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After studying David Hockney’s painting of Saltaire, we visited the village for ourselves. We loved seeing the real painting and we were shocked at how large it was. We then found all the features of the painting in real life and compared them to how they look in the picture. We decided David Hockney certainly uses more exciting colours than the ones we saw!

We we enjoyed exploring the historic village; drawing the bandstand, walking the cobbled streets and Helen even found her own road-Helen Street!

We visited the local woods and attempted to make some natural art. We then had a competition to make the highest tower possible. What fun we had!

Benjamin brought a secret box from home. He said whoever could open it could have the treasure inside. We all tried to open it, even Mrs Stott! None of us have yet shown the patience to find the trick to get the box open.

After reading ‘Meerkat Mail’ we were inspired to make some African sunset pictures. First we worked on designing our silhouette design. Next we made a sunset using pastels. Finally we painted out silhouette design onto the sunset using black paint.

Here are a few of the finished pieces.

This week we explored using levers and mechanisms to make a a moving picture. It represented the food chain of a barn owl.

As part of our habitats work we have completed two habitat surveys. First we had a visit from the RSPB and surveyed the school grounds for its potential for wildlife.

On our survey short grass appeared quite a lot. We decided to have a closer look and found out that actually there were many species of plants on the school field, not just grass! These included clover, plantain, buttercup and yarrow.

Joshua asked me to write any 5 digit number in the middle box.

He them guessed the total he would make by adding together five 5 digit numbers and wrote it on a piece of paper.

I was then asked to write the numbers 0-9 in top two rows in any order.

Finally he completed the bottom two rows adding the digits 0-9.

I was amazed when I calculated the total and found Joshua had the total write on his piece of paper!

Like a true magician he has not revealed his secret and I am busy trying to work out his method ( the numbers at the bottom is me trying to crack it!)

This half term some of us have been lucky enough to work with a coach to develop our rugby skills. We are very much looking forwards to a chance to try them out in a competition in a few weeks time.