4HT

We have been researching and discovering all things Stone Age this half term. We have looked at family life, how they survived and how it developed into the Bronze Age.  Today we looked at Stonehenge. It  is one of the world’s  most famous prehistoric monuments . It stands on  Salisbury Plain  in  Wiltshire, England , and its stones can be seen from miles away. It is a ring of approximately  100 standing stones  that are each about 13 feet high, seven feet wide and weigh around 25 tons! It is thought to have taken hundreds  of years to create. Using playdough, we had a go at recreating Stonehenge. It took about 15 minutes and our 'stones' were considerably lighter that the original!  

Our DT project for this half term is to design and make our own moving picture book. We have researched a range of different picture books, looking at the mechanisms used, the font styles and illustrations.  We looked at the main mechanisms used; levers, linkages, pivots and rotate. We had lots of fun experimenting with the different types of mechanisms and attempted to create some of our own.

 For Maths this week we have been focusing on money. We have had loads of fun playing shops, making amounts and giving change.

Today, we started our new Jigsaw unit in PSHE all about 'Relationships'.  Mrs Hurst firstly set us the challenge as part of the 'Connect Us' section of the lesson of passing a ball around the circle only using one arm and one leg.  Our initial thought was that it was going to be easy, but we soon discovered that it wasn't as easy as it sounds! We did learn however, that good communication between each other as we passed the ball was the secret to achieving this challenge.  We then headed inside for 'Calm Me' which was just so relaxing! Mrs Hurst turned the lights off and played relaxing water music and a calming video of a waterfall on the whiteboard.  Some of us just sat, other closed their eyes and some of us laid our heads on the table losing ourselves in the moment of complete calm.   During the main part of the lesson we were looking at jealousy and what this means and how it can occur in situations. We worked in our table groups to separate the scenari