Dallas Road C.P. School

As part of their Victorian topic; year 6 have been reading ‘Jabberwocky’ by Lewis Carroll.  Click below to watch a photo-story style movie of the poem.

Jabberwocky

To celebrate the end of Key Stage 2 SATs, three members of 6N known as RMB have released a special new track called “MENTAL Maths Mix”. Click below to listen.

MENTAL Maths Mix

This morning the whole of Dallas Road showed off their talent in our annual talent show. The winners in the year 6 section were JMS with their fabulous version of ‘I’m Yours’.  

 Listen to their track below.

I’m Yours by JMS

In our fantastic second term, year6 have been working on making moving vehicles. First we made the chassis. It was very, very ,very hard.

We needed a motor, pulley, battery (cell), card, sticky tape, saw, small wooden wheels, axle and a lot of imagination.

 All of us did amazingly and deserve a round of applause.

By Molly (who is fab by the way)

On Friday the 14^th 6N did the best assembly ever! It was about PERSEUS AND THE GORGONS HEAD!

We only had 5 days to prepare but it was amazing!

Some of the highlights were:

The Grey Ones!

The fight between Medusa and Perseus

Pennie, Ebony, Ashleigh, Oscar and Edlie dancing to ‘Greece Lightning’

When Harry and Mubarak carried King Polydectes saying: “TO ME TO YOU!”

Some of the cast

Perseus – Yahya

The King – Malcolm

Danae – Megan H

Hippodamia – Rowan

Athena – May

Medusa – Molly

The Grey Ones – Bert, Harriet and Lewis

Medusa’s sisters – Sheba and Anna

Dictys – Amille

The narrators were great

Thank you Mr. Newton, Mrs. Grassick and Maggie.

By Megan and Sheba

Hello,

Just before we broke up for our Christmas holidays year 6 put on a mountain event to celebrate the end of our topic.

Parents were invited and we really showed off what we knew about mountains (we also enjoyed some Kendal mint cake).

We have also had a great Christmas Party!

We haven’t put anything on the blog for a while so this is what we have been doing for the past few weeks.

On Remembrance Day lots of people bought poppies to remember the people that have fought and died for their country.

On that same day the school photos were taken and although we haven’t seen them yet I’m sure they’re lovely.

As part of our religious festivals week we have been looking at different religions of the world:

Judaism, Sikhism, Hinduism and Islam. At the end we had an assembly showing off what we had learnt.

6J recently had their assembly about Winmarleigh hall. It was great!

As part of our mountain topic we have held a debate in class about whether a new ski resort should be built in Scotland. We all took on the characters of people involved. You can see us in the photographs!

By Finn, Gabriel and Molly

Glee club is a singing and dancing club for years 3, 4, 5 and 6 taught by Miss Snell our music teacher.

We have all had a lot of fun and next term most of us are still going.

On the 21^st of October year5 and 6 did a fantastic performance in front of key stage 2 and year3 and 4 in front of key stage 1.

Every one was really excited and was wearing black trousers or leggings pink or red t shirts.

  We all sang beautifully and sang ‘Don’t stop Believing’, ‘Defying Gravity’ and year 6 did some fantastic solos in ‘Take a Bow’.

By Molly a very important member of the glee club (and a little help with spellings from Sheba)

Year 6 recently spent an exciting week away at Winmarleigh Hall, near Garstang. We did lots of fun activities including: giant swing, canoeing, quad biking, zip wire and abseiling. Some made us laugh because of people’s funny faces (giant swing). The pride of completing extremely high activities was amazing too!!!

We also enjoyed making our own movies and music in PGL TV (PGL is the company that owns Winmarleigh Hall).

We slept in Patten House, in 4-6 bedded rooms, which is on site very near the entrance. Josh was our group leader and he was fantastic! He sang lots of funny songs with us! Mr. Newton asked him if he had an “indestructible voice.” He also took us to our meal times and the food was really nice.

In the evenings we had activities too. We even had a disco but the best was Ambush (it’s a big game of hide and seek in the dark).We enjoyed it so much that Josh let us play an extra round of it after the campfire!

To find out more visit their website:

www.pgl.co.uk/PGLWeb/individuals/centres/Winmarleigh-Hall.htm

by Matthew, Harry and Anna.

Ascent
As part of Outdoor Education and our Geography topic on mountains,  year 6 climbed to the summit of Clougha. It took approximately 3 1/2 hours to reach the summit. We climbed 413 metres to the summit. It was very muddy in the lower parts of the mountain. We saw many mushrooms, mini waterfalls and sheep. It was a relaxing walk up.

                                               
Summit
At the summit of Clougha was a stone monument that we all touched. At the top of the mountain was a sheer drop on one side that had a fantastic view. Some people went exploring and found the bones of a sheep that were still assembled.People put the sheep bones and skulls in their nature observation bags and took them home. (I’m sure their mums loved them.)

A small group of people were particularly slow to walk down as they jumped in heather bushes. Most of the tumbles happened on the way down because you couldn’t see where you were going as well as you could on the way up. As everyone had finished they were exhausted but really enjoyed the climb.

 For more information on Clougha go to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clougha_Pike
It was a long hike and here are some photos.