Letter to Parents - Autumn 2008 (PDF)
Light
Upper Years have started a new science topic this week- Light. The children have been investigating how light travels, how we see colours, which materials block light and how to bend light.
The children are trying to make light go around corners using tubes and mirrors.
The children shone light through prisms to make it bend
The children used the data logger to record levels of light through different materials
Using colour filters the children recorded how the colours of cubes changed in different lights.
Shelter Building
As part of the Upper Year Design Technology this term the children spent a day at Haldon Forest Park creating shelters from the natural materials around them.
These are some of their creations.
The children then used this experience to create stories about being shipwrecked in Tudor times and having to find shelter to survive.
Killerton Poems
On Friday 19th September the Upper Years camped at Killerton House. In the morning the children were asked to write and perform poems about certain trees. Here’s what they created
The old massive tree, standing tall and proud.
In amongst the huge crowd.
Standing there patiently,
While eyes are gazing up at it.
The sharp, rough tree drops its old leaves to the ground.
Stunning green leaves overhanging
A gigantic, flabbergasting trunk
Enormously peaceful environment
Smelling like a skunk
And brilliant bumpy bark
Wiggedy, waggedy everyday tree
Stood towering in the forest
The poker dotty tree
With lime green leaves
Staring back at me.
In the mystical forest stands a tawny brown tree for a tawny brown owl.
Rough twisted bumpy trunk hides mythical creatures who dwell in the shadows.
Fanned out emerald crispy canopy, towering high keeping it’s secrets
FOR NOW!
Tangly roots spiking from the palm of the tree
Gentle moss making miniature forest
Angled trunk, weaved bark, gnarled branches
Leaves falling gently, littering the ground.