African Djembe drumming

Year 6 gave a performance to years 2,3 and 4 of their African Djembe drumming.  They have had six workshop sessions with the music teacher from Malbank High School, working on different rhythms, tempos and beats.
Blake, Niall, Callum and Portia had a solo piece to play.  Everyone had a fantastic enjoyable time.

Fantastic Mr Fox

Year 3 put on a fantastic performance of Fantastic Mr Fox.  This was their interpretation of the story with a modern twist. Mr Pennington adapted, with the help of the children, modern songs with appropriate lyrics to their production.  They used The Proclaimers, Rihanna and High School Musical. Morgan portraid Mr Fox with great character and the three farmers Boggis, Bean and Bunce(played by Edward, Taran & Jenna) were the nastiest crooks in the valley!

To make it humourous Joe, Nicole & Zoe played Mrs.Cork, Mrs.Penhall and Mrs Hurry; who passed various comments about their relevant roles in school.

Katie and Lois played beautiful music on their guitars during the scene changes.

Thank you to all the staff who helped to make this a fabulous production.

  

Up Up & Away!!.

Reception class went on their trip to Manchester Airport last week.  They were met by airport staff who took them to the viewing platform to watch the airplanes take off and land.  They were very lucky as they were their just in time to see the huge airbus come in to land.

After that they were taken to an aircraft hanger where they store a full size Concord airplane for people to view.  This airplane is not used anymore but when it was, it could fly to New York from London in 3 1/2 hours! 

Next they got the opportunity to sit in a real airplane.  This was a Monarch plane that had been cut in half but still had all the seats to belt themselves into.  It gave them the opportunity to dress up in the Captain's uniform and as Air Hostesses, they then sat in the cockpit one at a time to pretend that they were flying the plane.

It was then time to have their lunch, and due to the gorgeous sunny weather, they had a picnic outside.

One more visit to the landing strip before they went home.