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| Fagin's Gang |
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| Some very finely dressed actors |
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| Our amazing cast! |
Monday, 14 July 2014
Hill Mead are proud to present Oliver Twist!
Friday, 20 June 2014
We have begun creating our props and scenery for our production of Oliver!
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| Making the coffin for the Sowerberry's funeral parlour |
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| Fruit and vegetable production for the London market scenes |
Wednesday, 21 May 2014
We are pleased to unvail Hill Mead's summer production of Oliver Twist!
Is everyone ready for auditions this week? Which part is everyone auditioing for?
Thursday, 3 April 2014
What was most interesting for you and why?
What did you find out most about?
Sunday, 30 March 2014
Churchill's War Rooms
We are going to step back in time and discover what it was like for our prime minister during WW2. What do you think it will be like below Westminster?
Year Six were visited by Arthur, Toni and Peter who were alive during the Second World War
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What memories and inforrmation did you
find most interesting year six?Wednesday, 26 March 2014
Tuesday, 18 March 2014
Literacy 19.03.14
L.O. I can recognise and understand different features of a sentence
Your task today is to go onto the SPAG section of our blog and use it help you with your understanding of the grammtical terms you have been learning about. There are questions there for you to answer with some useful hints and tips.
I also want you to think of different hints and tips of your own to share with the rest of the year group, for example, to remember what a preposition is you just have to remember it is the position of two objects to each other and in the word preposition you can find position.
Once you have researched and answered my questions for you think about using your vocabulary list to create your own tricky questions for us all to have a go out.
Your task today is to go onto the SPAG section of our blog and use it help you with your understanding of the grammtical terms you have been learning about. There are questions there for you to answer with some useful hints and tips.
I also want you to think of different hints and tips of your own to share with the rest of the year group, for example, to remember what a preposition is you just have to remember it is the position of two objects to each other and in the word preposition you can find position.
Once you have researched and answered my questions for you think about using your vocabulary list to create your own tricky questions for us all to have a go out.
Evelyn Grace Visit
Hi everybody,
I really enjoyed our visit to EGA today and found it really interesting. Can someone explain to me what happened in the memory activity? What did you listen to?
How did you feel when the 'maths teachers' were giving you instructions?
What did you learn about Evelyn Grace? What are you looking forward to when you go to Secondary school?
I really enjoyed our visit to EGA today and found it really interesting. Can someone explain to me what happened in the memory activity? What did you listen to?
How did you feel when the 'maths teachers' were giving you instructions?
What did you learn about Evelyn Grace? What are you looking forward to when you go to Secondary school?
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
Book Bus
Next Wednesday the Book Bus George, in the photo
above, will be visiting our school on it's UK tour, before being shipped
to Malawi in Africa. There will be a workshop and assembly, where you will be
able to find out more about the project.
What is your favourite book and why?
What do you think the bus will
be doing in Malawi?
Tuesday, 11 March 2014
Code breaking
The German Army have broken into the Cabinet War Rooms. To get into the safe where all the secret documents are held, they must decipher the 4-digit code for the alarm. In order to do this, the SS (Secret Police) have given them the following clues found out by their spies.
1. Think of the code as a pair of 2-digit numbers with the total of 100.
2. The first 2-digit number is bigger than the second.
3. Both pairs of numbers are multiples of five.
4. The two numbers have a difference of ten.
Therefore the code is ...
Sunday, 9 March 2014
Tuesday, 4 March 2014
Online poetry
How would Rose be feeling as she faced the group of ghost-like, starving men, women and children? Write a short verse of poetry based on your initial responses to the harrowing image. For example:
Trapped behind a threatening cage of wire,
Innocent souls drapped in the same colourless rags,
Shaven heads with identity stripped from them,
Gloomy blurry eyes staring into thin air,
Sympathy, sorrow and sadness writ large.
A shock for Rose ...
Rose Blanch took a short-cut through the forest, where bare branches scratched her face. The road below her and the lorry were a long way ahead. She was so tired, she felt like giving up. Then, she stumbled into a clearing and could hardly believe what she saw ...
What did Rose see? Continue the story.
Sunday, 9 February 2014
Henry Moore @ the Tate
At Tate Britain, Year Six explored different aspects of World War II through Henry Moore's war art.
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| Children's fasination at a variety of artworks. |
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| The children use one of Moore's sculptures to inspire them to sketch. |
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| We took part in the Tate activity of creating paper sculptures and made sculpture villages. |
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| Year Six Red creating sculptures with their bodies to match their sculpture. |
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| We looked at the many different medias that Henry Moore used for his sculptures. |
Thursday, 6 February 2014
Tuesday, 4 February 2014
Underground art
Henry Moore is very famous for his sculptures, but he also made sketches in the London Underground during World War II, when the tube stations were used as bomb shelters. He achieve the spooky effect of the figures rising out of the darkness, by using wax crayons and watercolour paint!
Moore said: “I hit upon this technique by accident, sometime before the war when doing a drawing to amuse a young niece of mine. I used some of the cheap wax crayons (which she had bought from Woolworth’s) in combination with a wash of water-colour, and found, of course, that the water-colour did not ‘take’ on the wax, but only on the background. I found also that if you use a light-coloured or even white wax crayon, then a dark depth of background can easily be produced by painting with dark water-colour over the whole sheet of paper.”
Can you see where Moore has used light-coloured crayon and dark watercolours to create the ghostly figure of Woman Seated in the Underground? The ink flows over the wax and soaks into the paper around it, leaving the light colours behind. Why not try it yourself?
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Shelter Scene: Bunks and Sleepers, 1941
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| Woman Seated in the Underground, 1941 |
Sunday, 2 February 2014
Friday, 31 January 2014
Pupil post - Carrie's War
This term we have been reading a piece of historical fiction by Nina Bawden. It is a book
based on the experience's of children evacuated from London during World War 2.
Carrie and Nick (the main characters) are sent to Wales for their safety. They had to live with the kind-hearted Auntie Lou and the cruel Mr Evans. They met great friends like: Albert Sandwich, Johnny Gotobed (Gotobed - get the joke!) and Hebizbah Green.
How would you feel if you were evacuated?
Or if you left your parents in the Danger zone?
What are your thoughts about the book Carrie’s War?
By Dontai
Carrie and Nick (the main characters) are sent to Wales for their safety. They had to live with the kind-hearted Auntie Lou and the cruel Mr Evans. They met great friends like: Albert Sandwich, Johnny Gotobed (Gotobed - get the joke!) and Hebizbah Green.
How would you feel if you were evacuated?
Or if you left your parents in the Danger zone?
What are your thoughts about the book Carrie’s War?
By Dontai
Monday, 27 January 2014
Wednesday, 8 January 2014
WW2 artefact sketching
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| Trying to show where the light falls on gas masks. |
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| The artefacts were positioned in the middle of the room and the children moved around to view them from different positions. |
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| Trying to capture the details on a World War 2 handkerchief. |
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