An evacuee from World War 2 visits Class 4

On Thursday this week we were pleased to welcome an amazing lady called Elsie to Class 4. She was just 8 years old when she was evacuated from London to Devon. She told us stories about her experiences and answered lots of our questions about what life was like for her during that troubled time.

We were all fascinated by her wartime tales and enjoyed her visit very much, learning from an older person. Thank you Mrs Lidsey.

 

Autumn Day

Today Class 4 are having an Autumn day.

The children collected natural things from their gardens and created art based on the work of Andy Goldsworthy. 

Making films!

Over the last few weeks, Class 4 have been busy planning, then making films about internet safety, to help explain this to other classes.

First we developed plans by drawing storyboards and looking at films to get ideas. Here are a couple of our initial ideas maps and story boards:

Last week we were busy filming our footage, so forgot to take photos for our class blog!

This week we have been learning how to edit our footage, trimming the clips and re-ordering them, before adding titles and captions, sound bites, sound clips and pictures...

A few finishing touches are needed, then we will be able to show our films to the different classes and help them to be safer on the internet, together with evaluating our own films and those made by other groups.

The three states of matter

Solid, liquid and gas are the three states of matter. We went outside to pretend to be in these states. 

In a solid, there are many bonds between atoms or molecules, so that it stays quite stiff, but shakes a little:

A liquids has less bonds, so that the atoms or molecules can slide across one another more freely:

 Once a substance turns into a gas, there are even less bonds between atoms or molecules so that it can spread out as far as it is able to:

We had fun!

Magnets and friction investigations

In Class 4 we have been finding out about magnets. Last week we explored different questions; this week we have carried out some fair tests to find out whether friction affects how things move on different surfaces.

Here are some photos of us investigating...

Then we discussed what we had found out in our groups- in the sun...

Make do and mend

Using our cutting and sewing skills we are creating silhouettes of London during the Blitz...

Welcome back Class 4

Our topic for this term is World War 2. We made gas masks.

Ready for an air raid. 

                                                                                                                             

                  

We will base descriptive writing on our topic, so we are busy collecting fantastic figurative language, powerful verbs and creative openers.

Today we were wartime children - every time we heard an air raid siren we had to put on our gas masks and scramble quickly to get under the table for shelter. We woke up the whole school!