At The End Of The Assembly - featuring The Chins

ONE HUNDRED POSTS!

This is one of our favourite things this year - The Alan Taylor Crash Pod Challenge! Even a little bit of Alan is yummy!

We used this video in our Assembly but it was a bit longer then because we included personal bits. Did you like our video? We are doing more D&T with Mr Short at the moment.

Class 5

Mr Short writes: an especially big thank you to Andy Stanton for sending the children signed art from his latest book. Well done to the children for making 100 posts.

Asking questions about historical artefacts

Today Class 5 asked more historical questions. We had started this with the Mary Rose.

We looked at a mystery artefact and wrote:

• What we knew for sure about it.
• What we thought we knew about it.
• What we would like to know about it.

Here are some of our guesses: salt & pepper shaker, herb grinder, flower arranging and a pattern maker for cookery.

Mr Short writes:

The artefact was borrowed from a local museum. The children thought it was magical, which is quite refreshing in an age of PlayStation 3 and Xbox. Some children guessed when they saw me filling up the sink with water, but pupils asking questions and having enquiring minds was my success criteria. So, what do you think it was used for? Click on the video above and have a guess!

Easter Workshop

It was a fun day and a pleasure to see each age group work together and make something special - please come and have a look at our garden after school!

Happy Easter

Class 2 EXCLUSIVE!

Class 2 have been studying Kenya as part of their topic work on Africa. They created some amazing Art and politely visited Class 5 to invite us to take pictures. We were happy to go and practise using a digital camera!

Class 5

The Iron Man & Class 5

Earlier this month Class 5 began studying imaginary worlds by looking at different settings and comparing them to each other.

Below is a sample of work for those parents who are unable to see the children's display work in class. This work was a response to passages taken from The Iron Man by Ted Hughes and The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe by C.S Lewis.

Two pupils used a digital camera to take pictures of paintings inspired by those settings.

Down the cliff the Iron Man came toppling, head over heels.

CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!

From rock to rock, snag to snag, tumbling slowly. And as he crashed and crashed and crashed
His iron legs fell off.
His iron arms broke off, and the hands broke off the arms.
His great iron ears fell off and his eyes fell out.
His great iron head fell off.
All the separate pieces tumbled, scattered, crashing, bumping, clanging, down on to the rocky beach far below.
A few rocks tumbled with him.
Then
Silence.
Only the sound of the sea, chewing away at the edge of the rocky beach, where the bits and pieces of the Iron Man lay scattered far and wide, silent and unmoving.

Only one of the iron hands, lying beside an old, sand-logged washed-up seaman’s boot, waved its fingers for a minute, like a crab on its back. Then it lay still.

While the stars went on wheeling through the sky and the wind went on tugging at the grass on the cliff-top and the sea went on boiling and booming.

Nobody knew the Iron Man had fallen.
Night passed.
Just before dawn, as the darkness grew blue and the shapes of the rocks separated from each other, two seagulls flew crying over the rocks.

The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe

Instead of finding himself stepping out into the spare room he found himself stepping out from the shadow of some thick dark fir trees into an open place in the middle of a wood.

There was crisp, dry snow under his feet and more snow lying on the branches of the trees. Overhead there was pale blue sky, the sort of sky one sees on a fine winter day in the morning. Straight ahead of him he saw between the tree-trunks the sun, just rising very red and clear. Everything was perfectly still, as if he were the only living creature in that country. There was not a robin or a squirrel among the trees, and the wood stretched as far as he could see in every direction. He shivered.

Our imaginary world

We created a scene in an imaginary world, we used our whiteboards to make notes about the atmosphere. We wanted a serious atmosphere, Mr Short did his at home and showed it to us.

We had about 5 minutes to get ready, then we had to be quiet for the camera! I was very keen because I find it quite hard to think what to write. My friend was a little nervous because he felt like he was on television!

Later we watched most of the films, some people were a little shy so they watched theirs later.

We're going to write our story soon. We might make a class book!

World Premiere - Making Sandwiches

Below is just a taste of what Class 5 & Class 1 got up to on Wednesday. The pictures used are a small selection from Class 5's camera monitor that day..

Andrew Goldsworthy & Me

I read about Andy Goldsworthy, so I decided to make a collection. In class I used some pictures I took to make a video.

Class 5

(I'm really proud of this pupil - she has used ICT & Art to inspire everyone in class including myself. Mr Short)

Northleach Conker Championship

This week's Conker Championship was great fun, but we have also been remembering those pupils who first began swinging conkers in 1868. Below is some old footage from a great final back in 1908! Look out for the strange clothes and hair styles...

Maths Mentos Millilitre Challenge!

Each day last week Class 5 were really involved in their Maths. On Friday we added Science & ICT into the mix. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

At the start of the video there is a brilliant picture of a Cola fountain (one of many taken by a pupil using a digital camera). The child in question earned a camera licence by recording our lesson and will now pass skills, tips and a licence to his classmates.

I feel that this ownership of ICT represents a more realistic use of technology and helps the children recognise how ICT can support their learning. With the availability of extra laptops Year 4 are already regularly ticking ICT objectives in the new term as well as maintaining some old ones!