Year 4 International Day - Japan

 International Day 

Year 4 pupils learned about how Japan and how it deals with natural disasters. Using a range of materials and working collaboratively, pupils created structures that had to endure an earthquake simulator. There were some fantastic designs that proved to be tall and secure.

Friday Art in Year 4 Poplar!

We enjoyed an afternoon exploring different media’s in Art today. 

We have been studying the Japanese artist Hokusai’s art piece called The Great Wave. Each week, we have focused on developing our sketching skills and today we begun to explore the different textures we can create using different medias, such as, pastel, poster paints, watercolours, pencils and chalks. 

Below are some of our sketchbooks showing us practising. Next week, we will be combing the materials to create our own images of the Great Wave!

Junior Language Challenge Semi Finals

In March 2017 a team of budding linguists from Bannockburn took part in the Junior Language Challenge, run by Utalk in order to raise money for the children's charity 1 Billion. After lots of hours of studying French in their spare time, we had one competitor, Ashish from Year 6, who got through to the second round, where the new language to learn and be tested on was Japanese!

On Thursday 14th September Ashish and Miss Ansell from Bannockburn visited Cranmore School in Horsley for the live semi-finals, where he competed in a live Japanese language challenge against 30 other children from schools across the South-East of England. Ashish came 5th and whilst he narrowly missed out on a place in the final (where the final language to be challenged will be Zulu!) we are all extremely impressed by his newly acquired language skills and are very proud of his fantastic efforts.

Well done Ashish!

The next Junior Language Challenge will start in March 2018, so Miss Ansell will keep you posted!