Mrs Bovington has been helping us to sew during lunchtimes. Here are some of the things we have made.

In our writing we have been focusing on extending our sentences and varying our openers. We can make them longer by using connectives, prepositions and clauses. We vary openers using time words and adverbs (this stops our sentences from starting with The The The or He He He). We used a film trailer for ideas… Read more »

After designing our drawbridges and making a pneumatic monster mouth we started to make our designs. Here are some pictures of them in action. While building we kept a record of any changes we made.    Finally we evaluated our design against the original criteria. 

Today we went on our trip to Colcester Castle. We were very excited to see it, with some of being amazed to find it hidden behind some shops. We spent time looking at the exhibits (we found a reconstruction of a roundhouse just like the one we made in class) and tried on lots of… Read more »

Next week we will be looking in detail at pneumatics. We will be designing and making devices that pump air. Today we learnt about how they work, pushing and pulling the syringes and observing the effect. Finally we experimented with hydraulics, we filled our pneumatic system with water. 

On Wednesday we had a fantastic day out to visit Boydells dairy farm. Below are some pictures from the day.

Today we went to Colchester to take part in the consortium sports event. We competed against 22 other schools in track and field events. The competition was tough but everyone gave 100% in scorching temperatures.   Well done for all your effort team. You should be so proud of how well you did, especially our… Read more »

This morning in kiwk cricket we practised fielding. We made sure we could catch as well as crouching down to field the ball. Then we played a game of kiwk cricket and saw some fantastic batting. At the start we all tended to run towards the ball when fielding, by the end we knew that… Read more »

Today we re-enacted the battle of Maldon, between Olaf the Viking and Byrhtnoth the Saxon, which we then wrote up as a report. We will we editing and improving this work using different report writing skills.