“In our art lessons Year 4 have been learning about Mayan weaving. This week we made our own weaving frames and used tissue paper to experiment with different combinations of colour. Here's Migle's frame inspired by the colours of the rainbow."
In the Seals English class this week, Year 3 have been reading 'The Iron Man' by Ted Hughes. We have been writing letters as Hogarth to apologise for trapping the Iron Man into the pit. Here is Sophie's fantastic letter!
In the Giraffes class, in PSHE, we have been discussing how we can manage the emotion 'anger'. We filled our 'cups of emotions' with strategies we could use, like counting and taking some deep breaths. Here are some examples of our work.
This week, in Year Four computing, we have been learning about search engines. We spoke about how we needed to search effectively, to get the result pages we needed. Children then had a selection of random questions to work through, changing the questions often to get the right answers.
In the Nightingales, our new history topic this term is the Ancient Mayans. So to launch it we have been researching and making Mayan Mask.
This week, in our computing lesson, the Seals have been using all of our coding knowledge to design and create knowledge to design and create their own interactive scene. Here is Billy's excellent example of his interactive scene: he has used the timer and collision detected commands, including with some objects moving and sounds!
In DT, Owen has been designing, creating, testing and evaluating a 'grabber' style product. He successfully moved objects from one place to another.
In the Nighthawks class this week, we have been researching crocodiles. We have been finding out lots of interesting facts, to help prepare us to write a non-chronological report. This all links to our current book Krindlekrax.
In the Nightingales English lessons, we have been reading Krindlekrax by Philip Ridley. This week we made predictions about what we think is going to happen next in the story. Here is a piece of Alex's writing.
This term in Computing, the Seals have been learning to code on Purple Mash. In this week's lesson we used everything we learnt in coding and started to debug any mistakes. Here is Aria's example of the 'Jumping Monkey' code where she discovered the mistake and corrected it so the code would work successfully.
In the Giraffes class, for English, Audrey has written some brilliant BOBS sentences (but, or, because, so) about Iron Age hill forts. She will then include these in her non-chronological report titled 'Maiden Castle'.
In the Nighthawks class this week, so far this term in English we have been reading Escape from Pompeii. Children have been using powerful verbs to describe what happens, as Mount Vesuvius erupts
