Delves Junior School

Tudor Musicians

Friday, January 25th, 2008

We had a visit from Tudor musicians Paul Baker and Sue Pope. They entertained Year 4 with lots of music using instruments from the time of Queen Elizabeth I, as well as stories and dances from the period. Pupils and parents can see photos in our Photo Gallery. Log in using your usual school username and password.

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Year 4 visit to Selly Manor

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Year 4 will be visiting Selly Manor in Birmingham on 27th February 2008. You can visit the Selly Manor website.

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Another Powerpoint

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

Here is Jeena’s History Homework.

Download here

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Powerpoint

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

some of our children have produced powerpoint presentations for their homework :

The Tudors (Arti)

The Minotaur (Arti)

Queens (Neesha)

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Year 4 visit to Selly Manor

Monday, February 19th, 2007

Year 4 will be visiting Selly Manor in Birmingham on 5th March. You can visit the Selly Manor website.

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Myths and Legends Website

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

Mythsandlegends.com is a great website for children who are interested in hearing tales from the past. You can also make your own stories with the Story Creator.

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New in Espresso this week

Monday, July 3rd, 2006

Book Club

The Book Club is updated each term to introduce three authors talking about a book that they have written. Alongside the video clips is a biography of each author. This term the following authors talk about their books:

Chris d’Lacey introduces Icefire
Cliff McNish introduces The Silver Child
Jacqueline Wilson introduces The Diamond Girls

Find it: English 1 > Book Club

TV News

Find this week’s stories: News 2

Food packaging campaign

The Women’s Institute are campaigning to reduce food packaging.

Find it: Geography > Environmental issues > Taking action

Millennium Bridge sound art

A live feed of the sound of the Millennium Bridge is being piped into the Tate Modern Gallery.

Find it: Art > Galleries > Tate Gallery

News Bites

A news round-up of events in the form of four short video clips. The video clips are reporter-led pieces using language aimed at Key Stage 2 pupils.

Queen’s children’s party
Mummies help doctors
Model insects on display
Michelangelo exhibition

Find it: English 2 > News Bites

Newspaper articles this week include..

Find this week’s stories: News 2

Chalk drawing helps wildlife

The National Trust yesterday began the first wildlife survey of the Cerne Abbas Giant - a 180ft chalk figure of a man carved into the hillside near the Dorset village.

Find it: Geography > Environmental issues > Wildlife

New emblem for Red Cross

The Red Cross are changing their emblem into an internationally recognised humanitarian emblem.

Find it: PSHE & Citizenship > Politics > World Politics

World Cup 2006 data [Data]

Data handling exercises using recent results from the group stages of the World Cup.

Find it: PE > Football > World Cup and Maths > Handling data > Data

Charles Darwin [Profile]

A profile of Charles Darwin that explores important events in his life.

Find it: History > People in history > More

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Bizzikid

Saturday, July 1st, 2006

Bizzikid is a great site for children. It has lots of interesting pages collected together, with info about PSHCE, sport and almost all of the school subjects.