The adults in Excalibur Class are:
Mrs Trusson - Class Teacher Monday-Wednesday
Mrs Hegarty - Class Teacher Thursday-Friday
Mrs Elsworth - TA Monday - Wednesday
Mrs Feierabend - HLTA Wednesday- Friday

Harvest Festival

To celebrate Harvest this year, we gathered at our local church and shared a range of readings, poems, artwork and prayers.  Excalibur class shared how Harvest is celebrated around the world including information about The Fruit Fair, Lammas Day, Portuguese Flower Festival and the Moon Festival.

 

This week for our carnival project, we added fins and tails to our fish using our willow. Additionally, we added LED lights across the centre and around the outside. Some of us even started to add tissue paper to our structures to form the fish's body.

Conducting Materials

We have been testing materials to discover which materials conduct electricity and which were insulating material and did not allow electricity to pass through it.  We used a simple electrical circuit to insert materials to see if the bulb lit up.  If it did, we knew the material conducted electricity.

 

On Friday, we celebrated International Day of Languages. This year our focus country was Greece due to its link with our topic work. We studied Greece on Google Maps, wore the colours of the Greek flag and listened to Greek music and spoken words. For our project, we even created some amazing posters all about Greece using fact files and the iPads to research the country. 

Continuing our carnival project this week, we strengthened our structures using willow as support. We made willow rings to go on the interior of our fish to help them keep their shape. 

Insulating Materials

Whilst the Year 5s were swimming, the Year 4s conducted an experiment on
insulating materials. In intervals of 2 minutes, the children took temperature
readings from thermometers which had been placed in containers of hot water.
Each container was made from a different material including tin, plastic, steel,
glass and cardboard.

 

This week, we began our carnival project work. As a class, we were taught how to work with our willow and how to bend and attach it together. Following this, we worked in groups to begin to create a structure for our fish.