Westdale Junior School news

On Wednesday and Thursday evening, Years 3 and 4 presented their spring production: The Wind in the Willows.

The play tells the well known story from Kenneth Grahame's classic book and featured all the well-loved characters including Mole, Ratty, Badger, Toad, Otter as well as all the stoats, weasels and rabbits. Narration helped keep the story going and there were lots of super songs.

The singing and acting were fantastic. All the actors made sure that the words were clear and the soloists were also excellent.

There were large audiences of family and friends on both evenings and the play was very well received.

On our countries around the world day, Years 5 and 6 did five different things from countries around the world. Usually we would just have our normal teachers all day, but this day gave us an opportunity to work with different teachers. Also, it was lots of fun, and most of it involved art or design technology.

With Mr. Jennings, we made a mark on a world map, to show where Japan was. Then we did some origami. This origami was linked to stories - with each story the folds that were made linked with the story so far. The stories all involved animals and we ended up making a penguin, a rabbit, and a duck to take home!

A lady from Brazil taught us how to do samba dancing (which is dancing that people do in Brazil.) She also showed us some pictures of Brazilian instruments, and told us the names of them, and the sound that they made. Then we learned two types of samba dancing from two different parts of Brazil.

With Mrs Kilbane, we cut out some people from a story about a dragon, and once we had done that, we used the characters, to act out a play of a story about a dragon, whilst Mrs Kilbane read the story out; the saying was think twice before you act.

Also, with Mr. Slater we cut out some masks, and then we decorated them with things like; jewels, feathers, glitter glue, and we coloured them in with felt tips, and some other stuff. This activity was based on carnival masks from Venice in Italy.


Finally, with Miss Hubert we were doing about the Amazon Rainforest which is in Brazil. We were given a picture of one of the animals from the Amazon Rainforest and we had to either colour in the picture, paint it, or do a collage. These are some of the animals that we could choose to do: a toucan, a frog, a lizard, and many more! All of our pictures were great!

Everybody enjoyed the lessons, and we all made something that we could take home. All of us learnt something interesting and at least one thing that we didn’t know before. We made lots of things, and we all had lots of interesting lessons, and quite a few of them were something that we wouldn’t usually do!