Wednesday, February 27, 2008
25th to 27th February
We had a super day on our Timetravelling visit to Southwell Minister on Monday. We travelled by coach, arriving at the Minster at about 9.50 am ready for the parade into the minister with about three hundred other junior school pupils. There was a welcome and an "assembly" before we began a series of four different activities. Three more followed after lunch. There was a great variety of things to do including making prayer beads, finding out about the communion service and baptism, learning more about Fairtrade, pretending to be part of the Minster choir, learning how to "sign" one of the Timetravelling songs and studying the organ. As well as this, we had some time to look at the beautiful building.
On Tuesday, we followed up our visit by producing a quick Powerpoint presentation, including some of the photos and movies that we took while we were at Southwell. We also did some maths work on coordinates in the morning before our usual Tuesday afternoon PE session with the YMCA, French and PSHCE.
Today, the focus for our maths was rotating shapes and we did some of this on a coordinate grid, building on yesterday's work. In English, we began writing an argument in favour of allowing children to have mobile phones in primary schools. We wrote the first two paragraphs of our work after practising writing the introduction for a series of different arguments. We are trying hard to make clearly focused paragraphs and present the points in a convincing way. In science, we finished off some work on dissolving by writing up our results and findings, trying to form good, clear conclusions using two comparatives.
In a change to our planned geography work, we used the internet to find out more about the earthquake that woke many of us up last night. We marked the epicentre on a map and found out some other facts about this earthquake before, as a class, we looked at what causes earthquakes and the effects they can have.
On Tuesday, we followed up our visit by producing a quick Powerpoint presentation, including some of the photos and movies that we took while we were at Southwell. We also did some maths work on coordinates in the morning before our usual Tuesday afternoon PE session with the YMCA, French and PSHCE.
Today, the focus for our maths was rotating shapes and we did some of this on a coordinate grid, building on yesterday's work. In English, we began writing an argument in favour of allowing children to have mobile phones in primary schools. We wrote the first two paragraphs of our work after practising writing the introduction for a series of different arguments. We are trying hard to make clearly focused paragraphs and present the points in a convincing way. In science, we finished off some work on dissolving by writing up our results and findings, trying to form good, clear conclusions using two comparatives.
In a change to our planned geography work, we used the internet to find out more about the earthquake that woke many of us up last night. We marked the epicentre on a map and found out some other facts about this earthquake before, as a class, we looked at what causes earthquakes and the effects they can have.
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