The Highwayman - retold

We have been studying Alfred Noyes's 'The Highwayman' this half term. As a culmination of this, we have attempted to rework the poem as a narrative. We broke the poem down into five sections to show the introduction, build up, problem, resolution and ending. We then looked at what sentence types and vocabulary we could use.

Here are out efforts:

IntoFilm Festival 2018

Today we took part in the awesome IntoFilm Fesitval. We were lucky enough to be given the opportunity to allow all children from Years 4, 5 and 6 to visit a cinema to watch one of the films being shown as part of the festival. We visited the Odeon cinema in Sarn, Bridgend to watch a film with a personal link to our school.

On Tuesday 20th March this year, we were incredibly fortunate to be treated to an industry visit from IntoFilm, who arranged for Aardman animations to come to our school. Jim Parkyn, a senior model maker from Aardman came into our class to talk to use about animation and model making and then held a workshop into making a model of Hognob from their Early Man movie. Jim even left his model of Hognob for us in school.

With this in mind, there was only one possible film from the IntoFilm Festival list that we had to go to see. We decided that we had to complete the cycle and take Hognob back to see himself on the big screen.

We all thoroughly enjoyed the film and the experience of visiting a cinema with all of our classmates and friends.

Llanharan War Memorial research

As part of our topic looking at the First World War, our Year 5 & 6 class has been researching the names of the soldiers who fell in World War One and are listed on the Llanharan War Memorial.

We used the internet, historical documents and put a request for information in the Diary. We received emails, phone calls and letters from relatives of names listed on the memorial.

We have compiled our information and put them together on a video, showing our research. The pupils chose royalty free music that they thought would be appropriate for the content matter. 

We wanted to share this research with the community, as we believe that these 20 men need to be remembered.

Here's our video:

The Highwayman predictions...from Fleetwood Mac!

We are starting our new author focus looking at Alfred Noyes 'The Highwayman'. Instead of looking at the poem, we watched the video from Fleetwood Mac's 1987 song 'Everywhere' which is based on the poem.

We watched the video once all the way through and then a second time, stopping at points the pupils thought were important or interesting.

Then we wrote what we thought the story was about based on what the events of the video gave us.

Here are some of our efforts:

Here is the video we watched:

Bringing our heroes to life

As part of our World War One topic, 'Fallen Fields' we are giving ourselves a massive project. We are attempting to find out as much as we can about those who fell in battle in WW1 whose names can be found on the Llanharan War memorial on Hillside Avenue.

We all walk past it everyday but how much do we know about those people who gave the ultimate sacrifice?

This is going to be a massive task to find out information. We are hoping the people in the community and beyond will be able to help us with information.

We want to find out:

How did they die?

What was their service number?

When were they born?

When did they die?

Where in Llanharan did they live?

How old were they when they died?

Does anyone in Llanharan have any connections or information about these men?

Where are they buried?

Please help us, as we think they should be celebrated.

The names of those on the memorial are:

Lieutenant James Griffith Williams

2nd Lieutenant Jack Evans

Corporal William James Jones

Driver Edward Brown

Driver Henry Farnham

Gunner Sidney Worgan

Private David H. Worgan

Private Charles E. Worgan

Private William Cottrell

Private Charles Robert Cottrell

Private Reginald Sheppard

Private Ernest Beavington

Private George Merry

Private Francis Coles

Private Henry Lewis

Private George Williams

Private Thomas W. Wyatt

Sergeant Richard Smith

Lance Corporal Lionel Henry Lander

Private Thomas E. Worgan