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Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Great End to the Year
Sun 26 Jul 2015Today our cricket team won 2 games out of 3 whilst taking part in the Test Match Trophy Tournament at Trent Bridge Cricket Ground. On a wet and windy day we had to play indoors. After being set 210 to win in the first game against Forest Town from Mansfield, we batted sensibly to score 221. In the second match the team were well beaten by 69 runs against IPSCC from Nottingham. Our final match was a local derby against the Bramcote Bears. They set 219 when they batted. The team batted sensibly and won comfortably by 12 runs.
It was a great way to say goodbye to our Year 6 children: Dylan, Connor and Richard. It also gave us a hint of our bright future in Tyler, Ben, James and captain Danny. Well done to all and many thanks to the parents on a miserable day. Many thanks to Miss Richards and Mr. Mapplebeck for their support all day.
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End of a busy year
Thu 23 Jul 2015The end of a busy year has arrived and it feels like we have only just begun! I have loved getting to know everyone and starting to move Albany Juniors in a new direction. The staff, children, governors and parents have been fantastic and generally very supportive. Many thanks to everybody and I hope you all have a very restful summer break.
Best wishes
Mr. Robertson
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Summer Fayre
Mon 20 Jul 2015A massive thank you to everyone involved in our Summer Fayre on Friday 17th July. We made a fantastic £647! So whether you donated prizes, helped run a stall, or came along and spent your hard earned cash, you contributed to a fantastic event. It was lovely to see parents and pupils currently attending school, new pupils and of course old friends who popped along to stay hello. Thank you also to the staff for their support....very much appreciated!
A huge thank you also to the Friends of Albany, who made the event a great success, raising £423 of the total money raised.
Thank you also to Georgia Purvis and Natalie James, who are Year 6 pupils in Cedar Class. They ran the sweet treats stall and donated their £28 profit to school. A lovely gesture. Well done girls :)
In addition to all of this wonderful work, each class was set the challenge of running their stall at the fayre. Our Enterprise project saw the children undertake budgeting, marketing and running their own stalls. The class making the most profit was HOLLY CLASS with a total of profit of £45.05. However collectively 7 classes made a fabulous £196.05 profit.
Well done everyone, an amazing achievement.
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Jorvik Viking Centre
Fri 10 Jul 2015As part of our summer topic, Year 4 have been looking at the role of the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings in Britain. In order to really understand daily life of the Vikings we had the opportunity to visit the JORVIK Viking centre in York.
During our visit, we worked with a modern day Viking witch, who was very convincing! She shared some examples of Viking costume with us and some children even got the chance to take on the role of a Viking noble or slave. We got to see first-hand what a Viking would have looked like during their time in Britain and learnt all about the different weapons they carried, what they represented and how they were used. The shield really came in handy when the Viking witch showed us how the hook axe works.
We travelled through time back at the JORVIK centre, where we stood on the remains of a 1000 year old Viking house excavated by the archaeologists at York. The remains showed us just how small the houses were and our Viking guide explained that there could be up to 14 people sharing one house; without any beds! After that, we entered a ride and took a tour through a Viking town recreated by the archaeologists based on what they found during their dig. During the ride we saw different Vikings at work; we could smell the fire from the forge, the stew from the houses and even saw the old man on the toilet.
Our Viking guide showed us some famous discoveries under the microscope and we had a chance to explore the JORVIK museum in more detail.
Throughout the day we had the chance to ask lots of different questions to the various Vikings and learned about how different life would have been during this time in Britain.
Everyone who came on the trip thoroughly enjoyed their day and were well impressed with the children’s behaviour. All staff were proud of everyone and their attitude towards learning during the day. A great success!!
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The National Holocaust Centre and Museum
Tue 07 Jul 2015As part of our WWII work, we had the privilege of visiting The National Holocaust Centre and Museum. We had the opportunity to experience what life was like for Leo Stein, who was a Jewish boy during this period of History. We embarked on a journey of his life, showing where he lived with his family and also the impact the German’s had on his life, his family, their business and how he eventually became an evacuee.
During the visit the pupils met a survivor of the war. Joan Salter is a child survivor of the Holocaust. Born Fanny Zimetbaum in Brussels on 15 February 1940 to Polish Jewish parents, she was three months old when Belgium was invaded by the Nazis.
She shared with us her account and experience during the war and how she came to have 2 families. An American mother and father, who fostered her after she was moved to an orphanage in the USA. As well as the pressures of being reunited with her birth parents.
Pupils also had the opportunity to ask questions.
The upper school teaching team were incredibly impressed with the way the Year 5 and 6 pupils conducted themselves throughout the day. Their super behaviour, respect for their learning environment and thoughtful question was noted. It was a pleasure to have taken them.
The team who worked with us on the day were equally impressed and I’m delighted to show below the email they sent to Mr Robertson. Well done Year 5 & 6, you have really done us proud!
Dear Mr Robertson,
I am writing to thank you for enabling the visit of your year five and six pupils to the National Holocaust Centre and Museum to take place on the 24th June. Their learning in the Journey exhibition was conducted by myself and my colleague Linda, and we were both highly impressed with their superb approach to the day. The fantastic ideas of the students, their level of knowledge and their excellent questions all contributed to a highly thought-provoking and reflective session. The willingness of the pupils to engage with questions of identity, respect and care for others- and their maturity in addressing these difficult issues, was also excellent. There were outstanding individual ideas and questions raised and the willingness of all the pupils to contribute clearly and confidently to ensure that they learned as much as they possibly could from the day, was absolutely fantastic.
Please accept my thanks again for enabling such a wonderful visit to take place.
With very best wishes,
Louise Stafford
The National Holocaust Centre and Museum.
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