Remembrance Day

In memory of those who have taken part in wars to enable us to live in peace, the whole school went to the War Memorial in Bressingham Village, to think about them and sing songs. 

It was lovely to be joined by some parents and people from the village. 

We will remember them...

We will rock you.

Today year 5 went to Diss High School to watch the dress rehearsal of the musical 'We will rock you' and had the most amazing time.

The cast and crew created a wonderful show and spent lots of time talking to the children about their roles. How lovely it was to see some of Bressingham's ex pupils up on stage showing off their fantastic acting and dancing skills. Thank you to everyone at DIss High School for making the experience so very special for us.

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!

Properties of materials

Are these rocks hard?

We tested using Moh's Scale of hardness...

Are they absorbent?

We made up our own fair tests...

Playing games about properties of materials...

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...

Autumn Day 2

Using the autumn leaves we collected, we layered the different sized leaves between two layers of paper and made rubbings. Wow!

Some children used their leaves and conkers to make natural collages in the style of Andy Goldsworthy.

Here are some stunning examples of our work.

We looked at the poem After Apple Picking by Robert Frost  and devised a performance in our groups.

We felt the poem had a dreamlike quality to it so some of our performance included sleeping!

We played some Autumn Games too!  Apple bobbing was a favourite; getting wet and eating,what a combination. It is also one of our 100 memorable events.

In the afternoon we had a conker competition, Mr King was keen to have a go too! 

Another one of our 100 events! 

What a fantastic autumn day! We loved it.