Knighton Church in Wales Primary School
Caru Duw, Caru Pawb, Caru Dysgu
Today, we had a visit from PC Viv. She taught us lots about how to keep safe online and about age limits for apps and games. We had a very informative and useful discussion. Well done to all the children for getting involved and sharing their knowledge on this topic!
Cnoc y coed have been working towards creating a stop-frame animation about drovers. They started by creating a story board, then moulded characters out of plasticine. They are using artwork they have previously created as backgrounds for their museum exhibit.
It’s pain-staking work…you need approximately 120 photos for a 10 second film! They have also written a script for the film; we’re hoping we can merge them with the film, that might be a little optimistic- we’ll see!
We worked in Mantle groups to come up with ideas for selling items on a stall at a Victorian Fayre, with a focus on eco-friendly products and an awareness of carbon footprints! We tried to make sure that our products were locally sourced and that we used recycled materials where possible. We had to try and make a profit! We calculated the cost of rent, wages, materials and advertising amongst other things and then took these costs away from our total of items that would need to be sold to see whether we had made a profit or loss!
Our Maths enrichment Day today had an Eco theme. Our day started with a litter pick around the school grounds.
We then used HWB to record the data from the litter pick.
Our next activity involved us sorting recyclable materials is a variety of ways.
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We have discussed how we travel to school and how this has an impact on the environment. Please follow the link above to see our class block graph. We discussed the results and ways we could help the environment by possibly walking to school if we live close enough.
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The children in our class think that we should try to walk to school as often as we can to help the environment. Click on the above link to see our block graph on how we travel to school. We made the block graph as a class and discussed the results.
We have created freeze-frames with titles as a stimulus for conversation before creating diary entries and background art, ready for the exhibit.
Our mantle for this term is to be museum curators, making an exhibit about the drovers, who walked the local land hundreds of years ago to take animals to markets.
This is the checklist of items the children think they need for the exhibit:
We looked at various pieces of artwork depicting the story of Creation. Here are a few of our collages….
We were commissioned by Jack to create a map for his Grandma. He wanted our map to use a key, be easy to follow and include key features. Here are our maps.
