KS2 SUMMER CAMP

 Super Ships!

Today the children have been set the task of creating a Super Ship. The Ship ,just float, keep the sailor dry, have an awesome name and a cool design! Which team do you think will win?!

KS2 SUMMER CAMP

 Fun with clay!

This week’s theme for Summer Camp is Pirates. So for our first activity the children have created pirate themed clay sculptures which we will paint tomorrow! 

Year 3 prepare for battle!

 Art/Design Technology

Today in year 3, we have researched all about Roman shields. We discovered lots of interesting information about things such as: 

• The designs that would often be on the shields.
• What the shields wold be made from.
• How the handles were fastened, including our own research on how we could attach our handles.
• The shape and size of Roman shields.
• Why shields were used and how they could be used in battle.

We used our artist skills to: 

• Created a design based on Roman gods and other traditional designs.
• Practiced upscaling our designs from our practice A4 to our final A3 work.
• Practiced how to hold our paintbrushes and use beautiful long brush strokes in the same direction.
• Used a variety of different brush sizes to create intricate details and make our work stand out. 

We used our design technology skills to: 

• Explore what materials were used for real life Roman shields and why.
  
• Practiced different ways to attach our handles using a range of different materials.
• Using a pinch and snip technique to cut out a boss for the centre of our shield. 

Maths all around - Year 3

                                                                   Maths all around us

On Friday, we were exploring all the uses that maths can have in everyday life and we realised that we use it for lots of different things! We spent the morning outside putting all of our maths knowledge to work. 

Task 1:

This task drew upon our understanding of measurements that we have been learning about over the last week. We were each given a container and had to estimate (which we learnt meant to make a sensible guess) how many litres of water that the container could hold. This was a great reminder of our key words volume and capacity. We used a range of different beakers, flasks, cylinders and jugs to measure out the water and helped us to recognise that each container could hold different amounts of liquid and we could use our skills in addition to work out the total volume of water. 

Task 2: 

This task was great at helping us work together as a whole class as we created a class pictogram based on our favourite colours. We used this information to discover the most and least popular colours which helped us to work out the difference as well. 

Task 3: 

We were challenged by Mrs Moore to find an area for the chickens to explore. We used squares on the playground and metre wheels to work out the perimeter of different sized areas. This then helped us to work out how big an area the chickens could have and how many fences she would need. What a great challenge! 

Maths in the Forest in Reception!

This week we enjoyed taking our Maths lessons outside to explore Maths all around us!

We used our forest school lesson to explore how we could do Maths in the forest!

We all chose a stick from the forest and worked hard to order the sticks from the shortest to the tallest. The children were brilliant mathematicians and looked closely at the order of the sticks to work out where to put their stick in the order.

We then used the natural environment to make a picture of a 2D shape in the forest. We used leaves and sticks to create our 2D shapes, here are just a few of our creations!

Our stick ordering

Our 2D shape pictures