medals by using tools to make surface marks and decorations. Year 2 and Year 5 welcomed an important visitor to St Mary’s. London Fire Brigade taught the children about fire prevention and how to stay safe in the event of a fire.
Our children enjoyed a marvellous week of events, which have inspired them to write and perform their own poetry, as well as using their computing skills to create animations of their favourite poetry.
Local poet Adisa the Verbaliser and our very own Miss Baxter inspired the children. The children looked amazing as they dressed up as their favourite characters from poems and books. Congratulations to every child who took part in our Easter Bonnet and Easter Egg competitions. The standard of the entries was extremely high and we are blessed to have such creative children and families.
The children brightened up the school by dressing in colourful clothes to celebrate Spring-time. We raised nearly £200 to donate to the Bishop of Southwark’s Lent Appeal. The fundraising will support charities in Zimbabwe, Jerusalem and several projects in the Diocese of Southwark. Each class took part in four exciting investigations throughout the day on Tuesday 30th March. Highlights included making paper, designing electrical circuits, using data loggers, building motorised cars, coke bottle volcanoes, fun with magnets, making slime, investigating sweets, designing an ice garden, rescuing frozen dinosaurs, making water filters, investigating plants and planting seeds in recycled paper plant pots.
Years 5 & 6 have been busy making beautiful Christmas cards for the Elderly Care Unit at Lewisham Hospital and for the residents of Bentley Court, a local home for the elderly. With donations of mince pies and chocolates the children were able to deliver lovely hampers together with the cards to the hospital and Bentley Court in a socially distanced manner. It is so important to keep up these connections with the elderly as they will be feeling particularly vulnerable and isolated at this time. Well done Years 5 & 6!
The drama continues with Lewisham Youth Theatre! Amy Lewis from LYT came to St Mary's to work with a group from Years 5 and 6. She was really impressed with their energy and enthusiasm. Three children have now been chosen to continue working with LYT from January on a short 4 week project. We look forward to seeing the results!
As we haven't been able to compete in sports tournaments with other schools, Year 5 and Year 6 organised a lunchtime football tournament. Well done to everyone who took part, 6 teams played each other in a league before semi-finals and a grand final! Congratulations to the winning team below.
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