Spring2016review

End of Spring Term 2016 Review All too soon we have reached the end of an extremely short, but busy, Spring Term 2016. Despite its brevity, we have still managed to pack in a lot of exciting and educational activities. Learning at Hayton School is underpinned by encouraging children to employ our ‘8 Secrets of Success’. Here are some examples of how these secrets to success have been used throughout the term: 1 Don't Give Up: the KS1 trip to the Upfront Theatre Company, which was cancelled before Christmas because of the floods and then again in early January (much to the disappointment of us all), was finally rearranged and came to visit us in school. They not only gave a wonderful circus performance in the morning but also stayed for the rest of the day to show the children how to make their own puppets. It was definitely a day worth waiting for!

2 Try New Things: on Monday this week the Annapurna Indian Dance workshop came to Hayton for the day and taught children and teachers some dance movements linked to traditional Indian stories.

Mrs Hawkswell was coaxed (mostly by the other members of staff) into joining in with the morning performance and definitely tried new things with her costume and dance moves!

3 Imagine: our visiting Shakespearean actor from “West End in Schools” involved the children in playing characters and shaping themselves into scenery as part of their class workshop, which resulted in a complete performance of Midsummer Night’s Dream at the end of the day.

4 Improve: this was the second year that we had a dressing up day involving Shakespearean characters. There was a notable improvement in the confidence of the children to act out the characters and in their approach to the concept of playing a Shakespearean role. We saw some fabulous costumes and some wonderful performing.

5 Understand Others: Yvonne, who has been our very special dinner lady for the last 14 years, has moved to Chester. The children showed their understanding of what a big step it is to make such a big change to your life by their thoughtful actions. Yvonne was extremely moved and was very sad to say goodbye to them all.

6 Push Yourself: a fantastic number of entrants pushed themselves to complete the Lanercost cross country this year. We are always impressed with the number of children who want to participate in this event and their efforts were justly reward in the excellent results.

7 Concentrate: we listened, we discussed, and came up with some fantastic work linked to Shakespeare Week. Please watch the year 1 illustrated film of Romeo and Juliet on the school website. It is amazing.

8 Work Hard: All classes are working hard to meet the demands of the new curriculum. The 8 secrets 1 for success help us develop good habits to become lifelong learners.

The weather is gradually getting warmer and the days lighter. We wish you all a lovely Easter break and look forward to seeing you back for the start of the Summer Term.

EYFS The topic of Space this term has captured our imaginations as you can see from the pictures‌

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Shakespeare week was amazing and we enjoyed taking part in the whole school performance of a Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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KS 1 (Years 1 and 2) We began our term with a visit from Upfront Theatre Group who performed ‘The Circus’. In the afternoon we enjoyed making our own puppets. We used them to create our own puppet theatre and Year 2 used them as a stimulus for writing stories. We were helped to think about how to create an exciting puppet show of our own, using our cat puppets, by creating a conversation, and asking each other questions.

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During Shakespeare week a West End Shakespearian Actor came into school and led workshops for each class. We all performed a scene out of ‘Midsummer Nights Dream’ which we performed in front of the whole school at the end of the day.

We thoroughly enjoyed dressing up on Shakespeare Day when we celebrated the 400th anniversary of his death. During the assembly some of us recited quotes from a number of his famous plays.

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Year 3 We have had another exciting term in year three. Our historical learning has moved on from the Stone Age, through the Bronze Age into the Iron Age. We have looked at the differences between these times and how that changed life for the people. We saw settlements become permanent, animals domesticated and farming begin it’s life.

We discovered ancient stone circles and replicated Stonehenge using wooden bricks. More about this next term...

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Measurement in Maths.

Some of us were struggling to remember units of measure, so we did the ‘Malteaser Challenge’. (Other spherical chocolates are available…) We had to see how far we could roll a Malteaser down a measuring tape. We then had to convert these measurements to mm, cm and m.

To understand the measurement of liquids, we calculated how much water we could hold in our mouths, asking the question, ‘Does the tallest person have biggest mouth?’ Yes… Mrs H.

We used the playground on a sunny day to help us understand algorithms.

We wrote algorithms for our partner who acted as the ’turtle’ and followed the directions.

Geography In the aftermath of the floods in Carlisle, we asked ‘Where did the flood come from?’ and we did some work on flood awareness. This led the class to ask ‘Where does the river come from?’ We then followed the path of the River Eden from its source above the Hellgill Beck Falls to its mouth in the Solway Estuary.

This was especially interesting as many recognised the villages and towns the river passes through, and we were able to see the erosion at Warwick Bridge from the bus when we went swimming.

Stone Age Weaving with Mrs Mayhew We had great fun learning how to weave with Mrs Mayhew. We made our frames from sticks and had enormous fun making bookmarks, mobile phone cases and headbands in multi coloured wool.

Thank you Mrs Mayhew.

Shakespeare Week

We really enjoyed the Shakespeare workshop and learning so much about William Shakespeare. We also loved dressing up and talking about our chosen Shakespearean character.

Year Three wish you a safe Easter Holiday.

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Year 4 Year 4 have had a quick, yet enjoyable, Spring Term. Throughout the term we have had some fantastic show and tells! All children put a lot of thought and effort into creating their show and tells and went the extra mile to bring in lots of resources, including lots of pets! It was so nice to meet all of your lovely animals.

We have also had a fantastic time swimming this term. All of the children showed great progress and achieved a certificate at the end of the term.

Well done Year 4, the swimming staff loved teaching you!

We have 8also spent a lot of time outside this term, particularly for Science and Art. We really enjoyed drawing round our bodies to create different shapes and also checking out the local school habitat for dangers!

We had a great time celebrating Shakespeare week; learning about Macbeth, practising our acting skills (with a Shakespearian actor) and also dressing up as characters from the play. All of the children enjoyed it and looked fantastic!

Thank you for a great term Year 4, have a Happy Easter!

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Year 5 Year 5 have had an enjoyable, yet short, Spring Term. We started the year in the cold and wet outdoors with James and Charlie from Cyclewise, attaining our Bikeability certificates for either level 1 or 2.

We have studied forces as part of our science, enjoying a ramp experiment to determine different factors influencing forces.

Our art theme has focussed upon the work of LS Lowry, where we have studied his ‘matchstick men and matchstick cats and dogs.’

We even sang the hit song from the 80’s. We learnt that Lowry used only a few colours and that he loved to paint industrial scenes around Salford.

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We loved dressing up as Shakespearian characters and even performed our lines in front of a camera so we could critique our presentation skills.

We also enjoyed performing ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ with the help of an acting workshop.

Towards the end of the term we found ourselves dancing, Indian style, with Shantha from Annapurna Dance.

But the most enjoyable day for us all was at William Howard School, where we all went to experience a day in a High School. We performed a musical piece, some of us putting our hands on instruments for the first time!

We ran a mile in PE for Sports Relief, carrying rugby balls or bouncing basket balls.

We tried lunch in the canteen with loads of bigger children and got some time to chill in the common room. After lunch we met Miss Albert and found out about different types of poetry.

11 a great All in all, we have packed so much in we need a rest!! Have Easter break and see you all in the Summer.

Year 6 This term, albeit comparatively short, Year 6 pupils have participated in several exciting sporting activities, namely the Brampton schools swimming gala at The Pools, Carlisle; a gymnastics competition, a basketball and hockey festival both held at William Howard School and there will be two crosscountry events in the forthcoming weeks. Year 6 members of the school’s triumphant swimming team included: Olivia Barker, Matthew Hodgson, Nieve McAree, Elliot Goode, and Harry Farquharson. Mrs Devlin had the privilege of observing Mr Smith putting the gymnasts through their routines for the gymnastics competition and was in awe of the talents shown

by Alexander Bagshaw, Robbie Tiffen and Hannah Potter.

The whole class has also engaged in some cardio-vascular dance routines, courtesy of Carlisle United’s representative.

This term Year 6 have studied the kingdom of Benin and, in particular, the ‘Benin Bronzes’ made for the Oba (King) out of brass. Year 6 made their own replica plaques out of clay and painted them gold to look like the real thing. (They will be displayed at the Hayton Summer Show, so look out for them.)

Year 6’s ‘Rotakids’ launched their appeal for Water-aid boxes by conducting a whole school assembly. Children and staff have been invited to ‘save the date’ of 26th May 2016 when all kinds of water-based activities will be held to heighten awareness of this worthy cause to fund boxes for those in crisis-stricken parts of the world where water supplies have been put at risk, e.g. such as the relatively recent earthquakes in Chile where people lost everything.

To celebrate ‘Shakespeare week’, Year 6 enjoyed a 12 Shakespeare workshop by “West End in Schools” - and then came the dressing-up!

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Music It has been a very short and sweet term but packed with music as usual!

We have added loads of great songs to our repertoire in singing assembly such as "Space Oddity" (to tie in with Tim Peake's visit to space) and "Greensleeves" (to tie in with The Bard). The year 5s and 6s have been composing music with a combination of recorders, ukulele, glockenspiels and percussion, and making recordings of themselves. Some ambitious groups have even started writing the music down which is fantastic. The Year 4s have learnt almost all the wonderful Joseph songs with Mr Brown.

We enjoyed a lovely ukulele demonstration and workshop day with Mike Hind all the way from Bermuda. Not only that, but Jilly Jarman is also working with selected singers to compose and perform for the Lanercost Music Festival next term.

The recorder and ukulele groups continue to flourish, as does the orchestra. The girls’ choir has received some new and very enthusiastic members. The boys' choir ("The Bros") is great fun and we will keep our Queen song under wraps until we have a chance to perform it. Thank you to the upper years (yrs 5 and 6) in the music groups for your enthusiasm as it really rubs off on the younger ones.

Last special mention goes to the wonderful Reception children who are learning brilliantly how to play their instruments quietly and are especially talented at playing extremely loudly. Your "5 Little Monkeys" rap rocks!!

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The wet and windy weather kept us from running for several months, and when we returned to the fields it was obvious many children had not been active during the winter months. However, a few weeks of running club (twice a week) did the trick, and we’ve managed to win a few competitions and have enjoyed taking part in sports festivals at William Howard School.

Key Stage One: Fielding and Throwing Festival Fourteen children from Key Stage one had lots of fun at this festival, they learnt new skills and were able to play with children from other schools, a great way to enhance their social skills

Gymnastics Competition On 10th February, 12 children took part in the Gymnastics competition at William Howard School (WHS).

The year 5 & 6 team came third in the ‘large schools’ competition, while the year 3& 4 team managed second place.

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February 12, Swimming Gala at The Pools, Carlisle We did very well in the swimming gala, Hayton came first overall. All the swimmers did their very best and behaviour was impeccable. Well done to all who took part, and to the parents who helped transport.

Wednesday 16th March.

Basketball and Hockey Festival WHS Eight year 5 & 6 children had a great time at the festival, learning new skills and meeting new people.

Becoming familiar with WHS school is important, especially for those who will be going there soon.

Lanercost Cross Country. Saturday 19th March.

We had a very successful morning at Lanercost, the weather was sunny and everyone had their running legs on. We came third in the key stage one race, but won the 3&4 and 5&6 races, resulting in Hayton being the overall winners.

Well done to the 46 children who took part and to the parents for transporting and supporting.

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