Today we learnt about imports and exports and the reasons why the UK trades with other countries. We discussed our favourite foods and all the different ingredients and then looked at where each food component comes from.
Then we used atlases to trace the different origins of where our food comes from and created our own food map.
Last week, Year 5 began a new area of learning for Art work – 3D Sculpture. We created tin-foil figures, focusing on lifelike poses; and using paper sculpture techniques to create our impression of a natural landscape (primarily a Nature Garden, emulating the Queen’s Gardens in Central Croydon).
Below are the photos of our efforts… the finished products are suitably neon, very lively and show off some exceptional skills in paper manipulation. Being a huge Origami-nerd, it does my heart proud to see some excellent use of techniques I didn’t realise some of our pupils had!!
Good show, Puffins… next week, back to D&T and thinking about the STALLS we might envisage being used in the Surrey Street Market!
Hooray! I finally got technology to communicate with each other, and I can now share much overdue excellence in the work Puffins have achieved, last half-term and this current one!!
Thank you for the patience!
Above, we have wonderful ‘Phases of the Moon’ booklets, created last half-term in Science and Art lessons. We learnt the correct sequence and look of each phase section and recreated this as a booklet for Year 3 to follow, next year.
Next, we have Artwork based on nature: using background stippling over masking tape, then removing to sketch and cross-hatch examples of trees, for a multidimensional effect.
For Design and Technology, we have been extensively planning and organising our ideas for using frameworks to create Playground Play Structures: here, we created models with straws using actual construction and joining techniques. These really turned out excellently! All are sturdy, well-planned and recognisable as familiar playground favourites. Great work…
This half-term, we will be focusing on more three dimensional forms of art: here, we have our truly impressive tin-foil figures, that were formed to represent a classic pose / posture from a particular sport. Once pinned to card, an accurate shadow was added, to give it further dimensionality.
I really can’t praise these enough: the pose and postures are all instantly recognisable and the accuracy and use of shadowing is really superb!! Honestly, Puffins… best art work of the year (so far!!)
And a final example of excellence comes with our recent ‘Heritage Day’: again, a colossal thanks to parents for assisting this venture, allowing resources to be used and spending time with our children discussing their heritage. It makes me ENORMOUSLY proud that my own humdrum background of living in Catford in the 1970s is UTTERLY trounced by the spectacular array of world-covering places the children in my care have experienced or have heritage from.
Here is a world map of the sheer coverage we discovered for our Heritage Day!!
And here are just some of the amazing items the children brought in, to explain and help us understand their individual heritages: from a 50 year flag with a personal family history, to a flamenco costume from the Canaries, to a Bangladeshi formal outfit, to traditional Nepalese costume, to St. Christopher’s medallions, to a plethora of Jamaican flags and costume, to even an autographed T-shirt of Italian footballer, Totti!!
We could have spent DAYS discussing it all… really pleased and hugely impressed!!
Fabulous stuff, Puffins… now that technology has released us, I can now update the PUFFIN side of the blog every few weeks! Enjoy these, and see you on Tuesday!!
Last week was National Maths Week, and to celebrate Times Table Rockstars held a battle with all the schools in England! Although we may not have won this battle, within our school, PUFFINS class did amazingly, being awarded the ‘3rd highest scoring band’ in the whole school!
And a VERY special mention to our own Semilore, who was the Second Most Valuable Player in the entire school!! Congrats, S! I’m very proud of all your efforts… I hope you are too! Here’s your certificate!
Well done to ALL OF YOU that played, the reason we scored so well was that we all did our bit and logged on to play throughout the week! I shall post up the certificate in our classroom tomorrow (with a very proud look on my face!).
Selsdon - Year 5 