It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

We have only 2 weeks left to go at school before it is the Christmas holidays and we have already experienced snow this week!  I am looking forward to a well earned rest, to catch up with my family and friends, to see my niece have her first christmas (although she is a bit young to know yet) and to enjoy reading some good books and watching bad television.

What are you looking forward to happening over the festive break?

Sky Skills Studio Trip

Last week we went on a trip to Sky Studios to have a go at filming and editing news clips.

 We were each given different roles/jobs to do to help create our clip.  There were reporters, editors, directors, producers, script writers and camera operators.

Here are some pictures of our day.

We stood in front of a green screen and the editors added a background to make it look like we were reporting on location.

Read our comments below about which job/role that we were given and what we enjoyed the most about our trip.

Quadblogging questions

Sorry that we have been a bit quiet but we have been on our half term break. 

If you look at the comments below from Biggin Hill children they have told you a bit about themselves and have asked you some questions to answer.

Happy blogging!

The Horniman Museum.

 

To learn more about our current topic of The Americas, we went on visit to the Horniman Museum.

 

 

 

While we were there we got to look at real artefacts from Native America.  We looked at shoes that would have been worn by people in the Plains and gloves worn by the Inuit people who lived in the colder areas around The Great Lakes.

 A lot of us enjoyed trying on a replica of a Native American war bonnet.

We even got to look at real snow shoes which were worn by Native Americans and lots more interesting artefacts were passed around for us to look at.

This picture is actually made of sand and tells a Native American myth.

As we had some time to look around the rest of the museum we headed to the Natural History section which featured real animals which had been stuffed.  We even had our photograph taken with the Walrus!

BHPS: What was your favourite part of the trip?

Quadbloggers: Have you been on any really good school trips?

Junior Citizens.

We went to a Junior Citizenship morning at nearby Oaklands School where we had talks from organisations who gave us advice about being good citizens.
 
 
Battersea Dogs Home, gave us advice about how to behave around dogs in parks.

The Red Cross taught us what to do if we ever found anyone unconscious and how to put them into the recovery position.

 The RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) taught us about the dangers we may face at coastal areas and what to do if we ever found ourselves in trouble.

 Finally the Police gave us advice about how we should behave on public transport and when we travel to and from secondary school.

We all enjoyed our morning and learnt a lot.
 
What was your favourite part of the morning.

The story so far...

We have been blogging now for two weeks and have connected successfully with 2 new schools so far.  I know we are enjoying getting to know each other and my class are very enthusiastic when I tell them it is time to blog.
What do you think is the best thing so far about quadblogging?

Quadblogging underway!

Now that we have started to blog with other schools I am interested to know what you would  want people to know about your school.

A new year of blogging!

Well we got our blogs underway last week and we were all very excited to create our own blog pages.  Our own pages can be found further down on the right hand side, please take a look and give us some feedback.  We wrote a little bit about ourselves and our school and also included some poems that we wrote about ourselves in the style of Paul Cookson's poem Coolscorin’matchwinnin’celebratin’striker.  Here is the original:

Coolscorin’matchwinnin’celebratin’striker

He’s a shirt removin’ crowd salutin’

handstandin’ happy landi  n’

rockin’ rollin’ divin’ slidin’

posin’ poutin’ loud shoutin’

pistol packin’ smoke blowin’

flag wavin’ kiss throwin’

hipswingin’ armwavin’

breakdancin’ cool ravin’

shoulder shruggin’ team huggin’

hot shootin’ rootin tootin’

somersaultin’ fence vaultin’

last minute goal grinnin’

shimmy shootin’ shin spinnin’

celebratin’ goalscorin’ STRIKER!

By Paul Cookson

Summer Holidays!!

Due to a fabulously long holiday there aren't any class updates at the minute but I hope you are all enjoying the time off! :0-)