You all demonstrated your adventurous spirit, courage and determination at The Crocky Trail for our end of year trip and we had so much fun! You represented Morda brilliantly - what a wonderful time we had with you!

Year 6 - we have had the BEST final half term with you all! From Bikeability, Fundraising Fayre and Be Active Week to Crocky Trails, Leavers Service and VIP Disco - it has been a blast! Here is a snapshot of all that we have been up to.

Enjoy your Summer and have the most amazing time at Secondary School, you will be so missed! 

The Full Stop Day

​Last six hours of primary school
Goodbye is getting near
The sums and sentences all done
The full stop day is here

Last five hours of primary school
Where everything's before
The aims and games and crazes
no one’s crazy for no more

Last four hours of primary school
Surrounded by a class
who'll scatter soon and not return
when summer’s days have passed

Last three hours of primary school
One final lunchtime play
Instead of chasing friends we try
to chase and catch the day

Last two hours of primary school
The clock hands blur and skid
Signing shirts, remembering
the coolest things we did

Last one hour of primary school
where teachers understood
And helped me see I could achieve
for they believed I could

Last half hour of primary school
The assembly we all dread
We cannot sing - us Year Six kings
The crown slips from our heads

Last ever second of primary school
The full stop rings in our ears
But a thousand chapters left to write
We must vacate our childhood site
For time moves on and time is right -
To leave our wonder years

©2009 Mark Bird

You seemed to enjoy every minute of your VIP leavers disco experience! From mocktails, a photo booth, chocolate fountain, pizza and balloons, not to mention the dancing under the disco lights, we had an amazing evening!

This afternoon, the children in Shamrocks were challenged to explore the five main faiths of the world. To begin with they had to research the faith and then make an information sheet using their creativity. at the end they shared what they had found out and we discussed the similarities and differences between faiths.

Shamrocks Class wrote and produced the Easter Church Service this year from scratch in their Literacy lessons. The Easter story was re-told in the style of a News at Then, news report written by the pupils. Each and every member of Shamrocks class (along with some of Roses) performed their hearts out to bring the Easter story to life in the church from the perspective of News Presenters and Reporters. The whole school sang beautifully and none of it would have been possible without Mrs Chapman and her guitar!

A huge round of applause goes to everyone who made this performance happen, especially the Year 6 pupils. 

This term we have been working on designing and making pop-up books for younger children, including a mixture of structures and mechanisms. We used sliders, pivots and folds made from cardboard to produce a range of movements.

First we evaluated existing pop-up books, both professional printed books and previous Year 6 pupils' DT projects.

First, they practised making the different mechanisms and observing how they work. Next, the children produced their own storyboards and planned which mechanism would be most suitable on each page. Finally, they created their books using layers and spacers to create a professional finish.

Some fantastic, original storybooks were created. Shamrocks class should be so proud! They are true authors and illustrators.

What an incredible effort Shamrocks Class put into their World Book Day costumes this year. It was amazing to walk into such a magical room of book characters. It really showcased and celebrated Year 6's love of reading which they demonstrate every day in class. 

From witches and wizards to rabbits, DogMan and sports stars - each and every one of us put so much thought and effort into representing our favourite books and characters and had a lovely day celebrating the magical world of books and imagination. 

We had a fantastic assembly, completed a Reading Quiz, made bookmarks and book recommendations and listened to Mrs Holmes reading our current reading for pleasure class novel 'The Nowhere Emporium'.

I can't stress enough how proud I am of the amount of reading Shamrocks class participate in daily and the enthusiasm they show for our class novels, including our favourite this year - The Final Year. If you haven't read it yourself yet, we highly recommend it!

This half term the girls football team entered a football competition at the Marches School. They played four matches, defended resolutely and the forwards created plenty of chances. All of the girls represented Morda amazingly; showing great teamwork, sportsmanship and determination. We couldn't be prouder of them! 

Above the snow line, a lone climber is in serious trouble after falling from a steep peak and injuring her leg. The wound is bleeding badly, but she hasn’t yet lost consciousness. With frozen fingers she gropes for her mobile phone and speed dials the number of the only people who can now save her - the mountain rescue team.

In our Mantle of the Expert lesson we became a Mountain Rescue Team (MRT) and rushed to help a climber who had become injured on the mountainside. In our teams we conversed with the climber on the phone, asking a number of important questions to establish what had happened and what our next steps needed to be. In small teams we wrote a list of necessary equipment and quickly loaded the helicopter with the required resources.

We appointed a ground team of staff who maintained contact with the helicopter rescue team via walkie talkie and sent a team of experienced helicopter pilots and medically trained mountain rescue team members to rescue the injured climber from the mountainside. We used tools such as a winch and stretcher to safely remove the climber and return her to our Mountain Rescue Base for further medical assessment. It was touch and go as the wind and the snowstorm blew our rescue team around in the air but, by the skin of their teeth, they managed to return her safely to the ground.

Back at the base, our team of medical experts assessed the patient and decided her leg injury was severe and she needed to be transported to the local hospital for further treatment immediately. ​

Here, we ended the Mantle but the climber's life was still in the balance at this point.

I therefore asked the children to consider how they imagined the story would end. In small groups I asked them to imagine the climber 5 years down the line (5 years after the accident had occurred). What would she be doing? Who would she be with? How was her health?

The children were asked to freeze frame a photograph showing their ending and one group at a time they explained what had happened to the climber in their story:

The climber had to have her leg amputated but she survived the accident and made a full recovery (minus one limb). As a thank you to the two mountain rescue medical team members, who saved her life on the mountainside, she takes them to a football match every year. Here they are at Wembley, watching a cup final together.

The climber survived, but had one leg amputated as a result of the accident. After this, her mental health suffered and she became depressed. Two of the mountain rescue team members kept in touch with her and still visit her regularly to check in and make sure she is coping. They've helped her to overcome her depression.

After the rescue, things took a turn for the worse and the climber ended up in a coma. Five years down the line she has woken from her coma but still has to have regular medical treatment to keep her alive.

The climber survived but her leg injury was so severe that they could not save it and had to amputate one leg. Five years later, she is fundraising for the Mountain rescue and Air Ambulance teams with all of her family members (including her granny) who are all so grateful to the rescue teams for saving her and giving them this precious time with her.

We discussed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which was put together after World War 2 as a way to protect everyone’s basic rights.

We discussed what rights we are ALL entitled to as humans (internationally).

We then looked at an image and discussed all the rights which people were enjoying in the picture:
Children in school (education), sharing religion and enjoying leisure activities.

And then considered rights which were being denied:
Prisoners freedom and homeless people's right to having a place to live.