WELCOME TO BLUEBELL CLASS

Bluebell Class is a Year 3 and 4 Class. We are taught by Mrs Pearce-Bailey on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and Mr Shipway on Thursday and Friday. We are supported my Mrs Atkins as well as Mrs Harper, Miss Howlett and Miss Carter.

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What have we been up to?

Scroll down to see some of the fantastic learning we have been doing recently!

Pneumatic Toys 

In Design and Technology we have been learning about pneumatics and how air can be used to operate mechanisms. We made our own pneumatic toys by placing balloons inside a box and then inflating these so that the box flips open. We all had great fun turning our designs into reality.

Roman Day

We had the most wonderful day dressing up as Romans and enjoying some Roman themed activities. We baked Libum a Roman cheese cake drizzled with honey, made our own infused wine (non alcoholic of course), made mosaic coasters, painted shields, practised our army formations and marching and explored artefacts found at Vindolanda. We finished it off with a wonderful open classroom event where we showed off our learning to our parents and enjoyed our Roman cooking together. 

We are Times Table Rock Stars

We had a fantastic day dressing up as rock stars and enjoying a number of times table themed activities. We held a battle of the bands with Green family taking the crown with just shy of 1000 correct answers. We played times table themed games and made our own times table rockets to help us learn those tricky facts. 

Boudicca

As part of our history learning on Romans we learnt about the opposition the Roman army faced from Boudicca. We learnt about her life and how she led the Iceni tribe into battle destroying 3 Roman towns in the process. We pretended we were Boudicca and wrote our own battle cries to tell the tribe why this fight was so important. We had great fun painting our faces and performing these for one another. 

Exploring Fossils

We have continued our learning about rocks by becoming paleontologists and exploring fossils.

Still Life

In art this term we have been exploring Still Life and in particular have looked at the work of Cezanne. We have learnt various techniques and used these to create our own Still Life images.

Investigating Rocks

In science we have been learning about rocks and soils. We performed three tests to find out about the properties of different rocks including using vinegar to explore the results of acid rain and water to see how permeable a rock is.

Computing

Over the last few weeks we have been busy learning all about QR (Quick Response) codes as well as creating our own! The children have had opportunities to scan QR codes around the class using tablets. During this activity they found out that QR codes can take us to different things, such as: websites, instructions and even questions and games! As a class we talked about where we might find QR  codes, what information they give us and who might use them.

Bluebell Class really enjoyed the opportunities to create and scan their own QR codes they created.

Christmas Applique

We have been busy using our new sewing skills to make our Christmas cards.

Have you heard? There's a Mouse in Santa's House!

We had great fun preparing for and performing our Christmas Play!

RE - Hinduism

Over the last few weeks Bluebell class have  been learning all about Hinduism. They have have been, focusing on its origins, core beliefs, festivals, special places. Children will explore the different holy books, identify key Hindu symbols and understand their meanings. The children created lanterns to reinforce their learning of the festival of Diwali.

Liberty Gymnastics

Bluebell Class visited Liberty Gymnastics for the morning where they had a go at a whole variety of gymnastics activities. 

Remembrance 

Bluebell Class visited the village war memorial where they placed poppies and shared some prayers they had written for the occasion.

Stonehenge Trip

We enjoyed an amazing trip to Stonehenge where we visited the stones, had a go at making flour, making rope and learning all about what life was like when Stonehenge was built.

Harvest 

We researched the history of scarecrows and then made our own scarecrow to celebrate harvest.

Tessellating Patterns

We explored tessellations during Art's Week

Multi sports festival

Bluebell Class took part in a multi sports festival in Frome. We played rounders, dodgeball and end zone and had a great time despite the rainy weather.