Friday, June 24, 2011
20th to 23rd June
We have had a short week this week as the teachers had an INSET day on Friday.
We have made good progress this week in our geography topic on the Lake District. We have been thinking in particular about tourism - why the Lake District Attracts tourists and the effects that tourism can have on the landscape. We have used newspaper reports, data tables and charts to find out facts about tourism and identify ways in which large numbers of tourists can have on the landscape. We then considered possible solutions to these problems.
On Thursday we had a special Arts Day at the Wheldon School. We joined Year 5 children from other schools in the Wheldon family at the secondary school and had four different arts activities, each connected with Africa. We began with drama, on safari and moving like African animals and hunters. The second activity was art, in which we painted animal masks after looking at pictures of animals to examine colouration and texture. After lunch we had two further activities. These were dance, when we created sequences representing movement through the jungle and finishing with music. We used percussion instruments to create and record rhythmic compositions and also had the opportunity to play the keyboards.
We have made good progress this week in our geography topic on the Lake District. We have been thinking in particular about tourism - why the Lake District Attracts tourists and the effects that tourism can have on the landscape. We have used newspaper reports, data tables and charts to find out facts about tourism and identify ways in which large numbers of tourists can have on the landscape. We then considered possible solutions to these problems.
On Thursday we had a special Arts Day at the Wheldon School. We joined Year 5 children from other schools in the Wheldon family at the secondary school and had four different arts activities, each connected with Africa. We began with drama, on safari and moving like African animals and hunters. The second activity was art, in which we painted animal masks after looking at pictures of animals to examine colouration and texture. After lunch we had two further activities. These were dance, when we created sequences representing movement through the jungle and finishing with music. We used percussion instruments to create and record rhythmic compositions and also had the opportunity to play the keyboards.
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