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Azure class have been busy making mod rock birds inspired by 'An experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump' by Joseph Wright. For those of you who do not know, this painting is the focus of the Take One Picture exhibition running throughout the school. Whilst exercising their creative talents, Azure class have also been researching different birds. If you would like to know more about the painting or if you would like to find out about local birds, visit Azure class - we are experts!

We have had a fantastic start to the term so far in Coral Class! We have started the term with Take one Picture. The children have reacted beautifully to the painting chosen (An experiment on a bird in an air pump) and have discussed what they like and dislike about the picture. We have chosen to focus on the bird in the picture and have researched birds as part of our Animal topic and the children have been busy making clay birds, paper feathers and bird cages. The children have made some beautiful artwork, so please come and take a look.

Next week we will be moving on from Take one Picture to further exploring our Animals topic. Children will be investigating different groups of animals and also explore how to look after an animal as a pet. The children might hear the pitter patter of feet from a canine visitor!

It has been a very busy week in Year 6. We have launched our new maths project: 'The Kelvin Grove Apprentice'. We are going to work in teams to create a unique idea for a stall at our summer fair. We are going to create a brand, a logo, do market re-search, we'll use ratio to calculate amounts and use spreadsheets and per-centages to calculate how much profit we will make. We will then pitch our ideas to the boardroom (aka Year 5) and they will vote for their two fa-vourite ideas to sell at the summer fair. Watch this space for how we get on!

We have also been to The Globe Theatre this week to launch our new writing topic on Macbeth. We had a tour of the theatre and then did some drama workshops with an actress who performs at The Globe herself. All hail Macbeth!

We would like to say a huge thank you to Alex our super star Administrator

who has now left to start her well earned maternity leave. Good luck and don't forget to bring the baby to see us.

Employment & Training

Back to work advice Wednesdays 10:00-12:00 at Kelvin Grove Children &

Family Centre. Call 0208 613 0172 to

book your place.

Duncan Lewis Solicitors

appointments available every other Friday at Eliot Bank Children &

Family Centre. Call 0208 325 4600 to book your place.

Fun cooking with toddlers

a fun cooking session for children aged 2-5, easy healthy recipes & you get to

take home what you have cooked..

FREE

Foodie Friday

Are you a mum aged 16-28? come along to Foodie Friday, learn quick &

easy healthy dishes then shop the ingredients & more for free- crèche

available. call 0206 613 0172 to book a place

Mango Tree African

Experience

NEW drumming programme last Thursday of the month 13:30-

14:15 starts 28th June at Kelvin Grove Children & Family Centre.

Summer Trip to

Westbrook Bay

22nd August- seats are selling fast prices are £13 for adults £7 children 0-16-

hurry up seats selling fast.

Make sure you pick up a timetable and have a chat

with our friendly staff.

15/06/2018

Kelvingrove

Newsletter Issue: 115 17/18

DIARY

HEADTEACHERS MESSAGE

What a great couple of weeks it has been with the ‘Take One Picture’ theme across the school. The quality of art and wider learning has been really inspiring to see.

As we move towards sports week, can I remind you that our main aim is enjoyment and involvement in competitive events. Some children find the idea of winning/losing/coming second quite difficult to cope with, but I believe that at Kelvin Grove we pitch this about right. After feedback last year we are trying to stage more of our events in Wells Park but for safely reasons, we will be coming back to school to dismiss children from the playground following the afternoon sports day sessions. Please be helpful and understanding with this.

TAKE ONE PICTURE

This year, Kelvin Grove are thrilled to re-launch Take One Picture. We’re very excited to explore ‘An Experiment of a Bird in an Air Pump’, painted by Joseph Wright of Derby, in which the fate of a trapped, rare cockatiel is contemplated by different characters sat around a grand table in Georgian England.

Several classes have been asking insightful questions of the painting and creating possible dialogue between the guests. Others have written what they think are their inner thoughts and some have pieced together the picture from fragments.

All children have begun to learn at least one new

artistic technique: Nursery have been printing owls; Reception have been creating self-portraits; Year 1 have been manipulating clay and paper (origami); Year 2 will be feather painting; Year 3 have been exploring different sketching styles and ‘bubble’ painting; Year 4 have been using mod rock to sculpt their own birds; Year 5 have recreated sections of the painting using collage and Year 6 have used the art work to inspire their own emotive painting.

Some of our staff have shared their thoughts below:

“It’s been wonderful to work on a common project simultaneously, across the whole school.” Miss Nandhra

“Crimson class are at the beginning of their school learning journey and having a topic where we can creatively explore a theme together helps build shared links, encourage curiosity and value each other's contributions” Ms Burton

“My English group thoroughly enjoyed debating whether animal testing should be illegal or not and they all firmly believed that it is completely wrong and it was great to see them give their views so passionately.” Mr Gough

“I love the idea that each year group is coming up

with their own take on a famous picture. It makes

art more accessible for all our children.” Mrs Merzouki

Sports week is fast approaching and our children

have already been practicing for the big event

during their PE lessons. We would like to invite you

to your child's sport day. Details are as follows:

Mon 18th June - Yr3, 12.30pm at Wells Park

Tues 19th June - Yr4, 9.30am at Wells Park

Tues 19th June - Yr2, 12.30pm at Wells Park

Wed 20th June - Yr6, 9.30am at Wells Park

Thurs 21st June - Nursery, 9.30am at school

Thurs 21st June - Recep., 10.45am at school

Thurs 21st June - Yr1, 1.30pm at school

Fri 22nd June - Yr5, 9.30am at Wells Park

We look forward to seeing you there (weather permitting).

18 June

Sports Week

19 June

Take One Picture exhibition starts

20 June

Rainbow Trip to Bellingham

25 June

YR3/4 buddy & Play supporters trip

26 June

Year 1 vision and hearing testing

26 June

YR5/6 author visit

29 June

Summer fair

04 July

New reception children workshops

05 July

Supersonics concert 5-6pm

06 July

Amber class to Horniman Museum

09 July

African drumming concert, 2.40-3pm

11 July

Parents’ open evening, 3.30pm -

6.30pm

12 July

Coral class to Horniman Museum

20 July

End of Summer term

There are only two weeks to go until the school fair on Friday 29th June, 3.30-5.30pm.

We would still be grateful for any donations of Jolly Jam Jars, Teddy Bears and NEW tombola gifts.

All the money raised will go to the school playground upgrades.

On fair day children can come to school dressed in the national dress of any country - so get your thinking caps on - the best-dressed children will

win a prize!

If any parents or carers are happy to help before, during or after the fair please do let the PTA know via the Facebook page - Friends of Kelvin Grove.

Don't forget that raffle tickets are now available on Sims Agora!

Facebook Page—‘Friends of Kelvin Grove (PTA)’

The PTA

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This week in Magenta we have become scientists. We have had fantastic fun doing science experiments in the classroom. We have made predictions, written and drawn up our findings.

At the start of the week, we went outside, Mrs Daniel was dressed as a scientist and a had a big bottle of lemonade. She shook the bottle lots and we made a sensible guess as to what was going to happen. We then had a closer look at the lemonade and bubbles in a glass and also put lots of raisins in it ! Other fun experiments included using food colouring and white flowers. As scientists we carefully

watched and predicted what was going to happen, when food colouring was added to water and then when a flower was put in the vase.

We have really enjoyed being scientists and have become such confident writers, we wrote up scientific reports and labelled our own diagrams.

Nursery children have been taking part in the art project, ‘Take One Picture.’ We looked carefully at the painting, ‘An experiment on a bird in an Air Pump’ and became very interested in the bird. We have focused our art sessions on the story ‘Owl Babies’ by Martin Waddell, as the colours are similar, it is also about birds and it explores different emotions. The last two weeks have been so much fun, we have printed owls, painted with sticks, made nests, retold the story, drawn with charcoal, examined feathers and made tree models. Phew! What a busy fortnight!

We have started a new topic for Our Learning Journey which is about Kelvin Grove’s neighbourhood; we have planned lots of outings to get to know the area. We have already visited Wells Park and learned about its history. We are going to find out about the streets and roads and also the buses serving our neighbourhood. The children will make a booklet with all the information they find out and all the places they visit. We have also being going out shopping for our cooking lessons and learning all about keeping safe when out and about.

'On Thursday, Jade Class and the rest of year 3 had a fantastic trip to Lullingstone Roman Villa in Eynsford, Kent! At the villa we were excited to learn about how a family in Roman Britain would have lived. We also enjoyed our countryside walk - looking at the River Darent, the lake, hills, fields, golf course as well as the beautiful country buildings. Our favourite part of the trip though was getting so close to nature, particularly the horses and dazzling dragonflies which we saw swimming over the river! The dragonflies reminded us of the wire bugs we had made as part of our 'Take One Picture' art project. '

In Saffron Class, the children have been enjoying their Take One Picture work. They were interested in the cockatoo in the painting, so we decided to study them. After finding out about them, the children produced some wonderful drawings of cockatoos. Then they looked at feathers from a range of different birds and produced some more beautiful artwork.

We have been doing Take One Picture and it has been amazing! We have done lots of exciting art work. Mr Gough taught us what a mosaic is and we have worked with Lavender and Indigo Class to make two giant mosaic collages. We used paper on one and fabric on another. It was lots of fun and we can’t wait to see what it looks like when we put it back together.

Also, in English, we discussed what we think about animal testing and in the afternoon, we had a debate. Year 5 strongly agreed that animal testing is wrong and we now getting ready to write a letter to a newspaper to convince them that animal testing

should be banned. By Leeon & Adonias