In English, we were learning about Shackleton‘s journey we did letters and poems and fact Files we created a boat out of barriers we learned about their journey and how they had to cross the Atlantic Ocean they stopped on South Georgia which was not on there expedition plan it was really exciting but sad at sometimes.
In maths, we learned about long division and short division and the year five learned about mental adding and mental subtraction. Year sixes about long multiplication and grid references as there new unit. at the start of the year, all of us did decimal place .
We are reading the Wolf Wilder and I’ve really enjoyed there has been a lot of drama funniness and sad times but I think it’s probably one of my favourite books. i’ve read in sky.
Science has been interesting we have done pulley ,gears and leavers
We’ve done lots of experiments on them, and Mr. Ricketts bought in his bike to show us gears and how they work and how they are used to help us. we made our system as of humans and Mr. Ricketts showed us how it helps us to lift a heavy load with only a little bit of energy. we made our own levers using mini falcons, lolly sticks and counters.
In computing, we learnt how to do python coding and we made a python flashing heart but also when we made our own game of Shackleton crossing the sea but there’s ice burgs and we programmed it to try and guide Shackleton ship away from the icebergs so they don’t crash and if you did crash you would lose the level.
In PE, we have done tag rugby which was fun but kinda hard and stressed cause everyone kept on crying when someone pushed them over and hurt themselves but we’re now doing hockey. We haven’t actually had a lesson of it so we don’t know what it’s gonna be like, but we are excited for it . in indoor PE. We have been getting out the apparatus and we have been done gymnastics and routines, which has been really fun and hard for some people.
In Music we have done the song happy we’ve learned about all the genres of music and recently we have been learning grind we’re gonna make our own grim track on the Chrome Books I have been really enjoying doing grim on the chrome books but also singing happy .
In geography, we have been learning about sixth grid references. we have done some orientation around the playground and field and we have been learning how to use a compass. and we’ve been making our own maps and learning how to read maps.
In art, we’ve been learning about Paul Suzanne and how he is an impressionist and we’ve been learning about his life and how we became an artist and why he likes drawing landscapes.We’ve been trying to draw some landscapes ourselves recently we’ve gone to box to draw some of the landscapes there.
It was really fun at Viney Hill. When you arrive, you take your bags up to the dining room, then we will get together around the campfire and you are assigned your Eco pod and who we would be sharing it with then you went to our first activity. We did ab sailing We got the choice either lowering ourselves down the cliff or we could get the instructor to do it for us. after that we had lunch in your lunch bag You got either a brownie or flap jack and you could choose whether you wanted an egg sandwich ,cheese sandwich or ham sandwich. and to get a bag of crisps, but also you either get an Apple carton or an orange carton and you’re either get an apple or an orange.
But the other activities are caving, but also you have low ropes, archery and the leap of Faith but also Jacob‘s ladder biking . all the activities were really fun. but in the evening it was the funniest part we barely got any sleep but it was worth it in the evening we had campfires but also one of the instructors was a magician and gave us a magic show when it was raining but also we did dress up where it’s where we dress someone up, but we put a load of clothes on and things to make them not look like themselves so then all the other people from your place stand outside or one of the teachers walks them through and the teachers have to try and guess which person it is and then when it stopped raining, we’d go outside and sing songs around the campfire and it was really fun because a fox nearly went into the boys Eco pod but as soon as the fox came and took one sniff of the Eco pod it hid it was so funny and after three days you go back on the bus and go home. And we had a brilliant quiz at night and we sang songs, around the campfire before going into our Eco pods
From Betsy and Clara !!!
