Blue Class

On Thursday 11^th July Blue class travelled to the Ancient Technology Centre for our first residential.

It took us about an hour by coach travelling through the beautiful countryside. On arrival we took our bags off the coach and met Andy, one of our guides.

We walked to the camp and laid eyes on the longhouse for the first time. After packing away our things we found our Viking clothing and get dressed. We were ready for our daily chores! We split into 2 groups, group 1 ground the wheat for our bread, made butter for our lunch and washed and chopped vegetables. Group 2 worked outside chopping and sawing wood, mining chalk and making chalk bricks.

Next, we stopped for our Vikings Ploughmans lunch! We had bread, cheese, ham, our own made butter and a range of salad leaves and pickles. We finished with prunes and chopped apples. In the afternoon the groups swapped places and Group 2 made our evening meal.

After a long day we had our dinner, stewed vegetables with barley and stewed chicken. We had stewed apples and cream for our pudding. After that we had the long job of clearing away and washing up! Then we got a chance for a long playtime.

Finally, we made our beds and put on our pajamas. We walked to the round house and Mrs Sherrard read us a bedtime story whilst we drank our hot chocolate.

In the morning we were up nice and early! We had cereal and toast for breakfast and then packed away all of our belongings.

We had a chance to have one last play before we got back onto the coach – tired, smelly but having had a great time!

Today Egypt came to Blue Class! We had a visit from South West Heritage who brought lots of interesting artefacts to our classroom.

We learnt some more details about Ancient Egypt and then took part in some fantastic activities!

We made some date bread (but took it home to bake!), we painted lucky scarabs and we became archeologists and dug for artefacts!

Afterwards, we dressed in Egyptian fancy dress.

To end our morning, we were able to watch real footage of Howard Carter and Tutankhamun’s tomb. It was amazing to see and hear the man we have been learning so much about!

YTFC came to visit us today with the winning cup! We enjoyed listening all about it and having a picture with the cup.

As always – what a quick half term!

This half term we have been learning the story of Beowulf. This has helped us to consolidate our previous learning on Anglo Saxons and Vikings. We have put this knowledge to great use writing our own ‘Legends’ story.

In Maths we started the term with measurement and have ended the term with fractions. The children have been busy learning about mixed fractions and improper fractions. As ever we have also had a big push on our times tables and it has been lovely to welcome some children to Early Birds Maths Club.

In Science we have been classifying and grouping living things. We also had a fabulous time doing extra experiments for Science Week and were lucky enough to take part in a live lesson from the farm. This was very informative and we even got to watch a calf being born!

Geography has seen us learning about rivers and mountains. We have examined the water cycle and the different altitude habitats of a mountain. We have finished our learning by studying the floods on the Somerset Levels.

In Art we have been looking at animals in art. We used clay to make Bankura Horses. We then decorated these.

As always thank you for your continued support. The children are all making excellent progress with their learning. I wish you all a happy, peaceful (and chocolate filled!) Easter Holiday and look forward to welcoming everyone back for the Summer Term.