Science, Art and Writing Week

This week our whole school is enjoying Science, Art and Writing Week, which will culminate in an assembly which all our parents are invited to attend.

'Falling Things' is the focus of Class 4's Science, Art and Writing. In Science we have been finding out about different forces, including gravity and air resistance. We have investigated how gyrocopters fall when we change the length, the width or the shape of their flaps, the weight they are carrying or the material they are made from. Here are some of us testing our gyrocopters...

Our art focus is also 'Falling Things', beginning with observation drawings of field maple seeds, sycamore seeds and leaves, before using these drawings to inspire some printing. Our final pieces will hopefully show the falling movement of the leaves and seeds. 

Poetry is the genre for our writing about 'Falling Things'. 'Bat' by DH Lawrence is a fantastic poem, which we have enjoyed reading and used to generate ideas for our own poems. Here are drafts of some of our amazing poems about falling feathers, seeds and leaves...