Year 3 love cooking! As part of our Food Technology lessons, we have been designing and making seasonal savoury tarts. Our brief was to make a tart that reflected vegetables that were in season. Earlier in our lessons, we learnt about how different fruit and vegetables grow in different seasons. We used this knowledge to helps us plan and make our tarts.
In Year 4, we are starting their new Writing genre - Finding Tales. We started the week investigating a range of clues including a letter, photo evidence and an audio recording of a 999 call. They had to use the given evidence to generate a theory on who had committed the crime. Next up...reading the short story 'Adventure at Sandy Cove' to find out who the real culprit was!
This term, the children in Year 6 will be learning how to write a fantastic character description!
So... to kick things off with a BANG, the Year 6 teachers decided to surprise the children by dressing up as a character from Harry Potter. The teachers acted in the role of their character for the whole morning as children were tasked with observing carefully to identify how their character spoke and acted.
Children had to try and record their teacher's mannerisms and their gestures; they also needed to carefully consider how their teacher spoke, paying particular attention to the tone and intonation used.
This will help their learning going forward where children will be learning how to use pathetic fallacy, non-verbal cues and dialogue to describe a character.
This term, we have been learning about religion in our local community.
Children have explored their own beliefs by completing a reflection survey; they have learnt about the religions present at Bannockburn and in Greenwich, considering the positive impact the diversity of religion brings to our community; they have explored how faith and belief has changed in Greenwich over the last 50 years and they have discussed how faith communities support people.
This week, children took part in a Philosophy for Children session (P4C) where we explored the question:
Do you need to have a faith or belief to have values?
Children started the lesson by exploring their pre-lesson views about religion and values, marking groups of people on a scale of morality. From this, children discussed and challenged each other's views on the subject.
Have a look at the quotes below to see how some children's views were challenged and changed.
"At first, I thought you had to have a religion to have values but then I realised that anyone can have values if they have been taught them."
"My view didn't change. I have always thought that anyone could have values. I'm not religious but I have values."
"Our school has school values that everyone follows and shows - this is not linked to religion."
"At the start of the lesson, I thought that people who were religious would have more values. At the end of the lesson, I realised that values can be taught in religious books but also by people who are not religious."
"Values can be taught. Religious leaders, parents, teachers, friends and family can teach us values."
"Most religions teach the same values, such as being kind, being supportive and being helpful. "
We are really proud of the Year 6 children for discussing this topic in a courteous, mature manner and, ultimately, showing lots of our school values! Well done!
Children enjoyed singing together at this the first singing assembly of the term. Children enjoyed learning a new winter song as well as revisiting old favourites.
In Art, we have been learning about how tints and shades can be used to show water moving from dark to light. First, we learnt how a tint is made by adding white and a shade is made by adding black. Then we used inspiration from artists such as Joy Labinko to practise. Some children also created waves pictures based on Hokusai's print 'The Great Wave'. We are really proud of our final pieces of art.
