Well done to all for an excellent day out swinging from the trees at Go Ape! I was so pleased to see all the children encouraging each other when they felt nervous and well done everyone for giving the courses a go.
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Year 5 were very fortunate to have a visit from engineering company AtkinsRealis to learn about how we can all contribute to a better future by shaping how people are housed, connected, powered, and protected. The workshop focused on infrastructure, energy and innovative ways as to how we can reduce carbon emissions.
The children asked lots of thoughtful questions and participated in designing their own ideas of how to harness renewable energy to reduce the impact of climate change. We even had a great Lego design showing a potential hydro-electric car of the future and designed our own game of ‘Climate Change Snakes and Ladders’, as we challenged our partners in a race to the finish!
Thank you to Tim Smith from AtkinsRealis for the great workshop and for joining us for the afternoon. We all learnt a lot! Well done to all of the children for creating some fantastic ideas and designs for combating climate change. We look forward to hearing who our competition winners are!
As part of our Science unit, Properties and Changes of Materials, Year 5 have been busy planning and conducting experiments to find out all about solubility. They have been experimenting with sand, salt, sugar, chalk and coffee granules to see which substances dissolve and which are insoluble.
The results were followed up with further experiments to investigate how (or if!) we could separate the substances that we dissolved by the processes of evaporation, filtration, sieving and magnetism. We had some interesting outcomes and lots of fun predicting and finding out whether the changes would be reversible or irreversible.
We are looking forward to more experiments and investigations in the summer term as we begin our new unit on Earth and Space.
We had a fantastic morning celebrating all things Irish at our St Patrick’s Day Coffee Morning kindly organised by All Souls’ PTA. Saint Patrick is the class Saint for our Year 5 children and they took part in hosting the morning by performing songs and acting out the story of the life of St Patrick.
We were incredibly grateful to be joined by local musicians Jarlath Mulhern and Fiona Hoey from the Comhaltas and The Wild Mountain boys, who treated us to a live performance of Irish music throughout the morning. It was wonderful to welcome Jarlath back to All Souls as he spent his school days here. Once an All Souls boy, always an All Souls boy!
Following the musicians came a spectacular performance from the Mary McHugh School of Irish Dance. Mary teaches weekly dancing lessons at the school and pupils from Year 2 up to Year 6 put on a fantastic display for their lively audience.
The morning ended with closing prayers of the faithful, read by the Year 5 children, as we prayed for St Patrick to guide us and reflected on all those in need or suffering during this time of Lent.
A special thank you to the Coventry Irish Society for attending and supporting the event throughout and for offering their support to the Irish community across the city. Also, to our very own Mrs Edge who designed the leaflets and co-ordinated with the Irish Society and many of the artists to enable them to join us on the day.
Thank you to all parents, grand-parents and carers who baked cakes to help raise money for the school on the day and for everyone who donated to the raffle. To the Year 5 children for their St Patrick’s day performance and for helping with cake and raffle sales and representing the school so well, Mr Youson for supporting with the lights and sound and Miss McGaffney, Miss Brady, Mrs Smith, Mrs Cannon for keeping the Irish coffees flowing on the day!
A very special thank you to Mary O’Malley and Rob Hunter for their hard work in organizing the entire event and leading on the morning, it takes a lot of time and care to co-ordinate such an event and your commitment is hugely appreciated. Thank you to all of the members of the PTA who helped in planning the day and for helping out selling raffle tickets, decorating the hall, manning the cake and coffee stalls – all of these things made the event the success that it was.
Above all – thank you to everyone who attended. The PTA were very pleased with how the morning went and the monies raised for the school. We hope you all enjoyed it too! Here are some more photos of everyone who managed to join us on this special day:
We wish you all a Happy St Patrick’s Day!
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Thank you to everyone who came along to support our Year 6 children in their Speed Sainting event. We are so proud of how well the children presented their projects on their chosen saints. They were able to clearly articulate their reasons for choosing their saint and explain how they were inspired by them. We hope you enjoyed being a part of their preparation for receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation.
Year 6 loved their trip to the Palace of Westminster in London today. We really enjoyed our tour of the Houses of Parliament, which was both informative and exciting – we were lucky enough to be able to sit in and listen to a live debate!
We even managed to squeeze in a bit of sight seeing too!
We have had a fun and foodie-filled morning creating our Festive Rolls! The children designed a menu card detailing the ingredients and the method before we set to work to make our delicious treat.
The children carefully added the ingredients of turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, garlic and cheese and rolled them into their individual Christmas Festive Rolls!
The end results were very impressive and a huge thank you for supporting the children at home to bake the items to perfection! Thank you for sharing the photographs and it was great to hear how much the children enjoyed creating and baking their items.
We hope that the children will be able to show you how to re-use and re-invent any surplus food from your Christmas dinner with their stylish new recipe!
