‘Welcome to the last blog of 2021!’ Emilia

 

‘Last week, in outdoor learning we were creating Santa’s sleigh out of materials lying on the ground.’ Evan

‘My team created the sleigh out of lots of wooden planks. We used logs for seats and ivy for the reigns to use for reindeer.’ Bella

‘We split our group into roles. In my group Lauren and I were Santa and some people were reindeer and some were elves!’ Molly

 

‘In design technology we had to make a different version of Santa’s sleigh that was environmentally friendly and aerodynamic. We used tinkercad.com on the Chromebook and I enjoyed this a lot!’ James

‘I also enjoyed this because I like using the Chromebooks.’ Hamiz

‘My group made our sleigh electric powered by batteries and we put a hemisphere shape at the front to make it aerodynamic.’ Jessica

‘We also had to make it aesthetically pleasing, so we had to think carefully about the colours and shapes we used.’ Molly

 

 

‘During science, we had to separate different materials. There was flour and raisins, salt and water, rice and paperclips, sand and water.’ Heather

‘My table chose a funnel and filter paper to separate the sand and water mixture and it worked!’ Emilia

‘We used magnets to get the paperclips out of the rice.’ Cara

‘Then we used a sieve to separate the raisins and the flour. This worked really well but it got our table all messy!’ Molly

‘We also watched Bill Nye the Science Guy and he taught us that we can turn ice into water and then into a gas.’ Ayyan

‘I enjoyed this task because I like science and experimenting.’ Evan

 

 

 

‘In writing, we watched a video of the new John Lewis Christmas advert and we picked one of the two characters and described their point of view.’ Harry

‘Writing was quite fun because we haven’t written about adverts before so it was quite different.’ Euan

‘I wrote from the perspective of Skye, who is an alien from a different planet and her ship malfunctions so she lands on Earth. She doesn’t know what snow is or what Christmas is either!’ Luca Fi

‘I also wrote from Skye’s perspective and I thought it was fun writing about an alien crash landing on Earth because it sounded like a real adventure.’ Ayyan

‘On Thursday it was our Christmas Party! It was really fun because we played loads of games and we got prizes like chocolate and coloured pens for the winners!’ Ayyan

‘Two of the games were pass the parcel and corners. Evan won corners and Bella, Ayyan and Hamiz won pass the parcel.’ Sam

‘Jessica won best dancer because she is really good at the Cha Cha Slide!’ Molly.

‘Back in class we watched a clip of The Snowman and had crisps, juice and a chocolate treat.’ Heather

‘What I liked about the party, was making a huge conga line, corners and winning chocolate!’ Bella

‘Thank you for reading today’s blog and we will see you in 2022! Have  a great Christmas!’ Molly