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    Curriculum Photos

    Autumn Term

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    As part of our topic on Africa we looked at the different styles of traditional houses and made our own.
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    Mrs Amonya came to speak to Kenya class about life in Kenya when she was growing up. She brought a traditional out fit to show us.
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    In RE we went outside and collected as many natural colourful materials as we could find and then we created a paint pad of God’s natural world.
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    As part of our climate justice Art Project, we used the book One Plastic Bag to inspire us to produce posters about saving our planet. We sketched out our drawings and then used pastels to add colour and effect.
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    Autumn Term 2

    In geography, we looked at the process of erosion. We built a beach and added water. We then created waves by pushing the water backwards and forwards with a bottle. We noticed that the sand started to move forwards and the beach began to disappear. When we added objects to create a sea wall, we noticed that the rate at which the sand moved slowed and the beach remained.
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    Magnets In science we have been learning about the forces of magnets. We investigated which everyday materials and objects were magnetic/nonmagnetic. We found out that not all metals are magnetic. We learned the names of some magnetic metals – Iron, Steel Nickle and Cobalt. Metals such as Aluminium are non-magnetic.
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    Art – Iron Man Sculptures In Art we have been looking at the famous sculptor Anthony Gormley who is famous for the Angel of The North. For our art this half term we first learned different sketching and shading techniques such as cross hatching and random cross hatching. We then applied these techniques to our sketching. We posed as the iron man and took photographs. Our teach cut our photographs in half and we had to sketch the other half. We looked closely at the shapes Anthony Gormley used in his sculptured and tried to copy this as we used clay to create our own Iron Man sculptures in a similar style.
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