Our fossils

Here are some of our fossils we created using clay and plaster of Paris. We thought about how fossils are made over a very long period of time as we carried a similar process but in just a few minutes! 

The picture isn't great, but if you look closely you should just be able to make out some prehistoric creatures. 

Caythorpe jigsaw puzzle

In our corridor, above the hall door, the whole school jigsaw puzzle is finally up. Children have been eagerly looking up, trying to spot their puzzle piece. 

Thank you to Mrs Laing who helped by creating the large colourful school logo. 

Oliver!

Here are some our wanted posters for Fagin or Bill Sikes (two of the baddies in Oliver Twist). We wrote character descriptions and details of the crimes they committed. We then presented them in wanted poster style and made them look old. 

On Friday we also got chance to use our new laptops. We decided to choose a piece of our Oliver work from our literacy books that we were proud of or enjoyed the most, to present using ICT. We had to make some editing and improvements as we typed upour work and the thought about how we wanted to set our work out. 

Remembrance poetry

On Remembrance Day, we wrote poetry on the theme of war. We wrote abstract nouns poems on themes such as about anger, hate or hope. 

Here are some of our displays, including the one of our remembrance poems. 

In the corridor between our two classes, we have displayed some of our victorian invention prototypes, based on real victorian inventions such as the sewing machine, penny farthing and light bulb. 

Week 1

A busy first week back after our half term holiday...

In literacy we have been learning about the story of Oliver Twist, writing parts of the story and thinking about what it tells us about the Victorians. On Friday in our extended writing we wrote character descriptions of Fagin. We used a clip from a film to help us, writing about Oliver meeting Fagin for the first time. The children have worked so hard on using effective vocabulary, varying sentence openers and also building a picture of a villainous character. 

In science, we have moved in from our forces topic to learning about evolution. On Tursday afternoon we found out about how fossils are formed and then got chance to make dinosaur fossils. 

In maths we have been busy learning to tell the time, read timetables and calculate time duration. 

On Wednesday afternoon we enjoyed taking part in a mini netball tournament between oparnhem class and Holy Cross class. We haven't quite finished the tournament yet but have really enjoyed playing in mini competitions. 

(If I remember this week. I'll take some photos of some of our writing and fossils to put on the blog to show you. Any members of Arnhem class who read this- please remind me!!)