Class 4 have been investigating Tudor Crime and Punishment in their topic work this week. Check out Holly’s whip – yikes!

Does anybody recognise this scoundrel in the stocks? Fantastic research, Class 4!

Neave has completed her RE task, creating a job specification for the Messiah to a very high standard, and also planted and nurtured her own indoor garden. She has independently decided to do an experiment on her grass to determine the effect of plant food on the speed of growth. What fantastic Home Learning! Well done, Neave! 🙂

This half term our Christian Value is perseverance. Below, Cayden has kindly shared his thoughts on three times when he has shown perseverance in his life.

Well done, Cayden, for your careful thought and consideration.

Children in Class 4 have been writing riddles this week. Can you solve any of these? Be warned, some are quite tricky!

      My tongue is like a sharp razor as it tips upon your blazer,

   These days I am used in schools but in Tudor times I was one of Henry VIII’s favourite tools.

   What am I ?

  A Guillotine.

By Holly

I am a mirrored image but not a daily reflection. 

I stand tall and small but this is not my true connection. 

I tell a tale of the world we’re in.

What am I?

A Portrait

By Cayden

I am commonly white but can come in any colour,
I come in all shapes and sizes,
I maybe small but I can still burn,
I help you see in the dark but I’m not a torch,
I am often in a church, house, or even a pumpkin

What am I?

A candle

By Blake

I have a head but no face

I have a neck but no body

I move, yet am not alive

I can harm you, or help you

My blade can be blunted

My head can fall off,

Or I can make yours do the same.

What am I?

An axe

By Alby

I am delicate but deadly,

I need to be cared for,

I grow old with you and sometimes fall out,

I can be seen sometimes but sometimes i can not,

I am a bone in your body.

What am I ?

Answer: Teeth

By Kirsty

With the right conditions, in the heat I rise.

In different forms I take my guise.

I can be broken or whole, but always best shared,

In many a farmhouse I am prepared.

Enjoyed by the young and old, and rich and poor alike.

Sweet or savoury, I sustain life.

What am I?

Bread.

By Millie

Mason had a teddy bear picnic at home. It sounds great, Mason! This is what Mason said:

We made cakes for our teddy bear picnic on Monday. We all had ingredients each: mine were blue, Ruby’s were pink (because she likes pink) and Ronnie’s were yellow (because we didn’t have any green). We had a tea and cake picnic with our Christmas cup and saucers.  

Check out Owen’s topic work – a mini project on Henry VIII.

Well done, Owen.

In the throne room, before me sits the most majestic sight.  Never before in my life have I seen such grace and beauty.  She catches my eye with her glacial stare and I feel unworthy in her presence and look away.

I can almost feel the heat radiating from her fiery hair that blazes hot like the summer sun.  Exquisite lustrous pearls swathe these golden strands and encase her perfectly pretty face, which is pale in complexion like a favourite porcelain doll.

An intricately detailed  ruff encircles her head like an opulent wreath of lace.  At her shoulders, her army you witness at sea, ready to risk their lives for our beloved Queen. Beside Her Majesty a shimmery, shiny crown is placed, which gleems in the glow of the morning sun.  

Her beautifully bejewelled and elegantly embroidered dress drapes luxuriously from her body.  Her neck is adorned with scores of pristine, precious pearls, magnificent in their iridescence.  A globe is placed at Elizabeth’s knees and delicate regal fingers are set upon it.

Well done, Ava, for creating your very own Playdough Vending Machine at home. What an ingenious invention. We love it!

Happy New Year, everybody!

What a great start you have all made to your Home Learning this week. Keep up the good work.

Here’s some writing that Nicholas has competed about his favourite Christmas gift. Sounds great fun, Nicholas!

The Gift

For Christmas I got a massive 42.8cm by 22.7cm lime green Lego Technic Land Rover Defender, which I was thrilled about because that was exactly what I had asked for.

 As soon as I unwrapped it, I just wanted to get started on it straight away, but in the end, I started it the next day because we had a lot to do on Christmas day. I wanted that specific Lego set because I have already got a rally car/dune buggy around the same size so I wanted to build another one like that. Once I opened the box, 4 sets of approximately 6 bags fell out of the box onto the table (all full to the brim with Lego pieces) with an instruction manual that had 860 individual steps to build the headlights, gear box, chassis, engine, body work and more!

The finished product was absolutely incredible because if you put it in gear -and only in gear- the crankshaft will spin making the pistons move up and down. When it’s moving, the steering works, the winch can be used and even the front, rear and centre differentials work. Amazingly, all this works without any batteries or anything!