In Saffron class we have had a great past week marking 75 years since the Windrush arrived from the Caribbean. We used our mapping skills we have been using in geography to find Jamaica and Trinidad (home of Dame Floella Benjamin, whose book we read) and traced the route the ship would have taken to England. Then we learned about how Notting Hill carnival started, and made headdresses to celebrate in our own school carnival at the end of the day.
In English we have started our new book, The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch. We have been rolling dice in maths today, keeping a tally of the results and then representing those results in a pictogram.
We used only our sense of touch to describe and guess what the objects were in PHSCE, talking about what objects felt nice and why.
Did you know that rocks in space have several names? We learned (Mrs Clark included) that a rock in space is called a meteoroid, a meteor when it burns up flying into a planet’s atmosphere, and a meteorite when it hits the ground. It is made from mainly iron and nickel. Our meteorite hit the ground in Argentina 5000 years ago!
And in Art last week, Mrs Clark raided her garden and brought in lots of leaves, flowers and other natural materials so that we could create our own non-permanent sculptures in the style of Andy Goldsworthy!
Didn’t we do a wonderful job?
