The sun came out for us on Monday afternoon, for our Hockey and Cricket lessons!!!
We had great fun applying our defence and attack strategies within games against our classmates. Mr Moy and I were really impressed with the progress that you have made as we could see lots of progression since we started this unit! Great job Y4.
A well-fought competition in good spirit!
The rain held off and the Muddy Boots Club were able to get outside this week! Such a busy evening weeding, sewing and clearing, I think we all went home exhausted!
This week, Y4 have been examining the language features used to create a really persuasive text. We practiced applying these features and then used our skills to create an advert. Iceland, the supermarket, asked us to write an advert for them to feature in a magazine. It wanted to let potential customers know that they are environmentally-friendly and palm oil free and the devastating problems that the use of palm oil causes for the world’s precious rainforests and wildlife.
Alesha’s carefully composed advert persuaded Mrs Hebden!
This week, Year 4 have been inspired by the sculptor Steve Winterburn and his animal sculptures. We learned how to use shading to create depth and carefully observed animal head images applying shading techniques with wonderful results.
Ava’s impressive observational and shading skills!
Great sketching Jay and Evie F
Mrs H is really impressed with Logan’s progress!
Harley and Drake, enjoying being amazing artists this afternoon.
Great observational work and Connor
Ethan SB and Ella showcasing their talents!
Fabulous attention to detail from Lola and Jess W
Beautiful work from Paige
Y5 Geographers
We had fabulous discussions today in Geography as we considered the effects of tourism. We started by considering the changes to our classroom environment if we were to have an extra 150 people in our room each year, which is the scaled equivalent of the population of the Alps to their volume of tourists.
We worked with our partners to sort out facts cards about tourism and we had to categorise the facts into whether they were positive effects of tourism or negative. We then had to consider whether the fact has an economical, social or environmental impact upon the area. This led to even more wonderful discussions and it really opened our eyes to the effects of tourism.
Whilst the rain is good for our beautiful bedding plants, that were kindly donated by B&Q….
It is no good for the Muddy Boots Club! However, we took this opportunity to write to the staff at B&Q to thank them for their generosity. We planted individual sunflower seeds our on the learning deck and can’t wait to see who will grow the tallest one!
Following from Mr Morgan’s blog about our Art lesson this week, here are some of the lovely results from Mrs Hebden’s children.
Y5 Geographers
Today, we researched the day’s weather in various mountainous regions around the world. We then compared the day’s weather to the average temperature, precipitation and wind speed for May in that area. We were surprised that over 30 years of data is often taken into account to calculate an average!
Y5 Geographers
In year 3, we learned about how a volcano is formed but today we took our learning further as we researched how mountains are formed. Did you know that there were so many ways?
Where in the world are the Rainforests?
14.4.21
Year four made great use of their mapping skills to locate and identify the world’s rainforests in our first Geography lesson this term. The children were able to describe how the rainforest localities were based around the equator and between the tropics of Capricorn and Cancer and are using increasingly more geographical vocabulary with confidence. We explored the other rainforest localities and discussed how it’s a common misconception that the Amazon is the world’s only rainforest. The children were also able to draw many cross curriculum links to our English text, The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry which is a tale, based in the Amazon, warning against deforestation.
Connor made links between the cartoon Madagascar that he had seen and it being a Rainforest setting.
Harley quickly located the continent using his existing knowledge.
What on earth is a Biome?
21.4.21
In our second lesson, the children were introduced to the term ‘Biome’. We looked at the patterns of biome distributions across the earth and discussed how the world’s climate zones affect what grows and lives there, creating these distinct biomes. Year four were able to make super generalisations about the conditions within the biome based in their locality.
We also explored the difference in the three main types of forest biome; the Rainforest, the Temperate/Deciduous Forest and the Boreal Forests and examined where they were situated in the world and how the trees had adapted to life in that climate.
Through discussion, the pupils were able to link their understanding of Biomes to their previous knowledge, when they learned about the deserts of Egypt in the Autumn term and in Y2 when they learned about the cold deserts of the polar regions.
What is it like in a Rainforest?
28.4.21
During the third lesson, the teachers were really impressed with the enquiry skills that the children demonstrated when they worked as a team to; learn more about the layers of the Rainforest, discover what the conditions are like and name what grows and lives within each layer. The children researched the layers using videos, photos and text to inform their planning. Notes were made, discussions were held and the children were being specific, naming the animals and vegetation to ensure that their work was accurate. Year Four then went on to produce beautifully annotated diagrams which they were able to explain with confidence and enthusiasm. Especially Evie, when it comes to talking about tarantulas!!!
