Swans
The irony of today’s English Lesson was palpable: in temperatures of around 30 degrees, the children wrote a description about the arctic wilderness! In order to help them ‘feel’ the landscape – they worked with their feet in water and ice!
Today, the Swans completed the Taskmaster challenge in Maths. They had to work as a team to build the tallest free standing tower using just A4 paper and tape. They had to explore how different shapes and their characteristics (triangles, cylinders, wide bases) affect stability and strength, measure the height and put their problem solving […]
We have been writing stories linked to the book ‘The Explorer’ by Katherine Rundell. The children have enjoyed illustrating their work.
… The Swans have just published their narrative writing linked to The Explorer by Katherine Rundell. Here are some examples
The children have produced some fabulous still life art over the past few weeks – here are their compositions using oil pastels.
Some of the Year 6 children have been enjoying the 4x4s challenge. They had to make the numbers 1-50 using only the digit 4 (4 times). In order to complete this challenge, some KS3 Maths knowledge was needed so this really extended their problem solving skills.
The children have been learning about the heart. Today they came up with a question to investigate that explored the affect exercise has on the heart. They enjoyed carrying out their investigation and being active in the Science lesson.
Year six have been using charcoals to draw ‘Still Life’. We looked at the famous drawing by Ibere Camargo (Natureza-morta) and some children decided to create their pieces in this style – paying close attention to where the light and shadows fall on the objects.
Year 6 have learning how to draw ‘Still Life’. They focused on proportion, space, line and shading. Some excellent pieces were created.
KS2 had a lovely afternoon making Easter Bunnies – it’s amazing what you can do with a few egg boxes, old cereal packets and scrap pieces of card!
To kick Science Week off, the Year 6 children took part in an interactive lesson about space travel. They learnt lots of interesting things about space and what plans there are for the future with regards to landing on Mars and living on the moon.
Year 6 have been learning about the Amazon rainforest and thinking about why the Amazon matters. We started off the topic by looking at the difference between a temperate rainforest and a tropical rainforest. In Science, we looked at the different layers of the rainforest and the different types of plants and animals that live […]