Friday, 21 December 2018
Happy Christmas!
Two very different Assemblies!
At the end of a very busy term the school enjoyed two very different but very special assemblies! On Wednesday 19th December the whole school filled the hall for a very energetic 12 Days of Christmas. The next day, by complete contrast our Year 2 pupils shared their Christingles - telling us all about the meaning of each element of the symbolic object and sang Away in a Manger so beautifully, leaving us feeling very festive indeed.
Christmas at All Saints Church
On Thursday 20th December, on a beautiful sunny morning Silverhill Primary walked to All Saints Church for a lovely Christmas service. Thank you to the school choir and our Year 6 readers who kept each of the services running smoothly and also to the parents and adults who joined the three groups during the walk. It was beautiful setting to remember the true meaning of Christmas.
Mr Burley
Our amazing PTFA
You may have noticed that the new climbing area has now
been completed in the Junior Playground, this was spearheaded by the PTFA's previous
Chair Julie and has made a massive impact on the children's free times. In
total the PTFA contributed £3500 to this project - definitely money well spent,
thank you all for making it possible!
Hansel and Gretel Theatre Trips
Year 3 children enjoyed a trip to see a
performance of Hansel and Gretel at Derby Theatre on 6th December
2018. We were the first group of school
children to arrive at the theatre and were seated straight away. The children
were an absolute credit to our school, waiting patiently, full of anticipation
and excitement. They watched in awe as the cast of about eight performers not
only acted but also sang, danced and played a variety of musical instruments.
It really brought to life the story that we had been reading in English earlier
that week. The ice-creams in the interval were a big hit
too! A fantastic performance with fantastic children and super organisation by
Derby Theatre.To round of an extremely busy and exciting first term, Years 4 and
5 went to watch Hansel and Gretel at Derby Theatre. We knew we were in for a
treat when we arrived, with front row seats and a magnificent set design! We
watched with great anticipation as the trail of breadcrumbs led us into the
deep, dark forest, where we were then greeted by a delicious house made of
sweets! However, we held tightly to our seats, as the wicked witch soon had us
under her spell!
Mrs Hardy
Mrs Hardy
Mrs McBride
It's behind you Year 2!
On Friday 14th December Year 2 visited Derby Arena to see "Jack and the Beanstalk". All the children enjoyed the fantastic show which was full of fun and laughter and lots of songs. We are all singing and clapping along by the end. A great way to end a very busy and exciting term.
Mrs Goodchild
Thursday, 20 December 2018
Leigh Timmis inspires our Year 6
Leigh Timmis is a world record breaking, round the world cyclist and Year 6 had the opportunity to meet him and listen to his inspirational story. As part of a whole day arranged for us by Cycle Derby, Leigh spoke to the children about believing in themselves and dreaming big and how, if they set their mind to it, they could achieve anything they wished for.
Leigh, who had previously spent seven years on a mammoth 44,000-mile cycle across the globe, left the most western tip of Europe – Cabo da Roca in Portugal – on September 10th, intent on breaking the existing record of 24 days.
He arrived at the most Eastern tip in Ufa, Russia, close to the border of Kazakhstan, having completed the 3,956-mile (6330km) ride in an extraordinary 16 days, 10 hours and 45 minutes.
Leigh told Year 6 that it was an epic journey across ten countries through heat, through exhaustion, through everything they could imagine.
Leigh’s journey took him though 10 countries: Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, before arriving in Russia.
He averaged around 250 miles a day, cycling 14 hours a day.
A truly phenomenal man with a phenomenal story - thank you Leigh!
Foundation Stage Church visit
A Fantastic Finish for Year 6
A Truly Fantastic Finish for Year 4
Year
4’s Visit to the CAPITAL! What a FABULOUS FINISH!
On Thursday 14th December, the Year 4 children had an
extremely early start (6:45am at school to be precise!) to the day, as the
long-awaited trip to LONDON was about to begin…
Arriving in London, we were soon able to
spot some of the infamous landmarks that we had been learning about in our
Theme work all term! We visited Buckingham Palace – Her Majesty was at home! We
had the most wonderful, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to visit the Houses of
Parliament, where we lucky enough to sit in the House of Lords whilst the Arch
Bishop of Canterbury was delivering a speech! This was topped off by a workshop
and a visit from an actual LORD! We encountered the extremely regal ‘Changing
of the Guards’ and got up close with Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflower’ painting in the
National Gallery.
We spent the evening walking around
Trafalgar Square and soaked up the festive feel as we had our photo taken in
Covent Garden. This was all topped off by a visit to The Cambridge Theatre
where we watched the West End version of, ‘Matilda’ the musical.
On our second day, we had time to visit
the Natural Science Museum and take part in some awesome ‘hands-on’ science
experiments in the Wonderlab and our very own Professor Felix was chosen to
take part in the ‘Flash, Bang, Wallop’ live experiment! We all then rode the
London Eye, with many of us overcoming our fear of heights. We had the most
fabulous view over London! We then managed to experience the 4D show!
We managed to complete all of this in just
two days and clocked-up sixteen and a half miles on foot.
Both the staff and the children have
created memories for life! Here’s to next time….
A Fantastic Finish for Year 3
Year 3 finished their
‘Prehistoric Britain’ theme in a blaze of glory, huddled around the fire pit,
just like our Stone Age ancestors! Mr
Seeley acted as chief Cave Man, starting and maintaining the fire safely. We aren’t sure if the Stone Age people would
have toasted marshmallows on their fires, but it seemed a shame to waste the
opportunity. We all enjoyed a cosy and
fun ‘fantastic finish’ to our wonderful topic!
Mrs Hall
Key Stage 1 Nativity
What fabulous performances our Year 1 and 2 children gave on 11th and 12th December. They performed ‘A Midwife Crisis’ which tells the traditional Christmas story with a twist! The Sparrows were angels, the Swallows were sheep and the Year 2 children played the main roles. The singing was as beautiful as ever and a special mention has to go to Jude for his wonderful portrayal of Steve the donkey and to Alice, our incredible, if a little stroppy, midwife! Well done everyone.
Mrs Brundish
A fantastic Finish for Year 5
On the 5th December, Year 5
visited Jodrell Bank for the Fantastic Finish at the end of their Space topic.
They took part in different hands- on science activities and tested their
science knowledge during two team building workshops – Solar System Science and
Mars Rover Challenge. Even though the weather let us down, a great day
was had by all!
Foundation Stage Nativity
Christmas truly began at Silverhill with the FS2 Nativity! We performed to the school as well as to our parents and families and although we were maybe a little nervous, we were so excited to be able to share the hard work we had put in to learning all the songs. We raised the roof with our singing and told the story beautifully. Although special mentions have to go to Bobby and Chloe who played Joseph and Mary, Freya as the Angel Gabriel, Amelie as the Star and not forgetting Felix the Donkey, every single child performed brilliantly and it was a real team effort. All the FS2 staff were so proud to see the children performing confidently in front of our audiences. Well done everyone!
Mrs Allen
Year 3/4 Football
Monday, 10 December 2018
Super Tess Saving Polar Bears
Thanks to everyone who supported Tessa in her drive to raise money to adopt a polar bear. Tessa had been very busy at home baking cakes and making a wide range of gifts. Along side this, by selling hot chocolate at home time in some very cold weather, the total raised was £119.38! Amazing - now we can afford to adopt two polar bears and one penguin! Thank you to everyone who supported Tess (including Solomon for braving the cold and rain while manning the stall!)
Future at Silverhill
Mr Gallagher and Mrs Roberts have written to all parents
and stakeholders of Silverhill to gain their opinions and ideas about what the
future for Silverhill could look like.
This Review of Silverhill life is currently in phase 1 with
a window of opportunity for everyone with a vested interest in Silverhill to
share their thoughts by 21st December.
In January selected
stakeholders will be invited to explore Silverhill’s potential future in more
detail.
By the second half of the spring term the intention is to form a small
team of representatives from each of the stakeholder groups that will feed
ideas into our future plans.
For more information regarding this exciting project please
see the letters section of our website.
Super SPIRIT for Macmillan Cancer Support
Alice’s coffee morning took place on her parents’ farm, in
the barn that houses their egg vending machine, and customers to the farm were
enticed by a range of tasty cakes and drinks. She also bolstered her funds by
putting on a few games, a tombola and a ‘guess the weight of the pumpkin’.
Le’s coffee morning took place at his house where he too
entertained his visitors with a range of activities to improve his fundraising
potential. ‘Stick the cherry on the cake’ & a ‘make the best train
competition’ kept the coffee lovers amused and happy to part with their money
for a worthy cause.
Together Alice and Le raised a fantastic amount of £305.60!
So great to see our children living our SPIRIT values out of school and for the
benefit of others – well done you two!
Friday, 7 December 2018
Christmas jumper and dinner day!
Our wonderful dinner staff have done it again! It may only be the 4th December, but Christmas has arrived at Silverhill! With everyone in their Christmas jumpers, Sally and the kitchen team served a fabulous Christmas dinner to all the pupils and staff whilst our super team of midday supervisors made sure there was a sprinkling of Christmas magic in the hall! Thank you teams for starting Christmas at Silverhill so wonderfully!
Young Journalist Academy
This year, pupils in the Barn Owls are working with Toni, a
trained journalist from the Young Journalist Academy. After the er first two visits this term steps are now well underway process of creating our own School Newsroom and have been busy researching some
amazing current news stories. Hopefully, we will be publishing some of
our writing on the Young Journalist Academy website. Exciting times ahead! Look out on the blog next term for more details on where you will be able to read our work!
Postman and Postlady visit
Robins and Wrens were very excited on Friday 30th November as we had a visit from a real life post man and post lady! We have been learning all about the Jolly Postman, as well as people who help us so we had had lots of questions for our visitors. They told us all about where they deliver their letters and parcels, and what they have to watch out for, including unfriendly dogs and fingers trapped in letterboxes. We found out what happens to a parcel if the person isn't in and they even gave us some 'sorry we missed you' cards for our post office role play in the classroom. Thank you so much to Mr Bains and Mrs Allen (not that one!) for coming to visit us.
Dragon at Silverhill!
Key Stage 2 children made their first steps towards becoming
the next Alan Sugar or Deborah Meaden by pitching their entrepreneurial plans
to the Silverhill Dragons!
Enterprise ideas for stalls and games for the Christmas Fair
were pitched in a Dragons’ Den style experience to Mr Gallagher, Mr Coupland
& Mrs Haywood. The goal was to achieve up to a £25 investment to support
the resourcing of their plans.
It wasn’t all plain sailing for the children as the Dragons
showed their teeth and refused to invest fully in both Year 5 & 6 projects.
Optimistic pricing strategies, confusion over profit margins and issues with suppliers’
costs gave the Dragons plenty to query and doubt!
The Year 3 & 4 projects ,however,
stole the dragons’ hearts and purse strings
with poems and songs to bring their pitches alive! Mayia and Jack pictured above acquired a £15 investment for their Pom Pom baubles!!
Despite the Y5/6 entrepreneurs leaving the Den with their
tails between their legs they did return a week later with improvements to
their business plans and won the confidence of the Dragons to secure their full
investments!
All in all, it was great fun and a worthy financial
education experience! Big thanks to Mrs Haywood, Mrs Jervis and the PTFA for
coming up with the idea and funding the projects.
Wednesday, 5 December 2018
Year 3/4 Spellathon
A massive well done to all the Y3/4 children and thank you to the sponsors who gave their support to the Spellathon. We have raised almost £1000 to buy reading books and class books for Lower Key Stage 2.
The children were given twenty words to learn from the Y3/4 spelling list and many got them all correct! Now let’s see them applied to your everyday writing!
Congratulations to all of you, your teachers are very proud!
Tuesday, 4 December 2018
Year 5/6 Gymnastics
On Thursday 29th November Silverhill competed in
the Year 5/6 Gymnastic Competition held at Mickleover Gymnastics Club. We competed in two Groups, Team A and Team B. Each gymnast had to perform two floor
routines and one vault. Schools from all over Derby were there and we were hoping to
do well, as we were Gold Winners last year.
We started on the Vault with a practice and then two real
performances. Our best score was the one
which went through. We then moved to the floor where we were given time to stretch
and practice our movements.
The first
performance was Body Management. This
involves demonstrating core strength skills and every gymnast has to perform
the exact same routine. Some examples of
moves are Dish where your back is pressed firmly into the floor, your squeeze
your stomach muscles and keep your chin on your chest while your legs are held
10cms from the floor. This position has
to be held for at least 2 seconds. Japana is where you sit on the floor with your back straight
and your legs stretched out. You then
lower yourself, keeping your knees pressed to the floor and toes pointed, until
your tummy is touching the floor.
Other skills were Press Up, Splits (right leg, box and left
leg) and Bridge. We all showed fantastic strength and performed their routine showing
great flexibility.
Next it was time for the Floor Exercise. This is where you
have to perform 6 skills which you can choose from a list of 10. Some of these are: Round off, Y balance,
Backward roll to straddle, Handstand forward roll, Bridge and Splits. You can then either just perform these moves
on their own or you can link them by adding dance, leaps and spins to travel
and use more of the floor space.
The more schools we watched, the more nervous we became! When it was finally our time, we knew that we had to show off
and perform our best. Our routines were energetic but graceful at the same
time. We all remembered our sequences
and were happy with our performances. We showed great Silverhill Spirit by being strong,
persevering, respecting other schools when they were competing and well
behaved!
Mrs Brundish and Mr Turner were very proud of us all and were
very impressed with our creativity with adding dance and extra travelling
moves.
A big well done to Year 5/6! Team A placed 1st and Team B placed joint 3rd. This meant that Silverhill were overall WINNERS. Congratulations to Maisy who placed 3rd individually.
By Tess (Year 6)
Fitness is Fun
Futsal Champions
Congratulations to our Year 4/5 Futsal City Champions! (5-a-side football with a smaller heavier ball). We are very proud of Oliver, Henry, George, Ben, Harry, Issac and Rehan...and of course Coach of the Year Mr Turner who, on Tuesday 27th November traveled to Noel Baker School for the Derby City SSP Futsal competition! Special mention to George for his superb display in goal; an inspired goalkeeping performance saw us win gold, beating Chellaston Juniors 1-0 in an extremely tight final.
Well done to everyone involved in another sporting triumph for Silverhill🌟🤩🥇 - City Futsal Champions!!
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