Our activities focused on teamwork: We took part in kayaking on 2-person kayaks where we had to work together to paddle well. The children loved getting near the ducks and swans on the broad! We also did raft building where we first designed and built models before making the real thing which we got to paddle on the lake.
Amazingly, nobody fell in and even though we had soggy feet we returned to school exhausted and happy!
Today is World Book Day and the children are having a wonderful day. Everyone is excited to share their favourite stories and talk about their outfits.
We had a super workshop with West End in Schools, where we retold elements of the story. Here you can see the chocolate river, squirrel sorting, bubblegum machine and TV ray machine. It was brilliant fun and the children were very inventive.
This half term we have been learning about the use of graphic line in art to show movement and texture, inspired by cave art and Vincent Van Gogh’s use of thick paint (impasto). We have learned how to use sgraffito painting, where a layer of thick paint is applied over a layer of colour and then marks created with impasto over the top. We also tried out tonking, which is applying paint then dabbing and blotting with scrunched paper. It was lots of fun! The final piece was to design an imaginary creature using these techniques.
In year three we’ve been enjoying finding out how electronic devices work by input, process and output. This includes computers so we have explored paint programs and how the output is different to non-digital artwork.
We learned that computers link in a network, and to understand this better thought about what a network is in our own lives before finding out how computers do this.
We practised being a computer network in class, passing many messages to different computers at the same time. It was fun but hard work until we discovered the network switch (a bit like a postman) speeds things up.
Thanks to the Friends of the school for organising the disco! Year 4 and 5 enjoyed the work of DJ Neil and his accomplice who kept the children boogeying and singing.
Year 4 had a wonderful afternoon visiting Start-studio. We all had fun designing and making our own tiles to add to the whole school mosaic project. We are all very eager to see the final piece displayed at school!
We had a great morning visiting some Christian places of worship in our local community. We were very lucky to have a talk with Pastor Paul Smith at the Baptist Church. He told us about how Christians use this space to celebrate their religion. He also discussed the wider support they provide our community. Later, we also got a tour of Wymondham Abbey. This interesting talk delved into the history of the Abbey as well as how this space is used by the Christian community. These two different spaces provided us with a greater understanding of the similarities as well as the differences there are within Christianity.
In this study, we have become a little more expert in physics – thinking about electricity. We have been building on our knowledge of open and closed circuits to test hypothesis about the brightness of the bulb. We made 3 circuits. We started with a basic circuit with 2 wires, a bulb and a battery. We thought about the cause and effect on the dependent variable, the brightness of the bulb, as we changed the independent variables, how many batteries and bulbs the circuit had.
Are you brave enough to play Piranha Lake? We made an electrical game using our knowledge of switches. By covering a piece of cardboard in aluminium foil, which conducts electricity, we made a ‘lake’. Next, we made cardboard piranhas and put drawing pins through them. All except one of the fish had masking tape on the back of the drawing pin, which meant they would not conduct electricity. After this, we connected a circuit containing a buzzer to the lake. Using the crocodile clip on the end of a wire connected to the battery, we then played piranha roulette, taking it in turns to pick a fish up with the clips. If the buzzer didn’t sound, we found a safe fish. If the buzzer went off, the circuit had been completed and therefore the piranha was found! We worked so hard in groups to make our games and really enjoyed it!
We loved our karate taster session with Verve Martial Arts Thetford on Thursday! We all joined in very enthusiastically and enjoyed using the pads and break boards. The roundhouse kick was a definite favourite!
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