Week 7 – A chance to look at what people have done so far.
Take a look at our blog and the blogs of the people who have taken the time and trouble to comment on ours. If you would like to leave an appropriate comment on theirs, please do.
Year 3 – ‘The Firebird’.
Year 3 have started some work on the story of ‘The Firebird’. Here are some pictures and sentences about what they have done so far.
The firebird has fiery feathers on its tail. It is as glorious as the sun. Firebirds like to peck gleaming golden apples and brown acorns.
Eva and Kaja
It’s wings were ginormous , it’s feathers like fire , it stole a gold apple and it sung like a quoi r .
Esther and Clara
The fire bird is a bird but not just any bird. A bird with fire on its wings but the fire bird is a thief. Every night he steals a gold apple from the King’s castle but fear not- Prince Ivan will save the day but he is a bit stuck. But Prince Ivan will catch the fire bird.
Ferdie
Fire bird story so far… Ivan has to go the way were the horse dies and Prince Dmitri and Vasilli have failed and went back.
Firebird story so far …
It started when Miss Self received a golden apple with a note, so, as anyone would, we started investigating. We came up with some questions and here’s one. ”Are you real, Firebird?” A few days later, we had THREE PAGES of writing! The king had been angry because a FIREBIRD was stealing his golden apples! When his 2 brothers failed to catch it, Ivan went out. He started to catch it, but it escaped! We have been posing as Ivan and writing letters to the king, and had no reply! Firebird update complete!
Greetings we have a golden apple.
Finley and Benas
I think that fire bird is being greedy because he is poor.
Since Fire Bird visited we discovered that unusual things were happening
Like on Monday morning two of are classmates found a glorious golden apple on the Prayer table. We all sprinted to the prayer table to see what had happened.
Nathalie /Leanne
Fire bird is very interesting because I think it’s very mysterious and a little bit scary. I hope Fire bird doesn’t get shot.
OLIVER and EDWARD.
One Monday morning Miss Self found a GOLDEN apple on the prayer table. Miss Self asked if anyone had painted the apple everyone said no. Suddenly Ellen found a letter.
Ellen and Faith
One Monday morning we discovered that our little seedling had died.
We found a letter and an apple.
Olaya and Gabriella
One Monday morning Kaja and Tiana found a golden apple on the prayer table .
Lola and Aurelia
One Monday morning, Miss Self found golden feathers scattered around the field and a letter saying Fire B. The next day Miss Self found a golden apple in their class room. Also there was a stack of papers that were sent to the office and they were about 3 princes, a king and a firebird.
Samantha and Ayda
So in year three we got letters [from fire B] and Ivan tried to capture the fire bird.
The fire bird steals golden apples from the king, Prince Ivan`s dad. The fire bird eats too many apples a day.
Joseph and Charlie
The fire bird stole apples from the tree in the kingdom.
Bradley and Joel.
The FireBird has robbed some gold apples from the King..
Soon the king will shoot the FireBird.
Grace and Blake
The firebird (Fire .B) is a gold bird with a tail that looks like a thousand sparklers ,massive wings and we want to know what it looks like ! Also we have had letters from her which mention someone called Prince Ivan ! Then the other class arrived with a letter from Prince Ivan ! Cool.
There is a firebird what is sending letters.
Kuba
Two weeks ago Mr. Brackenbury told us something very surprising. The other class had got very important news. There stood an apple tree what grew golden apples by a palace. A fire bird comes here evry night and steels an apple from the tree. The king ordered if you find the fire bird you will get half my kingdom.
Grace and Julia
What I know about the fire Bird is that she had stolen 5 golden Apples from the big Tree.
Wiktoria and Oliwia
Week 6 – Science focus. Two truths and a lie. Can you spot the lie?
- You need a light pull in the bathroom to avoid getting water on switches.
- If you eat or drink poison it will act like medicine.
- You need an oxygen tank when diving in the sea. Martha 6HW
Two Truths and a Lie. Which one is not true?
- Space is completely silent.
- Less than 5 per-cent of the world’s oceans have been explored.
- Mars has a big red spot which is a storm. Poppy and Laura 6HW
Year 5 and Year 6 Thrilling Technology!
Years 5 and 6 have been having some very exciting sessions of ‘STEM games’ and ‘Robotics’ in the last couple of weeks.
Year 5 children had to work together in teams to find solutions to the tasks set, in the fields of Science, Maths, Technology and Engineering and Year 6 had to program some VEX robots (using a version of ‘Scratch’, a program with which they are familiar) to make them move round a course without knocking over blocks and some even managed to make their robots ‘dance’!
A lot of noise ensued(!), but some great thinking was done too and they all had to draw on all their skills of resilience, perseverance and encouraging others to tackle the tasks. Thank you to Jenny and Seb who came to run all the sessions, under the auspices of Norfolk County Council’s ‘Educator Solutions’. There were some particularly well-engineered cranes and interesting labelling of organs within the body!
Comments often heard from the children during the sessions ‘Wow!’, ‘Coo!’, ‘Yes!’
Comments from the children after the sessions:
Poppy – “It helped you learn about how robots are controlled, what they can do and the instructions you have to give them.”
Milly – “I liked the challenges we had to do and I think this is a very good experience for me and others.”
Julia – “The Robotics session was a great learning experience for me as I got to learn about robots. It was great fun to program robots and make them do a variety of things. It has inspired me to do more programming and I really enjoyed the session.”
“I really enjoyed the Robotics because it was ICT in something else – to do with robots instead of just coding on a computer.”
“I really liked Robotics because it was something I’ve never done before and I liked programming it.”
Olivia “I really enjoyed the Robotics and at the end, if we’d done everything, we could create a dance with them.”
Anni – “I enjoyed the fact that we tried a lot to move it through and make sure it doesn’t hit and it was really fun.”
Kuba – “I really liked the Robotics because they give us a better understanding of programming in the future if we get a job.”
Oli – “I really enjoyed the programming and the challenges.”
Curiosities
Oli and James would like to give their curiosities;
How earth floats. – James
How electricity works. – Oli
Curiosities
Kuba and Dawid are giving their curiosities:
I would like to know what it is like in space and on the moon. – Kuba
How long does it take to fly to Neptune and what’s in the sun? – Dawid
Week 5 – We are all similar, we are all different.
Lots of us completed the language poll challenge this week. We have many different languages represented in our school, as many children have links to other countries and some have even visited those countries. For example, we have children with links to Poland, Ireland, Spain, India, countries in Africa, the Philippines and so on.
The review below was about a book which was enjoyed by a Year 6 child.
A BOOK REVIEW ON ‘THE EXPLORER’ by Katherine Rundell
This book has a lot of writing that would help with your school education on literacy/writing. Some words in the book are hard to understand, so if you’re reading the book keep a dictionary nearby. It is an amazing adventure book and it is even recommended by Jaqueline Wilson! Since it is a really good description, you can see the image that the author had in your head, whilst you’re reading it.