Fairthorne Manor

Some photos of our pupils enjoying their activities at Fairthorne Manor today. What a great bunch of children they are!

Rooks' Science Week

Rooks started this Science Week with a bang! They were investigating forces during their flying mice experiment. Each child made and decorated their own mouse which they then tested to see whose would fly the highest. 

                                       

 

As part of their science topic, they have also started to learn about electricity. In today's lesson they were creating their own simple circuits to make a bulb light up.  Later, they experimented  by adding different components to their circuits to see what could happen to the bulb. They have all had fun experimenting with new concepts and working scientifically.

Rooks at Fishbourne

Some pictures from today's visit to Fishbourne Roman Palace with Rooks. Everyone had a really interesting day investigating the mosaics and artefacts. We also had an excellent talk by one of the museum staff and some fun activities. Thankfully, all the 'slaves' were given their freedom at the end of the trip!

Year 4 get sharky

This afternoon for the Roald Dahl rock challenge event year 4 had to create sharks. We were given large boxes and left to it. We have now got 4 very convincing looking sharks. What an amazing job year 4 you should be very proud of how they look.
Well done Rooks
Mrs Carter

Year 4 Score!

There are a few items that have missed out on being blogged this year, so I thought I would try to complete a mini update and include some pictures!

Year 4 Score!  In October a team of 8 children from year 4 took part in a basketball festival at Cantell School.  All of the children showed great athletic ability and displayed some superb skills.  A lot of staff delivering the sessions were very impressed with our attention and dedication.  The children worked well together as a team and had a great afternoon.  Time ran out before many matches could be played which was a real shame as our team were ready to pass, shoot, dribble and dunk!

Serious scooter fun!

Stuart from my school journey has been providing the children in Nightingales and Rooks with scooter training.  The children have learnt how to scoot safely on the roads and are developing a respect for other road users.  Most importantly,  the children have had fun with their learning!

Bitterne Manor Book Day - Rooks

Rooks embraced Bitterne Manor Book day.  Thank you to everyone who was able to come for Book Look and the workshops after school.

Today Rooks adopted the book - The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka.  This tells the well known story of the three little pigs from the persepective of Alexander T. Wolf, who feels he has been severely slandered by the news papers!

Over the past couple of days, Rooks class have adopted an IMAGINE and CREATE challenge from the World Book Day "Big Book Off".  They have spent time looking at the arguments 'for and against' Mr Wolf's guilt about the death of the first and second little pigs.  They created court scenes and acted out the trial.

Having spent time understanding the story the children then entered the CREATE challenge and designed settings and characters mentioned or present within the story.  This was done using potatoes!!!!

Potato characters soon appeared in the classroom. A wolf, 3 pigs, a newspaper journalist, policeman and granny (whose birthday cake started it all!)  A fantastic job by Rooks!