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Excalibur Class (Year 4 & 5)
Welcome to Excalibur Class 2024/2025
The adults in Excalibur Class are:
Mrs Trusson - Class Teacher Monday-Thursday
Mr Gordon - Class Teacher Friday
Mrs Elsworth - TA Monday - Wednesday
Mrs Collins - HLTA Wednesday- Friday
Mrs Hills - TA Wednesday-Friday (am only)
British Science Week
We have been celebrating British science week. Rockets were launched from the playground...
We watched live streaming programmes linked to science week and also have been creating classification keys (also known as branching diagrams) to classify vertebrates.
World Book Day
We all turned up looking amazing in all our character costumes from our favourite books!
We were also the first class to attend the reading cafe where we had time enjoying and sharing our reading books as well as some lovely hot chocolate and biscuits!
We also had a competition between classes to decorate our doors...book themed! We used inspiration from our class reading book 'The Secrets of Vesuvius' by Caroline Lawrence and created the front cover across our door. We then added vocabulary and figurative language we have been learning about to the door to look like it was spewing out of the volcano!
Shrove Tuesday
Mr Gordon spent the day making pancakes with all the children in the school...they were delicious!
Circuit Training
This half term we are completing circuits to build up our strength and stamina in PE. We are recording our performance each week and trying to improve from week to week.
Our Computing and DT Unit continues with the Lego EV3 and NXT2 sets
Wessex Water workshop
Excalibur class looked at changing states solids, liquids and gases in water form and related this to the water cycle using scientific vocabulary such as evaporation, condensation and precipitation. We also conducted an experiment for a dripping tap, which totalled over 3,000 litres over any given year...we were incredibly shocked by this!
Volcano Day
First we made the shape of the volcanoes we were creating...
Next, we used papier mache to smooth and seal the surface of our volcanoes...
Whilst the volcanoes dried, we researched the famous volcanoes we were making and discovered where we would find them on a world map...
Later, we painted our volcanoes to make them look authentic...
Finally, we got to make the volcanoes erupt using bicarbonate of soda, washing up liquid, water, red food colouring and vinegar...
Team building
The Year 4's attended a team building afternoon hosted by Ansford secondary school.
Square numbers
The Year 5 children have been learning about square numbers in their maths lesson. We made models of these to help us understand the concept of what a square number is.
Work for School closure
27.01.25
As a result of school closure today due to flooding, we have placed today's lessons below for Excalibur class to access which include; Early bird maths, a maths lesson on factors, SPaG lessons on pronouns (Year 4), parenthesis (Year 5) and a geography task on famous volcanoes.
Homework is due in on Tuesday - so, if you are unable to access the online work, then ensure you have completed all homework in your folders.
Spring Term
Volcano Eruptions
The children were set a writing task to produce a descriptive piece of writing for a volcanic eruption...
DT Mini-Project #1
Design a system with a horizontal gear which then drives a vertical gear.
Yoga
We are starting the new year with some yoga sessions. As you can see, the children are really enjoying it, using the opportunity to focus on their health and wellbeing!
Autumn Term
Excalibur class would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Christmas Dinner
We had a yummy Christmas dinner with all the trimmings...we all enjoyed the novelty of the crackers at lunchtime!
Christingle
We had our Christingle service this week. It all started with making our Christingles...which was good fun!
We then visited St Barnabus Church for our Christingle service.
Santa Visit
We had another surprise visitor this week...Father Christmas landed at our school in a helicopter!! We have been busy writing our letters to Santa this year, so this was the perfect opportunity to give our Christmas letters to him to make sure he has them in plenty of time...fingers crossed we've all been good this year!
Thank you to the staff at Yeovilton airbase who make this special event possible.
We had a surprise visitor to our school today... Pudsey!! We were delighted to see him and invited him into the class for some photos (and lots of hugs and high fives).
Maths Curriculum Evening
Thank you to those parents who attended the maths curriculum evening...it was particularly fun to see the children challenging adults to complete an MTC (Multiplication Tables Check)! If you were unable to attend, copies of the documents which were available on the evening have been uploaded below.
Cinema Trip
We travelled to Cineworld in Yeovil to watch a special screening of the documentary film 'The Eagle Huntress'. It tells the story of thirteen-year-old Aisholpan who trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her nomad family to become an eagle huntress.
Viking Artefacts
We have been exploring a range of Viking artefacts in our History lessons. We have focused on the Coppergate Dig from 1976-1981 which uncovered new and exciting facts about York’s prosperous Viking-era trade
Investigating Levers
We had fun using different sized teddies to discover where the fulcrum (pivot) on a lever would need to be, in order for the effort (small teddy) to lift the load (large teddy). Initially some of us would not believe that the small teddy would be capable of lifting the load!!
As part of a combined DT/Computing unit, children used the program Live Home 3D to re-create Excalibur classroom. After taking measurements of key areas of the room during a maths lesson, children then learnt to model their surroundings before then capturing screen shots and walk-through videos to show off the "Excalibur Experience!"
In PE this week, we have been enjoying some circuits - based on running, jumping and throwing!
Friction
We have being investigating which material would make the most effective bicycle brake pad. We predicted which material (plastic, bubble wrap, towel, foil, carpet) would create the most friction against the wheel to stop it spinning the quickest.
Water resistance
We completed a mini-investigation to discover which shape would fall the quickest through the water...the sphere...the cone...or the cube?
...and the quickest falling shape was...
...the cone!
Harvest
We continued our traditional Harvest service this year, however, due to the persistent wet weather we hosted it in our school hall rather than the planned venue of St Barnabus Church. Our class looked at Harvest around the world...
Homophones
We have been learning to distinguish between homophones i.e there, their and they're. At the end of the lesson we completed a kahoot quiz with a partner, and the winners were...
Parachutes
We have enjoyed conducting an experiment on air resistance using parachutes. We dropped square parachutes ranging from 10cm-50cm to see which would be the most successful - drop the slowest.
European Day of Languages 2024
Science
During this half term, we are studying forces in science. We have being learning about gravity and its force pulling to the centre of Earth and how Sir Isaac Newton was linked to this discovery. We had had lots of fun using newton meters to measure and compare the weight of an object (newtons) to the mass of an object (kilograms).
Samba Drumming
This half term we are having samba drumming lessons with Mr Male. We are really enjoying exploring and learning about the sounds and volume we can create with the drums...
