MrJennings

We have continued our work on persuasive writing in English this week. We have thought about planning texts like this and designing paragraphs before writing them in sentences. We have also looked at phrases which help make texts like this sound convincing and be more likely to be persuasive. In addition, we have done some comprehension work. Our maths has focussed on drawing and interpreting graphs. We have done some work on bar charts but have focussed on line graphs this week. We have plotted data, making sure that we can plot intermediary points, and have used the graphs to find answers to questions.

We started a unit of work on vector graphics in ICT, thinking about how this type of image is different from "painting" style applications. We investigated layering elements of pictures, moving and resizing elements and grouping these too. Our history work this week has involved thinking about Nottingham Castle and the changes that took place on that site. We studied pictures of the castle representing the design of the castle at different points in its history and we put these in chronological order. We identified the structural developments and then learned about some of the personalities, including royalty, who have been significant in the life of the castle.

We finished the week with some art. This is our project on containers. Later we will be making play pots to decorate, but today we started by examining the work of a range of artists who have produced containers (mostly potters and ceramicists). We discussed and compared their work, trying to spot characteristics of the different artists. We then looked in more detail at the work of Bodil Manz. Pieces of her ceramic work were compared and the repeated elements of her style were discussed. We then began to make our own designs in the style of Bodil Manz, trying to develop a set of designs which have a clear relationship between them.