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Skateboarding

This week we enjoyed an amazing skateboarding lesson.

Biomes

Here are our biome dioramas:

School Trip to the Holburne Museum and Bath Library

We had an amazing time today in Bath. First, we took a Park and Ride bus into Bath and walked up the Holburne Museum. At the museum, we studied the Lost Threads exhibition by Turner prize-winning artist Lubaina Himid. It is a collection of beautiful textiles. We then used this as inspiration to make and print our own textile banners. After lunch, we used up some extra energy playing in Sydney Park Gardens before moving on to Bath Library. At the library, we had a quick tour round and then had some time to browse the books and decide which ones we wanted to borrow. Lots of the children signed up for a library card and took out books for the first time. Books taken out today are due for return on 28th March. Some of us were so keen to read our library books that we read them on the bus on the way home!

Science – digestion

Today, we because a model digestive system to sow how food travels through our bodies. Firstly, we used our teeth (hands) to bit, tear and grind our food (bread, banana and crackers). It then travelled down the oesophagus into the stomach (red bowl) where it was mixed with stomach acid (orange juice). After that, the food travelled through the small and large intestines (tights), came out of the anus and into the toilet (blue tray).

Visiting Engineers

Today, we were visited by a team of engineering students from Bath Uni called ‘Engineers Without Borders’. We learnt a bit about what engineers do. We also found about about wind turbines being a great source of renewable energy and had a go at being engineers by designing and building our own wind turbines.

Computing – wallpaper designs

Here are some wallpaper designs which we coded in logo using repeat loops.

Science – skeletons

Here are a selection of skeletons we made in science

Art – autumn leaves paintings

In our classroom, we have displayed our autumn leaves paintings, which were inspired by the work of Georgia O’Keeffe.

Art – food sculptures

Here are our finished food sculptures inspired by the work of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen:

Computing – repetition in shapes

This term in computing we have been using the Turtle Academy playground to explore coding shapes with repeat loops. You can access the website at home to have a go yourself here:

https://turtleacademy.com/playground

Here is Isabel’s code to make squares of different sizes.

Music – bring us together and a composition

Spring Term Learning Letter

Please click on the download button to view our learning letter for this term.

Staff Recommended Reads. Have a look at the books we’ve recommended this Christmas… Click on the image to see what we’ve written.

Archives – have a look at some of our staff recommendations from the past… Click on each image to read the recommendations.

Christmas Stockings

Music – take time in life

History – wattle and daub

Science – forces

Science – electricity

Music – hoedown

This week, we have been combining instruments, dance and singing to create a mini performance, which you can watch here. We have also composed our own musical pieces.

Y4 Folly Farm

We had a wonderful time at Folly Farm this week.

On our first day, we hunted for minibeasts, tried to keep a mammal warm, went pond dipping, used our noses to find our badger family, played a game of ‘bat bat bat moth moth moth’, listened for owls in the dark and dissected owl pellets.

On day 2, we built shelters to protect ourselves from a thunderstorm, learned how to light fires safely, toasted some marshmallows on the fire and then spent some time quietly appreciating the woodland.

Y3 Sport, Science and Art

While the Y4s have been at Folly Farm, the Year 3s have had an exciting two days playing lots of sport, carrying out some fun science investigations, taking part in a DT egg drop challenge and even squeezing in a bit of Art! They investigated how warm water can dissolve sugar and how vinegar can remove the copper dioxide from pennies. They then turned their brains to thinking about best to protect an egg when dropped from a height of 2metres – using as few materials as possible. The structures they designed were very varied and had a high degree of success – well done Y3s! In the afternoon, after our Hockey session, they listened carefully to some complex instructions to create some stunning ‘starburst’ art.

29th September – Archaeologists’ dig

Today in Eagle Class, we investigated different objects by digging them up like archaeologists.

12th September – 3D artwork