This week Y3 caught the train into the city centre to visit Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery as part of our new topic ‘Gods and Mortals’. This topic based around the Ancient Greeks.
At the museum we first got to explore the Ancient Greek gallery, where we had to find different the Greek equivalents of everyday objects, e.g. a perfume bottle and mirror. Y3 also found out more about each of the different gods and designed an offering for them.
Next Sarah, the museum teacher took us to do some Greek themed art. First we explored the red figure technique by painting an owl design, as a gift for Athena, the goddess of wisdom. Both techniques were used by the Ancient Greeks. Afterwards We got to design an amphora pot with a geometric design. Our designs were then scratched onto a final piece to imitate the black figure technique.
A big thank you to Kaeb’s mum and also Shaimaa’s mum for accompanying us.
This afternooon, Year 1 performed an assembly based on Noah’s Ark to the whole school and to their parents. The children performed fantastically and Mrs Nizamis and Miss Tsang are extremely proud! They spoke loudly and clearly, and sang beautifully.
This week, we have read the story ‘Goldilocks and The Three Bears’. The children have really enjoyed reading this story and we have made up our own actions and created a story map using Talk 4 writing. We have also used the story to help us with our maths learning. We have been sorting the bears, bowls, spoons into size order from largest to smallest.
On Thursday 18th January, Year 4 visited Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery to find out about the Anglo Saxons.
We started the day exploring the many levels of the museum. After lunch, we visited the Staffordshire Hoard, which is the largest hoard of gold ever found in Litchfield and it belonged to the Anglo Saxons.
During our workshop, we took part in many activities to understand how archaeologists dug up the artefacts and also how the conservation team at the museum recreated some of the pieces of jewellery to be displayed in the museum for everyone to enjoy.
As part of our workon shape, we carried out a number of shape investigations.
We used modelling materials to create 3d shapes and described their properties using correct athematical vocabulary.
We identified the properties of 2D shapes including parallel and perpendicualr lines and right, acute and obtuse angles. We then soretd the shapes using a Venn diagram.
We identified 3D shapes from their nets. We discovered that there are many different ways to draw the net of a cube.
Welcome back to Year 3 who have returned with an amazing attitude to their learning 🙂 Our new topic is called Gods & Mortals and is all about the Ancient Greeks. As there are so many things to learn about, this topic will take us all the way up to Easter!
Next week, Year 3 will be taking a visit to the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BMAG) to find out more about the Ancient Greeks and to take part in a series of workshops. Year 2 should have already bought home a letter explaining our visit, if not please ask for another.
Our visit will last the whole day and we will also spend time exploring the museum.
This week in RE we have started to look at what characteristics show that people have led good lives.
Mohammed thought that Martin Luther King had led a good life because of these qualities in his character:-
he fought for the rights of everyone, fought for equality, believed that you could be anything you want. He was dedicated, strong-minded and an inspiration to others.
Hamza thought Allah had led a good life because of these qualities in his character:-
he is a kind and loving God, who cared about people and forgave people when they had made the wrong choices.
Year 2 have settled well into the new term and are ready and eager for their new learning.
We have begun our new topic where we are learning all about Pirates.
This week we have explored what it was like to be a pirate and take part in many adventures. We decided to make our own pirate crew so we all completed a job application where we outlined our special skills and experiences for the job.
Captain Smith will be looking at all of the applications and expects to be employing a quartermaster, helmsman and mate very soon!
Arrrrrrrr!
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