Railway Project

4WG have been very busy working on illustrations of Blackpool attractions this week. 

We are excited that our artwork will be used at Blackpool South Station. 

Station visit.

4WG enjoyed our visit to Preston station today as the next stage of our railway project. 

We started with a talk about safety in and around the station and then moved on to activities. Can you spot our Chair of Governors? He was at the station today and came along to see how we're getting along.

We found out a lot about how Preston station works. Even details about what goes onto the trains as they pick up supplies.

We mapped our journey to and from school. The journey back was hotter than the journey there, but we were able to have another look at the route. 

This was a great experience for many of our children who have never travelled by train before. 

Year 4 Railway Project.

Year 4 were very excited to have visitors in school on Tuesday to share details of the railways. Children found out about signals, uniforms, lights, whistles and flags and how systems are organised to make the railways safe. 

After half term, each class will travel by train to the learning centre at Preston station to find out more about railways and to see a large station in action. 

We will then be working on a project throughout the summer to provide signs and decorations at South Shore station. We are really looking forward to getting started!

Anglo Saxon Jewellery.

The children worked hard this afternoon to produce replica Anglo Saxon jewellery. They will have the opportunity to paint it and thread it later so should have a necklace to bring home. 

4WG's Easter scenes

Well done to everyone for the fantastic Easter scenes you have put together this year. They are amazing!

Clay work.

Tuesday afternoon's activity was creating bottles for our potions using slab and coil clay techniques. 

Arrow and Bullet.

The children were busy on Tuesday morning, recreating a key scene from our focus text. I am sure they will be able to tell you the details of the storyline. Four freeze frame scenes for each pair to show key events in the backstory of Arrow and Bullet. 

4WG's World Book Day costumes.

Well done 4WG! A fantastic range of costumes today. 

Potions!

As part of our topic this week we have been investigating liquids. We investigated viscosity of a variety of liquids earlier this week. The children enjoyed getting sticky. I am sure they can tell you all about it! We mixed vinegar and bicarbonate of soda in a bottle and watched the chemical reaction. Some balloons inflated very quickly. 

We also investigated bubble making. Are all bubbles spherical?

The Fastest Boy....

The Tempest day 11.

Our final day with active approaches. We worked through The Tempest in a form which enables a performance of the whole play in 20 minutes. Quite a challenge!

The children spent our last few days of the half term writing spells for Prospero to create the storm and composing messages to send out to sea in bottles from some of the characters in the play. They included details of how they got to the island, what life is like for them there and what they would like their rescuers to do for them. 

The Tempest day 9

We explored the relationship between Prospero and the spirit Ariel. 

This meant the children really got to grips with a section of the play script, as the two characters debate Ariel's desire for freedom.

The Tempest day 10.

Caliban and Prospero argue in today's activity. Curses and insults fly as Caliban attempts to threaten Prospero, but all the power is with Prospero.

The Tempest day 8.

Today we explored the relationship between Prospero and Caliban, who feels powerless as the previous sole resident of the island. Prospero holds power over Caliban and Ariel.

Ariel is bound to Prospero as a servant, but as a spirit can fly. Some children volunteered to try that out! Well done to the children who helped to make that possible.

The Tempest day 7.

Working with a section of the text, the children identified parts of the ship and laid it out on the floor. They then became the spirit Ariel and created the storm around the ship to sink it at the island.

The Tempest day 6.

Today we developed our ideas of how the people on the ship would react in the storm. The children recognised how traumatic the experience would be. Those in charge of the ship would have no control, those who were passengers would be petrified.  Again, we used text from the play and the children became more familiar with the language of the time.

The Tempest day 5

Today we worked with a larger passage of text and examined the back story of the key characters Prospero and Miranda. 

It was quite a challenge, but the children were able to act out their removal from Milan and arrival on the island. 

The Tempest day 4.

We continued to explore themes and relationships and today began to introduce lines of text from the script.

The Tempest day 3

More activity today,  with the children adopting statue poses to indicate relationships between characters. Some amazing successes, especially where the characters were in conflict!

The Tempest.

This week we have started to find out about Shakespeare's play The Tempest. We have begun to explore key themes of power, control and confusion using interactive approaches.

The children are showing great understanding of feelings through statue poses and discussion.

More pictures to follow as we develop understanding.