Week beginning 25th June 2007

Rich task week

This week is a multi-cultural week across the whole school, and as such we will be focussing on many different aspects of African art and music.

We don't want to give too much away (who am I to spoil the surprise?!), but here are just a few of the things we will be getting up to...

African Tribal Masks

You will need to bring in a 2 litre bottle of milk (an empty one!!) in order to make this one. Also, any 'junk' collage materials would be great to bring in, and would give you more materials to work with. If you click on the links below, there are some great photos to inspire you.

http://www.webquestuk.org.uk/what%20a%20performance/index.htm a great webquest, based on the art topic of what a performance!! – click on the African masks on the links section.

http://www.rebirth.co.za/masks4.htm click on this link to show some examples of the African masks you could make this week.

African art

There will be lots of opportunties to work with different art media this week, to create pieces of work for block printing, watercolours, charcoal, chalks and batik.

http://www.african-collection.co.uk/about.php click through the menus to see lots of images of African art

African music

We will have the opportunity to work on lots of musical performance skills this week, particularly looking at rhythms.

http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/index.html?genre=African this site has lots of examples of African music to download for free. We will be using this is class, so if you have had a chance to listen to it beforehand, you will have a real advantage.

Summer Concert

We will be rehearsing the songs for our Summer Concert this week. Please bear with us, as there are a lot of words to learn, in a short amount of time. Also, we have had lots of children coming forward to let us know about talents (such as dancers, musicians etc.) that they persue
outside school. Please let us know as soon as possible, so that we can include them in the concert. The cut- off will be Wednesday of this week, when the order of songs and acts will be finalised.

Housekeeping

There are lots of things going on this week, so here is running order of events...

• Tuesday - Year 5 Rugby afternoon
• Wednesday - Year 6 Visit to St. Gregory's - all day.
• Thursday - Science show in the morning; Mass at 2pm for Saint Peter and Paul

In order to help out with time etc., homework will now be sent on TUESDAYS to be returned on MONDAYS. Many thanks for you co-operation with this.

Here's to a fun-packed week!

Year 5/6 team