Friday 30th September

CAKE SALE!!
Don't forget this Friday is the Year 6 cake sale. Please remember to bring some cakes in for us to sell to help raise funds for Year 6. Any donations appreciated, however big or small!

Monday 19th September

DAN COMES TO VISIT!

A man called Dan came to see us today to speak to us about the life of refugees around the world. He did a quiz with us, where we learnt lots of information, such as:

• Every 21 seconds in the world, another refugee is 'created'
• Nearly all refugees in the world move from a poor country into another poor country
• Afghanistan has produced the most refugees in the last 5 years

Dan knew lots about the experiences that refugees go through (he works with Amnesty International and the Refugee Youth Project) and we learnt lots from him!

Interestingly, Dan has also been carrying out a research project on 'playground singing games' over the past 10 years and has travelled all around the world finding out about different songs. He's also an artist and has a mural of his singing playground games up in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London! You can take a look at this fantastic piece of art here: http://www.vam.ac.uk/moc/whats_on/galleries/childhood/the_singing_playground/index.html (click on the blue 'singing playgound' link to see the painting)

Thursday 15th September

DRUMMING DAY!
I think lots of people near the hall had a bit of a headache today when Pete came in to hold some drumming workshops in Year 6! Coincidentally, Pete worked at a refugee camp in Bosnia in the 90s and told us that he used music to help raise the spirits of the refugees. This was a great link to our Refugee Boy book.

We had to use a range of different drums (and other instruments) to keep and hold a steady rhythm and some children even got the chance to act as conductors and controlled the beat and volume of the music. (Which is probably why it got so loud!) Lots of the drums were African in origin as well so this was another good link to our Refugee Boy book we are currently reading in class. You can visit Pete's drumming website at http://www.umbanda.co.uk/ to find out a bit more about what he does.