This week, we made delicious shortbread biscuits. We were so excited to try our our brand new ovens. We worked brilliantly with our partners to create our shortbread dough, roll it out and cut it into different biscuit shapes. They tasted delightful!
This term in art we are learning about Andy Warhol and pop art. This week we have explored his blotting technique. We used tracing paper to copy a picture before using blank ink to carefully go over the lines we have drawn and transfer the ink onto plain paper. Before finally adding colour using water colours. We were so proud of how these turned
Today we researched the 5 main Ancient Greek City States. We then looked at scenarios and placed people into the City State that would have best suited them. It was really hard as some people fit into more than one state but we reasoned and discussed reasons for placing them where we did.
This week we looked at partner balances on 3 different levels. Some of us played it safe and perfected level 1 but some of us started on level 2. We had to hold the balances for 5 seconds so team work was a must-we were amazing!
Year 3 are looking at sculpture in their art lessons this half term and the artist we are focusing on is Alberto Giacometti. He sketched stick men in an elongated style and also made sculptures in this style. We tried to sketch in the style of Giacometti today.
Year 3 are learning all about plant this half term. We have looked at the different parts of a flowering plant and what plants need in order to grow well. Today, we set up an investigation to look at how important soil really is to plant growth. Do they REALLY need it? We have planted cress seeds in soil, sand, paper towel and cotton wool and we are going to observe the seeds as they grow. Most of us think that it will grow best in soil but we can’t wait to find out!
This week we continued to learn how to play badminton. We had so much fun playing our warm up games, practicing how to move around a badminton court and hitting the shuttlecock over the net. Take a look it us in action.
The cookery group had a great time making Rocky Road cakes. We discussed safety points when using a microwave, practised our chopping & mixing skills and worked really well with our partners to create our tasty treats!
We had a little bit of spare time while we were waiting for our cakes to set in the fridge so we decorated our bags to take the cakes home in.
Miss Campbell came down from Redhouse Comp to teach us French. We had great fun, learned a lot and she is very excited to meet some of us in year 7!
Our first gymnastics lesson had us looking at the importance of stretching! We then looked at symmetrical and asymmetrical balances and created several with a partner.
