Mrs Bilner
The Swans have been learning about the artist Henry Moore. They experimented with different media trying to replicate his style. Media such as wax crayons, water soluble pencils, watercolour paint and Hb sketch pencils were used to create the sense of fear and anxiousness the people in the underground tube stations would have felt during […]
As part of their writing, Swans children created mind maps to represent different parts of the story, this was to help them organise their work. They used watercolour paints to illustrate the different emotions Olive (the main character of the story) was feeling at different points of the story.
In science, the swans used varying transparencies to design a lampshade. They had to consider the materials they used and the effect they would have.
The Swans enjoyed making cakes out of play dough to represent the life long learning dispositions: curiosity, resilience, strategic awareness, creativity, collaboration, meaning making!
On Thursday 15th July, Owls and Swans were involved in a performance based on Peter Pan. Unfortunately, we were unable to accommodate an audience in school due to the current restrictions, however, we wanted to share our production with an audience. So with much planning, expertise and turning our library into a technical hub – […]
Sports Day happened at Stratford St Mary on Monday 19th July – with Woodpeckers and Kingfishers events taking part in the morning. The children competed in their houses and took part in 5 events – standing long jump, chest throw, sprint, fun run and target game. Great fun, great team spirit and great attitudes were […]
Sports Day happened at Stratford St Mary on Monday 19th July – with Owls and Swans events taking part in the afternoon. The children competed in their houses and took part in 5 events – standing long jump, chest throw, sprint, fun run and target and water race. Great fun, great team spirit and great […]
This week the Swans have been using a protractor to measure angles. We decided to be a bit radical and use whiteboard pens to draw angles on the table and then measure them with a protractor – it was much more fun!
The Swans have been busy preparing their class display ready for their new geography topic on Australia!
This week the Swans have been engineers. They were involved in a mission from NASA – they were given a budget of 6 million dollars to design a new rover for Mars. First they identified the axles, suspension etc on existing rovers. They then used different types of pasta and polos to create their own. […]
The swans have been practising their number skills of doubling, trebling, addition, subtraction and multiplication by playing Darts! They had so much fun!
This week, the Swans have been learning about The Big Bang Theory. In order to understand this theory of how the universe expanded from one single point (over 13 billion years ago), the children carried out an investigation involving balloons! They recorded data in charts to help them answer scientific questions surrounding this theory. […]