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What does Christmas mean to you? (House Art Competition)

When we announced the House Christmas Art Competition: What Christmas means to me; we never dreamt that we would receive so many fantastic entries. Mr Peck, Miss Dyer and I have just got back from judging them and we are truly blown away by the creativity, skill and love that has gone into every piece – so thank you to all of you who entered.

 Entries

However, it was a competition, and there are house points at stake, so  the results are as follows:

3rd

Shiann Wood (Year 6 – Churchill)

 

2nd

  

Clementine Griffith (Year 4 – Cecil) and William Boatman  (Year 4 – Cecil)

Winner

Kasia Macdonald (Year 4 – Wilberforce)

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Year 6 Visit The National Gallery

As you know, our topic this term has been Ancient Greece – specifically The Adventures of Odysseus by Hugh Lupton. Therefore, we jumped at the chance to go to the National Gallery last week where we would be able to see two paintings that were based on Homer’s adventure: Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus and Penelope and the Suitors.

We were lucky to have a very informative talk by Nick (one of the gallery guides) who gave us an insight into the mysteries behind the paintings and expand our knowledge of the story even more.

As well as the informative tour, we also had our own challenge for the day. Miss Manhire had given us a list of artists, paintings and other interesting things to find in and around the gallery.  Here are some of the fantastic things we found:

‘Anyone seen my lion?’

Mosaic

The Judgement of Paris

A London scene

Mrs Sullivan’s group

A portrait of someone our age (this boy is 11)

Van Gogh

and a present from Norway to England!

It was such a good day and a member of the public even told Miss Manhire how brilliant gallery visitors we were.

Year 6 😉

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October Sporting Success

Despite the recent wet weather, a number of children have been showing off their sporting prowess and representing the school in
various different sports in the last few weeks.

A strong team of 25 runners from KS2 took to Morden Recreation ground to tackle a cross country course; an old favourite at
schools. This one is harder than in days gone by as the course is entirely open so no trees or bushes to hide behind! The children
were a real credit to the school and nearly all finished in the top 20 in each race. Timo and Nelson were outstanding, coming 2nd
and 8th in their respective races.

We have enjoyed some success on the football pitch as well. Our year 4s drew one game and won 3 in a recent Raynes Park
festival. A special mention must go to Bradley on his excellent captaincy.

Year 5 and 6 hosted two teams from Hollymount in a friendly after school last week. One team won 6-4 and another lost 5-1 after battling back from 4-0 down at half time. Clearly the defense had all gone on holiday! Thank you to the parents who organised the half time oranges and tea for the children. Our
visitors were warmly welcomed and it was much appreciated.

Last of all, our netball squad traveled to The Joseph Hood Recreation Ground yesterday for the Raynes Park Netball Cluster Tournament. After winning all 5 games in the group and not conceding a single goal, the team progressed to the final against Merton Park. This was a tightly fought contest and the final score was a disappointing 2-1 to Merton Park. Spirits were still high though as the St Matthews team will go through to the borough finals at the beginning of November.   A special  thank you to Sarah Bell who gives up her time to coach the netball squad and was a great support yesterday. The team captain Helena said, “It was a great day, we played so well and I was very proud of the team. I am looking forward to borough finals and doing the best we can.”

For the Merton School Sports write up, see the link below.

http://www.mertonssp.org.uk/news/raynes-park-hi-5-netball-competition

Look out next month for how the Netball team get on in the borough finals, as well as how the Year Five and Six team do in the Quicksticks Hockey and Football competitions.

 

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Another exciting week done!

Another exciting week done! This week we  have learnt about how the Moon orbits the Earth, what it’s like to go on a pilgrimage, how to be newspaper reporters, visited Wimbledon High School (so many fun experiments) and investigated how our shadows move and change throughout the day.

As part of our learning about Earth and Space we have been researching the artist Peter Thorpe and admiring some of his abstract space art. He is well known for painting rockets and began his rocket paintings in the 1980s as a way to use paint that he would have otherwise thrown away.

So inspired we were by his creativity that we decided to create our own…what a fun (and messy) process this was. Some of our masterpieces are below.

 

Have a great weekend!

Miss Dyer and Year Five

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Year Five become Sports Leaders

Another week done… this term is flying by. Just like our Science learning in Year 5! This week we learnt about the Greenwich Meridian and the different time zones around the World. Time really does fly when you’re having fun.

We also really enjoyed our visit from WHS last Thursday and are looking forward to our visit there on Thursday 10th October 2019.

One of the perks of being in Year 5 is the opportunity to be a Sports Leader. Our training and preparation is well underway and we had a great session with the Merton Sports Leader representative last week. We learnt how to set up a drill and how to explain and demonstrate it effectively.

This week we planned our own drills and created our own sports cards showing these.

We’re looking forward to trying out our drills soon. We’ll be leading lunch time clubs and helping Year 2 and 3 with their PE in no time.

 

Have a great weekend!

Miss Dyer and Year Five 🙂

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Reading Mania

Reading fever has well and truly hit Year Six. Have a look at what we’ve been reading and come and ask us about our books, we might have a perfect recommendation for you..

Some of us have so enjoyed the first book that we’ve immediately started the next in the series!

Some of us are reading the same book!

These two were recommended these books by their friends.

Some of us prefer to have the actual book, but some of us prefer to read on a kindle. What do you prefer?

 

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School Council 2019-2020

 

This week we elected our School Councillors, congratulations to our newest members of the School Council team:

Year Four :

Year Five:

Charlotte and Reiss

Year Six:

 

Henrietta and Sam

 

We look forward to hearing about all of their wonderful ideas throughout the year, so remember to look out for what the House Captains have been up to in the coming weeks!

 

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Year Six

Good Afternoon all,

This week in Year Six has been a roller coaster -with everything from House Captain presentations to one-eyed giants. I know that the children and House Teachers (including myself,) very much enjoyed hearing the presentations of all the House Captain candidates. The children presented to their houses confidently and responsibly, taking into account all of the personality traits that are needed to be a successful House Captain. These character traits were evident in all who went forward for the role, but only two captains can have the leading role in each house. So, our House Captains for 2019-2020 are:

Cecil:  Faris and Ollie

Churchill:  Helena and Shiann

Spencer: Kalvin and Talia

Wilberforce: Tarran and Timo

Congratulations!

Once House Captains have been allocated, many other important school roles can be assigned. These are essential jobs in order to achieve the excellent running of our school. Our Year Six school roles for the term are:

Stars and Charmers Computer leads: Adriaan and Joel

Stars and Charmers Display leads: Liz and Olva

Blog Team: Milia and Katya

School Botanist: Joel

House Merit Lead: Lily-Grace

Tech Team: Jai, Abbeer, Cammy and Reece

Art Monitors: Calvin and Liz

Paddy’s Assistant: Sarah

During our English lessons, we have been reading about Odysseus’s visit to Polyphemus’s cave. After being repulsed but certainly intrigued by the story, we wrote our own scripts portraying the narrative.

Here are some of our scripts (let us know what you think):

Cyclops Sebastian

Cyclops Ben

Polyphemus Ollie

Odysseus and The Cyclops Helena

 

 

Despite the rain, we still had an excellent PE lesson with Paddy in the hall. Well done to Spencer House who won the indoor games this week!

 

The Year Six Curriculum Map for Autumn is ready and can now be found here.

 

I hope that you all have a wonderful weekend and are well rested and ready for next week, which will undoubtedly be another busy one!

Miss M and Year Six 🙂

 

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Happy Saint Matthews Day!

Saturday 21st September 2019

Did you know that the name Matthew means a gift from God?

We celebrated St Matthews Day early with an extra afternoon playtime on the field. It was so lovely to see all the children playing together on this special day for our school.