We have started our first DT topic of Year 3 this half term. The children have begun researching all about food packaging, chocolate packaging to be specific. So far we have looked at the effect packaging has on the environment and the different types of packaging found in the shops. We looked closely at the size and shape, the information on the package as well as what could be improved.
Yesterday in Year Art we practised carving patterns into Styrofoam tiles and then printing with them. We learnt how to control the depth of our carvings and how to use a range of effects. We then used rollers and we loved peeling our tiles off to see the results. We can't wait to design our Jan Tcega inspired prints next week.
The children in 6EC had a wonderful time at Wild Kites last week. They all enjoyed the water challenge and worked together as a team to build the best water run they could. The worked well as a team and showed lots of skills that will be very useful at PGL!
On Friday in prosocial time Year 2 were practising the skill of collaboration. We loved completing 3 different lego challenges; the base plate race where table teams had to work together to completely cover a lego base plate with pieces of lego,
the tower challenge to build a lego tower with each piece larger than the one before and
the lego house challenge to build the best house possible in a 10 minute time limit.
We loved the challenges and worked really well together.
In maths in Year Two we looked at properties of 3D shapes and had to answer questions with about the faces, edges and vertices of the shapes that were hidden.
