For these budding dancers from Cold Harbour C of E primary school, this will be their first opportunity to perform in front of an audience.  They have been fortunate to work alongside the choreographer Lisa Spackman (Two Third’s Sky ) to develop a contemporary piece to San Solomon. Working hard at school with staff to bring this simple piece together, they are really looking forward to sharing their love of dance at the MK Rose.

Year 5/6 Basketball Match v Rickley Park

In March, this wonderful group of year 5/6 took part in a fantastic basketball match against our friends at Rickley Park.  It was wonderful to finally have some real game time!

Y5 Tag Rugby – ‘Come on You Saints!’

In March, this lucky group of Year 5 children had the opportunity to join in a tag-rubgy workshop led by a coach from Northampton Saints.

Year 5 and 6 Victorian Day
What an amazing day we had! Big thank you to Mrs Upton for arranging the day. Read all about it here in Amelia K’s account.
‘Yesterday, dressing up as a Victorian child was a once in a lifetime experience for our learning in History. The experience was such fun that it put a smile across everyone’s face. It left me amazed about the life in the eighteen hundreds for children of our age.’

Y5 Choice or Consequence Workshop

The children in Year 5 were lucky to have a visit from Louise from Hazard Alley in February. Louise delivered a brilliant workshop where the children learned all about the dangers and consequences of knife crime. The children learned how to keep themselves and their friend’s safe by recognising the dangers of carrying knives.

Climate Change and Air Quality Outreach Project – Results

Please click the link to watch the video, the password is T%u9v@*D

https://cranfield.zoom.us/rec/share/e23upfb1XuWICDffqFfBWUTJnRZW_PdolbU–66knSZ4vIU3C0GD7dqfGG-CEFa9.UX1suHYP3gCS-iDu

Audio transcript

00:01Hello cold harbor Thank you again for joining us every week for our climate change and pollution outreach program we really enjoyed seeing you waving to us every week on on zoom.

Year 6 Virtual Visit from the Author Chris Martin – The Case of the Caretaker’s Keys

On Friday 21st May, Year 6 were lucky to be able to work virtually with the author Chris Martin.  Chris has just released his first novel entitled ‘Inky Stevens, Great School Detective’ and talked to the children about the way in which he captures his ideas and uses drama to bring them to life.  A big well done to the whole group and especially Faith, Scarlet, Fareed, Maisey, Ethan M, Mia and Daniel who read in role as one of the suspects with Chris.

Amy W commented, ‘I really enjoyed this experience as it’s such an inspiring subject.  I would love to write like this in the future.’

Chris commented that, ‘It was a pleasure to meet your young people who were enthusiastic, astute, and great detectives! They were a real delight to teach, full of creativity and imagination.’

Year 6 MOTUS dance workshop

On Wednesday 14th April , Year 6 were really fortunate to be able to work with Katie Dale-Everett, Artistic Director from KDE Dance. The workshop was designed to give the children an opportunity to explore their hopes, connections and values through the medium of dance.  For the workshop, the children were asked to bring a special object that had a significant meaning for them. This object was then used to encourage the children to express their feelings and emotions. The children were brilliant and Katie complimented them on their ability to use their bodies so expressively.

Christmas Service

On Thursday 17th December 2020, Puffin, Kingfisher and Penguin class reminded us about the true meaning of Christmas through their wonderful Carol Service.  Although we missed our families joining us at St.Mary’s, it was lovely to see the mature way the children told the Christmas story through prayer, lessons and carols.

Christmas Cracked

On Wednesday 5th December 2018, Year 6 attended Christmas Cracked at Whaddon Way Church in Bletchley. The children had a really enjoyable morning learning about the ‘true meaning of Christmas‘ while they decorated festive cakes, completed  a quiz and  listened to a shepherd reciting his version of the Christmas story. A huge thank you to Bridgebuilder trust volunteers who made the whole experience possible.

Moon Buggies

WWII Experience Day

A huge thank you to all the families of the Waterbirds classes for providing such wonderful costumes and letters for our World War II Experience Day.  The children and staff had a tremendous day learning all about evacuation.  

 

After sheltering from the bombs (in a makeshift Morrison’s shelter), sampling vegetable soup and designing  propaganda posters, the children were joined by their families in the hall to sing rousing tunes like ‘It’s a long way to Tipperary’ and ‘Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag.’   It was a truly wonderful experience.

                             

 

                                                                        

Parent visitor to talk about World War 11

                                    

Year 6 Stars!

Year 5 Lifepath Bunyan Day at Elstow – 21st May 2019

                                   

Rev Paul Pavlou Visit – 23rd May 2019

Year 5/6 Visit to Holdenby House – 1st October 2019

Year 5/6 experienced a day as Victorian servants at Holdenby House in Northamptonshire.  The children were given various roles ranging from a Tweeny to Stable boys and spent the day carrying out tasks appropriate for their position.  The team leading the day showed the children how hard it was for servants in this era and how strict the rules were.  The teachers also played their part in the day and everyone enjoyed the experience.