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Samba Drumming

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Today most classes in the school had the chance to try out samba drumming.  Each class practised slightly different rhythms and then performed them in an assembly at the end of the day. The children did really well as you will be able to hear in the videos below and were praised by the teacher leading the drumming for having fantastic behaviour and listening skills!

Here are a few videos which give a flavour of the drumming and the beat!

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At the Football Festival!

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Since the beginning of term Manchester United foundation have been coming into school every week to do football training with the children in Y2 and Y3.  Today some children in each class were invited to attend The Cliff training ground to take part in a football festival along with other local schools

Olympics Day

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The children from Key Stage Two enjoyed an Olympics day on Monday. They enjoyed taking part in a variety of Olympics sports including the javelin, hurdle races and the long jump. Congratulations to all our bronze, silver and gold medalists!

Christmas Markets

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This afternoon the children in KS2 held their Christmas market. Over the last few days the children have been busy making things to sell at the market as part of a unit of work on business enterprise. The children will be deciding what they want to spend the profits on.
Have a look at the photos to see what was on sale.

Poetry Day

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Today we once again welcomed Andy Tooze to The Deans. Andy visited each class and read them some of his poems.  He also encouraged the children to write their own poems and read out some of his favourites.

Here are Andy’s top tips for writing poems

Andy’s top ten tips for writing poetry

1.    Find a comfortable place where you can write.

2.    Get yourself an attractive jotter to write in.

3.    Find something to write about that interests you,  friends, family, football, feelings or even something not beginning with an ‘F’.

4.    Don’t worry whether your poems are long or short, funny or serious, rhyming or non rhyming, just have a go and you’ll soon develop your own style.

5.    Don’t compare them to other peoples poems. Only you can write about how you see the world.

6.    Always read your poems back to yourself and edit them if they need it [if you’re anything like me your poems will need lots of editing.]

7.    Don’t worry if you have an off day, week or month. It happens to everyone.

8.    Read as much as you can. The more you read the better your writing will become.

9.    Ask people whom you trust to give you their opinions about your poems. You could even enter competitions if you want to.

10.       Have fun!  If you’re not enjoying it you won’t write good poetry! (probably).

Here are three of his poems

Dinner ladies     Spiders in the cloak room    Lunch time     Got to go

If you missed out buying one of his poetry books you can buy them from his website here. The poet from the Peaks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Art Project

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For nearly two weeks now Daniel has been working on an art project at The Deans. Groups of children have been working along side Daniel to produce an enormous mosaic which will be displayed in thd playground when it is finished.

Poetry with Andy Tooze

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Today we had a visit from poet, Andy Tooze.  He visited all the classrooms to share some of his poems with us and the children from Year 2 to Year 6 all wrote their own poems.  To finish off the day we had an assembly where we all listened to some of the poems that had been written.