Last Thursday, class 4 took part in a cross country event at Carding Mill Valley. We all had a great time taking part and cheering each other on!
Author: Fiona Croft
Stories about our families in World War Two
During History this week, class 4 had the opportunity to share stories about their own family from the war. We heard many incredible stories about family members and about the items we still have today that help us paint a picture of what it would have been like in the war.
World War Two Artefact Box
On Thursday, class 4 were introduced to their new topic for this term, World War Two. For our first lesson, we explored many WW2 artefacts and clothing from RAF Cosford. The children looked at the different artefacts and answered questions about what they thought each of them would have been used for during WW2.
Cadbury World Blog written by Class 4
We have all been looking forward to this trip for ever and finally it came!
On Thursday the 23rd May class 4 set off at 7:30 to go to Cadbury’s world in Birmingham. We were occupied by playing car games and having a chat until the bus was buzzing with excitement as we passed the Cadbury’s World sign. We arrived at 9:30 after a long drive. We were 10 minutes early and all the doors were locked and we got worried that we had got the wrong day(we hadn’t of course)we were let in and went through to an awesomely educational workshop about the Maya civilization that lasted an hour.
Our Maya Workshop:
We learnt interesting facts about the ancient Maya and how they believed in 160 different Gods and that the corn god created them, meaning that if their head was in the shape of a corn, it was a symbol of beauty. A few years ago, archaeologists discovered a whole cave full of Maya pottery but the Mayas who once lived there had put giant boulders in the way. People are now starting to believe that the Maya were the first people to play a ball game called pock ta tok, a game where you had to shoot the ball through a tiny hoop without letting the ball touch your hands or feet and the loosing team were sacrificed to the Gods.
After that we were given a box of chocolates and headed into the experience rooms, there was a jungle and we learnt about how the Spanish took chocolate back to England. After that we learned about chocolate in a cinema room and we learnt all about John Cadbury and how he created the factory. The seats moved to make us in to a coco bean adventure. We then had some melted chocolate with two toppings from the choice of white chocolate buttons, normal chocolate buttons, jelly babies, and crushed up Oreos.
Next we experienced a ride which we were in groups of 5 or 6. We then had to shoot milk and chocolate bars, at the end we had our own score and we saw who won. Afterwards we entered a 3D cinema where we watched a video and had to wear these special glasses.
It was a great day!
Class 4’s pneumatics project
Today class 4 were introduced to their new DT/Primary Engineering project that has been set by Bishops Castle Community College. The challenge is to design, develop and build a machine which features pneumatic based moving parts. The machine must be designed to help the construction industry in some way. To start our projects, we all had a go at creating our own pneumatic systems, using syringes and tubing. The children looked at the differences between the two different sized syringes and we discussed how these pneumatic systems can be used in their own projects. The teams have started to think about their ideas and the planning process has begun. I cannot wait to see what class 4 come up with after hearing their fantastic ideas!
Year 6 Leavers service at Hereford Cathedral
On Thursday, year 6 went on a trip to Hereford Cathedral to take part in a Leavers service. There were over 400 pupils there for the service! The service consisted of some Bible readings, lots of songs with actions, a paper aeroplane making activity and four children from our school wrote their own prayers about their time at primary school to read out during the service. They were brilliant, well done! After the service, we had time to take part in a prayer trail around the Cathedral. It had lots of different activities to take part in, all linking to the children’s time in primary school and how they are feeling about going to high school. It was a great day!
Class 3 Blue Planet
Class 3 had a great time at Blue Planet last week! We got to see lots of different animals – our favourite ones were the sting rays, the sharks and the puffer fish! We also had a classroom lesson learning all about the coral reef and different habitats and saw the divers feed all of the fish. We had a brilliant day!
Class 3’s trip to Shrewsbury Prison
Last Tuesday, as part of our crime and punishment topic, class 3 visited Shrewsbury Prison.
We started the day by being shown the main wing and talking about the history of the prison.
We then had some time to explore the cells, and see what it would have been like to be a prisoner at Shrewsbury prison. Some of us found it more comfortable than others!
After the first part of our tour, we all took part in a prison escape room. There were lots of puzzles and questions to answer in order to escape from the cell. We all used our teamwork skills and everyone managed to escape!
After lunch, we carried on with the rest of our tour exploring the different wings in the prison. We also had time to have a go in the stocks and pillory that would have been used as punishments. To end the day we all had time to have a go at some of the games prisoners would have had available. It was a brilliant day!
