Choir Kaya

                      Choir is really fun and good for your voices. Also at Christmas you get to do concerts to your parents  .  Every Tuesday after school you fly down to the music studio. Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 are invited .Bring a tasty treat because before we sing Miss Mc Williams lets us have a snack!!!Also in November ! ! ! ! !Come join choir and you'll meet a lot of new friends

My time with the chicks

                                      

Yesterday afternoon my class and I went for a visit to year R to see the baby chicks. They were so cute! It was amazing. Luckily, we came at the right time so then we could see a chick (she was a girl) who was hatching right in front of our eyes. I didn’t expect to see new life. It looked as if it was hard work for the chick to escape from the hard egg.I thought this because as its little hand/leg came out from the egg from my point of view it had a little rest in between. As the other new born chicks rolled around  the still hatching chick got back to work. Unfortunately, it was soon home time for our class so we had to leave in a hurry.  We had such a splendid time, I would love to see the chicks again. I hope all 10 chicks will hatch. I repeat I would LOVE to see those chicks again. 

By Lydia 5KA

 

The cute chicks are hatching

The 2 boys and 2 girls are talking to each other

My time with the chicks

 

My time with the chicks was really cool because all the chicks were funny and cute. As the eggs opened, I felt a special, happy glow in myself, for we were experiencing live new life. WONDERFUL! Luckily, we saw a chick hatching and I must say, it must have been extremely hard work, for the chick kept trying to take the cracked egg off its back. Some of my classmates thought the egg on the chick's back was a protective backpack. The chicks that had already hatched, were having a fight and they kept falling over. I would love to see the chicks again!

By Darren 5KA

 

 

 

 

The chicks are having a meeting.



KES IT Club

Every Thursday, starting from 11th January, 14 students from Year 6 attend the after-school IT Club run by King Edwards. This is a great privilege as these children were especially chosen due to their advanced IT skills. 

A quote from two students attending the club: “We love the IT club! It is a really enjoyable experience and we feel very lucky to have been chosen.”

We would like to thank King Edwards for providing us all with this opportunity.

Freya and Isobel Year 6

Year 5 at Mass

On Friday the 5th of January Yrs 3,4,5 ( Key stage 2 ) took part in a religious mass lead by Father Anthony.

The mass was to celebrate the arrival of the three Kings about twelve days after Christmas 🎄. This event is called the Epiphany or a sudden realisation.

Within scriptures and communion we sang Blessed are you lord, We three kings, Glory to God and many more hymns.

William said, "I enjoyed the singing and the soloists were great ".

Harriet said, " It was very nice and we learned a lot about the Epiphany. I know that now most pupils
know what Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh symbolise”.

Kenneth said, “ I enjoyed it and it was very religious”.

Drawing of the nativity by Elsie (Year 2)

By Pippa and Analiese Year 5

Southampton Lower Schools Cross Country Championships

On Friday 10th March, sixteen girls and sixteen boys from Springhill Years 3 and 4 classes participated in the cross country race. Out of a total of about eighty girls from schools throughout the city, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd placed runners in the girls' race attend our school.
Francesca (Year 3) won 1st place. She said, "I felt proud that I came 1st and I was exhausted after all of that running but felt good that I represented the school well!"
Sophie (Year 3) won 2nd place. She said, "I was really happy when I came 2nd but next time I would like to be 1st!"
Harriet (Year 4) won 3rd place. She said, "The race was very interesting and I was so excited when I came 3rd."
In the boys' race, out of more than one hundred boys from Southampton schools taking part, the top three finishers from Springhill were Aidan (2nd place), Albert (8th) and Hal (10th).


Springhill Lower School Cross Country Runners

All children that took part had fun and agreed it was an enjoyable experience.


Shelly, Isobel, Freya and Matthew 5AH

Southampton Music Festival

On the 16th March, the Springhill Choir participated in the Southampton Music and Drama Festival. The Music Festival involved 6 schools all singing different songs. There were two sections for the competition and the songs sung in the first half were: Eye of the Tiger, Rollercoaster, Let Love Shine Through and Siahumba. We Will Rock You, Colours of the Wind, McCavity, The Mystery Cat and Consider Yourself were all sung in the second half. Our school sang McCavity,

The Mystery Cat and we were told we did excellently! Mrs McWilliams (our conductor and teacher)  allowed us to have solos and the soloists were: Freya, Beatrice, Pippa, Sara, Isobel and Natalia.

Soon after everyone had sung their song/s they announced the winners! Everyone was buzzing with excitement to find out and the anticipation was rising throughout the Auditorium. This is what the judges said: "We enjoyed all of the performances however we can only choose one winner..." everyone crossed their fingers and the judges continued "...with 86 points, the winner is SPRINGHILL PRIMARY with McCavity The Mysery Cat!!"

ALL of Springhill Choir screamed and consequently nearly lost their voices!

It was an amazing experience and everyone had SO much fun! We were even invited to the Festival Gala on the 24th March!


Freya & Shelly 5SP

Choir Performance / Competition

On Thursday 16th March 2017, the choir went to Thornden School to perform 'Macavity, The Mystery Cat' from the musical 'Cats'.
Elvina and I introduced the choir and we competed against five other schools.

We came first and were so good that we were invited to perform at a Gala on the 24th March 2017.
We won a trophy for our school and are very proud.


Maddy 5SP

Dance Mats Competition

On Tuesday the 14th of March we had a dance mat competition as we do every single year.

The winner was: Sofia

The winner's partner: Mia

A quote from the winner: "It was very difficult but I tried my best and then I won!"

A quote from the winner's partner: "It was difficult and I felt really good for Sofia, the class winner."

It was very enjoyable and we all had a great time. Year 5 would recommend the dance mats to all.

On the dance mats

Freya, Isobel, Shelly and (photographer) Nicholas 5AH

Girls' 6-a-side football tournament

On Wednesday 18th May, thirteen of us drove to Test Park in the St. George Catholic School minibus. Eighteen teams were there to play in the Girls' 6-a-side football tournament. The 'A' team finished second in their group whilst the 'B' team were seventh. In the semi-final we lost 2-0 to Ludlow but we all had great fun!


Girls' 6-a-side Football 'A' team



Girls' 6-a-side Football 'B' team

Charlotte 5SP

The Planetarium.

 On the 27th of April, our school was lucky enough to have someone to show us some of the planets in a planetarium ! It was a large circular shape that is pumped up and zipped. Inside there was a large area where we sat and we saw a large image of a grassland. The man used a pointer device to change that image  from day to night and when it was night, he put us onto Jupiter.  Then the man took us to Pluto which is now considered a dwarf planet because of its size.

 After that, we had time to go on a virtual roller coaster to Saturn that ended in a crash! But it was marvellous.  As soon as we were all mesmerised by the experience , we learnt about lunar eclipses and how the brightness courses by the sun overlapping the moon . We them watched a short cartoon about what happened in China's lunar eclipse . The cartoon was about the man’s friend who did not had a good experience of the eclipse as the clouds came down and blocked its sight .

Valentino 5ML

Music

Today I'm going to be talking to you about my favourite lesson in school: music . I love music is a great way to express your feelings that's why I love it . We've been doing music ever  since  we were in Foundation and I loved it . Just a couple of weeks ago we were told we were going to start doing performances in groups and just today we performed  in front of the class it took weeks of practice . Are music teacher was going to pick the best group and the winning group would put our video of our recording of our music on our school website . Our teacher Mrs Crighton-Lee and she is the best music teacher you could ever ask for . She knows everything about music she amazing teacher for music . I've loved her as our music teacher and if she ever leaves I will be so sad she great at music . Our performance  was amazing and soon our performance  video will be on the website . I'm so excited about it . I think our performances were great  I can't wait for people to see them on the school website . I sure people will love the sound of the music we made on the interments . The sound we had to make was a space sound  and I thought everyone did great . Someday a person from this class could become a musical person all because Mrs Crighton-Lee helped us with music .

       ,                                                                        Libby 5ML

Planetarium

Last Wednesday a man came in to Springhill and set up a planetarium to show us the planets in the solar system.

First of all, we used a parachute with small nets in it to roll balls the shape of each planet in the solar system into the right net .

After this ,we went into the planetarium and sat on the floor of it . All of a sudden, the light came on and we could see the stars. The man in charge showed us each planet in turn , starting with mercury. Once we had done this,we did a virtual roller coaster of Saturn .

 By Leo 5ML