Autumn Term

In Art today, we created some cross-curricular collages! We have been learning about human and physical geographical features and used our knowledge to locate different ones on different maps of Scorton. After we spotted them, we created collages of the different human elements we could see. We created some incredible churches, houses and even the Spar shop! 

In Computing, we have been experimenting with programming using Scratch. We had to use lots of resilience to test out different options and choices to make our sprite move, turn and restart. 

In our PE unit of Dance this half term we have been linking our History knowledge to movement and have been creating some Stone Age movements and poses. In today's lesson, we thought about cave art and created our own freeze frames of different prehistoric scenes. Can you spot our spears?

In English, we have been learning the story of the Pied Piper off by heart! After acting out each stage, creating our own story maps and lots of reading practice we have retold the story to the children in Bowland Class using the right intonation, volume and tone to keep our audience interested!

In our RE lesson today, we were super excited to catch up with Mrs Gorst and her gorgeous little boy, Henry! We were thinking about the preparation Mrs Gorst had to undergo before she had Henry, how she felt about doing such an important job and how much her life changed when he arrived. 

Do you recognise the artefact in the picture? Today in our History lesson, Grizedale Class made some historical claims about what they thought the artefact could be and used what they could see and infer to support the claims they made. We thought they could have been jars, parts of a children's toy or even something that would be a secret trap inside a cave! 

We have continued to explore gestural drawing with charcoal this week and used music and rhythm to help us! We used our listening calendar to explore four different genres of music and tried to be 'thoughtless' about our gestures, just letting the music take our brains and bodies with it to create different pieces of art. 

We had a fantastic morning interviewing Mrs Richmond for our class biography all about her. We were such active listeners and found out about her early life, school, achievements, children and so much more!

To exhibit the skills we have learnt in art, we have been thinking about landscapes and drawing trees in particular. After completed a guided draw, we thought about critique and how structured critique can improve our work. All together, we completed 4 draft art works and then a final piece that we were all so proud of. 

We had a fantastic first music lesson with Mrs Pollitt, who is our school music expert. We learnt to play an A and B and then used them to play some different songs. We can't wait to learn more!

Our learning about stability and structures last week was put to the test today when we were challenged to create an even more stable bridge. We worked independently and in pairs to create a design plan for a bridge that could hold up to 100 pennies! Miss Taylor was so impressed with the creative and innovative ideas we came up with. 

🔑 Key Learning 🔑

Cylinders and triangles are strong shapes to build a base of a bridge with. 

We sometimes have to reinforce structures to make them stronger. 

Our structures had to be accurately measured for them to be stable.

In Art this week we became Stone Age people and experimented with charcoal, texture and light to create some prehistoric drawings! Using techniques that we have learnt throughout the unit and our understanding of cave paintings we showed off our cross-curricular ideas brilliantly! 

In Science, we learnt about the stages of fossilisation. To make our learning sticky, we created some actions for each stage!

🔑 Key Learning 🔑

Organism (living thing) dies

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Gets covered in sediment

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LOTS of pressure is applied

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Fossil is revealed!

We were being Resilient Roos today when Miss Taylor gave us a piece of paper and some pennies and asked us to build a bridge that could support as many pennies as possible! We worked on our own and in pairs or teams to try different methods to make a stable structure using very little resources. After trying lots of different things, we worked out our bridges needed to be a particular shape and needed reinforcing in order for them to hold more than 5 pennies. 

This week in netball, we have been learning about (and perfecting our) bounce passes. 

We started our new art topic by looking at the artist Laura McKendry. We loved her that she described her charcoal art work as, "alternating between freedom and accuracy," and used that as our inspiration to make some charcoal art work pieces using the theme of pets. 

In DT, we have started our new unit of structures and are learning about stability. In our first lesson, we worked in pairs to group and sort bridges in different ways. We thought about colour, materials, purpose and strength!

We have been learning all about netball passes and in today's lesson we focused on chest passes. We are really working on our accuracy, power behind our throws and getting into a space to receive a pass. 

Today in computing we have been thinking about self-image and identity and how this can appear different online and in person. We also started to think about how important it is to communicate messages clearly online because things don't always read in the same way. 

We have started our new Science topic of rocks. Today, we learnt about sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rock and learned how they are formed and the cycle they are a part of. After learning the different stages, we modelled them using Starburst sweets! 

🔑  Our Key Learning Today 🔑

Igneous rocks are formed from cooled molten rock.

Sedimentary rocks are formed from other tiny pieces of rocks (called sediment) that have been squashed together.

Metamorphic rock is rock that has changed over time because of pressure and heat.

On our first day back at school, we were thinking about all the things we didn't get to do over the Summer like flying to the moon, meeting enormous crocodiles, eating giant bugs and swimming in a pool of jelly! We wrote some fantastic silly sentences and looked at different rhyming patterns we could use to make our sentences sound even better!