For the last 4 weeks in our Geography we have been working in groups of 2 or 3 on independent projects. Each group was given one of the 7 continents to research and produce a PowerPoint and annotated map. This week we presented our work to the rest of the class. Mrs Matthews graded us (A:Outstanding, B:Very Good, C:Satisfactory or D: Unsatisfactory) for our PowerPoint, our maps, our teamwork and then gave us an overall grade. Two groups achieved outstanding overall, four groups achieved very good and one group was given satisfactory overall.
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Friday was a day for celebration and a sad day for Mandela Class. It was our class Christmas Party, where we got into groups and organised our own themed tables with lots of food to share in our groups and games to play with the whole class. But it was also a time to say goodbye to our awesome TA Mrs Barrell who is leaving us. However we know she cannot keep away for long as she has promised to keep popping in regularly and help out with SATs and our end of year production. Goodbye Mrs Barrell! We will all miss you very much x We had a very successful afternoon in Mandela, selling lots of things we made ourselves: cork reindeers and peg reindeers to hang on the tree, cakes and biscuits, snowglobe calendars (with us trapped inside) and Christmas cards. We also had activities: decorate your own bauble and pop the balloon lucky dip. Hopefully we made lots of money, but more importantly we had fun making everything! We hope to buy some tablets for our classroom 😀 We made £150!!! Today we started our Art topic on 3D art. Firstly we looked at the work of Henry Moore and in particular his reclining sculptures. Mrs Barrell (always a good sport) volunteered to pose for us to sketch, reclining on a table. Then we had a go at pinching, pulling and stroking the clay to make abstract figures. We plan to spray them bronze as Henry Moore's work is often cast in bronze. Then we began work on creating our own Viking clay amulets. Looking at different examples and collecting ideas in our sketchbooks and then designing our own. We are planning to paint our amulets once they have dried out. Today we had a great class assembly all about Vikings after studying it all term. We particularly enjoyed singing songs about Viking life! Our Science topic this half term is 'Staying Alive'. Today we measured our lung capacity: using a 5 litre water bottle and pipe, we filled our lungs full of air and blew out, using water displacement to work out in cm3 how much air we could hold in our lungs. It was fun, but very wet!! We discovered that Becky had the largest lung capacity - 19cm3 and Frankie had the smallest - 7cm3. The average lung capacity was 11cm3.
In our Computing lessons we are using Scratch to write algorithms and create our own games. We have been working hard in teams of 2 or 3. Hopefully by the end of this term our games will 'go live' and you will be able to play them online! In Design Technology we have been working in groups to design and make our own viking longships. Mrs Matthews gave us the brief - To make a viking longship which is historically accurate. It needed to be: watertight able to float balance hold 10 playmobil men attractive to look at with a sail, oars and shields. We researched real and model longships and came up with our own designs, considering the tools and materials we had available then as a group we decided on our final design. Then we worked as a group to follow our designs and instructions to make our longships. We are all very pleased with our finished longships. After testing and evaluating our own and each other's work we found that all of them were able to float, balance, hold 10 playmbil men and looked great. We voted for our favourites! Which longship is your favourite?
Today the whole school had an RE day, looking at festivals and celebrations. In Mandela class we have been studying Buddhism this term and so we we spent the day finding out about the Buddhist festival Wesek. Wesek is one of the most important festivals in the Buddhist calendar and takes place on, or near to, the May full moon. The festival celebrates the three most important events in the life of Buddha: his birth and death day, and the moment when he learnt the truth about life and how to avoid suffering. The celebrations world-wide last for three days. Houses and shrines are decorated with flowers, candles and lanterns, Special offerings are made to statues of the Buddha and there are often processions in the streets. We made our own Buddhas and decorated our 'shrines' with flowers, candle holders, lanterns, cards and origami cranes. All of Key Stage 2 took part in the Felixstowe Schools Paarlauf and we won! Well done to all involved!
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