Volcanoes and earthquakes- music composed and performed by Class 4

We have listened to and performed with 'Mars' from 'The Planets' by Gustav Holst and considered how Holst gives the impression of the atmosphere of this 'angry planet'.

Then we have created our own musical pieces to represent volcanoes and earthquakes. Here we are, performing. We gave one another feedback to help improve our compositions. 

Everyone focused brilliantly and tried to use musical vocabulary: tempo, dynamics, texture, in their discussions. Well done, Class 4!

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? 

Holt Hall Residential 2016

Our final day at Holt Hall and we used our map-reading and compass skills to do some orienteering. This was highly competitive, with points on offer for finding the posts, yet in a serene setting...

Farewell Holt Hall, we had an amazing time...

Holt Hall Residential 2016

After dinner we spent some time in the Games room 

To ensure we slept well tonight we went out to play on the play equipment , football,volleyball and tree climbing.

And to ensure we slept really well we went out for a bat walk in the grounds of Holt Hall. We use bat detectors that detected bat sounds. 

What beautiful flowers! 

Although we had a lovely walk, we didn't see or hear any bats at all.

Holt Hall Residential 2016

We arrived  at Holt Hall after a fairly long journey  taking what must have been the scenic route!   After a settling - in talk , fire alarm test and sorting out our rooms , we headed off to West Runton to do some rock pooling.

A Hermit crab ! 

After rock pooling, we went to look at the   sediment layers in the cliff that have built up over thousands of years; the West Runton mammoth was found here. 

Back to Holt Hall for dinner ...

More instalments later ....