Hawks...Ready, Steady, COOK!

Children in Hawks this week had a cooking lesson in the Wing. They have been learning about healthy lifestyles and balanced diets. The children have also been learning about life as a Titanic passenger and have created different menus. The children worked in teams to create two breakfast…

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Hawks admire the snow!

 

Hawks admired the snow out of our window this week!

They also got to enjoy playing in the snow at lunchtime.

 

Describe what you saw! Did you enjoy going outside with your friends to enjoy the snow? Explain.

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The Titanic disaster continues

Image of The Titanic disaster continues

We are loving learning about the Titanic!

 

This week we have created newspaper articles, written the day after the disaster and have begun to write menus for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd class passengers.

Have a look at our work so far. We have not only written articles and menus but we have…

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Counter balances in gymnastics

In gymnastics this week, we have been learning how to create counter balances in a pair and then created them in a group. We will be using these in the sequences we create.

 

Who did you work with? What did you find challenging? What did you learn?

 

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Taking our pulse rate in Tag-Rugby

In tag-rugby, we tested our pulse rate during different stages of activity: sitting, jogging, running and cooling down. We collected our data in a table and used this to create a line graph in maths.

 

What did you learn in tag-rugby? What happened to your pulse rate during…

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Titanic

In Hawks, we have started learning about the disaster of the Titanic. What do you know so far?

What do you want to find?

If you have any non-fiction books about the Titanic or any other disasters, please bring them into school.

In art we created images of the Titanic sinking using a range…

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DISASTER STRIKES!

Last week we started our very exciting new topic, 'Disaster Strikes!' The children were put into many different disaster situations; tsunami, Titanic hitting an iceburg, tornado and an avalanche.

 

Which disaster did you enjoy being in the most? Why? Do you have any questions about any of…

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Hawks create 3D shapes from nets

For our 'Silent Night' display, we made houses and log cabins using nets to make 3D shapes. We drew around the nets and measured some of the edges. We converted cm to mm, mm to m and cm to m.

 

What did you enjoy most about the lesson? What 3D shape did you make? Did you find any of it…

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Hawks compose music

After we had written our songs, we used digital media to compose a song for our lyrics.

 

 

What did you enjoy most about this lesson? Did you find anything tricky?

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Music inspired Kandinsky

As part of our topic we have been learning about the artist Wassily Kandinsky who produced abstracted pieces of art which where inspired by listening to music. In Hawks we created one of his pieces using CDs and wool by weaving.

 

What can you find out about this piece of art we…

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Hawks understand feelings

Hawks went outside to understand how to make someone feel good about themselves. We understand how victims feel inside and outside when people say or do negative things. 

 

What did you learn from this session? What positive thing could you say to someone?

 

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Biographies

Last week we researched our favourite British musicians and artists. 

Who is your favourite musician? Why? What was the most interesting fact you found out about your musician/artist?

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