Saxon weaving

Here we are doing Saxon weaving. We got some wool and tied it round the card at the back. Then we got a long piece of wool to weave with. We used lots of different colours. When we got to the bottom we cut the spare wool off.

By Tilly

Saxon pottery

Making pots

We have been making Saxon pots from clay as part of our topic. First we made them into a ball and then we made the sides to make a pot shape. Using clay tools we made some patterns. Then we left them to dry.
By Ollie

Street Smart

Street Smart


Here we are doing some stretching while other people are doing boxing. 

Woodland sponsored walk and the mysterious giant egg.

 Our school woodland walk and the egg discovery


One morning we did a woodland walk in the deep, dark wood.  We were doing a sponsored walk to raise money for the child we sponsor in the Gambia.  Her name is Fatou.  Whilst we  were walking we saw a ginormous egg in the middle of the wood. The egg had nails in it and a girl named  Peri threw a stick at the egg it, it made metal noise...

BANG, BANG, BANG!

The egg!

We looked for clues, we found some footprints. Peri thought that it was fake although it had police tape around it. 

Chestnut and Rowan Classes went back later to investigate.  They found a wooden person and it made them wonder if whatever laid the egg was a bit like Medusa but instead of turning people to stone it turns them to wood!  A child was missing from Chestnut Class today, had she been turned to wood?

The egg is still there, what will hatch out of it?  These are questions we are still wondering about...

 

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Chestnut Class visit Norwich Cathedral

Norwich cathedral

Chestnut class, went on a class trip and we learnt a lot about the holy Bible.

This picture shows the reflection of a stained glass window

Monks used to live in the cathedral, but most of them got killed by Henry the VIII's men.They wrecked most of the cathedral but luckily some people rebuilt it in their own way, it's now the same size as it was a long time ago. 


One of Hannah's and Layton's favorites was the mega stained glass windows.    
  





We were very lucky when we went to Norwich cathedral as we were allowed into the cathedral library, not many people get to go in there. Gudrun, the cathedral librarian, showed us lots of really old Bibles, we saw a Bible that is over 400 years old!  

This Bible is over 400 years old!

We learnt about how Bibles were printed when printing first began.  Bibles were first written in Hebrew then there were bibles written in Latin for many years.  The first Bibles printed in English were printed in the 1500's. 

We had binoculars so that we could look at the ceiling bosses in the cathedral.  They show some of the stories from the Bible. 

Us with a lovely women called Janet who taught us about Bibles and told us a Bible story using figures.  We also said what we thought about when we heard the story. 

We learnt that St. Luke was a doctor, he loved to write, he wrote the third Gospel in the New Testament in the Bible.  Here is one of Chestnut Class dressed as St. Luke.

The lectern (where the Bible is displayed) in the cathedral is a pelican.  We shone torches on it to see the wonderful detail on the feathers and the patterns on the lectern. It must have taken a long time to make. 

We had lots of fun and learnt a lot on our trip. 

Making Anglo Saxon amulets

We learnt that Anglo Saxon Pagans made amulets and used them as lucky charms.  They thought they would protect them in battles or stop them from being ill. People wore amulets around their necks or put them in their homes.  When the Saxons became Christians they often turned the Pagan temples into churches and made pagan festivals Christian.  This stopped pagans using them and showed that Christianity was stronger.  Amulets became crosses.



We made amulets and Sarah's one was  orange,  blue  and green  in the shape of a banana. Trinny's one was blue in the shape of a hammer. 

This is Trinny and  Sarah with their amulets. Sarah's banana and Trinny's hammer. 

 

 When were were making them extra children  came to Chesnut Class - we had  Rowan Class and some of Sycamore Class (a lot of  children!!!!!).

Maths capacity

Maths Capacity

We measured liquid in bottles. First we predicted the measurement in the bottles then we found the real measurement and wrote down the answer in our books. We would keep doing this until we had estimated and measured all the containers. 

Making Thaumatropes - do you know what a thaumatrope is?

Thaumatropes

We made some cool thaumatropes. Basically in the times when  they didn't have TV's, they used thaumatropes, because they looked like they were moving.  What was really kind of cool I suppose. You draw a picture of something on a circle that is made out of card. e.g. a horse. then on another circle draw another picture that goes with the other picture. e.g. a rider. Get a hole punch and then stick the pictures together and hole punch them, next put the strings through the holes and you're done.  

Chestnut Class with their finished thaumatropes. 

Chestnut Class raise money for Deopham Church roof.

                  Chestnut class cake sale and bring & buy.

This is Brooke with her apron on ready to start cooking. She looks very excited, is she going to cook nice cakes? She thinks that she's making rice crispy cakes. Do you think that she wants to eat the cakes after she has made them?

             

These boys are enjoying mixing their rice crispies into their butter and golden syrup. By the look on his face Louis is finding it hard work. Harry and Sam are too distracted to notice.

  

All of these children are waiting for the next ingredient, it could be the golden syrup. They must be very tempted to eat all of the mixture. There are 5 different groups: Hannah, Bella and Patience, Trinity, Sarah and Tia, Lillie Brooke and Izzy,Mia and Layton and the final group was Louis, Sam and Harry.  

This is the sale just before people came and started to buy things. 

Chestnut Class would like everybody in the school (and their families) that helped to make it such a success, by making cakes, buying cakes, helping on the day, donating books or other things for the bring and buy.  It was just amazing how brilliant everyone was.  Thank you to Rev. Colin who came to support us on the day and sold any leftover cakes to his church youth group.  

It was a very successful afternoon and we raised over £200 for the Deopham Church roof repair fund!! 

Learning about the bones in our skeletons.

Our skeletons

We drew around our bodies, then we drew our skeletons in our drawn bodies.
Some things we learnt are: another word for skull is cranium, a collar bone is a clavicle, the longest bone is in your leg, it's called a femur and it's another word for thigh bone.

We listened to a song about bones and every- one made actions to the song, and some people added in parts to the song like adadadodadada

It was epic.  This is how the song starts off Name those bones name those bones; I've got a cranium for my brainium.

It was lovely weather so we could go out on the playground.

You had to draw carefully and the person laying down had to keep very still!

It was a bit tricky when the wind blew so we had to try hard to stop the paper blowing away!

Mia is carefully drawing round tia

 All the words for the song we sang are:

Name those bones.
Name those bones.

I have a cranium, for my brainium.
And a mandible that's, my jawbone.
And there's my clavicle, that's my collarbone.
And my sternum keeps my ribs at home.

Name those bones.
Name those bones.

All my vertebrae are running down my back
From my head to my pelvic bone.
My femur fits in there, a leg bone I declare
It's the longest bone that I have grown.

Name those bones.
Name those bones.

Patella fits in next, that's my kneecap,
And below it are two more leg bones.
My tibia in front, my fibula in back,
Keep me running at school or home.

Name those bones.
Name those bones.

Now moving down my arm, let's start with humerus
Followed by two more arm bones.
There's an ulna and a radius
My ulna makes up my elbow bone.

Name those bones.
Name those bones.

All my fingers, all my toes,
They're called phalanges, everybody knows.
And on my back you'll find, two shoulder blades in line,
We call them scapula every time.

Name those bones.
Name those bones.

Collective Worship 22nd April 2015

Chestnut Class led the whole school Collective Worship.  They enjoyed presenting a bible based drama and the school enjoyed watching.  The message was it's good to be humble. The king in the story started off as not very nice but learnt his lesson and was humble and a nicer person at the end. 

Mia,Patience& Jay Examining Hannah closely.

Harry peeking into his bible.