Digging rivers

To link to their River topic, year 4 have been making miniature flowing river diagrams. They included features like meanders, source and tributaries by carving them into a hill. We tested them by pouring water from the top and seeing if it made it to the mouth.

 

Woodland windows

Year 3 have been reading Jeannie Baker's book, 'Window' in class. In Outdoor learning we have been following this up by making our own window frames by lashing sticks together.

                                                                                               

 Then we tried to recreate the view from our own bedroom windows (after sketching it out). We used all natural materials found in he woods including sticks, leaves and grass, with some spectacular results.

Bench update!

After weeks of sawing, drilling, whittling, and sanding we have finally got some of the Year 6 benches finished! We'll done for all your hard work. We will be using some of them in our outdoor classroom and might sell some, if they pass our rigorous safety testing.

 

Bench project part 1

Year 6 will be designing and making some seating for our outdoor classroom using wood from the school grounds over the next few weeks. We had an introduction using saws and drills to make scale models out of some scrap pallets.

Sawing the pallet (safety glove on non-saw hand).

Clamping the wood to the table.

Using a hand drill to make hole for the legs.

 

Exciting mushrooms!

Barn Owls class found these unusual mushrooms in the school woods. Any guesses what they might be called?

 

Pyramus and Thisbe.

The Year 6 groups have been creating storyboards and acting out scenes from the story of Pyramus and Thisbe. This fits in with their work on A Midsummer Night's Dream as it is the play Bottom and the workers act out for the prince. We used scenes and props in the school grounds to bring the story to life.

Pyramus and Thisbe speak through a crack in the wall.

Thisbe flees from the lion, dropping her veil.