1960's Day

In June, Year 6 held a 1960's themed writing day.

The children and teachers arrived at school looking fantastic in 1960's style clothes.

A busy day was planned for the children. The activities were: Song writing, John Lennon drama, 1960's disco and 1960's Word art.

For the song writing activity, they listened to the song 'Help!' by The Beatles. They discussed the lyrics and told a partner what they might need help with. They then went and wrote their own version of the song.

The children had a great time listening to John Lennon and hearing all about his life, the influence he and The Beatles had on the youth and popular culture of the 1960's and dancing to a few of the earlier Beatles songs!

Here are a few pictures from the day to show how much they enjoyed the day.

John Lennon visiting Manford

Song Writing

1960's Children!

6B - 1960's Style!!

6S - 1960's Style!

Arts Week 2011

Manford's Arts week was based around the theme of Africa. Year 6 decided to create their own African jewellery out of clay.

The first thing we did was to research the topic and look at the variety of different types of jewellery that Africans made and wore. The children were amazed at how different and unusual the jewellery was to what we wear and how colourful everything was.

Once we researched the different styles of jewellery, the children had to design four pieces of jewellery that they would like to create and finally choose their favourite.

The next step was to create the beads out of clay, ensuring that they have placed a hole in the clay in order to thread them onto lace (some children forgot to do this and had to start again!). The clay was left to dry overnight and then the next day, they were ready to paint.

All the children worked really hard and produced some fantastic pieces of work, as you can see below!

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