LeicesterGrammarSchool2016ADAM_Layout130/08/201611:05Page1 LGJS The Review 2 0 1 5 ~ 2 0 1 6 LeicesterGrammarSchool2016ADAM_Layout130/08/201611:06Page2 INTRODUCTION FROM THE HEAD Introduction from the Head t is impossible to fit everything we achieve and do throughout the year into one Contents small publication, but I hope this will give you a flavour of the many varied Iopportunities our children have to enhance their learning and fulfil our mission of being “A Centre of Excellence”. There has been much creativity throughout the Introduction from the Head .......................... 2 school; dancing, music and drama, plus the children have really enjoyed the chance School Council .................................................. 3 to write poetry - which you will see throughout this Review. Kinders .............................................................. 4-5 The year started with the chance for the children to meet the Canadian Rugby team Reception ........................................................ 6-7 as they used Leicester Grammar School as their training ground. We cannot ever Drama ................................................................ 8-9 forget that Leicester City won the Premier League Championships for the first time Year 1 ............................................................ 10-11 ever, and Leonardo Ulloa very kindly came in to do an interview with our avid die- Year 2 ............................................................ 12-13 hard blues supporters. Music ............................................................ 14-15 French has taken on a higher profile, and we now have our “phrase pour la semaine” Year 3 ............................................................ 16-17 announced in assembly each week. Year 6 impressed us all with their French Year 4 ............................................................ 18-19 speaking on their week to France in May, and we celebrated the European Day of Sport ............................................................ 20-21 Languages in September. Year 5 ............................................................ 22-23 Now we have our very own Science lab, the children are really enjoying lots of Year 6 ............................................................ 24-25 investigations. The highlight in the lab this year, however, was when the eggs we Science ........................................................ 26-27 were incubating hatched into chicks! “Farm to Fork” was the theme for our Science French ................................................................ 28 Week and we all learned so much more about where our food comes from. Interview with Ulloa ...................................... 29 Much has been achieved, and the children have had fun and learnt lots. As we look Friends .......................................................... 30-31 forward to the Olympics in the summer, they really have lived out the Olympic Values of friendship, determination, respect, courage, equality, inspiration and Front Cover Artwork: excellence. I do hope you will enjoy our annual Review. Year 3 Hundertwasser project 2/Leicester Grammar Junior School 2015 / 2016 LeicesterGrammarSchool2016ADAM_Layout130/08/201611:06Page3 SCHOOL COUNCIL A Busy Year The year started off with School Council elections which is always very exciting as for School Council everyone in the Juniors is eligible to vote for a boy and girl from their Year Group. Once the votes had been counted, our 2015-16 Councillors were: Year 3: Siyana Kotecha and Joseph Khalid Year 4: Gracie Eid and Henry Wright Year 5: Lottie Dixon and Nikhil Srinivas Year 6: Lucy Weston and Aryan Mavani We have had regular meetings and our suggestion boxes are always full of interesting ideas. One idea which is being followed up is to establish a school merchandise shop, run by School Council. This came from a suggestion that we have The School Council went on to organise a raising over £1000 which will help buy the watches sporting the school logo. We have Year 6 lunchtime disco to raise funds for the merchandise and so make more money for looked at various samples and are currently project. Aryan was our DJ and the rest of our fund. We are very grateful to the Friends in the planning stages, but we would also our councillors were special guests, along for their support. like to sell USB sticks and lanyards. Proceeds with a few chosen friends. Everybody had a On top of this, our Councillors have been from merchandise sales will go towards our great time and raised nearly £70 in the involved in the interview process when our new fundraising venture to provide an process. Shortly after this, Year 3 had a new teachers were selected, have bought artificial grass area on the Junior ‘Teddy Olympics Day!” which raised more play equipment for the playground and Playground. money for the fund. have raised money for a variety of charities Mrs Shakespeare was approached by letter After writing to the Friends, we also including Children in Need and Sport Relief. by our Year 6 councillors. At their meeting received their full support and a signed Another busy, productive year. Well done, she was very impressed by the case they Leicester City football shirt and £100 worth School Council! put forward for the new artificial grass area. of cricket equipment was raffled by them, 3 / Leicester Grammar Junior School 2015 / 2016 LeicesterGrammarSchool2016ADAM_Layout130/08/201611:06Page4 KINDERS Kindersinders have had a busy year and we have seen all the children grow in confidence as they have taken part in a wide variety of activities. They have enjoyed weekly There’s a worm at the bottom of the Kcooking sessions with over 20 parents coming in to help over the year. garden - And his name is Wiggly Woo ... In the Advent term, the children used their senses to explore the school grounds as part of our autumn topic. They collected different coloured leaves and listened to the sounds outside. During the harvest assembly, they took their first steps at performing in front of a large audience as Dingle Dangle Scarecrows. We carried on the autumn theme in our first craft afternoon, where parents helped the children to make hedgehogs. They also made a variety of Pudsey Bears as we helped raise money for Children in Need. We began looking at winter with a trip to the theatre to see Kipper`s Snowy Day. The term finished with the children performing a dance routine as they pretended to be mice in the Nativity. 4/Leicester Grammar Junior School 2015 / 2016 LeicesterGrammarSchool2016ADAM_Layout130/08/201611:06Page5 KINDERS In the Lent term, the children learnt how to keep warm in the winter as we went on many frosty afternoon walks. We also made bird feeders as we learnt how to look after the birds. The construction topic was very popular and we saw many buildings emerging in the building site role play area. This continued during our visits to Forest School where they made some fantastic dens out of natural resources. We carried on our charity work by wearing wellies to raise money for the Children`s Air Ambulance Service and finished the term with a spring craft afternoon making flowers, chicks and chocolate nests. During the Trinity term, children have found a new interest in bugs. They must have found every bug in the playground by now as not a stone or log has been left unturned! They learnt several rhymes and songs about mini beasts which they performed with such confidence during our class assembly. We have enjoyed acting out the story “We`re going on a bear hunt” and finally found the bear after our own bear hunt, followed by a teddy bear’s picnic. Our trip to Twycross Zoo rounded the year off perfectly! 5 / Leicester Grammar Junior School 2015 / 2016 LeicesterGrammarSchool2016ADAM_Layout130/08/201611:06Page6 RECEPTION Reception his year has been full to the brim, In PE we learnt gymnastics, games and other sports to play, We have managed to learn about everything! Which culminated in our fantastic Sports Day. TFrom numbers, money and solving sums, In French, we learnt to speak and write, To being rock stars and playing the drums. And visited Forest School where luckily the weather was bright! Our families have been involved too, In Literacy, we read Dear Zoo, With charity events and craft afternoon to name but a few, And then we wrote our own poem – ‘Guess Who’, We have made chocolate hedgehogs and fruit salad, At the end of term we visited Twycross Zoo, played percussion instruments in music and sang a ballad. There we learnt about endangered animals too. At Christmas time, we performed our play, Now Reception Year is done, It was about a kitten that had lost her way, Every child has grown ready for Year One, Luckily, she found her mother, With such a fun packed year, you will agree, And along the way, the Nativity did discover. It has filled the children with pleasure and glee! 6/Leicester Grammar Junior School 2015 / 2016 LeicesterGrammarSchool2016ADAM_Layout130/08/201611:06Page7 RECEPTION 7 / Leicester Grammar Junior School 2015 / 2016 LeicesterGrammarSchool2016ADAM_Layout130/08/201611:07Page8 DRAMA Drama From Drama workshops and Assemblies to full scale productions, the year has been filled with drama opportunities for all the children. Year 5 were all enthusiastic about the ‘Play In A Day’ workshop related to cyber bullying, which gave them the chance to use their own ideas and opinions. Year 6 children impressed parents with their fantastic Shakespeare workshop performances. At Christmas we all enjoyed