Highlights so far in year 4:
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Viking Day
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some children had fun making cups out of clay
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We made jewellery and painted it!
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The Longships were fantastic!
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Some children chose to design and make Viking Longhouses..
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Viking flat bread with honey, delicious!
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We set up a battle re enactment- ‘CHARGE!’
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On Roald Dahl Day we all dressed up as characters from the story.
Our topic at the moment is ‘Our local area’ and we walked around the village looking for
human and physical features. Beautiful fabric was woven at the old mills in Scissett and
Queen Victoria wore shawls made here.
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A visit to the old Weaver’s cottage in Skelmanthorpe gave us a good idea of
what life was like in the late 19th and early 20th century.
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There was only 2 rooms in the cottage and the weaving loom was kept in the
upstairs bedroom. We saw the loom working.
A few weeks later we visited the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. This was
fantastic and enjoyed by everyone.
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we found out the story of cotton from plant to fabric and compared the
massive machines to the old loom in the weaver’s cottage.
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We loved the discovery floor
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and the forces workshop!
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Back at school we tried our own weaving on card looms with brilliant results.
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we painted fantastic pictures in the style of Lowry.