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Village Voice February/March 2019
SCHOOLS
NEWS ROUND UP
Tylers Green Middle School
Year Group Trips and Events:
Year 3: went on their first school trip with
TGMS to the Bucks County Museum where
they were greeted by staff and split into classes
to visit the different museums. 3R started at the
Roald Dahl Museum where they enjoyed lots of
interactive activities. The children crawled
through Fantastic Mr Fox’s tunnel, went inside
a giant peach and even got shrunk like Mike
Teevee! 3BG began their exciting day looking
around exhibits to do with the local area. In the
afternoon the classes swapped round. All had a
wonderful day, and followed their experience by
a newspaper report for their homework task.
Year 4 News - Egyptian Day: Year 4 had a
wonderful day learning about life in Ancient
Egypt. The children made Egyptian flat breads
which they had designed using ingredients that
would have been used 4000 years ago. They
also had the opportunity to learn about Egyptian
music and learn and perform a traditional dance
from a professional belly dancer. The children
really enjoyed the opportunity to learn about the
past through hands on experience. The British
Museum Earlier this month, both 4K and 4F
were also lucky enough to travel to London to
visit the British Museum. This was a great end
to a thoroughly enjoyable topic. The adults who
attended the trip were very proud of the
children, who were very well behaved and
enthusiastic. The children learnt a lot from being
able to see mummies and other artefacts from
the Ancient Egyptian era in person.
Year 5 update by Ella Hardy: Year 5 have
been really excited to perform the play ‘How
Christmas Came To Be’ which is about how
Christmas started, what Christmas was like
before Jesus was born, and about the present
Christmas that we know and love today. They
worked very hard on all the songs, dances and
lines. We hope whoever came to see it really
enjoyed it. For the Christingle, there are a lot of
songs to learn, which students deeply care
about. Learning a lot of songs is tricky, but year
5 is very motivated, well done to everyone. If
you think that year 5 couldn`t do anything else
Christmassy… then think again! Each student
created their own fantastic Christmas story!
Along with creative fantastic illustrations, the
year is publishing a modern tale of Christmas.
which I’m sure will be amazing.
Year 6 News: Year 6 made a great start to the
year. We based lots of our study on the book
'Journey to the River Sea' By Eva Ibbotson and
made our own journey to a rain forest when we
visited the Living Rain Forest in Thatcham. We
also made an early start to our study of World
War 1 topic for next term due to the offer of a
special visit to the exhibition in Tylers Green
Village Hall. The children took part in activities
and learnt about the local area during 1914. The
first major homework project of 'Countries' has
now been handed in and we are very impressed
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