90 year ago, Billesley School was founded and it was a very different place. We spent Friday exploring this change and how to make our school even better through a series of P4C based activities which culminated in us sharing our work with other classes. Also, we had our annual spelling bee!

On Thursday, Year 4 delved into the world of Salvador Dali. We learned all about his style and what he was influenced by. We discussed his work during a P4C session and finally we created our own version of one of his paintings. Also we were treated to a series of Shakespeare’s plays performed by year 5.

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We had the amazing opportunity to work with a team of experts and create stories and animations!

We went to Sarehole Mill to get some inspiration and got to listen to a few stories too. We collected interesting fallen leaves and flowers and also looked at our environment through a frame to pick out detail.

We used colour charts to come up with interesting names like ‘honey roasted pumpkin’

We structured our stories…

Animated them to bring them to life…

We had an amazing week working with Stans Cafe and will not forget the brilliant skills we learnt in story telling!

This week year 3 have been working with Stan’s Cafe to create and tell their very own stories. Today we took two of our finished stories to Yardley Wood Library to share them with Grendon Nursery. They listened beautifully!

The Year 4 Spelling Bee Champion for 2016 is… Maryam Elahi!

Well done Maryam! You are a Superstar Speller! All the children and teachers in Year 4 (especially Mrs. Qamar!) are VERY proud of you!

A very BIG well done also to the runners up, Zahid and Hamza for doing their very best in front of the whole of Year 3 and 4!

(Maryam showing off her trophy!) 🙂

We had classroom competitions using the year 3 and 4 spelling words and picked our best spellers. They went on to compete with each other to find the YEAR 3 spelling bee champion!

Umani from 3K won the competition!

It was so brave of them to stand in front of the other year groups and their parents. They did so well that Mr Rogerson had to move onto the harder spelling words. We are so proud of them all!

Last week, James from the school canteen showed us how to create our own salads. We got to taste the different salad ingredients and talk about which ones we would include in our own salads.

Once we had planned and drawn out what we wanted in our own healthy salad, we got a chance to make it! We were very, very, very excited about making our own salads and getting to take them home to eat, especially after enjoying the demonstration with James.

Some of us decided that we wanted onions, some of us decided we wanted carrots, some of us wanted extra cheese and beetroot! Everyone planned their own individual, tasty salad, ready to make the next day with fresh, tasty ingredients!

Finally we got to create our tasty salads from a selection of delicious ingredients. We loved every bit of it, from choosing what we wanted to include to grating our own carrots. We made sure we were being hygienic by washing our hands before and after making our salads. We also got to taste different ingredients to see if we wanted to add anything we hadn’t tried before.

In Science this term, year 5 have been learning all about plants.

During one of our lessons, we had to carry out research on seed dispersal and produce a presentation based on what we found out.

Here is what we learnt … (Hopefully, you will learn something as well!)