Stanford Junior and Infant School
Living together - Learning together
On this page you can see updates over the term of our activities and learning.
In our Oak National Academy music lesson today, we were exploring metre - it was trickier than we expected it to be!
Have you tried?
Mr Page has been leading some yoga sessions in Year 6 - he has also shared some useful websites and exercise ideas (including yoga!) to our remote learners.
We hope you have enjoyed your exercise sessions at home - send in some photographs to show us what you have been up to!
Take a look at some of the fantastic remote learning that has taken place with our Barley Remote learners. A huge well done to you all, we are so proud of you!
Barley Class pupils have been working hard both in school and remotely this week! Take a look at their plane investigation linked with David Attenborough’s planet lessons- fantastic responses to those working from home too.
In Art we are studying the artist Frida Kahlo. Barley Class pupils drew some fantastic self portraits in their task set this week. Mrs Smith enjoyed seeing our talented artists who sent in their remote learning task.
Year 6 had a fabulous end of term party this afternoon! We played musical statues, (very enthusiastic!) charades and enjoyed our party bags - a lovely, well deserved treat after a very busy term!
In Year 6 we decided to create some 'Winter Wonderland' decorations and a table centrepiece for our Enterprise Project.
We looked at some existing design ideas for inspiration and then created six of our own designs. We chose our favourite two to create.
In order to decide on a price to sell our products, we conducted some market research to find out the price that we could reasonably sell these items, we then deducted the cost of materials and calculated our potential profit.
After carefully decorating the logs, we evaluated our designs - we are very proud! What do you think?
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Barley class have been learning about the importance of commas within sentences and how, if commas are not used correctly, they can change the meaning of the sentence. We had great fun reading these!
That festive feeling is in the air! The tree has arrived and has been beautifully decorated. The children have worked hard to make their class hoop to decorate the hall and everyone is feeling very Christmassy.
Don’t the decorations look amazing?
Our DT project is to use complex circuits and switches - we had decided to make a vacuum cleaner!
Each team were given a battery, two wires, a motor and a piece of A4 card. As you can see, we had lots of fun making our fans blow ten bits of paper across the table - we will continue to work on this over the next few weeks, eventually building up to making a working handheld vacuum cleaner.
in Barley Class we have been finding out all about how the UK Parliamentary System works. We discussed the role of the House of Commons, the House of Lords, the Monarchy and how they work alongside each other. We also learnt about how a petition or idea becomes law.
We looked at the Youth Parliament and how children's ideas and opinions are important in shaping our future. Here is the link to Find Out More.
These are the issues that we would like to get involved with and help to make a change for our future;
Pupils used a range of art techinique and skills to add the final touches to their Ancient Greek comedy and tragedy masks. The styles and colours used linked closely to the styles of the Nacient Greeks- Well done Barkey task for your artistic flare!
As part of Parliament week some pupils in Barley class had a virtual meeting with our local MP Martin Vickers. The questions they asked were generated by the whole class and then fed back to all pupils with a fantastic discussion about Parliament- well done Year 6!
In Barley Class we have had a wonderful day full of mystery maths challenges, arts and crafts.
There have been some rather wonderful, but frightening costumes too!
Barley Class enjoyed their Reading Challenge Reward yesterday, well done to all of the children that read three times a week - keep it up!
Barley class continued with their tragedy mask project- this week we started to build the 3D effect of the mask using newspaper. We concentrated on the key features within our masks to ensure these elements stand out when we use the mod roc next week.
Barley Class were learning about digital footprint and understanding how and why people use their information and online presence to create a virtual image of themselves as a user. They completed a task which used a simulation of applicants to a college funded by the local premier league football team Halliwell FC. The college had used online searches to fill in the information that they can find to help them assess who should be offered a place. Barley class investigated which applicant would be the best for the football team, using the digital footprint they had on each person.
Barley class completed the next step in creating their own comedy and tragedy masks- They took their initial design and cut this out using cardboard. Kepp a look out as our next step will be using Modroc to make our masks 3D
Barley class enjoyed celebrating Stanford Trust's 300th Birthday. They designed bunting for the school gates, enjoyed a cake and drink and had their photo in front of the school flag- Happy Birthday!
Reverend Stevens has retired recently and Barley class created a retirement card for him. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr Stevens for all the services he has delivered over the years with Stanford School and the support he has also shown. We wish you a happy retirement!
One million species of animal will be extinct in the next 100 years if we don’t act now!
Barley class recorded their thoughts on this important topic.
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Barley Class studied Ancient Greek Warfare and why the Ancient Greeks needed an army or navy. We looked at the Greek warfare and learnt about the different kinds of armour and weapons that were used, how we know about certain battles and what types of ships they used. We recreated the power in standing side by side like the Hoplites, with their shields held tightly across each other so that they were stronger against the enemy. This formation was called a Phalanx.
Barley Class discussed the dangers of chatting to strangers online. We watched a shot video about a girl named Lucy who spoke to a stranger online. Whilst watching we raised our 'DANGER' Paddles to show that there was a danger and she could have done something to change this. Following this we created our own video discussion on the dangers of the internet and how we can keep ourselves and others safe.
Our Head Boy and Head Girl delivered our virtual assembly on Friday for Macmillan Coffee morning. They shared with the whole school how Macmillan came about and how the donations received from families help those that are currently suffering with cancer- Well done for delivering a fantastic 'virtual' assembly!
As ever we are being resourceful and thinking about how we can adapt our lives and carry on regardless. Normally we would be performing in person but this year we celebrated this wonderful organisation virtually. We can’t sing but we can definitely sign to 'Dance Monkey'
Barley class celebrated Macmillan Coffee Morning by designing and then making their own Cake Badge to wear. We also enjoyed a cake and drink to celebrate the world's largest coffe morning!
We have been doing lots of times tables practice and games in our class. We use TT Rockstars and Hit the Button to help us answer times tables questions quickly. Our current TT Rockstars time to beat is 39 seconds and our highest Hit the Button score is 23 - keep up the good work Year 6!
Barley class were using the 2code system to use functions and understand why they are useful. They worked on a coding programme to organise the codes into tabs and and eliminate surplus codes.
We have been looking at identifying numbers up to ten millions in our maths lessons this week, today we were representing these numbers in different ways and identifying the value of each digit within the number - we love to challenge ourselves in Barley Class!
Here are our completed Ancient Greek pots! We researched the different patterns and designs of Ancient Greek pottery and sketched them before we painted on our pots. We are very proud of how they turned out - what do you think?
Our science topic this term is 'Electricity', we looked at naming and identifying the basic electrical components; wire, buzzer, bulb, switch, motor, battery. We then created a circuit using these components.
Nominations for our Head Pupils this year took place virtually on Friday. Year 6 pupils delivered amazing speeches to the whole school, via Microsoft teams! All the pupils who took part were incredible! Pupils voted in their classes, using a variety of voting techniques, including a ballot box. Results will be announced on Monday.
Today has been our first day of Year 6 PE - we had a great time!
Our unit this term is 'Athletics', today's PE session has been focused on the three areas of athletics; running, throwing and jumping.
It has been lovely to enjoy our outdoor area!
Our topic this term is Ancient Greece - we decided that on our Hook Day we wanted to explore traditional Ancient Greek pottery, foods, dance, music and geographical features.
We enjoyed tasting the new foods (olives had mixed reviews!), practising the Sirtaki dance, researching interesting and obscure Greek facts and creating our own Greek pottery - keep checking back to the blog as we will be completing them soon!
