This week, children enjoyed another session of cricket coaching from the Durham Cricket Federation. Children worked to improve their batting and fielding skills while playing a full game.
As part of our work into the history of animation, we explored the history of animation in the 19th century. We found that children used to use animation as a form of entertainment and it was accessible for everyone to help us. To help us imagine what it was like, we created a “Thaumatrope” and “flip books” which demonstrated animation of still image moving through spinning them quickly, back and forth or flicking through quickly.
Check out our hard work below!
Here we are celebrating World Book Day. We brought in our favourite books and explained why we liked them.
Year 2 were lucky enough to meet local author John Walker Pattison, as part of their World Book Day celebrations. They really enjoyed listening to his exciting stories, before creating their own characters.
This week, Y3 have been learning about how to responds to content online that might make them worried or unsafe.
Children discussed the types of content they access online and how it makes them feel. Children were then asked to produce an online map of the last 4 activities they did online and how it made them feel. Children also discussed what to do if they found content online that made them feel worried and were signposted to organisations who could help them.
In Computing, to summarise all of our work up to this point, Year Five explored the Mars Rover and how it uses a CPU (Central Processing Unit) and RAM (Random Access Memory) to navigate the red planet. They reviewed how the ongoing iterations of the rover improved in many areas, such as the input and output too.
To challenge ourselves, the class attempted to send a distress call, in binary, back to NASA, after crash landing on a distant planet. They had only 100 letters to use as their RAM was full. As you can see, all groups got busy and wrote their message of distress before Oxygen ran out!
To introduce our new class book, Rosie Revere, Engineer, Y2 were set an engineering task. They had to design a strong bridge, in teams. Take a look at their builds and you will see why we were all so impressed!
As part of our Science unit, the class explored how day and night occurs. To do so, the children reviewed the use of sundials and how generations before us read the time. Eventually, we created our own working sundials, making sure we remembered the names for each part (the face and gnomon). Have a look at their hard work!
Year 4 have been enjoying conducting experiments to learn more about States of Matter. Here we are testing if temperature affects how quick a solid melts.
This week, Year 3 have been making zines to showcase their favourite elements of the Ancient Egyptian art they have looked at this half term.
The children worked really hard and produced some fantastic creative pieces.
