Starting on Monday 8th November 2021, we will be introducing the reading challenge. This is an opportunity for the children to win a big prize at the end of term.
This has always been very successful in the past and we hope this one will be too.
Details to follow.
Notes from the Music Room 6 22.10.2021
It’s been a lovely end to this half term with Harvest Festival on Wednesday. Thank you and well done to all children for singing their songs so beautifully, your hard work each week was really clear to hear and Mrs. Kessel-Fell is really proud of you all.
Choir continued to enjoy singing Shotgun as well as other songs and are sounding fantastic! Rehearsals will continue after half term on Tuesdays and as always, new members are welcome.
Grinshill showed off their recorder skills by improvising melodies which most of the class performed. Stiperstones and Wrekin have continued to learn to play Jingle Bells and have been working hard to produce a clear and controlled sound. It is lovely to see the homemade cases made by children and their families for the pbuzz to go home in, although any suitable bag is also fine. Mrs. Roberson hopes you all enjoy playing your pbuzz over half term.
Music Community Group recapped some of the pieces they have learnt this half term including Star Wars Theme and 12 Bar Blues and started a Fur Elise Mash Up. Rehearsals will continue next half term, Mrs. Roberson is looking forward to teaching you some new music!
We hope you all have a restful and fun half term break.
Today, to mark the end of our learning about The Great Fire of London, we built our own city with the houses that we designed and made in DT. We made sure that the houses were close together, just like they were in London in 1666, and we put our own St. Paul’s in the middle of the ‘city’. Then, Kris set our city on fire! It was very exciting! We watched how the flames travelled from house to house, and finally to our cathedral in the middle. It was very dramatic when it finally collapsed!
Today, all the children had the opportunity to visit Leaton Church to take part in our Harvest Festival. It was lovely to be able to be back in church and take part in the service along with Rev Hannah Lins.
The classes each performed their own harvest song that they have learnt in their music lessons with Mrs Kessel-Fell this half term. Grinshill, Stiperstones and Wrekin also shared some more of their learning about harvest around the world and sharing a recipe for harvest, along with sharing some poems and prayers that they had written.
Thank you for all the generous donations that you sent in with your children.
Notes from the Music Room 5
It’s been an exciting week teaching music for Mrs. Kessel-Fell and Mrs. Roberson. Mrs. Kessel-Fell has enjoyed rehearsing your harvest songs with you and hearing you sing with such enthusiasm. She was also very pleased to welcome new members to choir. Everyone sang very well and whilst learning ‘Ol Town Road’ and ‘Shotgun’ to add to choir’s repertoire. Well done and members are always welcome!
Mrs. Roberson was very pleased to see how many pbuzz instruments would be going home soon. Any children with permission and suitable bag for it took their pbuzz home on Thursday, so hopefully you’ll have heard them in action! For the children that didn’t have a suitable bag can bring one in next week to take theirs home, either fabric or a sturdy plastic bag is fine. If you haven’t returned a permission slip and would like your child to bring the instrument home, please speak to the school office.
Grinshill, Stiperstones and Wrekin all worked hard to continue to learn to play a piece of music and Music Community Group are steadily learning ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Harry Potter, Hedwigs Theme’ as well as working as a group to improvise individual solos as part of a Blues performance. Excellent work from all involved!
The short course has 6 modules but includes all the essential information you need to know about dyslexia. The videos are only 2-3 minutes long so don’t become overwhelming.
The training modules cover identification, an explanation of the neurological processes affected by dyslexia, intervention strategies, accommodations and the use of technology. Each module is followed by a short quiz to test knowledge. The training can be done on a smartphone, tablet or computer. The course takes about 2 hours but can be completed in bitesize chunks and a certificate is awarded when the course is complete!
Here is the link to the Open the Book worship that we have shared in school with the children this week.
On Friday we visited Aston Hall in Birmingham as part of our learning about fire this term. We explored the house and took part in a workshop all about the Great Fire of London. We dressed up as some of the important people from the story, including Thomas Farriner and Samuel Pepys. We also learnt to write with a quill, in the same way that Pepys would have written in his diary. We had a great time!
We would like you to practise forming numbers correctly at home. This means you need to think about making sure they are facing the right way and are formed carefully so that they can’t be mistaken for a different number. If you are writing 2 digit numbers you need to check that you have got the digits in the right order so that numbers like 12 don’t look like 21!
Here are some activities that you can download and do at home to help you practise.
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Bomere Heath CE Primary School
The Crescent,
Bomere Heath,
Shrewsbury,
SY4 3PQ
Tel: 01939 290359
Executive Headteacher: Mrs Julie Ball
Office Manager: Maria Whittaker
