Saturday 4 September 2010
News category: Important Update
Posted by: lbristow

We will be open as planned on Monday, 6th September at the usual time after a very busy Summer break. The re-wire of the lower school and nursery buildings is complete and the staff have worked incredibly hard to get everything back in place and ready for the children. The new building is also well under way, we have a brand new outside area for our Reception children and the new school environmental garden is also starting to look great. On arrival at school, children and parents will be directed to their new classrooms - 'left' for Green and Red classes and 'Right' for all other children, across the Upper School playground. We are really looking forward to the start to the new term and look forward to seeing you all back and ready to learn on Monday!

This term has been another busy time in 3O.

In our Ancient Egypt topic the children have thoroughly enjoyed learning about the mummification process! They have also worked as journalists for the Wessex newspaper to report the exciting discovery of Tutankhamen’s Tomb, by the British archaeologist Howard Carter.

In Literacy we have studied different types of poetry. We enjoyed reading ‘Ten Things Found in a Shipwrecked Sailors Pocket’, written by the famous poet Ian McMillan. We then wrote our own poems. Here is a fantastic poem by Alexander, entitled ‘Ten Things Found in a Sad Scarecrow's Pocket’.

10 things found in a sad scarecrows pocket

A soggy leak,

A tattered handkerchief,

A crystal tear,

The feather of a cuckoo that left him all alone in the dark

Sad lips

A dead crow

Broken twigs

A half eaten packed lunch

A crushed potato

A wallet with no money

By Alexander

We also read a selection of shape poems. Here is Megan’s Firework Poem. What shape has she written it in?

 

As you can see from these lovely examples of work, we have also been learning how to type our work in ICT. We have experimented with the text by changing the style, font, size and colour. We have also just begun to learn how to email our friends, using First Class.

Here is a beautiful ‘Autumnal Painting’ by Alice. We began by studying pictures of autumn scenes. We then sketched trees and leaves in our sketch books. Our paintings began with the background then we added a tree with branches. We then mixed colours to get various shades of gold, yellow, orange and brown to paint autumnal leaves floating to the ground. We finished the paintings by drawing the veins of the leaves to give a 3 dimensional effect.

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