Year 3 Visit Caerleon

As part of our Invasion topic, Year 3 visited the Roman remains at Caerleon. We had great fun  exploring the  primary sources and learnt lots of new facts about the way the Romans lived their lives.
Whilst we were there, we all took part in a role play activity, pretending we were either rich Roman people having a meal or the slaves who had to serve them their feast.
We also had the opportunity to visit the replica barracks where we sat on the uncomfortable bunks which were like those that would have been slept on by Roman soldiers. Everyone was also able to try on the lorica segmentata, which was the heavy segmented metal armour worn by the Roman soldiers.
It was a brilliant day and thankfully the rain stopped and the sun shone on us all afternoon whilst we visited the amphitheater and barrack remains.

Year 5 Free Verse Poems

During their unit on poetry Year 5 have been investigating, writing and performing their own poems. They all worked fantastically hard and this poem is written about water. Isn't it fantastic?
The Secret Creek
The giggles of the creek's little waterfall,
As they pour over the ledge,
It ripples and creates a bubbly white foam,
Splashing with laughter,
I often sit and watch this creek,
It's so peaceful and colourful here,
An enlightened soul I am when I leave,
And the waters as clear as can be,
Flowing free,
It winds through the rainforest,
like a transparent silky ribbon.
One day each drop will reach the mouth of the sea,
Consumed by the great blue blanket,
That glistens in the midday sun,
This creek is a fine place,
I leave with a joyful smile on my face.
By Lydia

Instruction Writing

In Year 3, as part of our Literacy work, we have been learning how to write instructions. We all wrote instructions on how to make a sandwich. To evaluate whether our instructions were easy to understand and whether we had included each step, our partner had to follow our instructions to make our sandwich for us. This had some quite amusing results!

Space Poems

Today in Year 5, as part of our Space theme, the task was simple ... recreate and remix our favourite songs. carols or nursery rhymes into a poem about the solar system! We all took turns to perform them to the rest of the Year 5 with some fantastic results.
Here is an example of today's work; written by Harrison and Ethan.

SPACE
(to the tune of: what does the fox say?)

Mercury's 1st, lost its air
now it has no atmosphere
Next comes Venus, hot as toast
it feels like its gonna roast.
Third is earth, gravity
make sure we don't fly freely
but now were out of our home.

Chorus:
Were going orbital!
dizzy, dizzy, dizziness! (x3)
Were going orbital!
Heada, heada, headaches! (x3)
were going orbital!

Our neighbour, the red mars
is named by a chocolate bar
Fifth in line, Jupiter, colder than Venus by far
next around, Saturn's ring ..
Suddenly I see IQ

Chorus.
WE HAVE ALMOST FINISHED! To name the planets

Year 4 ICT using the Bee-Bots!

Year 4 had great fun on Friday afternoon using the Bee-Bots. In the lesson we looked at giving clear commands to the Bee-Bot and trying to group our commands into sequences. We worked in groups to investigate the sequence needed for the Bee-Bot to travel around a P.E mat and then designed our own treasure map for the Bee-Bot.

We had to test out our command skills by getting our classmates to a certain spot in the hall.



We looked at clear ways to record our commands for the Bee-Bot.

Our class tresure map.

Oreos in orbit

This afternoon Year 5 learned about the phases of the moon which is quite hard to get your head round! There are 8 phases which have funny names, depending on where the moon is in it's orbit around the Earth. We listened to a rap to help us remember the phases and then we recreated the moon's cycle using Oreo biscuits! Finally, we ate our work! It was the tastiest science lesson we've ever had!

A Little Bit Of Baking!

Today, as part of our measuring work in Numeracy and our Instruction work in Literacy, Year 3  baked some Celtic oatcakes. We had to read the recipe and follow the instructions carefully and also measure the ingredients by reading the scale accurately. Great fun was had by everyone.