Holywood Hullabaloo

Here at Holywood primary we are doing drama as a subject for big Thursday and are doing drama games and making short murder mystery scenes. Miss stapelton takes us into the world of drama class (I mean that she is our drama and maths teacher). The games we play are games like wink murder and we also mime things and have other people guess them.

By Charlie k

My

Vervet monkey

Eats

Mangoes,

Jackfruit,

Seeds

Under

N-box

 

By Skye

 

molly

vomits

eating

max’s

jumpers

sat

under

nanny

Max

Vomits

Eating

Molly’s

Jumpers

sitting

Upon

Niamh

At Holywood we are learning about the solar system and we are doing the solar system model and book and today we are doing blog, reading box, chapter book finished and four seasons finished, and if we weren’t finished our four seasons, we would have to do that first until we could do the rest and we have to do the solar system book last,and we have created a poster about it to help us and not all but some are finished and some are still finishing four seasons and we are doing the three things on the board and I started doing my blog and then I’m going to do reading box, then finish my book at school. Tomorrow we are going to do big Thursday stuff, and then we are doing kiva inp5-7 and after that at 1-2 we are doing P.E with p3-5 and we maybe were  doing other stuff what I might not know. 

 

 

We p5-7 have a new topic at holywood and it is time and space. We have been learning about it for about a week or so. Right now we are doing things like building a model of the solar system. We are learning about space and time as our new topic.

We are also making books about space ( mainly the solar system) for the younger class.

 

By Charlie and Leland

On big Thursday we did PE with miss pata in PE we did tip off game.

And we did learn about music with miss Donald in music.

We did drama with miss stap

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you to everyone who made and wore their fabulous costumes to the recent Hallowe’en disco.  You looked frightening!!!

We are trying out an extended break time once a week. Big Break!

This is to give the pupils time to explore learning through play.

This week we had pupils building a seat in the trees – because you need a rest when your climbing up a tree – it’s hard work you know!

Pupils were trying to light fires. Staff were hoping it was so that the kettle could go on as it was a bit chilly out.

Other pupils were rolling tyres down the hills and trying to get them to travel as far as they could before they fell over. They found that by pushing them harder – increasing the force on the tyre – they could get the tyre to roll for a greater distance.

Two children decided that they wanted to roll down the hill and dragged a tarpaulin out of the shed to roll down the hill in.

Gabriella spent the whole of Big Break cooking up in the mud kitchen. She has lots of fun developing her cakes.

Some of the pupils decided to dig for treasure in the corner of the playground. They washed out a hole they had dug when they discovered silver (non -confirmed sighting). This led them to get all the pipes and guttering out of the shed and set up a waterworks down the hill into the wildlife garden.

At first some of our pupils struggled to get themselves into play – particularly the older pupils. But we are trying to get better at it.

We need to review – time of day – impact on learning.

We’ll keep you posted on how Big Break develops.

P.Dale