Westdale Junior School news

We all had a super visit to Magna, the science adventure centre, today.

Here are a few photographs taken on our visit.

Arriving:


"The Big Melt":


"Fire":


Down a mine in the "Earth" zone:


Who is on top of the climbing frame in the playground?



The whole school (year 3, year 4, year 5 and year 6) went to Magna . We looked at seven different sections and here they all are: fire, big melt, water, earth, air, playground and gift shop.

At Magna we did some activities in the Water zone. When you are entering you go through the middle of two mini water falls. Also there is a big model of the journey of a river. It shows where it starts and the middle course and so on. After looking at that we went into the water play area. The hand rail was covered in ice. There was a game where you had to squirt panels with a water gun and also a place where you pumped water into the mini pool. (We got quite wet.)

A boy from class 5J said that his favourite section was the air section where he played air hockey and a pupil from 5H said that she liked the water section where she got very wet but still had a great time in Magna.

LP & EJ

Labels: 2010, report, visit, Y3, Y4, Y5, Y6

In year 6 we are learning about World War 2 and we were lucky enough to have a war hero come in to class to answer our questions.

His name is Mr. Roy Croft and he was a young boy when the war was on. He remembers German bombers flying down Carlton Hill and people diving into shops to escape the gunners. When he was older he joined the navy and worked on submarines - he even searched for mines on the bottom of the sea!!

We thought it was the best history lesson ever!

Labels: 2010, history, report, Y6

Rob Michael, the Welsh high jump champion, came to Westdale Juniors for an exiting visit on the Thursday 7th October.

Each class had a seven minute work out with Mr. Mitchell: We had to do one minute of "spotty dogs", one minute of leg drives, one minute or press-ups and one minute of star jumps.

Later, in a special assembly for the whole school, Rob told us about he became a world famous high jumper. We also enjoyed watching those people who were brave enough to go in front of the school and do Rob's little exercises.

Labels: 2010, report, sport, visit, Y3, Y4, Y5, Y6

A large audience of parents, carers and relatives were able to attend our school harvest festival today, 6th October 2010.

Everyone in the school took part in a lovely service. Year 3 read a poem and sang a harvest song, Year 4 presented a harvest play with mice as the main characters, Year 5 talked and sang about the harvest of coal and oil and the need to protect our environment and Year 6 read peoms that they had written themselves. In between all the items there were harvest songs.

Thanks to everyone who sent in food-stuffs for our harvest display. The food will be put in bags and given to those individuals that parents/carers have nominated and any remaining food will be taken to Emmanuel House - the Nottingham charity which cares for the homeless in our city.




"This week we had our harvest festival, we sang some songs like Autumn days, Fill your hearts with joy and gladness, God of the harvest and Jubilate.

We also explained what Harvest is about and what is important about the festival. If you managed to come we very much appreciated it, but if you didn’t manage to come… well you missed a lot of extremely exciting things all preformed by your children.

We practiced very hard and put 100% effort into our performances on the day.
Also, we want to thank you for sending in all the fruits, vegetables and other foods that you donated. We will share the food out to people who need it most."

AR, LP & EJ

Labels: 2010, harvest, production, report, Y3, Y4, Y5, Y6

Our Harvest Festival Service will take place in school on Wednesday 6th October. Parents/carers welcome.

A letter has been sent home about this on the reverse of our recent Newsletter. (A copy is available from our "letters and newsletters" page.

Labels: 2010, notice, Y3, Y4, Y5, Y6