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Our Y4/5, Y5/6 and Y6 children have been working on a creative curriculum topic: MIners and Banners which is closely linked with the Bicentenary Felling Pit disaster. Children have worked with the CLC to create Miners Comic strips and they have even dressed up as characters from that era and used green screen technology to make photos and videos of what it would have been like to live around that time.

Take a look at our photographs from the day.

 

 

 

 

 

On Friday lunchtime the Year 5's and 6's played their first friendly match against each other on the school field. The whole school showed their support for both teams by making rosettes for the teams they wished to support, staff joined in too.

The Year 6 team (Blue) helped the newly formed team Year 5 (Red) warm up for their match on Friday night after school. Victory was held for the Blue team...but we must remember it was only for fun!

Here are some photos from the match!

Here are two songs to help you remember the names of some animals in French. 

The first ('Un chat...') is a joint effort by our Y5 girls who love to sing in French (allez les filles - go girls!)   How many animals are mentioned, and what are they?

un chat.MP3

The second one is 'As-tu un animal?'.  It's a song about which pet you have (and it's sung as a solo - bravo!).  Which animals are mentioned?

as tu un animal.MP3

'Un, deux, trois' - This is a song some Y5 girls have made up and recorded - an excellent way of remembering your numbers (bravo, les filles - well done, girls).  Question - how many does it go up to?

un deux trois.MP3

You might find this website helpful when you start your Numeracy and Literacy Revision

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/
 

At Lingey House, we sing lots of songs in French.  Songs are a great way of remembering vocabulary (that's a posh word that means...'words'!).  Oh, and singing is also lots of fun!  

Here is a recording of one of the songs that we regularly perform in French lessons. 

It's Y4 singing the song that we learned when The Sage came to Lingey House to perform their production 'La Chanson du Retour' (The Song to Return).  Almost the whole school watched it last year - it was the play with the blue man ('Bleu') and the magic lights on the characters' fingers.

VOICE006.MP3

Do you remember it?  Younger children can listen out for 'Bleu', while older children can listen for all the colours. 

An extra challenge -  which of the question words can you hear?

M&M productions came to our school to deliver a production of Peter Pan. Some of us dressed up as the characters. Take a look below.

Merry Christmas! Joyeux Noël!

Did you know that French children don't have stockings for presents - instead, they put their shoes in front of the fireplace, so that Père Noël (Father Christmas) can fill them with presents! Children also find that sweets, fruit, nuts, and small toys are hung on the Christmas tree (le sapin de Noël) overnight.

Here are the names of Père Noël 's reindeer in French:

In this unit, we have been learning about routines.  Some were in the song we learnt :

Je me lève,  je me lave, je me brosse les dents,

Je m'habille, et je mange un petit croissant,

Je sors, et je dis "Au revoir"

"Au revoir, au revoir Maman".                         

Bonjour tout le monde!

Another snow poem for you ...

 

Comme il neige
Comme il neige
On ne peut plus aller à la mer.

Comme il neige
Comme il neige
Il fait très froid dehors.

Comme il neige
Comme il neige
Dehors, j'ai construit un igloo, dans le froid, avec mes amis.

 

You might know some of the words already - il neige (it's snowing), il fait froid (it's cold), très (very), mes amis (my friends).  You can also see a word the same as English (called a 'cognate') on the last line - igloo.

See how much of the poem you can understand, then scroll down to see the translation. 

Don't forget, it doesn't matter if you don't understand all of a text - just try to understand the main messages.   

  

Some of our Y5 and Y6 pupils were chosen to visit the Apple store in the Metro Centre. They spent a whole morning editing footage from the Whithaugh Park trip.

 

Mathew Bainbridge from Y5/6 said: "It was the best trip i've ever been on. I thoroughly enjoyed it!"

We have had a fantastic week away from school, children and staff have taken part in various activities such as High Ropes, Raft Building, Kayaking and lots  more.  Here are a few images to show you what we have been up to.

More images to follow very soon!!