Diamond Class
The teacher in Diamond class is Mrs Rounce. In the morning Mrs Smith teaches Year 2 and 3 in Sapphire Class. Mrs Glover and Miss Wollington support teaching and learning in Diamond class.
Home learning tasks can be found on Google classroom
Recent Activities
In DT Year 5 and 6 explored different tastes and categorised food in to their different flavours and found which flavours complimented each other. They then used this knowledge to research and design their own main meal using either peppers or salmon for their star ingredient.
We enjoyed making them with the help of Mrs Buckingham in the kitchen, and very, very much enjoyed tasting and evaluating them.
We have been learning about Egyptian harvest and how they farmed their land. We then designed our own Egyptian collars and appliqued felt shapes on to represent harvest. We had to learn how to do cross stich and running stitch to secure our designs. Afterwards, we evaluated what went well, how our sewing was successful and what we might do differently next time.
We visited the Castle Museum to take part in an Egyptian day to learn all about the Ancient Civilisation. Over the day, we had to decide whether we believed artefacts should be kept in Egypt in their tombs or excavated to be placed in museums for all to see.
We learned about Egyptian jewelry and we made a replica collar, we discussed and explored Egyptian artefacts and learned about daily life in Ancient Egypt.
It was an interesting debate at the end of the day with half the class voting to leave artifacts where they are and half voting to remove them for all to see in museums.
What do you think?
The Year 5/6 created a soundtrack around the theme of ‘space’. First, they planned their ideas by discussing what they think about when they hear the word ‘space’ then decided what sounds would go with them. We had a good variation of pitch, rhythm, tempo and timber with all of them sounding completely different.
In computing the Year 3/4s explored the use of loops in their programming. They worked really hard to create blocks of code containing loops to play some musical notes. We had lots of fun listening to everyone’s musical creations.
The whole school celebrated all the wonderful achievements over the last four weeks in school. Pupils recieved certificates for English and Maths work and for following our values. We also gave out our ‘Soar on Wings’ trophy to those that had ‘Soared’!
It was lovely to celebrate all the achievements of pupils out of school too.
In Art, we are learning about Egyptian art and we are going to produce our own Egyptian scroll. We have researched Egyptian images and patterns and designed our scrolls. We are looking forward to making them.
We take inspiration from Isaiah 40:31, “They will soar on wings like eagles; They will run and not grow weary; They will walk and not be faint.” to ‘Soar on Wings’ in our school. We all worked together in our circle groups to think about what this means for us. We presented our thoughts in lots of different ways. Can you ‘Soar on Wings’?
A librarian for Great Yarmouth Library visited us to present the pupils who had completed the Summer Reading Challenge with their medal and certificate. An amazing 28 pupils completed the challenge! We are so proud of them.
We explored the use of noun phrases and pronouns to build cohesion in our piece of writing about Philippe Petit.
