House Captain

This afternoon, the whole school participated in voting for their House Captain.

One boy and one girl along with a Vice Captain will be announced in assembly tomorrow.

All the children who were House Captain candidates did really well and should be proud of themselves for standing up in front of a large number of children and explaining why they would be good at representing their house. 

The Young Shakespeare

The Young Shakespeare Company

On Monday the 9th of October, the Young Shakespeare Company visited to share with our school (Down Hall Primary School) the wonders and miracles of the pantomimes and plays that William Shakespeare wrote and directed back when he was alive and well. As we found out, the play that they performed was ‘Romeo and Juliet’ - one of the most famous pantomimes of the playwright. There were many roles that were took on, and the performance was extremely educational, inspirational and interesting. The play was set in Venice and was exceedingly realistic for a live performance and there were hardly any actors or actresses! I am sure that us children very much enjoyed the amount of participation that was included for us and were very pleased with the spiritual, creative and fun direction of our learning that was taken when we were lead into the hall to watch the pantomime. Once the play had started, they were explaining the old english language that they used in the performance as it was consistently used to help us understand the olden days and how they lived their everyday life. We helped to encourage the feud between the Capulets (Juliet’s family) and the Montagues (Romeo’s family). Also, to help us to refer to the play with modern day life, they inserted recent songs, dances and items which made it even more enjoyable and comprehensible. We got to see (up close) how Romeo and Juliet fell in love and how their life came to a tragic and sudden end because of this.

by Seren (Year 6)

Circus

Wednesday 18th October 2017

Circus workshop  

On the 14th of september, a man came in from a circus educational company.We had about 30 minutes.He showed us how to juggle,use a diablo,flower-stick and spin a plate on a stick which I was really good at.

We learned how to use a diablo but I don’t think many people knew what a flower-stick was (I didn’t).

Anyway I’m sure everyone enjoyed it.

By George (Year 6)

THE HAPPY CIRCUS

On the 14th of September 2017, the happy circus came in to perform a show for us. The show was quite funny and it was starred by Pip and Ring-master Rossy. It was after school. It was a real circus with sweets and refreshments. They made barely any mistakes and the performers were very good.

by Jake (Year 6)

E- Safety

 E-Safety           Tuesday 12th September 2017

On Tuesday somebody came in and gave us a talk on E-Safety. He told us about all social medias like Musical.ly, Snapchat and Instagram, Live.ly. And told us about the dangers of each one and what we can do to make it better such as private accounts. He also  showed us some clips of things that have happened to people in real life. And he asked us if anything had happened to us.

by Katie (Year 6)