This week we are having a Creative Arts Week in school. We are taking part in a project run by The National Gallery called ‘Take One Picture’. Every year the gallery chooses a picture as a stimulus for schools to develop children’s enjoyment and creativity through cross-curricular work. This year’s picture is ‘The Umbrellas’ by Renoir.

Lots going on this week

So far Year 5 have enjoyed two days working with Mrs Davies on dance and some musicians from years 4,5 and 6 have used ideas from the painting and composed a song and aninstrumental piece of music with a local composer, Geof Edge. Our artist in residence, Jane Burden has been busy felt making with Year 6, creating portraits with Year 3 and Year 4 are looking forward to weaving large umbrellas later in the week.

More creative art being produce today

Do come along to the exhibition of our work on Friday from 2.30 onwards in the hall.

We Are One Live Show

On Saturday, around 40 children from Years 5 and 6 performed in Weymouth Town Centre to raise awareness of our ChildLine fundraising project. The show started with an energetic dance routine of ‘You Can’t Stop The Beat’ (from Hairspray the musical), which was then followed by three show-stopping songs from the WRJS choir. The finale of the day was a live performance by the ‘We Are One’ group, which was extremely well received. During the afternoon, the public were encouraged to support ChildLine by donating money. We were overwhelmed by the generosity of everyone and are delighted to tell you that we raised £358!

Well done to all the children who took part in the day and a huge thank you to everyone who supported us. We couldn’t have done it without you.

Mrs Garland

We are one.

As part of the We Are One project, we have organised a street performance of the ‘We Are One’ song, along with performances from the school choir and dancers. The performance will take place in Weymouth town centre ,  Saturday 20th June. There will be two perfomances, the first starting at 12:30pm and the second starting at 2:00 pm.

In the meantime, please feel free to visit www.we-are-one.co.uk to watch the music video, find out more about the project and why we are trying to raise money for Childline. You will also be able to pre-order the track for just 97p.

You can also watch We Are One performing in front of the school that we filmed last week. It’s up on our You Tube Channel so you can only view it from home at the moment. Please click the following link to view the video. We are one perfoming at wyke.

Today we were lucky enough to be visited by members of Weymouth Fire Brigade. They showed us around their fire engine and gave  us demonstrations of the fire-fighting equipment. They also gave a presentation to the school about fire safety and talked about the importance of having a working smoke alarm in your house.

Weymouth Fire Fighters.

Today Mr. West introduced us to the newest addition to his family. Baby Nancy was born on Tuesday 9th June and weighed in at a healthy 9lbs. She is absolutely beautiful and a perfect addition to the West family.

Mr West and baby Nancy.

This week on Wednesday & Thursday lots of our musicians are taking part in ‘Music for a Summer Evening’. There is music from YR3 - recorders, flutes, oboes, clarinets, violins, guitars, brass, recorder band and drumming club. A real feast for your ears.

Some of the acts that will be playing.

On Friday  morning, the girls from ‘We Are One’ were broadcast on Wessex FM. They explained why they wanted to raise money for ChildLine and even had the opportunity to sing the song live! This will hopefully make the local community aware of what we are trying to achieve and encourage people to download the song.

We are one visit Wessex FM

On Sunday, Maria Greenwood talked to the ‘We Are One’ group as part of her unplugged broadcast. She asked the girls about the song and explained that Wessex FM will be supporting the project all the way.

We are one with Maria Greenwood.

The official version of the song was played and information about how to download it was given out. Lets hope that all this publicity helps us raise lots of money for ChildLine.

You can listen to the broadcasts by clicking the following links.

We are one unplugged broadcast from Sunday

We are one breakfast show from Friday morning.

Well done girls!
Mrs Garland

You may well remember a while back that we planted a lot of sunflower seeds. You will be pleased to know that the plants are all doing well. So well in fact, that two of the plants have already flowered. The others will no doubt be out in full bloom soon.

First Sun Flower.

Congratulations to Amy in Year 6  for creating the best pavement art out of the competitors from Wyke. Amy will be going through to the finals in London to be held later in the year.

The winning picture.

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