Knighton Church in Wales Primary School
Caru Duw, Caru Pawb, Caru Dysgu
We have been busy designing our rollercoaster and have now started to build a start for our rollercoaster using spaghetti and marshmallows to hold a piece of track ‘ruler’ up. We had a very sticky but fun time and used this practice ready for the big build!
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.
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!
Today some of our Urdd members took part in a cooking and baking competition! The smells were mouth-watering and their skills really impressed us! Da iawn chi!
As part of Shwmae day, Aderyn du took part in a live Teams Giglets story telling session. They were read the story ‘Gelerts Grave’ and learnt new Welsh words related to the story such as ‘blaidd’ which means wolf, ‘dewr’ brave and ‘awrw’ which means hero. We enjoyed the session and enjoyed listening to the story with other schools all over Wales!
In maths we have been making ten and trying really hard to learn these really important number bonds to ten.
Now that the skyscrapers have been built and organised appropriately, we have been practising the drones and taking a tour around the world. Some skyscrapers have been knocked down in the process, and drones have become stuck in many places!
We are looking forward to working with other schools in the cluster to help them better understand how to use drones, and we are looking forward to being shown how to use other digital kits.
We thought about where in Knighton would be a good place to build a rollercoaster. We looked at maps and discussed some of the features in different locations.
Some rollercoasters have to fit in between other rides at the theme park and some are build around things that can’t be moved.
Today it was our class assembly. The pupils presented their learning as if they were travel agents and presented information about different skyscrapers from all over the world. After the assembly we welcomed families into our classroom to share more of our work from the term.
