What a fantastic Design and Technology case study we have enjoyed in our Castle Walls expedition in year 2. The children have designed and built authentic castles with working drawbridges as you have seen in our blog posts this week. This afternoon the children participated in a silent gallery where they evaluated their friends work and then used their comments to produce thoughtful and helpful critiques.
Please enjoy this video which showcases their efforts.
Super proud of you guys!
After the success of our reading competition last term where 2 children won a £25 amazon voucher each, we are going to continue it into the Summer term.
So…whenever your child reads any book, support them to access the link above and answer the brief questions in response to what they’ve read. Every time they complete a quiz, their name will be entered into the draw!
The more quizzes they complete the more chance they stand of winning so good luck to you all!
Day 2 of our castle design project and we have painted our castle walls and drawbridges. I am blown away by the quality of the models you have produced boys and girls. They truly are fit for a king!
Crew Rodgers have spent a wonderful afternoon using our designs to begin building our model castles. We wanted to make sure our castles included authentic features so we spent time cutting crenellations into the walls as well as installing windows and arrow loops. All of our castles boast gatehouses with real working drawbridges to keep out the dragons! Check back tomorrow to see how our work progresses as we begin to decorate and paint our designs.
As part of mental health and well being week last week Key Stage 1 enjoyed learning a dance that has gone viral and really wanted to do their own…who are we to let them down 🙂
So, we have an end of term video that Key Stage 1 would love to share with you.
Thank you to children at home and in school and to parents and carers for all of your hard work and supporting school in everything we do.
Have a lovely half term
Mrs Shaw and your Key Stage 1 crew
Crew Rodgers showed all they have learned in their Position and Direction maths unit today by following, or drawing and describing a trail for a dragon to find a princess. They used squared paper to make forward movements, and clockwise and anticlockwise turns to map out the route the dragon should take. The progress you have made in this unit is obvious.
So proud of you all.
To celebrate children’s mental health week, Class 8 have been getting real funky this Friday by learning the Jerusalema dance. We all agreed that having fun & moving our bodies to music was a good way to make us all smile 🙂 if you have time at home, why not give the dance a go by finding a tutorial on YouTube?!
Today, class 8 have taken their dragon eye art one step further and made some beautiful clay dragon eyes. We worked very hard to be creative and add lots of detail …
Today, Class 8 have been putting their expeditionary learning to good use and they have become archaeologists on the hunt for artefacts in our outdoor quad! We followed the steps of a real excavation to unearth the remains of some ‘not so old’ plates and cups.
What an exciting day! We have been studying all things medieval in our Castle Walls expedition in KS1 and this afternoon we have learned first hand about the job done by archaeologists to discover artefacts from history that tell us about life in the past.
We worked out that the artefacts we found were probably a plate ‘because it has a curved edge and it is flat’ and a cup or teapot ‘because there is a handle’.
Did you know that archaeologists study artefacts and palaeontologists study bones?
Move over Indiana Jones!
