Tuesday, July 21, 2009
13th to 21st July
We have had a typically busy end to the term. Some of us have made final visits to our new secondary schools and weh have finished off the work for the year. The main pieces of work we had to complete were the English work based on and our Kenuke's Kingdom and our Fairground Rides technology project.
We finished reading the Kensuke's Kingdom novel and wrote up the writing we had drafted about the "jellyfish incident" written from Kensuke's point of view. We made this look really good by writing it on A3 paper and covering this with an illustration to create background to the writing. We made our work up in to folders to send to our secondary schools where we will be doing some follow-up work next term.
Having finished the fairground rides, we used motors to make them work and videoed these. Then we used MovieMaker to produce a short film of our rides which also included still images of other groups' rides and the components we used etc. The choir had performed a song called Roller Ghoster in our end-of-term music concert and we used a recording of this as our backing track for the video.
We spent some time sorting out our work from the year. We made special folders of our best work as a "portfolio" for us to keep (including work from throughout our time at the junior school), but we also took most of our other work home as well. On the final day many of us took photos of our friends and people gave us their autographs too.
On the last afternoon, we had a special assembly to say goodbye.
Term has now finished. School is closed for the summer holidays and is due to re-open on 3rd September.
We finished reading the Kensuke's Kingdom novel and wrote up the writing we had drafted about the "jellyfish incident" written from Kensuke's point of view. We made this look really good by writing it on A3 paper and covering this with an illustration to create background to the writing. We made our work up in to folders to send to our secondary schools where we will be doing some follow-up work next term.
Having finished the fairground rides, we used motors to make them work and videoed these. Then we used MovieMaker to produce a short film of our rides which also included still images of other groups' rides and the components we used etc. The choir had performed a song called Roller Ghoster in our end-of-term music concert and we used a recording of this as our backing track for the video.
We spent some time sorting out our work from the year. We made special folders of our best work as a "portfolio" for us to keep (including work from throughout our time at the junior school), but we also took most of our other work home as well. On the final day many of us took photos of our friends and people gave us their autographs too.
On the last afternoon, we had a special assembly to say goodbye.
Term has now finished. School is closed for the summer holidays and is due to re-open on 3rd September.
# posted by Mr Jennings : 9:29 pm
Friday, July 10, 2009
6th to 10th July
We have had an unsettled week this week in the sense that there has been something different and unusual happening every day. Monday was the most normal day of the week with only one pupil absent visiting another school. Following that, half of us were out on Tuesday (at Wheldon), a quarter on Wednesday (at Gedling), it was Sports day on Thursday and today it was our talent show day!
In between times, we have made good progress with our work on Kensuke's Kingdom, finishing our "storm" work and drafting our writing about "the jellyfish incident". Our fairground rides are now basically finished and many have also done their final drawings and begun their evaluations. We did a further piece of art work on Wednesday to extend our "people in action" topic, by producing some prints in the style of Keith Herring.
In between times, we have made good progress with our work on Kensuke's Kingdom, finishing our "storm" work and drafting our writing about "the jellyfish incident". Our fairground rides are now basically finished and many have also done their final drawings and begun their evaluations. We did a further piece of art work on Wednesday to extend our "people in action" topic, by producing some prints in the style of Keith Herring.
# posted by Mr Jennings : 9:04 pm
Friday, July 03, 2009
30th June to 3rd July
We have made good progress with our technology project this week and most of our models are nearing completion. We also spent some time trying to finish off a number of pieces of writing for our geography and RE projects and for our Kensuke's Kingdom work.
We had a special day today as we had a history day when we played the "Aztec Village Game". Each group represented a different Aztec Clan which had to manage its chinampas (farm land) to grow next year's crop while at the same time managing this years food store to ensure that it lasts until the new crop is gathered in. Some work has to be done for the local Lord and spare time is spent making things for the family home or the clan. We decided the winning clan at the end of the day by a vote.
We also received our SATs tests back in school and were pleased with the results.
We had a special day today as we had a history day when we played the "Aztec Village Game". Each group represented a different Aztec Clan which had to manage its chinampas (farm land) to grow next year's crop while at the same time managing this years food store to ensure that it lasts until the new crop is gathered in. Some work has to be done for the local Lord and spare time is spent making things for the family home or the clan. We decided the winning clan at the end of the day by a vote.
We also received our SATs tests back in school and were pleased with the results.
# posted by Mr Jennings : 9:50 pm
