Animal Science!

Year 6 have been learning about the vertebrate classification system for different animals.  Vertebrate can be subdivided into five major groups: fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals

Mrs Loizos, our Science teacher brought in some different creatures, including a corn snake, budgerigar, goldfish, a gerbil and a tarantula for the children to study.

Photos by Kody

(except for the tarantula!)

CPR Training

Sally (a fully trained paramedic), from the Isle of Wight NHS Trust, came in to deliver a CPR training workshop.

The precise number of cardiac arrests in the UK each year is uncertain, but is thought to be up to 60,000. In England the ambulance services attempt resuscitation in approximately 28,000 people, of whom less than 10% survive. 270 children die every year of sudden cardiac arrest at school, and four of every five cardiac arrests that happen out of hospitals occur in the home, yet often nobody starts CPR because they don’t know what to do. By the time the emergency services arrive valuable time has been lost and, in many cases, the chance of survival has been lost also.

Knowing that, where better to start than school children?

    African Drumming Workshop

    Wednesday morning, the whole of Year 6 took part in an amazing African drumming workshop. Every child had the opportunity to play an African instrument, whether it was the goblet drum, the bongo or the djembe.

    In Western societies, playing the drums is mostly for entertainment or to add to the musicality of a song. In African culture, the drum has a deep symbolic and historic significance.

    And it was really good fun!!!