Great Gaddesden vs Kensworth football update

Gaddesden League update

Match Report
The season is now under way and what a curtain raiser it was. Great Gaddesden hosted Kensworth using Kenworth’s field as theirs in unavailable for the time being. It was a very even match, Great Gaddesden putting Kensworth under ressure and going deservedly 1 nil up with Caden’s well taken goal.

Kensworth dug in and kept making chances, eventually equalizing through Wills strike with only 10 minutes left on the clock! Both teams had chances to grab a winner but a combination of good defending and goalkeeping saw the game finish all square

The Match finished: Great Gaddesden 1 – 1 Kensworth

 

Next 3 Fixtures

28 Sep - Gaddesden Row v Markyate

5 Oct - Kensworth v Flamstead

12 Oct - Gaddesden Row v Kensworth

Egyptian Workshop

Last Friday we had an Egyptian workshop for the day, we all came in with an ancient Egyptian costume on. First we were learning how to measure in the Egyptian way,  28 fingers = a royal cubit and 7 palms = a royal cubit and 4 fingers = a palm.
During our dancing lesson, we listened to Egyptian music, it is quite different to our English music. We had to put one hand behind our back and one just under our chest showing our palm. Our feet never left the floor - instead we shuffled around.
After this, we did a quiz on the ancient Egyptians, we had a question sheet with numerous questions on multiple topics, The answers were on boards around the hall. We discovered out scribes train for 8 years, if a family cat died that would shave off their own eyebrows, Egyptians treated cuts and wounds with mouldy bread and onions were their favourite food.
Next in our workshop, we discovered Tutankhamen's tomb might be his step mothers tomb - Nefertiti. We were handing around artefacts, we also held a sword called a khopesh, They used it to slice of enemies palms to count how many they killed, their slaves would count them one by one.
In the afternoon we learnt how to mummify some one and we did a small role play. To mummify someone you had to use your all your force and push with the end of your palm and break the nose,which allows the hook to be pushed through the nose and pull the brain back through the nose.

At the end we all were given a character trait and we marched the body around the school. And finally we put it in a sarcophagus, an Egyptian coffin.He told us that a priest cursed the door so bad luck would come to anyone who entered it, the curse included : death will come by wings, is it just a coincidence Lord Carnarvan was bitten by a mosquito a few months later after opening the tomb? .Also before the Egyptians were aloud into the after life they had to successfully go through multiple trials, the last one was the weighing of the heart, the heart was placed on one side of a set of scales and a feather was placed on the other side and if they led a bad life their heart would be heavy and go down, into the eyesight of the beast ammit where he would eat it. However, if they led a good life their heart would weigh the same as the feather and they were aloud into the after life.    

We all learned something new from our workshop and had a great day!

Netball Match

On Thursday we went to play a Netball match against Little Gaddesden. By the end of the first 20mins the score was 2-2. Dylan scored the first goal and Kaia scored the second goal. At the end of the match the score ended up as 7-2 to Little Gaddesden. despite us losing, we still enjoyed the match and we all demonstrated our value of the month, unity.

Gymnastics at Cavendish

Today year 5&6 went to Cavendish to do Gymnastics. The routines we created included the use of wall bars, benches, mats and the gym stall. The criteria we had to meet for our routine was the following:
* Travel around the gym from the various apparatus in different ways.
* Hold a balance on the wall bars.
* Perform a roll on the mat.
* Over the gym stall we had to either perform a tuck, pike or straddle jump.

We were given time to perfect our routines before we showed them to the rest of the class and then we paired up and gave each other feedback using two stars and a wish.

Overall we had a fantastic morning and we are looking forward to next week already!

Take a look at some of our photos below.

Martial Arts

Two weeks ago we started Martial Arts. The first week we did punching and jumping. We were practising our 'jabbing' with a partner using pads. We were given instructions such as 'right, right, left or right, right, right, left, left. The second week we did kicking so we had to grab hold of the wall and kick onto a paddle that our partner held up.

Here are some pictures:

Play leaders

For the last two weeks, year 5&6 have been training to become play leaders. A play leader is someone who leads games for the younger ones. We have been working in groups of three. We started this project so that the younger pupils in the school had a choice of games to play at lunch time. For the first session we drew a spider diagram and came up with ideas of games. Our next session, we practised our games on Reception children. We personally thought they enjoyed it - they played 'Shark Attack', 'Chicken or Hero' and 'Pac-man'. These games worked just as well for years 1&2 but we also tried others with them which were, 'Dishes and Domes', 'What's the time Mr Wolf' and 'Hide and Seek'. This week we will have our last training session before we find out if we have qualified as a 'Play Leader'. Miss Williams and Mrs Comer have been assessing our skills throughout the sessions.

Making biscuits

Last Tuesday we were given the task from Miss Williams to see what ingredients would work well to make biscuits. There were two groups but we split off into 4 to make different kinds of biscuits such as milk chocolate, white chocolate, raisins and white chocolate and raisins. We milked 4oz of butter, 2oz of sugar, 2 teaspoons of water, 6oz of plain flour. After that we rolled out our mixture to a thickness of around 5mm and floured work surface and we cut them into various shapes. Two groups decided to cover their chocolate with more of the mixture and the other two groups mixed their chocolate/raisins in with their mixture.
Once we had cooked them, we evaluated them against their appearance, texture and taste.