Understanding Friction
Pupils in Scafell enjoyed a practical science lesson to develop their understanding of friction. They set up a fair experiment to see which surface would slow the car down quickest and discussed their findings with the class.
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World Book Day 2017
We have been celebrating the 20th Year of World Book Day.
We fancied a change from dressing up and so challenged the children to bring in a bag of items that would give clues to a famous book character instead. See us here, sharing our bags in family groups this morning.
We have also challenged everyone to bring in a photo of ‘extreme reading’ – reading in an unusual and wonderful place. Thank you to everyone – you have so entertained and impressed us with your creative ideas. They will, very soon, be on display in the library so do come and take a look! We’ve been having a poetry theme in classes and will be sharing our performance poetry with everyone in school.
Year 5 + 6 Residential Trip to Edinburgh
We all had an amazing time in Edinburgh! Activities included: The National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh Zoo, Camera Obscura, Holyrood and walks around the city.
Model Greek Temples
Our models are almost complete! Here they are in the finishing stages…..
Fractions and Decimals!
Today we have been finding equivalent fractions and decimals. We worked collaboratively in groups to match the cards. Some facts we need to be able to recall as quickly as our multiplication tables for example 3/4 = 0.75. However others were more tricky and required some calculations. We used our knowledge of equivalent fractions to find some pairs e.g. 2/5 = 4/10 so it is the same as 0.4. As you can see we are pleased with our understanding and progress!
Hockey
Year 5 & 6 are enjoying hockey training at Dallam School this half-term. We are improving our skills and learning the rules of playing a match. Next week we are looking forward to a hockey tournament!
Designing and Making a model Greek Temple
This week Scafell Class have started their designs to build a model Greek Temple. We started with some research about the features of Greek temples before trying to come up with some ideas about how to create their models in small groups. Lots of thinking, collaboration, problem solving, maths and measuring. Some children created prototypes out of Lego as part of their planning too. Watch this space; we will let you know how we get on soon….
Learning about the Greek Cross
This week Scafell have been exploring the symbolism in the Greek Cross. Unlike other Christian crosses, all four sections of the cross are equal in length and represent God’s love reaching across the world. At the end of each section there is often a trefoil representing the trinity of God the father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. We were also interested to discover that this type of cross is a symbol of the church, rather than a reminder of Jesus’ suffering on the cross.
Our lesson started with four tricky jigsaw pieces to arrange into a symmetrical dodecagon. We needed further clues to make the Greek Cross before finding information independently and creating our own designs based on our research.
Writing inspired by the Ancient Greeks
Scafell Class have spent this half-term creating and writing their very own Greek myths. After looking at a number of Greek myths together, they started to plan and build each stage of their own tale to create a wonderful book with an imaginative front cover and blurb. They began by creating their own multi-animalistic mythical monster, followed by a strong brave hero, who travelled through a challenging setting, to take on their monster in an exciting fight scene.
They have also taken on the roles of reporters this week, to create their very own Greek newspaper based on the myth Pandora’s box. Some children did some hot seating in order to include some relevant and convincing quotes for our newspaper reports.
Well done everyone in Scafell Class – you have made incredible progress in your writing this term!
