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At John Blandy, on the 12th of November, we had a Stone Age day. We did activities like archery, making arrows and drew bones and made cave art.
Archery
Firstly, we got told how to use the bows and arrows by our instructors (Stevie and Gareth). Then we got to use them which was very exciting but the bows were quite huge for children at the age of 7 to 9’s years.
Making arrows
Secondly,we made arrows made of wood, rope,pointed stones and feathers. This we did not do with our instrouters but in one of the classes (walnut class ) it was very exciting. If you want to see pictures go on the John Blandy website you can also see all of the activities on the website.
Drawing bones
Next, we went into another class ( cedar class ) to do another activity which was drawing bones. Firstly,we got given bones.then,we sketched them in our history books. After that, we told the class what we could use it for.
Cave art
Finally, we made cave art using real stone plates and pink chalk. We even took inspiration from real cave paintings! If you want to see them go to the John Blandy website. Some people even made joint pictures where it made sense when they joined.
In conclusion, Stone Age day was a blast! Hopefully we can do it again.
by William, Charis and Leonie
On Wednesday 3rd July, some of our Year 6 children along with Harrison from Year 4, competed in the Quadkids Final over at Tilsley Park. Our Year 6 girls team consisting of Tilly, Ava, Enny, Ellie and Arabella and our Year 6 boys team of Freddie, William, Reuben, Allyus and Jackson, had qualified for the final by winning our local Quadkids events.
The children all performed brilliantly, with our Year 6 team finishing in fourth place overall. There were also some outstanding individual performances, with Harrison finishing second overall in his age group and Allyus finishing third in the Year 6 boys category. Well done to everyone for representing the school so well and a big thank you to the staff (Mrs King and Mrs Kuzmina) and parents for making the event possible for the children.
On Monday 15th June, teams from our Year 6 and Year ¾ classes competed at the Quadkids event at FCC. The event involves various competitive activities including, sprint, long distance, throwing and long jump.
Our children performed incredibly well - our Y3/4 boys team finishing in third place and our Year 6 girls and boys team winning their respective events.
We also had some brilliant individual performances - Allyus won the Year 6 boys category, Tilly finished second in the Year 6 girls group, Enny (Y6) finished third in the individuals and Harrison also finished first in the Year 3/4 boys.
Well done everyone! Our Year 6 teams and the individuals mentioned all progress to the Vale Quadkids final which will be held at Tilsley Park on 3 July.
Message from Andy- Organiser of Sleigh 2 Give-
I just wanted to drop a very quick email from everyone at Play2Give to say wow what an amazing amount of donations yet again towards our sixth "Sleigh2Give" Christmas campaign this year.
There will for sure be lots of very happy smiley children this Christmas thanks to the amazing generosity of the children and families of the school.
It was great to meet some of the children.
Yet again JBS have done an amazing job collecting so many gifts for children less fortunate this Christmas, and the volume of presents is just incredible- even more extraordinary this year with the situation around Coronavirus
Its really is heart-warming.