Dinner Table Debate: What is the difference between 'Pretending' and 'Lying'?

Sit down with your family and discuss our new 'dinner table debate' question - 'What is the difference between 'pretending' and 'lying'?' Post your answer to the Wallwisher above. There is a house point for every contribution - and the best comment will receive a (small) prize during our celebration assembly on Friday!

Welcome Back, Falcons Girls!

Welcome back to another exciting year at the Falcons School for Girls: 'West London's Most Creative Preparatory School', girls! We have so much to look forward to this year, including the play, Residential Week and our new Apple technology!

Year Five Homework
Please complete the 'Daydreamer' comprehension. Answer all of the questions, please.

Revise how to read a comprehension passage here: https://fsg.wikispaces.com/Year+5+Comprehension+Autumn+2008-9
P.S. The wiki page for our first compostition unit is here.

Your class reader this term is Jane Blonde.

Year Six Homework
Please complete the 'Dallas & Florida' comprehension.

Due: Friday.

Your class reader is Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror. Our first composition unit is on revising how to plan a story.

Year Five Holiday Homework

Our Year Five Summer Holiday Homework is designed to prepare you for the challenge of 11+ English.

Don't forget to click on the link for 11+ revision booklets, posters and mp3 podcasts to download to your iPod!

Recommended Reading Books can be found here; Year Six topics - including Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror, Sherlock Holmes, Oliver Twist, Dracula and Noir Fiction - can be found here.

Have a fantastic summer holiday - and I can't wait for the fun learning to come in 2011-12!

An Inspector Calls...

Next week, the Falcons School for Girls will be welcoming a team of inspectors. How can you prepare, girls?

1. Watch these two videos;
2. Make sure your dress and hair - including hair ties - is immaculate;
3. Polish your shoes
4. Tidy your pencil case and bag. Do you have all the correct pens?

We can't wait to impress the inspectors with our learning!

Free Song for your iPod: The Semi-Colon Song

Something new from West London's Most Creative Preparatory School: you can now download one of our songs and play it on your iPod!

FREE DOWNLOAD
Click here to download a copy of Year Five singing The Semi-Colon Song. Once downloaded, it will play in your iTunes just like a Lady Gaga or Take That song - and you can then put it on your iPod!

By listening to the song, you'll be able to revise how to use semi-colons in a way you'll remember!

(Photo by Andrew; used under Creative Commons agreement)

World Maths Day 2010 Competition Entry

Year Six are entering the World Maths Day video competition. Girls are completing this work all by themselves; yes, all the camera and editing work was completed by the students!

Enjoy the first completed video from two superstar students:

Alpha Plus Year Six Noir Videos

Thanks to Mr Churchill, our IT guru, we've been able (finally!) to share our Noir stories! Click and enjoy!

We love to share our writing using video, through our school YouTube channel, FalconsTube.

Alpha Plus Group's Falcons School for Girls is West London's Most Creative Preparatory School!

The Falcons School for Girls is West London's most creative preparatory school. Up until now, I've been restricted to what I could share on the blog; from today, I have written permission to post videos and photographs taken in the school. This means it will be easier to share our brilliant kinaesthetic, visual and musical learning with the world!

Thanks to Miss Spurling for creating this brilliant video of our Falcon Time activities.