Great Yarmouth by train!

Today, some of Class 4 travelled on the train for the first time! We were off to Yarmouth to visit the Tolhouse Museum, an ancient gaol of the Town, and also to visit the beach for some fun and the opportunity to jump over waves in the sea. Not only that, but we carried out some geography surveys about land-use, together with some geography questionnaires. We will use the data to carry out some statistics work in Maths- real Maths- and to do some mapping. It was an action-packed day, as you will see...

It was dark in the ancient gaol, so the pictures are not all of the best quality, but give a feeling of some of the children's experiences. The children had the role of prison inspectors. They had to examine the conditions of the gaol, interview the jailer, a prisoner and speak with a prison reformer, before making their judgement.

Iron cuffs:

Sacking clothes for prisoners:

The jailer:

Matching crimes and punishments in the olden days...

At the beach...

Rounders...

Land-use survey...

Questionnaires...

A busy, rewarding and fun day, with two of our 100 memorable events achieved- travelling by public transport and jumping over waves in the sea. Now we can look forward to what we may find out about the shopping locations of people we interviewed and also, will there be a difference in land-use along the sea-front compared to the centre of Yarmouth? 

Roman numerals

We have been learning about Roman numerals today, with codes...

...then with a lotto game...

Duxford Visit

Today Class 4 visited Duxford Imperial War Museum. We achieved two of our one hundred memorable events- we went on an aeroplane and learnt from an older person. Here are some photos of our day...

Shoes and helmets from World War 2...

An Anderson Shelter...

Teaching others about the Roman numerals on Concorde's wing...A surprising Maths element to the day...

On Concorde and...

...under Concorde!

In the real control room (1940)...

Collecting images and information...

Yet another amazing day!

Local history week in Class 4!

Today we have started our local history week in Class 4; to continue our class topic of World War 2, we will be finding out about  Bressingham School during the Second World War. 

We have original documents from World War 2 times to use for our enquiry- how exciting! 

The admission register tells us names, dates and addresses of pupils and the log book describes events at school in those days...

Class 4 were very excited to read what the log book said and wrote some notes about what they found out...

Then we looked at the admissions register to find out about the ages of the pupils when they began at Bressingham School and when they left.

Using an online graphing program, we created graphs to show what we had found out. 

Following this, we looked at attendance figures, given as fractions, in the school log book for the war years and converted these to percentages, which was quite a challenge! Some used long division to help and some used calculators.

Here we are preparing our presentations; some groups chose to make PowerPoint presentations, some dramatic pieces, and some combined these two genre...

Finally each group presented their information to the rest of the class, who provided positive feedback and improvement points. 

Amazing teamwork from all...