Using semaphore in computing
Spruces had great fun learning about semaphore in computing today!
Spruces had great fun learning about semaphore in computing today!
We had a wonderful morning competing in our sports morning today. The weather stay fine for us - even a bit too hot! All the children had great fun and competed in their teams.
The girls football team played their last match on Friday against Notley. They played really well as a team and won 9-0.
Special mention to Rosie who scored 5!
Year 5 had a great time helping out at the foundation and year 1 sports day on Wednesday. It was lovely to see so many parents.
Here is a video from Mr Cullum's previous class.
John Bunyan Primary hosted a teacher sharing event of the Braintree Cultural Diversity Project on Wednesday 25th May.
Seven schools took part in the five-month Project which had the following aims:
· For young people to understand other cultures and traditions.
· To develop understanding of classroom practise and how to communicate new concepts to young people.
· To give young people a practical experience of other cultures.
· To develop teaching ideas that mean that learning is embedded in school practise and the impact on the young people is not limited to one experience
· To consider empathetic responses to learning from young people
Children from seven schools took part in lessons and workshops delivered by professional musicians from across the world, with the aim of broadening the children’s understanding of other cultures.
Some Year 5 John Bunyan children were fortunate enough to attend a workshop by the renowned kora player, teacher and composer, Josh Doughty. Children were excited to have a go at playing the instrument in the workshop and were amazed by the rich history of kora music and its origins.
The project was funded by Essex Music Education Hub.
Elders' class performed a jubilee rap on Thursday at the jubilee celebrations - unfortunately it was very hard to hear so we recorded it on Friday.
Here is the video for you to see.
The whole school had great fun on Thursday celebrating the Queen's jubilee. Some of the children and staff dressed up as kings and queens and also in red, white and blue. We made some fantastic castles, table decorations and cake decorations and the children also performed in the "arena". We were also lucky to have the farm and different stalls and games like hook a duck and pin the tail on the corgi! Here are some of the photos from the day.
What a fantastic week residential was! An incredible experience that allowed the children to develop their confidence, resilience, and life skills tremendously across the week; alongside following the code of conduct throughout. The staff and service that was provided by Kingswood was phenomenal; the activities were incredible (side-by-side, aeroball, abseiling to name a few) and the experience of visiting the highest point in Norfolk (Beeston Bump) at night to observe the stars was a great thing to do as a whole year group together. A huge thank you to all of the staff that took the children and we look forward to next year already!
Elders had a great day today. We had fun dressing up for world book day and completing lots of different activities. Firs from year one visited us this afternoon to share their reading books with us.
In year 4, in computing, we learnt how to be meteorologists. We made a weather station and from this we understood different measurement techniques for weather, both analogue and digital. We used computer-based data logging to automate the recording of some weather data. We also used spreadsheets to create charts analyse data, explore inconsistencies in data and make predictions.
The fun part was being weathermen - we presented the weather to the class, just like they do on telly.