Today Haughmond have had a lovely day learning about life in a castle. We enjoyed dressing up and all wanted a turn in the stocks after learning about the dungeons!
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Haughmond Class News
Decades Day
We have had a super day learning about all of the decades of Queen Elizabeth’s reign. We found out about life in the different decades and how it has changed since 1952. This included exploring clothes, TV, toys and music. For lunch Ro made us an eighties inspired dinner, with sponge and pink custard and in our P.E. lessons, we enjoyed ‘retro’ dances, including the Macarena, Whigfield’s Saturday Night and Achy Breaky Heart!
Here are some pictures of our day!
Platinum Jubilee Picnic
On Friday 27th May we joined with a whole school Jubilee picnic to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years on the throne. Ro and Claire provided us with a packed lunch and some delicious red, white and blue cakes! We all had a really lovely day and are looking forward to continuing all our learning about Queen Elizabeth’s reign next half term.
Making our Jubilee Coleslaw
On Friday we used our designs to make our coleslaws ready for our Jubilee picnic. We had thought carefully about our design brief and had designed coleslaws that we felt were fit for a Queen, ‘Royal colours’ and crunchy.
Jubilee Videos
In Haughmond this week we have been learning the National Anthem with Makaton signs. The children have said they would like to be able to keep practising and share this, and the decades dance we have joined in with, with you at home. The links for both videos are below.
Jubilee DT Coleslaw Project
Today we started our Jubilee DT project to create a coleslaw fit for a Queen and that we can share with others at our Jubilee Picnic at the end of the week.
We began our topic by exploring existing products and evaluating them in terms of smell, appearance, texture and taste. We all really enjoyed the tasting activity, but our responses to the flavours were mixed!
Platinum Jubilee Topic Map
This term we are going to be learning about a very special, one-off topic – The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. This will include a focus on changes within living memory and significant individuals. We are looking forward to our Jubilee Tea Party and Mrs Gregory is particularly excited about decades day where we will dress up as one of the decades of the Queen’s reign (more details to follow soon).
To find out more about the focus in our areas of learning this term, our topic map is available at the following link.
Our Easter Eggs
Here are some of the eggcellent entries to our Easter Egg homework challenge!
DT Week – Wheels and Axles
This week we have been building bathing machines for Queen Victoria. We know that bathing machines were on the beach for people to get changed in a long time ago. We have also been learning about wheels, axles, axle holders and chassis. A chassis is the bottom of the vehicle that everything fixes onto. The axle hold the wheels in the right place and the axle holder holds the axle. A wheel is like a circle but 3D and they make the bathing machine go forwards and backwards. We had a really good week!
by Esme, Amelia and Max
Here are some photos of all our hard work.
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The Queen’s Jubilee Green Canopy
To start our celeberations for The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee we planted 5 trees as part of The Queen’s Green Canopy.
In the rain Pimhill went out to dig the holes.
The sun shone when represenatives from each class came to plant a tree with Kris our Forest School lead and James Reynolds our govenor.
Lara led us in prayer .
In the afternoon Pimhill finished the planting and watered the trees.
Thank you to Albrighton Estate who donated our trees.
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