Junior Boys in Chess Success
The boys have been practising their chess at school and at home. The chess team at school flourishes, with Bablake Junior having two teams competing in the Coventry Chess League most weeks. The boys appreciate the guidance of their chess master, Mr Stuart Norman, who was understandably thrilled at their enthusiasm and success.
Bablake Junior Pupils Sparkle and Shine
Bablake Junior School pupils excelled at the recent Nuneaton Festival of Speech, Drama and Music. As ever this was a keenly contested affair with children from all around Warwickshire taking part. Anna White won the Boulter Cup whilst ‘Reading the Classics’, where she was given the opportunity to read a piece by Brian Patten. The theme of this part of the competition was that the classics of children’s literature go on forever. As does a love of reading them!
The Herbert
Alex Hyde and Ehren Sanghera both qualified for the regional Gigafinal of the UK Chess Challenge at the Warwickshire Competition over the weekend. They will be playing in Derby in July. Last year over 74,000 children took part in the national completion and chess is enjoying continued enthusiastic participation across the country.
expression and passion. Shannon liked her piece by David Cotterit for its “Simple yet purposeful prose.” First place in the Brass Section went to Charlotte Merry. She was very pleased to play Prelude by Charpentier. “I have been practising for a while,” she said, “But I really liked the piece so it wasn’t a hardship!” Mr Price was delighted.
“We are very pleased to see our pupils taking part in the Nuneaton Festival. Children thrive Shannon MaGuire was equally successful in given the opportunity to perform, something the McClaren Cup, ‘Unseen Prose’ category, we like to encourage at school. All our pupils where children are given the challenge of have Drama lessons and learn to play various engaging with a new piece of writing – in this instruments – enriching an education and the case an animal story, and then reading it with children’s lives.”
Year 3 visited the Herbert as part of our local history studies on Wednesday 2nd May. We learnt about the weaving industries in Victorian Coventry. We followed the silk making process from the white silk worm cocoon to the finished product. In the 1850s 10,000 people worked in this trade. James was dressed as Mr Stevens, a famous ‘Grand Master’, complete with pocket watch. Maya was dressed as a rich Victorian lady, with lace on her bonnet and clothes. Tartan was made fashionable by the young Queen Victoria. With the invention of the steam engine, the hand powered weaving looms in ’top shops’ were replaced by the more efficient Jacquard looms in factories. Katie was dressed to collect bits of valuable silk thread from under these eight ribbon machines.