Sheffield Hallam University Department of Engineering and Technology Christmas Lecture.
I was delighted that eight children from class three were invited to take part in this lecture on 9th December 2011, and even more delighted with the excellent quality of their presentation. They explained and demonstrated how Michael Faraday discovered how electricity works, and in the process Jasmine and Joshua successfully baked a chocolate cake on the stage whilst Josh rode a bike to generate electricity. Well done to all eight children and thanks to Dr Diprose for inviting us to take part.
Face Britain
We are delighted to be working on this national project, with local artist – and parent – Anita Dalley. The project started last summer with the Y6 leavers producing and displaying self portraits of themselves, through which they left their imprints on the school.
The Face Britain project has been designed by The Prince’s Foundation for Children and the Arts and is the UK’s largest ever mass collaborative arts project which aims to encourage young people to consider and celebrate their own identity and place in history
Children aged 4-16 years are asked to create self-portraits and upload them onto the on-line gallery, before March 2012. These will then be publicly displayed across the country. In a series of nationwide events, exhibitions and a Guinness World Records attempt for ‘Most artists working on the same art installation’ will take place.
In the lead up to HM The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, all self-portraits from the online gallery will be combined to create a montage portrait of HM The Queen to be projected onto the frontage of Buckingham Place in 2012 and on a national network of digital screens across the UK in shopping centres, train stations and at the Official London 2012 Live sites.
All the children in school will have the opportunity to take part in the project, and all parents will be asked for permission for the portrait to be uploaded onto the Face Britain site.
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The School Garden
The school vegetable garden has been very successful this year – producing a wide variety of vegetables which have been used in the school kitchen.
Thanks are due to Mr Belk for running the gardening club, and for caring for the garden through the holiday periods. We have been helped by the wider community with donations of seeds and equipment and the children have worked hard and shown commitment to maintaining the plot, so we hope that the club will go from strength to strength.
Art Club
A group of children are thoroughly enjoying an art club run by Mrs Dalley. Recently they have produced fish tanks with swimming fish and for Christmas they are working on stars and a great nativity mural. It is great to see the children having the time and opportunity to explore their own creative ideas.
Cookery Club
Cookery club, with Mrs Berry and Mrs Wilson, produced Pudsey cakes and biscuits to sell to the school for Children in Need day. Over the term they have worked on building up menus suitable for a balanced diet. Each week I am unable to resist the delicious odour of cooking wafting up the stairs, and most times I get a taster!
Running Club
This was very popular earlier in the term but Mrs Berry has stopped it until the evenings get lighter again in the spring.
Science and Technology Club
The first sessions of the club were run for the older children and now it is the turn of the infants to work on a project with Miss Pattison.
Recorder Club
A small group of children with Miss Gregory are persevering with their recorder lessons and hope to perform for the school in the near future.
Violins
As a result of their violin lessons in school, Jasmine and Eliza now play with the Hathersage Band, which is part of Peak District Music Centre. On the 2nd December they performed at the Octagon Buxton, a big venue with a large audience. They both did very well, and we are very proud of them.