Use this website to find information on a Greek god, hero or mythical creature. Then surf the Internet to find further details on your character. Your task is to make a fact-card with information about your god/hero/creature.
Look at the Winged Sandals site for ideas - but you can go further than they’ve done and be a bit more detailed. You need to decide which information you’re going to collect on each god/hero/creature & make a collection of fact-cards on your favourite ones.
We’re doing some work on circumference in class. If you’re crafty & see this post before we get to it in class, you’ll be a whizz with the work. Otherwise, watch this video for homework.
We’ve now cast the roles for our performance of The Iliad.The performance will take place on the evenings of Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th July with a dress rehearsal on Monday 7th. We’ll contact you nearer the time to let you know about tickets and programmes.
If your child has a speaking role, they’ll have brought back a copy of the script to learn.Please help them to memorise their lines as much as you can.Some children can learn their lines in a night and some take some weeks to fully remember them.
Accompanying this letter is a pattern for a Greek costume.We’d like all children involved in the play to have a costume similar to this ‘chiton’ as the basis for their costume.We have very little time available this year for rehearsing the play – with trips, transition to secondary school, etc. -so we’re asking all children to provide their own basic costume.The only thing that’s needed for the basic costume is an old sheet.If you’d like to make more a more complex costume, that’d be a huge help – use your imagination based on the script but if you’d like some pointers, please get in touch.
If you are able to help with any additional sewing, painting sets or making props, etc. we’d be very grateful.Please let us know as soon as possible via the tear-off slip below if you’re able to help, so that we can run the necessary checks.
Here we are: the script for the performance (click the link for the Word file) - now a Word 97 version). Cast and dancers are included in the script, along with a pronunciation guide. CDs with the music on will be available next week for anyone interested in helping to choreograph one of the dances - we need your ideas.
The Chorus parts are very big parts to read but don’t involve any dancing.
THIS IS IMPORTANT: If you’re planning a long holiday between the performance in July and now, let us know straight away. Performances take a lot of rehearsal & if you’re missing from rehearsals it can be a huge problem for everyone else. If you’re going to be missing on the week of 14th July (last week of term) definitely let us know as that’s when the performance will be.
You were stars in the auditions and it was very difficult to fit everyone in. We could have given lead roles to any one of you. So well done. Your parents are in for a treat in July!
You lucky students! There are lots of sites appearing on the Internet at the moment that contain short video lessons on aspects of maths and other subjects. If you’re having trouble with a particular area of maths or you’d like to see the kind of maths you might cover at secondary school, try these videos.
Another good maths site that explains different areas of maths is mathwithlarry. Some of the lessons are text but some have video too - the videos are on the tvlesson site too.
Watch this video of sprinters in a 100m race. This is a metaphor for your run up to SATS. Look how the sprinters keep on going to the very last metre.
If you look carefully, you’ll see some of the athletes fade away before they get to the line and others keep on working hard to overtake at the very last metre. Be like the ones that keep going to the very last metre!
Some of our genius mathematicians went to the annual Sheffield Pop Quiz. They had a great time doing difficult maths problems; and brought along their parents - who also had a great time. The teams did very well and could very well have done even better…
Here’s a couple of the questions they answered:
I have a solid shape with five flat faces, eight edges and five corners. What is my shape?
I have a 6×6 times table grid. Sum all of the numbers on the L-R downhill diagonal.
Highlight the space after the colon to reveal the answers: square based pyramid & 91
In the first lesson we covered how Hinduism fits with the other major religions of the world. Watch this 90 second video to see when the different religions began and expanded around the world.
for the performance (click the link for the Word file) - now a Word 97 version). Cast and dancers are included in the script, along with a pronunciation guide. CDs with the music on will be available next week for anyone interested in helping to choreograph one of the dances - we need your ideas.