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Sophia, Naliyah and Hildy’s Houses of Parliament presentation
BLC Early Years Forum – Arty Party
Early Years Forum Arty Party
Early Years Forum enjoys an Arty Party!
This week we had the first meeting of our Early Years Forum, hosted by Loughborough Primary School. We were delighted to welcome Ruth Malloy and Sascha Taylor from Scrapstore Tooting to lead a workshop for us. Scrapstore is a fantastic facility where for a modest membership fee you can pick up a wealth of arts, crafts and DT resources to use with children in your schools. Ruth led an excellent workshop: as a long-serving teacher in Southwark, Ruth strives to open children’s minds to endless creative possibilities. She has made a green room in the playground where children of all ages can come at break times to craft from the materials they find in this treasure trove of materials. As a group we made puppets out of empty plastic milk cartons that can live inside or outside for children to use.
St John Divine report back on their trip to Houses of Parliament on 20th September
On the 20th September I had the chance to go into the Houses of Parliament. Before my group and I entered, I learnt that old name for the Houses of Parliament is the Palace of Westminster. I really enjoyed the tour by Mathew, I was especially delighted to discover the room which was decorated in exactly the same way it was before Parliament was bombed during WW1. The Houses of Lords was very inspiring as only experts were allowed to be a part of it. In the House of Commons we went into the ‘No’ and ‘Aye’ lobby and the names made me chuckle. It was an exciting trip and I learnt lots.
Haileigh – age 10
The other day I had the opportunity to visit the Houses of Parliament. We went through the gate where the Queen would arrive but first we went through the airport-style security. Once we had gone through the gate with our tour guide Mathew, we went into the House of Lords. I admired the golden seat where the Queen would sit. We then went into the House of Commons which was a bit more dull, although still really impressive. Then we saw the pigeon holes for the MPs. Two were empty: Joe Cox’s (which was very sad) and David Cameron’s. I liked the fact that it was colour coded and one MP had his own colour because he was a one-man-party. Overall I thought the day was amazing!
Rebecca – aged 11
On Tuesday 20th September we went to the Houses of Parliament. It was really exciting. When we arrived and walked from the bus stop we saw other schools waiting there as well. We were separated into two groups for the tour and our tour guide was called Mathew. We were shown around the House of Lords first and we saw the Queens seat. Unfortunately we were not allowed to sit in it. Then we were shown a very interesting room. It was interesting because it was the only room that was built and decorated according to the original design. It had statues and pictures of old kings and queens. After we had seen the House of Commons as well we had a workshop. We made up our own laws and debated about how useful they were. It was a very interesting day!
Andy – aged 10
On Tuesday 20th September Andy, Rebecca, Haileigh and myself went to the Houses of Parliament. I was delighted when I received the letter for the outing!
Outside the entrance we greeted by our tour guide, Mathew. Our group were shown through the Norman Porch which had a lot of paintings of old kings and queens. We were then shown to the House of Lords which had lots of gold in it, especially the Queen’s seat. Next we were shown the House of Commons and we saw Mr Speaker’s seat. The whole room was very green and we even saw the front desks where all the most important politicians stand. It was really fun and memorable day.
Emy – aged 10
BLC steering group meeting – moderation and peer to peer learning
Last Thursday our steering group (Senior leaders from our 13 schools) met to discuss and plan their work together for the coming weeks. Maths and Science leads will be meeting to work together on looking at best examples of Using and Applying in Maths and evidencing progress in Science. There will be writing moderations after Christmas for Year 1 through to Year 6, with schools taking it in turns to host. Our secondaries and primaries are setting up visits to our Nurseries to support reading and IT and we hope to restart our Year 12 to primary reading programme with Evelyn Grace Academy 6th form soon. In the Spring we shall be doing a Science project involving More Able pupils from St Gabriel’s working with primary pupils on investigations, using the secondary school facilities, leading to a cluster Science Fair. As always it is the expertise and enthusiasm of our great group of teachers that makes this work possible.
Elections and Voting – photos from St Saviour’s Primary
Here are some of the photos from our visit to the Houses of Parliament this week to learn about Elections and Voting.
St John’s Angell Town at Houses of Parliament
Report from Houses of Parliament by Amyah and Lucas, year 5 St John’s Angell Town
We had a fabulous time visiting the House of Commons and then the House of Lords. It was our first ever visit to Westminster. We found out some really interesting facts, here are a few of them:
The Queen is not allowed to enter the House of Commons (the Green Room).
The Queen’s throne in the House of Lords is actually made out of wood ( but painted with gold paint).
On or around the anniversary of the gun powder plot, the cellars down below the parliament building are checked.
We learnt how and where MPs vote.
It was an excellent day and we enjoyed working with other schools.
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