The beginnings of an Ancient Egyptian farming report!

What would you need to know if you were an Ancient Egyptian Farmer? Well perhaps these videos will give you a better understanding of exactly what the Ancient Egyptians needed to know.
Please remember that these are our first attempts at working with Green Screen technology.

Lego Wonderland

Here are some absolutely tiptop Lego creations from Lego engineer - Lisa. Can you guess what these Lego constructions actually are though?

It's Halloween!

Tamotsu took this pumpkin and made this brilliant Jackolantern! Tamotsu hopes you have a very ........ Halloween! He wants you to fill in the blank with your own adjective!

What is Nero thinking?

As our philosophy unit is all to do with 'thinking' - What do you think our Roman emperor was thinking while Rome burned?

So real you could eat it!

This fruit was sketched by Ayumi over the half term holidays. It looked so real that I actually tried to eat the paper it was sketched on!

The pianist's story continues!

Leila has written the next thrilling instalment of her story. Please enjoy!

Animal magic!

We decided to take a visit to the zoo to ask our animal friends what they thought of our poems. While we were visiting they came up with another challenge for all you eager poets! Watch the video to find out what the challenge is...

We have broken the 2000 DOJO POINTS barrier!

Please check out our fantastic Class Dojo scores! Some of us have more than 100 points! Also, amazingly, some of us have a 100% positivity rating! Great work 3G! Keep it up!

Shape it, tell it, make it

Our final Shape Poems! Please enjoy!

Rocks! Tell us more about them!

Here are some videos taken before and after we had completed our investigation on rocks. Check out the handsome presenter on the second video...



Investigating rocks!



Mr Willis by the seaside...

The Far Away Tree?

I thought exactly the same! You mean the Enid Blighton book? No this is the beginning of Lisa's version! Personally, I can't wait to find out will happen next!

FREE Writing! Please free the writing!

Today we had free writing! We get to write whatever we want! Yes!

 

Don't throw Maya's friend in the water!

 

Read all about it! The Luca Chronicle

 

Terrifying things! The Theo Times

Shape Poems taking shape

Dear Reader,

We have recently spent time putting all of the learning from our poetry unit into creating a final shape poem. You will soon be able to find these poems on our pages but for the moment we have included a short video of shape poems being created as well as some other examples of our poems represented in a visual format (we used the iPad App 'Visual Poetry' to create these poems). Please enjoy!

 

 

Luca's visual poem 

What we think of Shape Poems!

Please take some time to look through our thoughts about the different shape poems we read today. Do you agree/disagree with our thoughts?

 

Shou's thoughts about the Winter shape poem

 

Mateo's thoughts on the concrete Comet Poem

 

Words, Words and more Words!

If you are thinking about creating a new story, a new poem or a piece of writing that needs a bit of punch then look no further than these helpful and persuasive PowToons!

Lisa


Anna


Rebecca


Liam

The Final Gallery!

Dear Reader we present our final gallery of incredible Still Life compositions! Please enjoy!

The Rocket Ship!

Daiki takes us on a crazy journey with his wacky story about a Rocket Ship!

The Young Explorers - Part 2

At last! It is here! The final part of Luca's Story 'The Young Explorer'.



And there may be more...Yabba Dabba Doo!

Can you beat the teacher?

3G had a really excellent attempt at trying to beat the teacher at writing (that would be me). Check out their Ancient Egyptian Diary entries for the first discovery of the River Nile. Can you imagine arriving at the River Nile for the first time? What would the possibilities include?

 

Maximo's diary entry

 

Theo's diary entry

 



 

Karen's diary entry

Are these photographs REAL?

Today, during our 'Friday Free For All' time we looked at mysterious photos and how to create them. Please check out these photos. Are they real or are they fake? What are the monsters in the photos?

Taking a tour of Egypt

Dear reader,

Today we spent some time taking tours of Egypt and Cities that had been built hundreds or thousands of years ago. We used an on-line App called Google Tour Builder to decide why the River Nile was so important to the Ancient Egyptians. We also tried to work out why ancient people would build cities in certain locations.

Check out our ideas:

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If you would like to do a bit of your own research here are the tours:

Ancient Egypt: click on me

Ancient Cities: click on me

Poetry Wildlife Park

Today we wrote some brilliant poems for our new poetry unit on Shape poems. I think you will agree that they are very descriptive!

The Crane

Feathery elegant wings

Gliding across the frozen ice

like ice skaters skating in the sun

 

 

 

 

 

Tall thin legs and long neck

Flapping it's wings above in the sky

drinking the fresh water

by the river under the sparking sunlight

By Karen

 

The Bull

Terrible razor sharp horns

dashing through open fields

like a speeding bullet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deadly, mighty legs

Attacking fiercely

Butting animals

In the dangerous wild

by Mateo

 

The Poison Dart Frog

Huge, Dark eyes and a bright body

Hopping between the enormous Amazon forest

as miniscule as a field mouse

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dainty body and tiny legs

Leaping nervously through the forest

Searching for food

Amongst the tough green surface

By Maximo

The Arctic Fox

Popped up ears, itsy bitsy paws

Running swiftly through the snow

like the wind blowing some sugar

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trembling tongue

almond shaped hungry eyes

searching for prey in the endless arctic

as freezing as an iceberg

By Maya

The Polar Bear

Fluffy soft fur

Strolling on freezing ice

like a giant walking on a cloud

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pointy black ears

Slowly, gently moving

Hunting for fish

in the deep blue sea

By Leila

Crazy camera work!

Guest blogger, Momoko, has given us a brief look at what you can do by combining stop motion camera Apps with iMovie. Not bad hey!



If you are interested and want to find out more about this type of movie making then please get in contact.

William's wacky poem!

Here is a wonderfully wacky poem written by William and performed by Mr Willis.

A fantastic adventure begins...

Please take some time to read through Theo's super story. It may not be finished but I am already chomping at the bit to find out what happens next...

Charcoal and Chalk - a magic mix!

Another magnificent gallery has just opened at the 3G gallery. This group of bottle and ball sketches are the best yet! What do you think?

The new exhibition wing of the 3G gallery

Welcome one and all to the new wing of the 3G gallery. We welcome you to stroll and peruse the corridors of our brand new 'Pleasant Pencil Wing'! Please take some time to observe the quality of these fine sketches. They have been specially selected from some of our brightest young artists.

How to recycle rocks!

Maximo, geologist and vulcanologist, explains the inner workings of the rock cycle!