Happy World Book Day!

We have enjoyed a fantastic World Book Day! Our costumes were really terrific  - you can see them all below - and we had fun doing a range of different activities. We took part in a great fun book quiz, made origami bookmarks and wrote autobiographies for our book day characters. We also managed to squeeze in a dress rehearsal for our Strictly Come Dancing show (photos of that coming soon!)

Can you guess who we are?

 

Mesmerising Monologues!

This week we have been reading 'The Highwayman', a fantastic poem by Alfred Noyes. In a drama session we explored the emotions and motivations of the main character throughout the events in the poem. We delivered extremely heartfelt and rousing monologues as a result...

"In the darkness, I was riding through the gusty trees.    It was bitterly cold. My horse was getting tired as we had been riding all night.

As we strode into the dark inn-yard my heart began to pound, the thought of seeing Bess made my knees melt.

I tapped onto the shutters but it was all locked and barred, my ice lips began to whistle a tune."

Kids Can Coach!

We love helping each other out at St Chad's! 

This week in year 6 we have been exploring area and perimeter with some great problem solving. Those of us who felt more confident with the investigation used our knowledge and skills to coach our classmates through the process. 

Coaching is a great way of building confidence and deepening understanding - you can't just give away the answer, you have to think of questions and prompts to help someone come to a solution on their own...

Creativity and the TASC wheel

After our fabulous trip to Whitby we were inspired to make some 3D art pieces. Using the TASC wheel we researched, planned, made and evaluated some terrific pieces...