In Year 3 this week the children have been making their very own volcanoes! They used a plastic bottle, cardboard, and masking tape to create a frame, then began adding newspaper in the form of paper-mache to create the shape.
During our friendships and relationships topic, we created a class charter thinking about how we need to behave towards one another in school. We then wrote a recipe for friendship and recognised why people make assumptions and why we shouldn’t judge people. We looked at compliments and put downs and understood the difference between conflict and resolutions and how friendship can naturally end.
Year 2 have been working on writing a recount about the day we spent at Boldon Lodge. We have been looking at past and present tense as well as sequencing events to structure our writing. The children have so far planned their recount and will be writing them alter this week.
West Boldon Cinema aired ‘Goosebumps’. Years 5 and 6 enjoyed watched the movie with friends, all snuggled in their pjs. We had interval snacks of hotdogs, popcorn and juice. Stay tuned for our next showing!
Year 2 have been reading ‘Wild’ by Emily Hughes about a little girl who lives in the forest with the animals. We visited West Boldon Lodge to experience a woodland setting for ourselves. Whilst there we learnt about nocturnal woodland animals and their habitats, and we made dens for hedgehogs! We also made our own hedgehogs using clay, pine cones, sticks and other natural materials. We were able to hunt for minibeasts and think about where in the woods we would find them. Year 2 had a great day exploring in the fresh air!
In Year 3 we are looking at forces and magnets. As part of this topic we investigated how far a car will travel on different surfaces, and why this happens. We each made a prediction, which surface will cause the car to travel the furthest; grass, tarmac, wood or carpet. We had to make sure our investigation was a fair test by only changing the surface each time, and keeping every other variable the same. We then made large a graph of our results.
In Year 3 we have been writing newspaper reports about the events of Pompeii. We talked about how we could describe to the reader exactly what happened using adjectives and lots of detail, and some of us even began to add in quotes using inverted commas. Once the children had written their reports, we edited and improved them, before typing them up on the Chromebooks.’
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