Diamond Class Activities
Design Technology – Bread Rolls
In Design Technology, we designed and made our own bread rolls as part of our Harvest Festival celebrations.
Danny the Champion of the World – Chapter Analysis
We are reading Danny the Champion of the World and to understand how extended stories are written, we have been mapping out the chapters looking at how the plot and characters are developed.
Netball
This term seven eager children took part in the cluster netball tournament. They all worked really hard and played brilliantly. Well done everyone!
Forest schools – Perseverance
This week in forest schools we listen to a story Stacey read, The Tin Forest by Helen Ward and Wayne Anderson about the power of perseverance and the importance of looking after the Earth.
Today’s activities included playing the Roman game of Rota, a three-in-a-row game like tic tac toe but played in a wheel shape, which many of us found intriguing. We also created our own natural mosaics using different coloured leaves found on the floor and inspired by the ancient Romans.
Rusting Experiment
This term our science topic is ‘Changes of Materials’. We have investigated how iron rusts when exposed to water. Each group investigated a different idea. Some looked at ways to protect the iron nail using Vaseline, Sellotape or paint. Other groups tried putting their iron nails in different solutions.
Forest schools – Roman Shields
We started this week’s forest schools with an exciting experiment. We tested the Roman Shields we made the previous week with water pistols!
The other activities were also lots of fun. Some of us took turns in whittling our own Roman daggers out of Willow, tried our hands at playing Roman dice games or made our own Roman coil pots. We still had time to find various shaped goals and a shield bug!
Autobiographies
We started the year by reading Roald Dahl’s autobiography and then we wrote our own.
