Wye

We have really enjoyed Design Technology fortnight in Wye class and have taken part in a wide range of activities.  This has ranged from The Pillowcase Project (run by The Red Cross), building a city during our Lego building day, making kites, taking part in The Squashed Tomatoes challenge to designing and making our own Moving Monsters.

We have been working with Dr Rhodes again this half term on Light & Shadows.  We carried out some investigations based on the length of shadows and opaque, translucent and transparent materials.

Can you remember the difference between OPAQUE?  TRANSLUCENT? and TRANSPARENT?  What does each word mean?

As part of our Funny Bones topic we have had visits from a Dental Hygienist and a Medic.  Both told us lots about their jobs and how we can look after our bodies and teeth.

The dental hygienist showed us how much hidden sugar is in our food.  Did you know that there are 23 teaspoons of sugar in a bottle of ketchup and 8 and a half teaspoons of sugar in a full fat can of coke!!!  We also looked for sugar in our food by reading the ingredients on packaging.

The medic showed us his medics bag and all the equipment he has to carry around with him.  We were able to have a go at bandaging each other, listening to our hearts using a stethoscope and measure our heart rates using a special monitor.  He also told us how to check if someone is breathing or not after an accident.

We had an amazing day at @Bristol.  As part of a themed Brain & Body Day we had a workshop with an @Bristol educator.  In the workshop we had to make a human body MRI jigsaw, measure different skulls, name the organs of the body and use a special camera to take pictures of our skin etc.

Then we had great fun looking and trying out all the science exhibits in the centre.  There was so much to look at and learn that we ran out of time!!!

In the afternoon, we had a theatre show.  In the show we learnt all about neurons and how they send messages to parts of the body from the brain, how our heart pumps blood around the body and how muscles work.  It was a fantastic day.

This week we have had great fun in our science lessons.  Dr Rhodes has worked with us on MAGNETISM.  We have carried out 3 investigations to see how strong magnets really are.  As part of the investigations we have thought about our predictions, the method, our results, conclusions and what we would change if we did the investigation again.  We even watched a video to see how magnets work in space!

Wye Class had a fun day baking lots of cakes and biscuits ready for our Cake Sale.

Mrs B and some parent helpers worked hard during the day to help us.  We practised our measuring, weighing and reading and following instructions.  We also got to decorate the cakes and biscuits before the big sale.

Then at 2.45pm we prepared our stall out on the playground and the sale began.  We had LOTS of parents and children all wanting to buy our delicious cakes and biscuits.  There were even extra to sell because some of our parents had cooked at home too.

Everyone was busy helping and we had to use even more of our numeracy skills as we dealt with money – adding up totals and giving the correct change.  By the time we had finished nearly every single biscuit and cake had been sold.

It was great fun and we will definitely hold another one ………. Watch this space!

This year we celebrated the 100th birthday of Roald Dahl by dressing up at school and taking part in activities with a Dahl theme.

In Wye class we have been reading/studying George’s Marvellous Medicine and The Twits in our literacy lessons, which has been great fun.  We are also reading Matilda as our class story.

Lots of the class have bought in their own copies of the books to read along too.

It was great fun dressing up.  Can you work out which Roald Dahl characters we came as from the class photo?

Wye Class visited the National Roman Museum in Caerleon, Wales.  We were all very excited as we set off from school, eager to learn and find out as much as we could about the life of a Roman soldier.  There was so much to explore and see during the day – the ruins of the amphitheatre, the barracks and the baths.  There was lots to touch and it was very interactive.

After lunch we had a interesting workshop called ‘The Roman Feast’.  Some of us were chosen to be slaves and some of us were wealthy Romans.  The slaves had to serve us typical Roman food and we even got to wipe our mouths on their aprons and pretend to be sick half way through the meal, like the Romans did!!!  Then we went into the soldiers’ barrack rooms and tried on Roman armour and helmets.

The final activity was to look at all the artefacts that had been excavated for the site including a Roman coffin with the skeleton still inside.

It was a fantastic day and were learnt so much to help us with our topic.  We would definitely recommend a visit.

As part of Science week we had a workshop visit with Nigel Hand ‘The Snake Man’.  He showed us a Corn Snake, a Milk Snake, a Grass Snake and a Lizard.  It was very exciting and we were able to hold and touch them.  For science week we are studying dinosaurs and fossils so we asked lots of questions about the biggest snake during the time of the dinosaurs etc.