'We are William Morris' Apprentices'-Phoebe.

Last week we completed our William Morris paintings. William Morris was an artist who lived during the Victorian era whose work was admired by Queen Victoria. With their new found knowledge the children created their own pictures using colouring pencils and then turned them into paintings. I overheard some of the girls saying,'we are artists, we are really good at this.' It was great to hear the class having such a good time whilst they are learning. 

Victorian Measures

This week we have continued our measures unit in Maths, we completed a carousel of measures activities with a Victorian theme linked to Topic on Monday! Take a look...

Queen Victoria wanted her ladies in waiting to wear ribbons in their hairs for her ball! Only ribbons over 9cm would fit, so we used rulers to measure them and decide which ones were suitable! 

George Stephenson needed an extra lump of coal to power his steam engine! He needed the coal to weigh 1kg or over, we used scales to select correct the lumps of coal for him!

Queen Victoria requested more of our delicious cheese straws, the baker needed at least 500g (1/2kg) of flour to make them! We used the balance to decide which bags of flour weighed 500g or more!

The Tanner needed more poop to treat his leather! He needed a container with a capacity of at least 1 litre (1000ml). We tallied how much the containers could hold, then selected the most suitable container!

The poor matchstick girl had no shoes! Her feet were very cold! We measured how much further she'd need to walk using a metre stick, we gave her the determination she needed to cross the road!

Durham University

Last week, on Friday we were visited by John from Durham University. He was extremely impressed with our prior knowledge of the life and times of Queen Victoria. 

We had the opportunity to look at, draw and label some real artefacts from the Victorian times. Below you can see some children measuring a silver candlestick with care. 

In the afternoon we looked at an old map of the local area to see what it was like in the Victorian times, (the school was just a field). We used our brilliant map skills to create individual maps of the journey  we take from our home to school. As a class we created a large map of everyone's journeys. 

We had a brilliant day and learnt lots of new facts. 

The children produced an excellent map showing their journeys to school. 

Victorians

This week we had some visitors from Durham University for a one day workshop all about the Victorians! Our visitors were very impressed by all of the amazing facts we already knew about Queen Victoria and the Victorian period!

We looked at what our local area was like in Victorian times using our map skills, then we drew our own map to show what the area looks like now! We talked about the similarities and differences!

We also looked at what homes were like in the Victorian times and even got to look at some real Victorian artefacts! We dressed up as Victorians too and next week we will be drawing self- portraits of ourselves as Victorians to follow the session up!

We learned lots of new facts and enjoyed a fun filled day!

Greek Bowls

We have been creating our plaster bowls ready for our parent workshop. They are looking fantastic!

Vile Victorian board games.

To truly test their knowledge of the creative curriculum topic the " Vile Victorians" y6 have set about designing and making their own board games. We have been so impressed by their efforts and imaginative response to this challenge! Check out their ideas - which would you enjoy playing the most ?

Durham University-The Groovy Greeks

Last week we had some very special visitors from Durham University. We took part in a drama activity where we created our own Greek theatre in our classroom. We learnt all about the death room!

We then made a sculpture to present to the gods. We made a sculpture of our body parts we need fixing.

We also had the chance to see real objects from Ancient Greece.

Fantastic French!

We are enjoying our French lessons in school this year. Just look at our fabulous display, along with all the words and phrases we can already say,