PE Competition

PE Competition

Hi everyone, 

We are getting a little bored of not competing in PE, so this week we will be taking on some local schools at some daily challenges. The senior school PE department would like to invite all families and pupil to get involved from both the junior and senior sites.

The best way to get involved is to check out the Senior School PE twitter page for daily updates. 

https://twitter.com/alderwood_pe?lang=en

Please message the PE department (on Twitter) your scores daily by 9 p.m as they would love to see your attempts and be able to include your scores into our totals. 

Have a great week,

Mr Knight

World Book Day Hits Alderwood Juniors

World Book Day Hits Alderwood Juniors!

On Thursday 5th March, we took part in our annual World Book Day celebrations!

The day involved dressing up as one of our favourite characters from a book! Even the teachers got involved and there were so many amazing costumes arriving at school!

We started the day by sharing a story. Across the school, pupils shared their favourite books with somebody else from a different year group. We talked about our favourite books before taking it turns to read to eachother.

 

For the rest of the day, pupils in the school took part in a whole range of activities including costume catwalks, drama explorations, painting in the style of an illustrator and creating our own poems/raps/songs and stories based on a theme from a book.

Take a look at our photos to see what we got up to.

Global Citizenship Day

Learning About Uganda

 Today, the Junior school took part in our annual Global Citizenship Day where we thought about our role as global citizens and found out about Uganda and some of its art and culture, in comparison to our own. 

Children in Year 3 were introduced to our link school and its location in Uganda. Following this, they created their own Ugandan flag and learnt some African drumming. They also spent some time looking at African artwork and created their own using oil pastels.

In Year 4, children looked at village life before writing postcards to the Child Promotion School to tell them what life is like in Aldershot. They also took part some in African games and created their own African masks using a range of colours and patterns.

During the day year 5, created videos or PowerPoints that showed what a day was like in our school; these will then be sent to our link school. They also learnt some African dance moves before creating their own sequences. To end the day they learnt the language of Luganda and how to communicate at the Child Promotion School.

Year 6 focussed on the landscape and location of Africa, recreating their own maps of Uganda that showed the key features. They spent their morning using their knowledge to create savannah artwork either on paper or on canvases. Finally, the researched the animals that they would see if they went on safari out there and created a fact file about them.

The children also came in wearing mufti with the colours of the Ugandan flag: black, red, yellow and white. We managed to raise £306.80 and this will go towards by educational resources for our link school in Uganda. Thank you for supporting this cause. 

Take a look at our pictures from the day to see what of what we got up to.

Children in Need

A Fantastic Fundraising Event!

Once again the whole of the junior school have done us proud this week with their participation in fundraising activities for Children in Need.

Events started yesterday with the year 4 adult raffle where some incredible prizes could be won. Following this, a year 5 and 6 Movie Night was held in the school hall. This had an amazing turn out and proved to be quite popular. All the children had a great time watching Monster Family and eating popcorn.

Today, the fundraising continued with our Pudsey Sale in the school hall. All children were able to come and buy cakes from the year 5 bake sale, have a go on the year four raffle, vote for their favourite year 5 show stopper cake, guess how many sweets/lego/chocolates were in the jar, vote for the year 3 teachers to have their faces painted and buy their own Pudsey merchandise. There was a great atmosphere in the hall throughout the morning and it was fantastic to see all the children getting involved. 

Back in their classrooms, all the children spent the day completing Children in Need themed activities including, dotty artwork, raps, talented shows and year 5 even completed a sponsored silence!

At the end of the day, the whole school gathered in the school hall for the Big Reveal Assembly, where the total that each class and year group had raised was revealed. I am extremely pleased to say that thanks to all your donations the junior site managed to raise a massive total of £2435.40 for the cause. There is also a healthy donation coming in from the infant site who have also been fundraising for Children in Need today. A big thank you to all of you for supporting this cause and making the day a huge success! 

Girls Tag Rugby

A huge well done to some of our year 3 and 4 girls: Ellie Sweeney, Grace Reilly, Daisy Marshall-Fox, Jazmine Atkins, Grace Davis and Olivia Parker. The students attended a Tag Rugby event where they were taught many of the basic rules, followed by a match. The girls scored many individual tries and produced some outstanding defensive skills that any rugby team would have been proud of.

Having scored so many tries, our girls were given the challenge of having to make three passes before scoring a try. They continued to score with some fantastic attacking moves. The girls not only showed incredible sportsmanship and gamesmanship but also the talent to become an excellent team.  Well done!

Global Citizenship Day 2019

Today we had an action packed Global Citizenship Day with lots of different activities happening across the year group. We thought about our role as global citizens and found out about Uganda and some of its art and culture, in comparison to our own. As well as learning about or being introduced to our link school. 

Children in Year 3 were introduced to our link school and its location in Uganda. Following this, they created their own Ugandan flag and learnt some African drumming. They also spent some time looking at African artwork and created their own using oil pastels.

In Year 4, children looked at village life before writing postcards to the Child Promotion School to tell them what life is like in Aldershot. They also took part some in African games and created their own African masks using a range of colours and patterns.

During the day year 5, created videos or PowerPoints that showed what a day was like in our school; these will then be sent to our link school. They also learnt some African dance moves before creating their own sequences. To end the day they learnt the language of Luganda and how to communicate at the Child Promotion School.

Year 6 focused on the landscape and location of Africa, recreating their own maps of Uganda that showed the key features. They spent their morning using their knowledge to create Savannah artwork either on paper or on canvases. Finally, the researched the animals that they would see if they went on safari out there and created a fact file about them.

We would like to thank all those who brought in £1 in exchange for a Ugandan themed mufti day; we managed to make £286.15 to go towards improving technology at our link school.