We had a lovely expedition lesson today with an art focus.
Our crew have sketched some beautiful drawings linked to our History case study with Mrs Green last week so it has been wonderful that today we began to use watercolour paints to add some colour to them.
These are going to look gorgeous up on a display in school!
Mrs Faulding x
Ash Hill Academy are offering 2 great events for Year 4 and 5 children to attend. These two events are as follows:
1) An incredible Science show on the Thursday 30th June from 5-6pm. Science LIVE! is an exciting audience-led show, delving into different areas of science using exciting demonstrations.
If parents would like to attend this incredible event, please can you complete the form below
Royal Institution (Preview) Microsoft Forms (office.com)
2) Family Focus Event. We have two activities for parents/carers and their children to take part in. On Wednesday 6th July 4:30-6pm.
The first is joining our food technology department to create your own healthy takeaway pizza. Learn all the techniques needed to recreate this at home and, at the end of the session parents/carers will have their very own takeaway to take home!
Secondly, Family Canvas. Join our outstanding Art and design department to work together to explore acrylic painting techniques, colour and pattern so parents/carers and their children can create their own personal family canvas masterpiece to take home.
If parents would like to attend this incredible event, please can you complete the form below.
Family Focus Evening (office.com)
Last night we had our celebration of learning for our last expedition of the year ‘Why is sugar not so sweet?’
The children lead the celebration and showcased the learning they had done throughout the 3 case studies. It was amazing to watch you all so confidently deliver your pieces in front of the audience, it was clear for all to see how much you have learnt and taken from this expedition. To top the sweet the night off there was the opportunity to try the products you have made before taking these home for a donation.
It was an incredibly successful night, thanks to you all. We appreciate all the support you have given us and for the money raised to go towards the charity, city hearts.
Shout outs to Crew Tortora again on winning the attendance- you guys are smashing it! Also, well done to Crew Myers on being the HoWL winners too. Enjoy your biscuits!
An overall shout out and well done to everyone for trying their best in their assessments last week. It was a super hot week but you all grappled with each test and showed such determination throughout them all. We are SO proud!!
Year 3/4 team x
It was great to circle up again this week after a busy couple of weeks for year 3 and 4.
Well done for all of our HoWL point winners this week- you’re setting a brilliant example to everyone in your crew. A shout out to Crew Oldridge for being our HoWL point champs this week, enjoy your extra funky Friday time that you won!
Crew Tortora, well done on being the crew with the highest attendance percentage this week. I think we all need to have a huge push for these last few weeks now to ensure that we are trying our very best to get in to school each day.
Congratulations to our Out of this World winners this week too! It’s been our first week celebrating like this and it was lovely. As your teachers, we love to share wonderful stories about why you deserve that certificate and the yellow T shirt. Keep up all of your hard work!
Finally, a huge shout out to all of Year 4 for trying so incredibly hard in their multiplication tests this week. Not only did they approach their tests on the day with such maturity but they have been getting smart for weeks prior to this test by completing lots of practice tests and doing lots of home learning on TT Rockstars. Well done guys, we’re so proud of you all!
Year 3 and 4 team x
What a day!!!
We’ve been getting smart today seeing first hand how rock is produced at the John Bull factory and even got to roll our own rock with our initials on. It was sticky business! We enjoyed a tour of the factory and discovered that they manufacture even more than just rock, they do biscuits, fudge and so much more. We were so lucky that during the tour we got to sample it all as we walked round- yum!
To end our visit in Bridlington, we spent a couple of hours on the beach soaking up the sunshine and enjoying some down time.
“Life is better with a little sand between your toes.”
Well done to everyone on as always for conducting themselves so sensibly around the factory- you used beautiful manners too!
Finally, a huge thank you to our parent volunteers, we really appreciated all of your support today!
It was great to join up this afternoon to complete some market research about each others favourite sweets.
Year 5 were awesome at identifying and moving to the pulse of a rock song, imitating playing the guitar and drums.
The children were amazing as they tapped out the pulse of Livin’ On A Prayer as the class performed the song. 🥁
They also imitated playing the guitar and rocked in time to the music. 🎸
Jon Bon Jovi eat your heart out! 🎤🎶🎤🎶🎤🎶🎤
This morning we had a visit from Paul. He is an author and he came to talk to us all about why sugar is not so sweet. We learnt lots of new things that we haven’t talked about in Expedition so far. I wonder if you can tell your grown ups something you learnt??
It was great to see you getting smart together yesterday in our maths lesson- supporting and coaching each other when needed. We were busy prepping for the Year 4 multiplication test that’s coming up next week, cramming in some last minute practicing of the time tables we aren’t sure about.
I know you all have nothing to worry about and are going to do amazing!
Proud of you all!
Mrs Faulding x
