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Yesterday, Class 4 spent some time working out how long Mary Anning’s famous discovery of an Ichthyosaur was. We tried to guess how long 5.2 metres is and then used a trundle wheel to work it out. We then used our kappa blocks to recreate the fossil.
We absolutely love a Friday celebration assembly and seeing all the smiling faces on our ‘stars’ of the week. Our golden coin winner was also particularly pleased with herself (quite rightly). We were also pleased to see that Mrs Goodwin’s class managed 100% attendance this week too.
Here are some photographs of the children enjoying lunchtime play today, they are especially enjoying playing the games that are newly painted on the yard!
The children were also inspired by the upcoming Queens Jubilee celebration and they used the chalks to draw the Queen and her crowns on the school yard.
Today Year 5 attended the annual Castle View Academy cricket tournament in beautiful sunshine. Having attended a few weeks after school training we came 4th out of 8 teams. Winning 3 of the 5 games played. Well played Yr5! 🏏☀️
In Class 3, we had the challenge of finding all possible combinations of robots, using different heads, bodies and legs. the body parts included length measurements which we have recently covered in maths. We had to make the tallest and shortest robots. We than had to calculate the overall length of the robots.
The children worked systematically and shared their methods with the rest of the class!
Year 3 enjoyed a wonderfully arty afternoon yesterday when, as part of their Dimensions topic on the Stone Age, they learnt about cave paintings.
They learnt that in the Stone Age, the people did not write and so drew pictures to communicate ideas and stories. They then each drew their own cave painting on the cave walls (overturned tables!).
Their designs were brilliant. Some drew hunter-gatherers hunting for animals to eat, some drew them cooking on the fire, and some drew them celebrating and spending time together.
All of the children had a lot of fun showing off their knowledge of the Stone Age, as well as their artistic skills. They also learned just how tricky it would have been to draw at that angle!
Well done to the children who won the Strive for 5 raffle today. They received a special prize to celebrate their excellent attendance this week.
Strive for 5 is one of our attendance initiatives. If children attend school for 5 consecutive days and arrive on time all week, each Friday their name will be put into a raffle. A winner from each class will be selected.
Class 4 celebrated 100% attendance today, for the second time in three weeks!
The Yeah 4 and 5 STEM club started tonight. The children were tasked with fixing a companies problem with a broken bridge. Each group spent time looking at different bridges and deciding on a shape before creating their own bridge.
We then tested each bridge by placing weights on it until it collapsed: 2 bridges held over 1kg!!!
A great evening had by all! Roaring Rockets next week 🚀
