Our work

Here are some of our Southwell workhouse non-chronological reports. 

We also looked at creating our own art work inspired by the industrial advancements in the Victorian era. We looked at art work showing how towns and cities had become industrialised and created our own work, including factories, workhouses, railways and town houses. 

Week 7 science

This week in science we investigated water resistance and the resistance in other liquids. We first of all considered what it is like to walk in water.

We then carried out a mini investigation, observing what happened when we dropped a coin in a container of water, oil or golden syrup. 

We talked about the forces of gravity and how in the different liquids, the upthrust changed, resulting in the coin taking a different amount of time to get to the bottom. 

We introduced the word viscous and recorded our observations. 

We then investigated water resistance using blutac.

Finally we got a can of full fat cola and a diet cola and predicted whether they would sink or float. 

 We were surprised when the full fat can sank and the diet floated. We learnt that this was because of the sugar in the full fat cola.

Week 5

A highlight from the week was definitely our trip to Southwell workhouse on Tuesday (see previous blog post). The children thoroughly enjoyed dressing up and taking on the role of real Victorian children who went to the Workhouse in the 1840s. Each child received a mini identity card giving them the name, age and some information about the child such as reasons for going to the workhouse and if they went with any family or if they were orphans. 

The children have produced some great work already based on their experience at Southwell. In history with Mrs Allott, the boys and girls worked separately to plan and deliver presentations based on what they learnt at Southwell. On the day, the children had slightly different experiences in order to reflect what it would have been like for boys and girls. 

In literacy, the children wrote recounts in the role of their Victorian character, detailing their experiences on their first day at the Workhouse, including their journey there. They were really enthusiastic about their writing and have produced some fabulous work. 

Other things we have been getting up to this week:

- in maths we have been learning to multiply accurately using a column method

- we have been enjoying reading a poem a day, talking about what we like about the poem and often what we find a bit strange. We particularly enjoyed the poems which forced Miss Chadwick to try and rap- unsuccessfully! 

- in science we have started to investigate air resistance. We made parachutes but haven't quite had time to test them yet- will do this next week and let you know how we get on. 

Parents evening sign up sheet is on our door, please come and write your name if you would like to see me. However, please let me know if these time aren't convenient and we can arrange an alternative.  Miss Chadwick