Christchurch Junior School, Clarendon Road
Christchurch, Dorset, BH23 2AA
Tel: 01202 485579 office@cjsdorset.org
This years Arts Week pupils created their own Sketchbooks. They used these Sketchbooks to record their ideas, thoughts and inspirations. These pages led to a final piece.
In Year 3 the stimulus was the book: ‘Leon and the Place Between’. This theme was developed through choice of colours and patterns and the activities found at a circus! Our final pieces were mini circuses and hanging acrobats!
Inspired by stories from Jamaica, we used imagery to introduce and describe a storm as part of our Caribbean disaster adventures.
Last Thursday, Year 5 enjoyed an action packed and at times emotional portrayal of Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse at the Mayflower Theatre, Southampton . The performance – which was adapted from the famous author’s novel- took the children on a journey through life during WWI from the perspective of a young farm-boy, Albert, and his beloved horse, Joey.
Below is a review written by the children on their return:
We enjoyed watching War Horse as it was full of action packed scenes and emotional events. It began with a hard to follow beginning, but as it got further in it was understandable and exciting. It taught us about the hardships of war and how difficult it was to live in those times. The story was about a boy called Albert and his loyal horse, Joey as they ventured to find each other through WW1. At times you forgot that the horses were puppets as they were so lifelike and realistic. Sometimes you felt as if you were actually there in the war. It was very moving throughout the play and had a happy ending. Every so often, there would be a gunshot that made us all jump out of our seats and the person that the gun was aimed at fell to the ground in agony. Overall, war horse was a brilliant and thrilling play that left us all in awe. We would definitely recommend this play to anyone looking for adventure!
Written by : Isobel Grieb, Isabel Dickeson, Louis Gray, Oscar Brockway
This year’s enterprise project saw Year 5 design, market and produce an amazing selection of high quality Christmas Craft products. All profits made from the fair will go to charities chosen by each class.
Most profit: Elfies 5CY – Ruby Boxall, Isobelle Haynes, Chloe Waddington, Ellie Hudson
Excellent Team Work: Santa’s Little Helpers 5FL – Gemma Richards, Francesca Down, Phoebe Eaton, Poppy English
Best Stall Display: Money Makers 5AT – Daniel Burt, James Barker, Lewis Turner
Well done to the whole of Year 5 on a fantastically creative and successful Enterprise Fair.
On Monday 11 December, we had a visit from Mr Bungay and his guide dog, Thomas. He told us all about what Thomas does and how he does it. It was all down to the Guide Dogs for the Blind charity who gave Mr Bungay his independence back. We asked lots of questions and found out about Thomas’ character and how they matched him to Mr Bungay. Until then Mr Bungay had been using a stick to guide himself around. Now Thomas is part of the Bungay family and is a friend and constant companion as well as being a working guide dog. 5AT enjoyed Mr Bungay’s visit immensely.
By Isabel and Amelia (5AT)
5FL have been writing balanced arguments based on the dilemmas faced by the character Charles in the book ‘Rooftoppers’ by Katherine Rundell.
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Our Year 5’s recently took part in a history day focussing on World War 1 . Below is a recount of their day written by Sam and Isobel:
World War I day!
On WWI day, we did many exciting activities, including History Mystery, information on Tanks and saw all the different weapons and other essentials every soldier needed during WWI!
History Mystery
During History Mystery we observed many artefacts and tried to work out what they were used for and who they belonged to. We used magnifying glasses to see the objects clearer. One of the chests belonged to a couple and the man was in the war. The chest was a wedding present; it was a crocodile skin briefcase.
Tanks
Our class went outside on the school field to find a 2D wooden & clay life size model of a tank! We learned about all the different tank parts and about all the original WWI tanks and their names. One of our tasks was to find out the answers to the questions that were on our sheet. The other task was to count how many rivets (bolts) were on one side of the huge tank. There were over 550 of them
Equipment and essentials
The very last activity we did was finding out what weapons and essentials every soldier carried around with him. They carried a little piece of cloth around with them that held a toothbrush, a flannel, and a bar of soap. The weapons included pineapple grenades, machine guns, daggers, bullet holders and the very important soldiers would have the big, bulky lewis gun. We learnt about how soldiers cleaned themselves and how to use every weapon. If you threw a grenade it would only fly 8-14 metres away from the soldier. As a result, the army invented a gun that would fire the grenade a lot further (so the soldier would not get hurt).
A great day!
Year 5 have been baking up a storm in the kitchen recently. Following some market research, tasting a variety of bread products supplied by Sainsbury’s, the pupils in Y5 took upon the role of bakers for the day. Each group designed Christmas themed loaf/rolls which they made and then gobbled up!