Musician of the Week!

Inspired by this site, I want you to vote for your favourite of these three pieces of music - all performed by musicians born on January 8th - and we'll play the most popular track at the end of assembly next Monday!

Elvis Presley ('Suspicious Minds')

David Bowie ('Ashes to Ashes')

Shirley Bassey ('Goldfinger')

Welcome Back!

Year Five
Year Five have got a fantastic term ahead - including studying Horror Stories, Persuasive Writing and Comic Fiction.

We're kicking off the term by studying the techniques used to write a horror story. Click here for the (password-protected) Horror stories page on the Falcons School for Girls LP+ VLE.

Weekend homework:
1. Please read one of the stories in Michael Cox's '10 Best Horror Stories' ever; summarise the plot and explain in your own words what makes it scary.

2. The 100 Word Challenge has a new blog: http://100wc.net/
Please enter this week's competition on your Kidblog page (blog won't work? Email me your entry)

Year Six
11+ will soon be done and dusted, and we'll be moving on to three key topics: 'My passion', Poetry and beginning to study Shakespeare in preparation for our School Play, Midsummer Night's Dream.

Please complete the 'Greg' writing task. Make sure you open with a 'perfect' paragraph! Write 1 1/2 sides of A4.



P.S. Enjoy KT and HL's piratepad collaborative story here.

Merry Christmas!

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Christmas Holiday Homework

Merry Christmas, girls! You've worked hard this term and deserve a fantastic break!
To keep your mind ticking over, we've set a few homework tasks. This is particuarly important for Year Six, who start 11+ as soon as we come back in the New Year.

The Year Six Holiday Homework is on our password-protected VLE here.

This includes writing and comprehension tasks - and lots of helpful podcasts and videos, too!

The Year Five Holiday Homework - an introduction to 11+ comprehension - is here.

Have a super holiday, girls!

P.S. Don't forget to keep commenting on Cornelia & McKeel's blog posts, girls!

Our 2012 School Play is A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Wow! We're going to performing Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Waterman's Theatre on June 28th!

Watch the animated Shakespeare version of the play to begin to become familiar with the story:

Blitz Description Soundcloud Podcast

Blitzed! by falconscloud

Listen to Year Four & Five share favourite lines from their 'Blitz; description!

The Apostophe Song & Quadblogging Comments

Please make sure you visit www.byronbloggers.primaryblogger.co.uk & leave some comments on Byron Primary's blog!

Year Six
1. Play the 'Penalty Shoot Out' Apostrophe for Possession game here: http://www.firstschoolyears.com/literacy/word/punctuation/apostrophes/interactive/possapos.swf

2. Please write a short story based on the Edward Gorey handout, entitled 'Dracula'. Write 1 1/2 sides of A4.

Make sure that you write a 'perfect paragraph', setting the scene for your reader.



Year 5 - please complete the 'Blitzed!' story. Include plenty of imaginative adjectives.

Due: Monday.