Wigton's Got Talent

Wow, What a morning! 

We have such a lot of talented children in school and I am delighted to be able to be part of this fantastic showcase.  Today saw lots of entries from 5H: singing, dancing and comedy. Well done each and every one of you, I was very proud of you all. It is only day one and already the standard is very high.  It is going to be so difficult to decide on who the finalists are!  Whatever the outcome, remember that you are all winners in my opinion.  I am looking forward to seeing what tomorrow and Friday brings.

Personification Poems

We have been very busy looking aroung the playground for images to include in our poetry.

Check back soon for our finished poems

Personification poems

Can you remember what we have learned about personification?

Look at this link can you identify what is being personified and how?

Housepoint Time

There will be houspoints awarded to anyone who can come up with original ideas for these images...I am really looking forward to reading your ideas.

Traffic lights

Car park

Start of tunnel

End of tunnel

Football stadium

Parked cars 

Street lights

Smoke

 Don't forget to include your name underneath your idea so that I can award your housepoints!



Get Well Soon Lewis

Hi Lewis
We all hope that you are feeling better after your operation and are looking forward to seeing you back at school very soon.

From all of your friends in 5H

Settlements

Today we were discussing different types of settlements.  Can you find our school on this aerial photograph of our local area?  I wonder if you can find your house on it.  I have managed to find mine!

Now look at this map of the local area for a primary school in Todmorden.  How does it compare with our local area?



Next Half Term

I hope that you're all looking forward to coming back to school on Monday :) 

Don't forget that Monday is our PE day so you need to make sure that you remember your PE kit and pumps.  It is really important that you have the correct kit (shorts and t-shirt) as we will be using the apparatus!

Our new topics are:

Science - Gases Around Us
Geography - Settlements
Literacy - Poetry

Look forward to seeing you on Monday

Enterprising Design Technology

This term we have been looking at enterprise and how manufacturers survey customers before producing a new product.

We started by testing different biscuits; examining looks, taste, and texture. This helped us to inform our choices when designing our own biscuits. Yesterday we had fun making our biscuits.  Thank you Mrs Child, Mrs Cawthorne and Mrs Box for your hard work.

Softening the butter

Mixing in the sugar

Making the dough

Working in teams

I'll just make sure that you're doing it right!

Having fun

Checking against the design

Production line

Thank you Mrs Box

Lots of tasty toppings - which should I choose?

A Sikh Khanda

Our next step is to evaluate the finished biscuit against the design.  How well do you think we managed to produce them?

Maths Puzzle Day

Key  Stage 2 children had an exciting day today with a visit from The Happy Puzzle Company.  The children had a lot of fun and some of them hadn't realised that they were actually doing maths!

Using logic and working together

Gently does it

Teamwork

A workshop for parents at the end of the day meant that the children could share their learning.

Apparently this is the most difficult puzzle available.  Leanne said that nobody has ever completed it!

Well done Aneesh, you proved her wrong...



...with a little bit of help from mum and Yeung!



Our very own chef

What a wonderful time we had at the Hummingbird Kitchen and Bar on Monday evening.  I went along with Mrs Child and Miss Wincerz to support Robbie in the cook off.  Unfortunately, his Yorkshire Fish Pie was not chosen as the overall winning dish.  I am sure that you will all agree that as the only entrant from our class, we are all very proud of Robbie. 

A Packed house of supporters

With the Judges - Jed Feltham, Nick Simcock and Rod McPhee

Dressing his pie

With the professionals

Robbie's winning dish

Rod McPhee, Ged Feltham and Nick Simcock

Chef Robbie

The all important judging criteria

Thank you to Dom Mernock for the photographs