Forgive us if we are a little tired today: we have had a busy time.

In addition to our English and Maths lessons, we have also fitted in

a visit to an ancient tomb. In the dim light we saw strange artifacts

and intricate decorations – or were they a form of writing?

The visit has sparked our curiosity and, among other things, we

would like to know:

Why does the rope have red markers or tassles?

Why are there several different kinds of writing on the stone?

• Why do the weighing scales have no measurements?
• Are the leather pouch things water carriers and if so, why do they have a heavy, stone base?

We will share our findings as we proceed.  In the meantime,

Mum’s the word: we don’t want to attract tomb robbers!

Monday afternoon in November: it must be time to make our Guy!  I wonder if any other class managed theirs in 45 minutes (including tidying up)?

The most popular suggestion in class was Spongebob Squarepants and by the end of the week we had sourced our core materials. We thought about the different tasks that would be involved  to bring him to life and then worked on the table group of our choice. It all came together really well and we even amazed ourselves.

Poor Spongebob SquareGuy – he looks far too cute to be burnt.

In science this week we have been investigating the properties of materials.

We tested a selection of materials to see which were the most flexible, permeable, absorbent, transparent and magnetic. We designed our own fair tests and thought carefully about the variables.

What a lot of science fun and learning we had!

Year 6 children spent Thursday afternoon creating their own classification keys to sort a wide range of different animal types and flowers. Creating the questions to sort the animals and flowers was at times very tricky, but with determination and collaboration they were successful.

Dragon’s Lair

Look what Year 3 found when we walked in the woods!  The children were getting ready to write a good setting for their own myth.

3DP are busy making their ‘Guy’

Inspired by Ted Hughes’ book ‘The Iron Man’ from last term, children started making their own ‘Iron Man’. What colour eyes will they choose?

Year 5 have completed a unit of art work on using oil pastels.

First we tried to make colour matches to paintings on a rainforest theme. Then we looked at how many ways we could blend our pastels to create new colours. We had fun naming our colours. Next, we followed tutorials on YouTube which showed us how to sketch leaves in movement.

We started with a single leaf, then tried multiple leaves.

Finally, we thought of a way to bring all our skills work to an original oil pastel.

Thank you to all those parents who were able to support our Learning Outcome on Tuesday.

Mrs Graham