Knighton Church in Wales Primary School
Caru Duw, Caru Pawb, Caru Dysgu
As part of our Mantle Topic ‘Skyscrapers,’ Aderyn Du have been planning a skyscraper to Build in Cardiff. We have been looking at different designs and structures and different ways they could be built. We explored a variety of structures by using spaghetti and marshmallows. As you can see from the pictures, some of our structures were unsuccessful, so we evaluated our designs and tried again. We discussed how we could improve our structures and how we could make them stronger and taller.
As part of our Mantle this term, Aderyn Du are designing new skyscrapers to be built in Cardiff. We went onto the field to measure the perimeter of our buildings and decided if we thought it was a suitable size. We then calculated the total area and perimeter of our skyscrapers.
Today we learned that our own names are special and God’s name is special too. Here you can see we have used our artistic skills to paint our names and God’s name.
Thank you to our Year Six representatives that visited John Beddoes to demonstrate how to use the drones from our cluster coding kit, while learning how to use the other pieces of coding equipment. You were stars!
We loved using different objects to add texture for the backgrounds of our Autumn silhouettes.
We are working on a small project to show other pupils in our cluster how to use drones. The pupils have decided to build models of skyscrapers, they will then put them out on a ‘map of the world’ and go on a ‘tour’ of the skyscrapers around the world, using the drones.
Following the Creation story, we painted our favourite thing that God created. Amazing paintings!
We held our first meeting of the year today and discussed what we wanted to improve about our school, how we could raise money for resources that we would like and which charity we wanted to support. We chose the RNLI because a local company (Clayton Engineering), where some of our parents work, make the lifeboats that are then sent out and used all over the UK by the RNLI volunteers to rescue people.
We also voted for our new Chair and Vice Chair of School Council:-
Annie, supported by George, will take the position of Chair
Honey, supported by Frankie, will take the position of Vice Chair
Well done everyone for a very productive meeting! Our first event will be next Friday 27th September when we will be hosting a cake sale at break time to raise money for the RNLI!
Children enjoyed taking on the role of being engineers and designing and building their own shadufs.