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    • Kitchen, Travel & Wisdom

      Published 26/02/25

       

      This term we are 'filmmakers'. We have an exciting few weeks ahead of us, completing the pre-production work for our summer film festival. On July 9th and 10th we will be screening our world premiere in the Living Room Cinema, in Chipping Norton! Please note the dates for your diary. The children have begun to plan documentary films, live action and animation for the festival.

      The Pixies started their topic by looking at travel and transport. They have been very excited about booking cruises and flights to Spain in the role-playing travel agents area. 

      The children have been categorising different means of transport into three groups: land, air and sea, making comparisons between the groups. In Maths, they have started measuring length and measuring themselves on the height chart. It was challenging building tall towers to see who could build the tallest without it toppling over!

      Pupils in the Shire have made traditional tray-bake vanilla cakes with sprinkles. 

      Drum roll please...

      A huge “Thank You” goes out to the Friends of Chadlington School for our brand new KS2 kitchen, which has only been made possible through their amazing fundraising work and your generous contributions. Cooking commenced this week with children from both the Dragons and Wizards putting the kitchen through its paces making tiffin and baking cheese straws. The children are looking forward to utilising the produce grown in the greenhouse and garden in future weeks in the kitchen. This will allow us to complete our spade to spoon project. Thank you FOCS - we are thrilled with our fantastic kitchen!

      Dragons have been especially keen to cook with food grown in our own 'tiddly squat' garden. This week they baked Tiffin (the tray-bake not the dog!). They observed how chocolate changes state when heated.

      The Tiffin is to share with others for World Book Day next week. 

      In geography, Dragons have researched places identified as UNESCO world heritage sites and found out what this means. They have also found out about the 7 ancient wonders of the world and the modern ones. For example, the Taj Mahal, which was built by a Sultan for his wife.

      In RE, the dragons are learning about the five pillars of wisdom in Islam. 

      The Wizards are really excited about making their film to be shown at the end of the year. Ms. Hornibrook shared the outline of the film yesterday (Thursday) with the children, and they have been tasked with coming up with ideas for the plot - watch this space! 

      As part of our geography work, the Wizards are going to be finding out about how people have migrated to the UK. This week we have started to find out about the people of the Windrush Generation, who came to the UK to help us rebuild and fill job shortages after WW2. The children researched the countries the people came from and also the cities in which they settled in the UK. They used both atlases and Google Earth to locate the places and then chose one place to look at in more detail, including finding out about the physical and human geography. 

      Our value this term is 'WISDOM' and the Wizards have thought about what it is to have wisdom, sharing the Bible story about Solomon. The children used water colours to paint pictures from the story. A busy start to term 4! 

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    • Communications and Change

      Published 10/02/25

      The Shire

      In the Shire this week, pupils have been working on their topic 'we are thinkers', and continuing to explore the theme of communication since Victorian times. Children in Year 2 have been creating an interesting museum, programming the sphero indis to navigate a timeline of items of written communication such as emails, letters, text, etc. 

      Year 1 pupils have been creating a museum of speaking and listening communication, using rotatory phones, phones, car phones and mobile phones. They programmed the bee-bot to navigate around communication items.

      The Pixies

      As part of our materials topic, the Pixies looked at how paper is made. They enjoyed discovering the process of how paper starts out as a tree. The main topic this week was making papier mache penguins, which sparked a mini-learning journey about Penguins. They learnt what penguins eat, what they look like and that they come from eggs. They were amazed to learn that penguins don't only live in snowy cold climates and that you can find penguins on the beach in Cape Town, South Africa.

      The pixies baked Valentines heart shaped cookies this week.

      The Dragons

      In the Dragons this week, pupils have been finishing their 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' work. They have loved their writing linked to the book. The dragons have been designing rooms for a chocolate making factory and making models of machines for DT. The machines they made in DT have working levers and linkages.

      The Dragons have been finishing up the IT challenge with Mr Speller with the Sphero Bolts.

      A group have made fruity frozen yogurt lollies linked to the 'changing shapes of matter' topic. They studied freezing, melting and changing shapes of liquids when making the lollies and carefully observed what happened at different temperatures. They look forward to using the new kitchen next term for regular cooking sessions. 

      Dragons have had their last swimming session, they have loved the lessons and have made good progress.

      The Wizards

      In D&T, the Wizards have continued building their musicians with cam mechanisms. They followed the instructions carefully and worked well in their groups. This led to the children designing and creating their own model (using a cam mechanism) with a range of different materials.

      Thomas was the class expert and completed his own whale model as well as helping other children in the class fix any problems they had. 

      This week in Science, the children have been using our inflatable models of the sun and Earth to explain how we get day and night and the seasons. They have also talked about how our solar system works, using a model to explain how the sun is at the centre of the solar system and how its gravitational pull keeps planets orbiting it. 

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    • Science, Sphero bolts and Spirals

      Published 05/02/25

      Dragons

      In the Dragons class this week, they have been drawing Mayan timelines and comparing them with timelines of things that were happening in Britain at the same time. 

      In science they looked at chemical reactions. They saw how when they mixed vinegar and baking soda in a bottle, it created carbon dioxide to inflate a balloon.

      They have been busy with the Sphero bolts for a competition entry. Programming them to travel a course navigating a range of obstacles.  

      In Maths, they have been thinking about division and remainders. 

      Wizards class

      In D&T this week, the Wizards have been finding out about CAMs and how they are used to make rotating motion into linear motion. They have begun working co-operatively in groups to construct 4 timber kits for different musicians, which use CAMs to create the moving parts. 

      In English, the children have started to write a balanced argument using their research about the advantages and disadvantages of tourism. 

      The Wizards will be taking part in the Chipping Norton Music Festival in March (more details to follow) and on Wednesday they were visited by a singer and keyboard player who taught them the songs they will be singing (together with other schools) at the event. 

      Finally, the children had lots of fun with the RVRs (all-terrain robots) during a recent IT session. They made them talk to each other and created different courses for them to follow by programming them on iPads. 

      Pixies

      The Pixies this week have been looking at odd and even numbers. They have been doing some topic work and sorting materials into human-made and natural.

      In the Shire this week, they baked pin-wheel biscuits. 

      Year 1 and 2 have been working with the beebots and sphero indis to operate a tour around a 'museum' of communication made of pictures or models of items of communication.

      They are looking at items that we use to communicate with, including letters, telegrams, morse code, email, phones, facetime and even smoke signals!

      The little explorers were out and about in the playground this week. They did a great job sweeping the leaves and tidying the beds ready for planting outside the classroom. 

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