taster day

On thursaday class N are going for a taster day at Preistnal high school. We are going to find out more and to learn about how it will be like for us when we fianlly go there for real. For this taster day we get our own cafe! But when we actally go there, we will have to share with year eight!!!!!

By Becky!!!

This week

This week is art week. In afternoon we will go to diffrent teachers all over the school and do diffrent things with them. With mrs Zaman we have been doing tin men, and with Mrs rice we are making scarecrows. KS2 have been practasing for year sixes leavers play. On thursday most of year six has a taster day at Preistnal, our next high school, so we won't be here. On Friday, the whole school will take part of a sports day, all day! We usually have a sports afternoon, you see.

By Katie

Art week

Tuesday 30Th June '09

This week at ST.John's we are having an Art week. It will take place all week except Friday;which is sports day.

yesterday afternoon, after dinner we were split up into eight different groups. Group five; which is currently doing can people were doing scarecrows. We had to design five different scarecrows. Two were members of staff, Mrs.Ames and Mr.stocks,we supposed to keep this a secret from them until it's finished , so keep it down. The other three are supposed to represent the children of ST. John's.The way we had to make it was a bit weird but interesting in its own way. first of all we had to stuff a suit full of plastic bag then dress it. It was different Every time for instant, Mrs.Ames were dress up in what she would wear normally. Another group would make peoples faces by using balloons,bits of newspaper and PVA glue. We didn't get to Finnish but that's normally the case with these days because the it works on a rotor so one group dose an activity which an other group done.

The second day of Art week group five were making can people. we basically got tin cans and cut out lost and spare parts of uniform which people didn't want, need or lost. We had spare jumpers polo shirts and trousers. When finished they looked fantasic.

On thursday we are going to be doing to make a village for the play.

Class N theme day

On Friday class N went on a theme day at the park with lots of other schools. We went to Mersey Vale park and Heaton Mersey park to do lots of activities. First we listened to people talking about cutting wood in the past. They showed us how to cut wood with old machines. Next we went to the Heaton Mersey park to do some maypole dancing. We had to hold a strip of material which was a certain colour and started to plait it. Then we did the same but the other way to unplait it. We then had to go back to the Mersey Vale park to do some pond dipping. When we got there we got put into two groups and the first group did the pond dipping part and some people caught tadpoles and newts! Then the next thing was getting bugs out from a tray of water and putting them in containers to look at their skeleton with the microscope looking at it on the TV. We also did some willow weaving. Finally we did an art activity which involved drawing on a piece of polystyrene and then covering it with black paint and printing it on paper and material.

Arts and crafts

This term at St. Johns, all of the school will be having an arts and crafts theme. Seeing as the world is in the climate that it is, we will be using recycled materials. So far, we have been weaving with paper, hessian and binker. So far, no recycled materials. We have also been asked to bring in interesting recycled materials. Some of the collected items include cake boxes, wellington boots and yogurt pots.

Coming next: Bird feeders and insect boxes.

The paper weaving: First, get a brown piece

of paper, any size. Then, draw lines a ruler's

width from the edge in a rectangle. Draw lines

a ruler's width apart in that rectangle. Cut

straight along them. Next, get coloured strips

of paper. Weave(slide) them under and over

the holes in the brown piece of paper. When you

have done that, cut any excess paper off and

glue the ends of the coloured paper to the brown

paper. Ta-da! A paper pattern, made by you.