On Friday afternoon, Year 6 children presented their speeches with great confidence and enthusiasm to the younger years in order to persuade them to vote so they could become a part of the school council.
It was an extremely close election this year, with only a few votes in it. A big well done to all of Year 6 for their well-written speeches and for lots of you, taking a risk and presenting the speech to the whole school.
Year 6 had a delightful day yesterday exploring the Harry Potter studios after spending time this year reading the book and watching the film. It was great to see the children noticing the amount of work that had gone into the film and how things were not what they seemed. The children learnt the use of green screen and were amazed at the drawings and planning into the sets.
Year 6 would like to say a huge thank you to Ms Montgomery for taking them to Harry Potter Studios yesterday as a class trip.
The NSPCC are in school on Tuesday morning to collect the sponsorship envelopes. Please ensure you have put your envelope in the collection box.
The winning class are the class with the most returned envelopes not the most money. Will it be your class? The NSPCC will be in school on Friday to say thank you.
Who inspires you? Sports people? Athletes? Olympians? Former GB 100m record holders? Well, you’re in luck!
Montell Douglas is all of those things and she’s coming to Maple Cross JMI tomorrow to inspire, motivate and mentor us. She’ll be doing a special assembly at 1.15pm (parents, if you’re free, you’d be more than welcome) where i’m sure she’ll tell us more about her journey and how she can help us.
Do you think Montell uses the same learning attributes as us, to help her? I can’t wait to find out.
We would like to say a big thank you to the magistrates from Watford and St Albans who came in to school yesterday to share their roles with the Year 6 children. They imparted lots of information and were given some training which was followed by role play where the children were given a case to decide the consequence. Year 6 showed great maturity and the questions asked were thought provoking and opened lots of discussion.
Year 6, what are your thoughts on having the visitors in school?
National Book Tokens are running a prize draw with a prize of £5000 worth of brand new books (and £100 of books to spend on yourselves). All you have to do is click on the link below and enter a few details. PLEASE SHARE!
After carefully considering each parties manifestos in class, years 3,4,5,6 and some staff have exercised their democratic right to vote in our Maple Cross JMI General Election. Here are the results:
It will be interesting to see how this compares to the actual result.
If the votes for Liberal Democrats and SNP were combined, can anyone calculate what percentage of the vote they recieved?
How many more votes did the Conservative Party get compared to UKIP?
What mathematical questions can you create based on our results?
We’ve discussed the manifestos, now it’s time to vote. How close will our election result be to the actual one?
As some of you may know, year 5 have taken upon it on themselves to transform the Courtyard Garden (with the raised pond) into a calm, beautiful place to learn and reflect. They aren’t doing this just for themselves, they are doing it for the whole school community.
They have written to some local businesses to ask for help, but, not wanting to rely on this, have decided to raise some money themselves.
Amman and his team had the great idea of selling 2nd hand (used) toys at the Summer Fair. If you have any toys that your child does not want/use anymore – we’d be really grateful if you could donate them to us.
The toys need to be:
This Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (before and after school) there will be a toy ‘drop off station’ in the playground, manned by Year 5. We’d be very grateful for your toy/puzzle/game donations – it will go along way to helping us achieve our aim of a beautiful Courtyard Garden.
Year 5 are also planning some fund-raising events on Friday 16th June including: A sponsored fun run, a bake sale and a collection. Look out for more details later this week (they are busy planning them at the moment!)
