Girls Football Festival Years 4 - 6

Our team of 10 girls took part in the Hackney Girls Football Festival. This was held at Hackney Marshes. There were over 150 girls across Hackney taking part! The girls across years 4 -6 competed in 4 matches.
Drawing one of their matches and coming close in the others, the girls all worked tremendously hard competing against girls who have played football for years. 
Well done girls!

PA Tag Rugby

Tuesday 29th January 

This tournament started off with a high with all children from every school doing their last minute training sessions before the tournament officially start. Competition started with a few warm up games where both Gainsborough A and Gainsborough B won them with a very attacking minded approach to the game.

When the playoff started both teams advanced through into the semi-finals where both A and B team lost which resulted in Gainsborough A vs Gainsborough B third place playoffs. Gainsborough A won it 5-2.

Young Voices concert at the O2

On Tuesday the Key Stage 2 choir went to the O2 Arena to perform as part of the Young Voices choir.

There were over eight thousand children singing together.

We performed with a live band and professional dancers. 

Our parents and carers came to watch.

We had a great time!

Spanish Display

Come and see our Spanish display. You will get to see the best work of Gainsborough students during Autumn 2 term.
It is all about descriptions:

Year 3 described themselves as monster.
Year 4 learnt the zoo animals.
Year 5 described people in their class.
Year 6 we learnt about some naughty Santa's helpers that stole all the Christmas presents, they helped the police to find them by describing them.

Year 5 Choir Creation

Last week Year 5 started their Choir Creation project. 

Both classes singing together formed an amazing choir!

They worked on repertoire and singing technique.

They are looking forward to their next session. 

Healthy Eating Campaign Art- Year 5

ARTefacts- Canopic Jars

Year 5 have been making crafting Canopic Jars this term in response to their Ancient Egypt topic.

We have been learning about Mummification. It was very important to ancient Egyptian religious beliefs that the human body was preserved.

A method of artificial preservation, called mummification was developed by the ancient Egyptians. During the process of mummification, all of the major organs were removed and placed in canopic jars.

What are canopic jars?

Jars used by ancient Egyptians to hold mummified remains. During the mummification process the organs of the human body were removed and preserved separately in canopic jars.

What did the Egyptians put inside the jars?

The persons liver, intestines (guts), lungs and stomach were placed in canopic jas. Each organ was placed in a special jar with a top representing an animal or human head.

Why did each jar have a special top?

The Canopic Jars were decorated with the heads of the four sons of Horus.

These are our versions of Canopic Jars with sculptured heads of the four sons of Horus.

Amazing work Year 5! 

RAF Celebration Fly Past

Last week we saw an impressive aerial display of aircraft fly over the playground on its way to central  central London to celebrate 100 years of the Royal Air Force. 

The spectacular event will took place as part of a series of special events throughout 2018 to mark the centenary. 

Featuring up to 100 aircraft, the flypast remembered the RAF's creation on April 1, 1918. Thanks to Year 5 for capturing these stunning photographs of the once in a lifetime event!

Hackney Music Festival Instrumental Event

We had another great performance at the Round Chapel last week. Nine children from Year 5 gave an amazing rendition of 'Oh When the Saints'. 

Then all the children taking part in the festival came together to play the James Bond Theme Tune.  

I am really proud of you - well done! 

Hackney Music Festival

It's festival time!  

Today both the Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 choirs performed at the Round Chapel as part of the Hackney Music Festival.  

What a great concert!  Well done everyone!

Stratford Waterfront Design Challenge

We have entered a high profile Architectural Design Competition to design a 'Playable Landscape' for the Queen Elizabeth Park II. Our entry has been submitted to a team of Architects from Allies and Morrison who will now judge the entries in partnership with professionals from V&A, UAL and the Olympic Park Legacy Project. We are so proud to show you our designs...

Spanish Assembly - The importance of languages

Last Friday, KS2 had their Spanish Assembly, they were amazing!

We spoke about the importance of learning a second language. 

All the school had their hands up for answering questions in Spanish! 

We had a role play in Spanish asking for food in a restaurant.

We learnt that, at school, we speak 27 languages and they are all very important!

-Learning languages makes you smarter,
-Increases your brain capacity and memory,
-Makes you understand different cultures,
-and you can travel!

We also played the song of Moana in 24 languages:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g29Wg4oyek

I hope you enjoyed!

Summer Photo Walk

Our exhibition

We are very proud to present our work for the 2018 Primary Advantage Art Exhibition!
This year the exhibition was held in St Mary of Eton Church in Hackney Wick so close to our school.All the work in the show was around the theme of Identity. We had assemblies to explore what Identity means to us before creating a variety Artwork inspired by our Identity. 




Mr Roper Year 5

Our Heritage by Year 1 from Gainsborough

In Year 1 we have been researching our family history and the countries of our roots. We photographed portraits of each other and overlaid these on top of maps to show the part of the world our parents have connections with. We learnt that our classes are filled with children from all over the world. This work celebrates our global identity.

Eyes Observational Drawing by Year 6 

Year 6 have been exploring ways to draw with skill using a variety of materials. We discussed how eyes can show emotion and are a huge part of our identity. Drawing from observation, we persevered with our drawings taking time to build up tone, light and shade. As artists, we explored how using different materials can give us a variation of styles.

Digital Self Portraits in the style of Julian Opie  by Year 1-6

As a whole school we created digital self-portraits inspired by artist Julian Opie. Opie paints portraits in a minimalist style with bold black outlines and bright colours. On the computer we carefully drew over our photograph to simplify the facial features. We then skilfully used vibrant colours to fill the background in Opie’s signature style. In this work, we celebrate our similarities, but also the ways we are all unique.

Giving directions in Spanish

If you go to Spain during the Easter holidays, you do not need to worry about getting lost!

Year 5 have been practicing how to ask and give simple directions in Spanish!

Gira a la derecha: turn right

Gira a la izquierda: turn left

Go straight ahead: todo recto