This week is National Anti-Bullying Week. We took 8 children from years 3-6 to London to train to become Anti-Bullying Ambassadors for our school.
It was an amazing opportunity to go to the Emirates Arsenal Football Stadium that held the conference in a huge room. The children had opportunities to rap with Bars and Melody from Britain’s Got Talent 2014 and dance with Twist and Pulse from Britain’s Got Talent 2010.
We were so excited to get autographs and photographs!
The teachers got training from Facebook about e-safety and we learnt lots of different tips about how to prevent bullying in our school.
Have a look at our photos below;
Our dance with Twist and Pulse at the National Anti-Bullying Week Conference:
Our rap with Bars and Melody:
Our Anti-Bullying Rap
Anti-Bullying is the reason we are all here,
It shouldn’t be a week but all year.
From London to Essex to Cambridge
Let’s make this campaign famous
Coz’ bullying brings so much pain,
These feelings are making me insane.
Deep down we are all the same
Don’t want to be part of your bullying game!
Open, grow and believe
This is the learning that we weave
We open our hearts and we open our minds
We are people of different kinds.
When you’re in strain,
We can help you with your pain.
Come and…
Join us
Sing with us
Dance with us
Grow with us
Learn with us
Talk to us
Achieve with us
Together we are…
The best by far…
Brooklands Farm!
By Brooklands Anti-Bullying Ambassadors
We are having a great time making lanterns and looking forward to showing you our hard work on Friday.
Year 3 had an amazing Amazon adventure at Birmingham Botanical gardens last Friday. They saw some incredibly tall plants with enormous leaves as well as seeing insect eating plants as well as getting up close and personal with some Rainforest creatures! The weather on our journey certainly got us in the mood for the Rainforest climate-it poured down with rain! The people at the gardens were very complimentary about our behavior and how we tidied up our lunch room. A big thank you to those lovely parents that came with us to help us with our learning. We appreciated your support and the fact you gave up your precious time to come with us on our adventure.
Today we ignited our chocolate project with a trip to Cadbury’s World! The children learnt about the history and origin of the cocoa bean and how it is used today to make delicious chocolate treats! We will be continuing this learning in class, but thanks to the trip the children are well and truly inspired and excited to get this learning journey started!
Huge thanks to Mrs Ashington, Mrs Mentha, Mr Morrison and Mr Pugh for helping with this trip. I hope you all had a great day?!
Thank you to all parents who volunteered to help with this trip.
Here are a few photos of today’s adventure.
For our end product we are going to be making our own Horrible Histories episode to inform people about the impact of the Plague on London in the 1660’s. Here are a few clips of other Horrible Histories episodes which may give you some ideas for how to create your own episode – have a think about how you could change these so they are about the Plague.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVMj_bwQQ3Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFJ5BPt3074
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9lFwCDuj38
Enjoy!
On Monday, year 5 arrived at school and they were transported back to the year 1665. Boys and girls were separated into different classrooms, with the teachers being very strict, much like in a Stuart era school. The morning started with the boys and girls learning, in silence, an extract from Shakespeare’s Macbeth which they then had to recite to the class.
For the remainder of the morning the girls learnt valuable skills such as sewing and baking, ensuring they were well prepared to be housewives! They baked gingerbread biscuits and also practised their handwriting.
The boys also practised their handwriting and spent time playing games such as chess and draughts. Mr Peters was very strict!
However throughout the morning we noticed Miss Courtney coughing a lot, then she started scratching and big red boils appear on her arms! As she spread her germs, the illness started affecting some of the year 5’s and they came out in red ringed rashes! Eventually, we decided to quarantine those who were displaying symptoms and called the Doctor. The doctor confirmed that they had the Plague so a red cross was put on the door to warn others that it was contaminated with the Plague!
After lunch, to help protect us from the Plague we made herb bags just like they did in the Plague in 1665. We used cloves, rosemary and thyme, along with some mint and rose essence. Also, we made silhouettes of rats to decorate the corridors with!
Finally, because our final product is to make a Horrible History episode about the Plague, we watched some episodes of Horrible History.
Year 5 had a fantastic time igniting the Plague and can’t wait to continue their learning about it in order to create their Horrible History documentary.
