Clubs
Over the course of the year, the children in the Digital
Photography Club have had great fun exploring the
environment around the school looking for inspiration reflections. The club members also learnt how to
for photographs. One of the highlights was visiting the create stop animations and use Photoshop.
grounds of the National Archives to take photos with
Digital Photography
Drama
The aim of Drama Club is to introduce the
children to interesting stories, characters
and techniques in imaginative, creative and unique ways. Each
term, groups worked towards putting on their own version of
either a Shakespeare play or another classic work of literature
and culminated their learning with a show for their family in the
final week. The children developed their performance skills
through the use of improvisational
games, creative drama activities,
monologues, duologues and role play
activities.
El Club Espaňol aims to teach Spanish through a variety of
nursery rhymes, songs, games and fun activity sheets. During
the year, the children learnt to greet each other by asking each
others’ name and how they felt. They learnt to count up to 10
and named several colours.
The topic was food and drink
and the children learnt to name a variety of ‘bebidas y comidas.
Fencing
Fencing is a fun and exciting Olympic
sport which develops balance, flexibility,
core strength and cardiovascular fitness.
With an emphasis on technique and
tactics, fencing is a sport that allows boys
El Club Español
and girls to compete on equal terms, and
improves concentration and
coordination. Classes include games,
footwork practice, pair exercises to learn
techniques, and practice fights. Our
pupils absolutely love fencing.
Little Golfers is run by Andy Little PGA who is
currently the UK #1 golf professional for coaching
children. Sessions are safe, active and fun, using
equipment designed for the school environment
and playing team game structured golf
games. They learn about putting, chipping and
Handball
Handball is an Olympic team sport which is
great fun to play at any age. It is recognised as
the fastest ball sport in the world and became a
massive hit in Britain after the London 2012
Olympic Games.
Little Golfers
driving the ball, and there is an opportunity to
compete on a golf course against other schools
each term .
Children playing handball improve their basic
motor skills and develop hand-eye coordination.
Handball provides a full body workout and
improves mental focus and self confidence.
Pupils are taught how to program using
Microsoft’s visual programming language Kodu. It
lets pupils create games on the PC and Xbox via a
simple visual programming language. Kodu can be
used to teach creativity,
problem solving,
storytelling, as well as
programming.
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