Butser Ancient Farm

Year 3/4 had a great time learning about the Anglo Saxons.  We were hooked straight away by the ancient buildings and animals on site. It was lovely to sit and enjoy our lunch in the sunshine and take a tour of the village.   Here are some of the activities we took part in. 

• Sewing runes
• Archeology dig
• Clunching 
• Pottery

Ryan and Subhan have also written a funny limerick about our experience.

Sue from Butser Ancient Farm, 
had a lot of charm, 
She showed us her pig, 
After our archaeology dig,
We left with no harm (Ryan) 

Butser Ancient Farm, 
Full of hope and charm, 
Good for exploring, 
Has a stone flooring, 
It will bring you no harm  (Subhan)

World Book Day

World Book Day

Thank you for coming in dressed up as your favourite
Varjak Paw character. I think most of us would agree that it was a
fantastic book! Also thank you to everyone who contributed to the ShareAStory display.

Oakwood Climbing Centre

On the 1st March we went to Oakwood climbing centre.  
Outside we saw some zip lines, but we did not go on them.
We were there to climb walls and we got really excited.  
The walls were white, covered with colourful rocks on them.
Some of us were afraid of heights, so seeing the lofty walls was very scary for them at first.  
The smell of the chalk dust was strong, floating in the cold air around us.
The climbing instructors gave us special climbing shoes that felt so tight, you could barely feel your feet,
but we got used to it after a few minutes. The floor inside was soft as pillows in the bouldering area.
We played some racing games to get our bodies warmed up before we started climbing with our harnesses.  
While one person was climbing, the others were holding ropes attached to the person on the wall.
We had to hold them, but not to pull them up. They were heavy as rocks.

Our hands were sweating, our arms were tired, our legs were aching but we carried on.
Climbing the walls is challenging, but we all enjoyed it. Some of us reached the top and we felt victorious!
Others didn’t reach the top, but they still were happy because they tried their best and showed some success.

Blog Editors

Harry and Elisha

Cross Country

Well done to everyone for putting in 100% effort in our Cross Country!

Prints

How did we make prints?

First we were looking for mountain animals’ footprints on the internet, for example golden eagle, mountain lion and yak.  We had to copy and paste the animal footprint picture onto a google document. It had to be 6x6 cms. Then we had to share it with Miss Owens. Miss Owens printed the pictures.

The next week we got a piece of foam and a picture of a mountain animal footprint and some tracing paper.

First we traced the picture onto the tracing paper with a blunt graphite pencil.

Then we put the tracing paper onto the foam and used our nails to rub it onto the foam.

Next we cut the foam carefully on the lines and stuck the pieces of foam onto the wood in the shape of the footprint.

The following week with some colourful paints we painted the footprints and printed them on a piece of paper.  We are going to use these for decorating the door for world book day.

Please come and see our classroom door on Thursday 7th March if you would like to see our prints. 

Blog Editors 

Elisha and Harry 

Number Day

Thanks to everyone who supported our fundraising morning for the NSPCC.

We took part in lots of different maths games this morning and performed a rock song :)

National Geographic Day

National Geographic Day

Thank you to everyone who brought in their pictures for the map.  It was fun guessing
where the pictures were taken.

We have had a great day and we would like to say a huge thank you to Oliver from Hungary who shared
his Himalaya story via skype this morning.
Oliver hiked to the Everest Base Camp (5364m) within 9 days. The children asked him lots of questions about his time there. We were really impressed and hope he can share more climbing stories in the future!