China Week at Glade: Behind The Scenes!

Ne Hao! Year 6 are having a crazy week full of various fun activities which I shall try to cram into one blog. Following on from Monday's exciting update, the next day we had a go at flower cutting which I have to say was a complete sucess. Here is our outcome:

Then, in the afternoon, we had a great chopstick challenge which Alyesha Moodley won! The next day, we were in for a big surprise when we got to make some special red envelopes containing chinese money. We then had the next round of the chopstick challenge which Cathryn Bowyer won.

After making some brilliant leaflets about China, we did some super chinese paintings and had the last round of the chopstick challenge which Raghavi and Drenica won. All four of them competed to find the chopstick challeneg champion which was...drumroll please...Ctahryn Bowyer! She and the three runner-ups got some very interesting prizes.

Overall., it was probably, in fact, definetly the best china week we've ever had!

Glade's China Week Extravaganza!

Gung Hei Fat Choy Everybody! Happy Chinese New Year! It's China Week at Glade. This week, we are in store for lots of surprises and fun activities. To start the week off, in our assembly, we had an exciting food-tasting session! First, we had our school choir sing us a Chinese New Year song, followed by a race between three of the teachers (Ms Leverton, Ms Patel and Miss Hartwell) and three of the pupils (Christopher, 6P, Jada, 3F and Bircon, 4M) were challenged to eat popcorn with chopsticks but the teachers were given a harder task to eat mini smarties with chopsticks!
After that, we had a food-tasting session with volunteers, Drenica, 6P, Roha, 6M, Dylan, 6M, Mrs Allen, Miss Foster and Mrs Maryon, tasting some new Chinese dishes.

Drenica Tahiri, 6P said:

It was scary experience and we didn’t know what we were eating as the dishes
were not revealed until afterwards. Our first dish was oriental bread this was
tasty but didn’t have much flavour. Secondly we had a vegetarian pie with a soy
sauce filling. Miss foster claimed it was similar to meat but that was impossible as they were all vegetarian dishes! Finally we had rice balls with a bean soup filling. This was an unpleasant taste as I ate it whole because Miss Willers dared me and I was and always will be up for a challenge. Luckily I didn’t throw up for I had a trusty drink of water beside me.

Dylan Tak, 6M said:

The bread was absolutely brilliant I would eat it any day. The pie was OK as I it was soft in the inside and a very nice pastry. The rice balls were not the best things in the world they were very gooey on the outside while the inside was not as appealing as the outside. My favourite dish would definitely be the oriental sweet bread.

Roha Khan, 6M said:
Over all I would say that this was a wonderful experience to taste different
food from China. I would definitely recommend the Oriental Bread to others
because of the sweet taste and because it was my favourite!

Year 6 look forward to the rest of the week and will keep you updated. Goodbye for now!

I Have A Dream...

This week, we have been looking at the history of Martin Luther King and the importance of Barrack Obama, Americans first black president, in relation to Martin Luther King Jr's 'I have a dream' speech.
We then worked on coming up with our own 'I have a dream' speech, where we spoke of our own dreams about the current issues in our world. Here is one of the speeches we wrote.

We have a dream that one day, on this planet, there will be peace, that there will no wars between neighbouring countries like Gaza and Israel. We have a dream today.
We have a dream that fear will not be felt by citizens of our country and that child abuse will not take place. We have a dream today.
We have a dream that hungry children will not suffer from starvation and they will be fed and clothed. We have a dream they will live in happiness and freedom. We have a dream today. We have a dream that we will be treated with respect, justice and equality.That Racism will not take place and that all the countries of the world will unite as one to stop this offensive form of abuse. We have a dream that our colour of our skin will not matter and we will be seen as our inward personality and not our outward appearance.We have a dream today.
We have a dream that our future generation to come will be given great opportunities for jobs and rewards because of our input. We have a dream today.
We have a dream that innocent soldiers will not have to risk their life fighting for wars that should have never started. That we will live in peace one day. We have a dream today.

By Aye-Marie, Alyesha, Cori, Amy, Foluso, Tahmid and Hassaan. 6P

We also looked at the significant day celebrating Martin Luther King (19th January) as well as the day Barrack Obama became president. (4th November 2008)

By Bloggers, Louie Stockings and Aye-Marie Conteh

(Guidance, Ms Patel)

Back 2 Skool!

Happy New Year to Everyone! It’s 2009 and Glade started the first week back with Neil Poole telling us about the importance of trusting each other and keeping focus and persistence in what we want to achieve. After that, the week got even better, especially for Year 6; In Literacy, we were learning about Native Americans and the stories they told in their tribe. We then wrote stories of our own and we have included Louie Stocking’s outstanding piece of writing for you to read. (Underneath)

Why Birds Eat Worms?

As the giant magpie silently glided in with his evil frown and his delicate wings brushing the air, he lowered himself down to the family of worms.
“Why, Hello there!” The bird said slyly. “I didn’t manage to see you there; you brown wiggly pieces of mud”
The magpie looked deeply into the worms little eyes with a wicked smile, he lifted his precious wings, approaching them as if he was going to kill the family of worms but strangely enough, he didn’t. At this point, the worm and his family were absolutely terrified as the evil magpie started to speak viciously to the worms.
“Oh! Don’t fret, don’t cry little fellow, you’ve got three more minutes to get down and scram before I crush you!” the magpie told the poor family of worms. The smallest worm burst into tears as he squeaked a little sentence out.
“Why you are doing this, I will never understand!”
“Well, I need a bit of soft scrumptious food to keep me healthy and strong enough to fly. Don’t I?” The bird replied with a smug smile.
“Oh pish posh! Who cares about filling your tummy? What about our survival?!” The worm cried helplessly.
“Pish posh? What sort of words are those?” The bird said confusedly “Anyhow, give me one good explanation of why I shouldn't’t tear you and your pathetic worm family to bits?”
The worm was silent
“Oh well, don’t worry if you are stuck for a reason, I will put you out of your misery and eat you right this minute!” The bird lunged towards him to take a bite but the worm cowardly slithered back and responded,
“Wait, what about my three minutes?”
“Oh yes, well, your three minutes start…NOW!!!”

The poor worm watched as the wretched magpie made fun of him snoring and looking at his pretend watch on his wrist.
“Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock, time’s running out. Two and a half minutes left…” He laughed menacingly.
“Stop making those weird unnecessary noises!” The family of worms complained.
“Excuse me?” The bird asked
At this sudden moment, the worm went up close to the worms and threatened in his face,
“Sorry?”
“Er..Nothing, I’m sorry, I…er” The worms stammered.
The bird had enough, as quick as a flash, he gobbled the worms up just like he promised, ripping them carefully to shreds and swallowing loudly, licking his lips.
The magpie set off for another journey to get more delicious food.
The bird lived evilly ever after and that is why birds eat worms.

By Louie Stockings.

Also in Maths, we revised angles and place value to help us in our S.A.T’s in May. We had a lot of fun in P.S.H.E/ History learning about Martin Luther King Jr. and Barrack Obama, America’s First Black President. Have a safe weekend and see you next week!