Stocksbridge Junior School

On the 27.01.10 a lady from the owl sanctuary and a man came with a man from sheffild wednsday supporting owl sanctuary.  We got to see the barn owl,the tawny owl,the snowy owl and the eagle owl.  It was amazing.  The tawny owl decided to have a poo it fell on the floor it was not nice but every one has to have a poo some time!!! Every one laughed. Amelia liked the snowy owl,the barn owl,the tawny owl and the eagle owl and Joe liked the tawny owl.We liked them all really Amelia couldn’t believe her eyes as soon as she saw the first owl because that was the first owl she had ever see.It was awesome!!!We both liked learning about it soooooooooo much.Evey one liked it soooooooooooo much aswell the y4s joined in aswell.  It was really good.They had massive wings they were humungus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By:Joe and amelia y3cd.

Boudicca came in to our school to show us a play about when the Romans took over Britain.  In the play some children dressed up.There was a Roman solider,a celtic warrior,there was a second in command, Boudicca and Boudicca’s daughters.We learned a lot about Boudicca.  At the end we asked questions about Boudicca’s family,what she wore and what she did. We learnt a lot about that to.

By Joe Phillips and Amelia Gray

Year 3

We are very proud to announce that a group of Y5 and Y6 writers have been selected to write a regular column for Look Local newspaper.

Above is their first effort - not a bad start, eh?

Looking forward to what they come up with next!

On Wednesday the 21st of October 2009, three top set maths children in year five went to a learning centre, right next to Myers Grove school. They had a very good day there, with a dayful of activities. We got there in Mrs Proost’s car and we met one of our friends’ little sister. The first thing we did was hang our coats up and put our bags down. Then, we went into a room full of other children from different schools. We listened to one of the people in charge of the equipment. She named us different groups  (different species of fish) - we were the Angel Fish. The Manta Rays were the first to go diving - it was a game for Wii. Our first activity was making a story, to do with sea-life, using a program called Kar2ouch. After we had finished that activity, we were going to look up facts about a few water animals. Despite being told that, the Y5s in our group (the rest were Y2s)had to look up the answers for a set of questions. Then, finally, it was the time for our group to go diving in a virtual ocean!

Three pairs were sent to different interactive whiteboards that projected the game onto the screen. I was sent with one of the Y2s called Cameron, but that did not spoil the fun. The biggest  sea-dweller that we found was a five-metre-long Manta Ray! Apparently, My Y5 freinds found a humpback whale and rode on it! After that, our final activity was writing a blog about our ‘day diving’ although we got distracted by photo booth. When it was time to head home, Miss W called a taxi which dropped us like Royalyt back at school!

On the y5  residental to Ilam hall in Derbyshire on the 13th/14th october. We left school at half past nine and went on a long  journey which was in a large coach. It was nearly two hours long and when we got there, we were glad to be at  Ilam hall. The first thing we did was make our way into the cosy games room and put our heavy bags in the corner. We then went out throught the main entrance and onto the beautiful grounds. We were amazed by the wonderful sight and moved bonevelently towards the bright green grass as we went on our way on our hike to the river Manifold. We were anxious to see the river and, although we had to walk through cow filled field, saw and walked across the spectacular river. We went across stepping-stones and sat on the grass until, eventually, we went back to the hall on the other side of the river where we had to walk on stones and on the ground to get across this way.

When we arrived back, we were introduced to a lady called Ulga. We were told to collect lots of coloured leaves and broken branches and come back in fifteen minutes. When we came back with our collection of leaves and branches (twigs) we started to make a collossal eco-art picture of a flower. Having finished, we went up the steps to the italian garden and loocked over the ledge and saw a amazing flower looking back up at us. We were all happy with it, so we waited until the other group to finish their activity.

After the brilliant picture quiz activity, we were shown our rooms. We were aprehensive to see our rooms and when we got the chance, we did. Although some had an une suite and some didn’t, we were all happy with our rooms. We had a hasty shower and most of us changed our clothes, before we were sent down to dinner. Our starter was leek and potato soup. Most people didn’t like it but some children did. Our main course was spaghetti bolognese with cheese wihich was brilliantly prepared by the cooks.Finally, our flavoursome desert was either: sponge cake and custard/cream or fruit salad. We all loved it! After, we went to the games room to get ready for the surprise night activity. We were wondering what was some equipment doing on tables (bottle, tape, scissors, pipecleaners, rope, one egg, plastic cup and balloons) when a ILam member of staff came and explained. As it turned out, we were to make water rockets! We were put to work in groups with the rockets to help it fly and make it crash proof. It was hard work. one group cracked two eggs and were really lucky to get the third!!! Once we had finished, we were led outside to watch the rockets fly! Some groups were given a prize the next morning Because their eggs were intact. After that we went inside and back into the games room and played wink murder and sleeping lions. I thought that was fun and when we had finished, we had a last cup of hot chocolate and then went to our dormatries for some sleep.

We woke up early in the morning (7.00 AM!). Some people woke up early while the rest of us were thinking : why would you get up early than 7.00AM! After that we were woke up by the teachers and got up, dressed and brushed our teeth. After that, we went downstairs and into the dining room to have breakfast (Toast, sausages, beans, fried egg, bacon, croissants and chocolate croissants). It was really nice, especially the sausages. We all went back up to our rooms to tidy up and pack our clothes. Then we went outside to see what our next activity was. When we found out what it was we were really happy. We were to go on a river walk with a man called Ken, who would tell us all about rivers including confluences and tributarys. Whe walked down to the river Mannyfold and went onto a bridge we were given a question which was which way was upstream. As it turned out, upstrem was UP the stream. We then went of the bridge and walked by the side of the river where we found a small hole surrounded by railings, which turned out to be the river Hamps. We were quite surprised as it was only a small hole with water but it was only a single part of the Hamps, which explained mostly everything. We carryed on to a large meander, which looked like a sort of J on a map. We kept walking until we went on a small wooden bridge, where we saw a completely still river, which usually had a dipper (a sort of bird that can walk under water!) on it, but was scared of by the noise we made. We were told that most fish lived in this part of the water, where it was slow or not moving. There was a small water fall that was in front of the bridge which was man made and called a weir. Having being told this, we wemt across the bridge and into a sort of woods, Which had a steep hill going up it. We went all the way up it and back down onto the bridge on which we had started. We trudged back up the hill and in front of the hall and, again, we were told the next activity. We were all very enthusiastic when we found out it was orienteering. We were given some maps which had eighteen pints located on it, and were given a small piece of paper which had numbers up to eighteen in which were given to punch holes in at the points. After that we were set off, nothing else said.

When we got back with most of our points (17/18!) We were given our sketch books and we were told four of the main points around Ilam hall. First up was the church which was quite hard as it was so tall but we managed it. Next was the italian garden, where some people drew the full view whereas some others concentrated on a single flower. Then was the side of the Hall which was very difficult because of all the windows and the entrance hall. And last but certantaly not least, was the pepper pot, which was given it’s name from it’s simalar shape. There was a black bird on top so some people drew that as well. When we finished the coach arrived so we fetched our luggage and put it in the store place, and began our and a half hours of terrible journey home.

On Friday the 9th of October the school council organised for a man to come in to teach us sign language; we found this lots of fun! We were quite shocked when they brought a cockapoodle in(Cocker spaniel mixed with a poodle) and her owner Marie. Marie was Deaf so she needed Katie the cockerpoodle to help her hear things. The jolly man was very good with use and it inspired one classes to use sign launguage for the Harvest (Y6A). I am sure everybody liked it and the dog was soo cute! We learnt  the alphabet  and our names as well as some of the colours.

We definitely found it very fun and intresting!

From Natasha Wright and Millie Clarke (Y6R)

Last week in literacy we were learning about Shakespeare, in my literacy set (Mrs Akroyd’s Set), we were learning about ‘The Tempest’ in Miss Robinson’s set they were learning about ‘A Midsummers Night’s Dream’ and in Miss Cush’s set they were learning about ‘Romeo and Juliet’. To conclude this week, the young Shakespeare Company came into school to preform ‘Macbeth’, the main charcters in the play were Macbeth,Lady Macbeth and MacDuff.

We did lots of acting with them, playing some of the smaller roles and we all got involved in making the sound effects of the forest and each quoting lines from the play.

The actors were fantastic and made it all lots of fun for everyone. I think it’s inspired us all to read more Shakespeare, and I didn’t think anything could do that!

By Emer Crawford Thomson

Y6 children recently got the best experience of learning how to cycle safely all around, which is an essential skill to learn.

The men who took us were benelovent at all times; they were neither strict nor loathsome. All the children agreed that the cycling proficiency was incessant fun for children at all ages.

Despite the fact we had to push our bikes up Cedar Road, we all had a merry time riding them up to Bolsterstone church and back. We knew we wouldn’t get hurt due to the fact our mentors rode beside us the whole time.

We had a special asembley during which they gave out badges and certificates due to us passing at our appropriate levels.

All-in-all, we would recommend it to anyone and would like to say a huge thanks to Mrs Gaymond for organising it for us all!

By Emily Legdon and Declan Crofts

Y6LA