The Piano by Aidan Gibbons

As part of our literacy work, we have been writing narrative for a sort animated film called The Piano.

We used a pesentation programme to import freeze frames from the film and wrote our own voice overs. We had done lots of presentation work for this thinking about what the characters would say and how they would feel and how camera and film techniques are used.

VE DAY STREET PARTY

Plans are well underway for our VE Day style street party on Friday. We are all very excited about acting out our own street party as if it was 1945!

We have done lots of research to make our party as authentic as possible and are now busy planning costumes , deciding what food to bring (not easy with rationing!) making decorations and deciding on what entertainment we will have.

We have been learning some WWII songs for a sing along and have learnt some simple waltz and swing dancing moves.

We know we are going to have such a great time - hope to see you there!!!

What a busy couple of weeks we have had - we are very sorry for not posting sooner!

Last week was Enterprise Week. In Formula Base we studied Fairtrade and how it helps improve the lives of farmers in developing countries and we made masquerade masks to sell at the enterprise market to raise money for Comic Relief.

Here is our week in pictures:

We learnt about Fairtrade chocolate and about how much of the money from a £1 bar of chocolate actually goes to the cocoa farmers. We even got to try the chocolate!

Part of our display about the chocolate journey and Fairtrade.

We carried out a survey when planning our masks designs to see what materials, designs and colours people preferred. We then recorded our results in graphs and made conclusions from our findings.

One of the designs for our masks.

We made symmetrical templates.

A mask in progress.

A finished mask. We managed to make 62! We worked out that it cost us 23 pence to make each mask.
We advertised our product in assembly. We wrote and recorded radio adverts.



Our glitzy stall all ready for the enterprise market. We sold 57 masks and came second in the competition to see which class made the most money!

CALLUM'S BOOK REVIEW !

This week for my homework I had to write a book review to put onto the espresso website. This is my review, mine is a fiction book it is Harry Potter

Title of the book: Harry Potter
Author's name: J.K Rowling
Publisher: Bloomsbury


What is the book about?
Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy until he is sent to Hogwarts Witchcraft and Wizardry School and learns magic.

Who is your favourite character and why?

Harry because he makes all the right choices, he learns cool magic, he has a lot of friends and he thinks of others, that's why he's my favourite character.


What is your favourite part of the book?

At the end when Harry and Voldermort meet, and Harry and Voldermort fight each other.

Sophie-lou's space poem

Uranus

I'm Uranus. I look at Saturn with its hot, fiery rings.I wish I had some rings like his to keep me warm.

The bright stars around me make me shimmer gracefully in the dark night sky.

My glittering, icy rings swirl around my mystical, magical bluey-greeney.

By Sophie-lou

Jupiter

This is my space poem called Jupiter.


Jupiter

Jupiter, Icy cold at negative 180 degree,
Jupiter, staring at Saturn's icy ring with my wonderful red eye,
Giant Jupiter, 1,318 times larger than the tiny earth (well that's what I think)
Jupiter, I was discovered in the mid 1800s (I think I am old)
Jupiter, I can't believe it I am the biggest, WOW!
Jupiter, my wonderful 6.2876108km diameter,
Jupiter, my wonderful eye the size of earth.

By Jamie

Book reviews

In Formula Base as one of our activities to celebrate World Book Day on Thursday 5th March, we have been writing book reviews to put onto the espresso education website that we use at school. We chose between fiction and non-fiction and we are now waiting to see if any of them get published to the site (we keep checking to see if they are there!) - how exciting!