Snowy Manford!

On Friday, 3rd December Year 6 decided to use the snowy weather as inspiration for some Literacy and Art work.

During Literacy, the children were asked to produce a piece of writing to do with snow. They were allowed to choose a genre of their choice. Some fantastic work was produced.

They also made some lovely snowy pictures using chalk, pastels or paint.

As a treat at the end of the day, Miss Simmonds and Mr Bowsher let the children out into the little playground to play in the snow. The children decided to make a huge snow snake!

A great day was had by all!

Lord Mayor's Show

On Saturday, 13th November 2010, 6 Year 6 children were choosen to take part in the Lord Mayor's Show in the city of London.

The Lord Mayor's procession is nearly 800 years old. It has marched unscathed through everything from the Black Death to the Blitz. In the twentieth century it was the first ever parade to be broadcast live on television and its a day out for almost half a million people.

Part of the parade takes the Lord Mayor, in his gold carriage, to the ROyal Courts of Justice where he pledges his allegiance to the crown (the Queen and the city), just like Dick Whittington did in 1397!

The children had a great day walking with the Order of the Young Freemen and waving at the crowds! They also enjoyed talking to the soldiers that were with us and even got to hold a gun!

Here are a few photos of the day.

The children talking to the soldiers and holding their gun!

Some of the parade that were behind us

Children beside an army tank

Ingrave Johnstone

This is us with our partners who showed us around.
On Tuesday the 19th of October 2010 six people from year six went to a school in Brentwood, Ingrave Johnstone primary school, to see what it was like.

The school was quite small although it did fit many people and equipment. First we had lunch which was just like ours. After we went out to play there was the adventure playground it was a play area with different types of equipment like the jungle tree, spider frame and the zigzag. Then we went in to have another tour to see the classes, the whole playground, the hall and library.

After that we went into the hall to see a drama teacher called Lesley. She taught us some sign language, Spanish and Japanese!

Working with Leslie.

Finally there a whole school sharing assembly. We had to stand up and do a silly dance to a Japanese song.

Joining in with assembly.

We found the trip really exciting and hope they will come and visit us soon.

By James and Kenny

Topic Launch - World War II

Year 6 launched their topic of the term last week. The topic is World War II.

The whole of Year 6 were gathered into the Junior Hall and listened to the sounds of an air raid siren, aeroplanes flying overhead and Neville Chamberlain telling Great Britain that the war had started.

They then watched a black and white powerpoint showing images from World War II.

The children discussed their feelings and tried to place themselves in the shoes of the people in the pictures.

The children thoroughly enjoyed the launch and appeared to be very eager to learn more!

Arts Week - July 2010

During the week of June 28th, Manford held an Arts Week. The theme of the week was The Natural World.

Year 6 decided to link the art with their study of Andy Warhol and created a colourful print of animals or plants from the forest.

They also created a picture using plants from the environmental garden and photographic paper. The children worked well and thoroughly enjoyed the tasks, as you can see from the pictures below.