Hinduism Week

During Hinduism week, Years 3 and 4 took part in a lot of different activities learning about the religion of Hinduism, some of their beliefs and particularly how and why they celebrate the festival of Diwali.

They worked really hard to act out the story of Rama and Sita, before writing their own versions in role as one of the main characters.

Chanel

Chanel

Hannah

Hannah

Hannah

 In Maths they developed their understanding of symmetry by creating some Rangoli patterns that Hindus use to decorate their floors during Diwali. They then used coloured sand to decorate their patterns.

Jacob                                Hannah

As well as Rangoli patterns, the children also used clay to create their own Diya lamps, painting these with bright colours to welcome Rama and Sita home from exile.

The girls also got to try on Mrs McCarthy’s sari to see what it was like to wear traditional Hindu clothes and the whole school learnt a lot about Diwali during an assembly led by Mrs Hairiya, Verdant's mum from F1. It was a really interesting week of activities overall and we had a lot of fun!

Learning about Flight and Flying

Levi's Dad came to school today to talk to us about Flight and Flying

Origami Butterflies

Origami - it's not as easy as it looks but we persevered!!

Our beautiful Rainforest origami butterflies

Mr Afriyie

We each received a thank you letter from our local MP who visited us last term We sent him biographies which we had written about him.

Problem Solving......

Our brains ached today as we tried to calculate the volume of some cubes and cuboids we made

Making Mummies

We didn't have any Egyptian Mummies in our class so tried our hands at Mummification. It's harder than it looks and takes concentration and team work to make the perfect Mummy!

Ready, Steady, Cook..... some delicious cupcakes.

Wonderful Egyptian Masks!

Remember our Mod-Roc Mess from a few weeks ago?

Now look what we have turned them in to - wonderful Egyptian masks!

Year 3/4 interview Adam Afriyie, our local MP.

Like all good biographers, you have to prepare your questions before the interview!

Then you need to interview your visitor and ask him lots of probing questions!

Finally, the hard work starts and you write up your biography.

 Well done to everyone in Year 3 and 4 for an excellent interview and some wonderful biographies. You all did brilliantly!