Year 5/6: Aventurine: Gallery
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 3:17pm
A few pictures of the children working and enjoying maths this week
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 3:13pm
Aventurine and Emerald Amazing trip to the Mills of Stroud.
Last week we went on a trip to Dunkirk,Gigg and Ruskin Mills.At Gigg Mill we learnt how to weave and how to spin wool using a spinning wheel. We loved seeing all the interesting machines. We even got to try them ourselves. The two men, Robin and Peter, were lovely and really helped us to understand how to weave. We also went to Ruskin Mill where we saw a watermill and learnt about hydro- electricity. At Dunkirk mill we learnt about the work of a child in the mill. We were amazed to see the waterwheels working and the noise that they made. Did you know that the cloth from the mills is used for soldiers and for covering billiard tables? We all had a really fantastic day.It really was the best trip ever!
Written by Bella, Olivia, Rowan, Eve and Georgie.
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 3:10pm
Last Friday Aventurine visited Stroud Museum, where we all had the most amazing day. Highlights of the day included meeting Peter Playne a mill owner, following a trail around the museum, map work which saw the class plotting the differences in Stroud that had occurred since 1835 and learning more about the cloth Industry. At the end of the day the children made a magnificent human loom.
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 3:04pm
The children in Aventurine are amazing actors. In order to build up ideas to retell events and feel what Jim, the main character from Street Child was feeling we used drama to explore the plot. They not only thoroughly enjoyed the lesson, they completely captured how it was for Jim in the workhouse.
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 3:02pm
This morning Aventurine have be learning that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but they have also had fun exploring their traits and characteristics that may or may not be different to their families.
Can you spot the tongue rollers? The group with a second toe longer than their big toe? What other groups can you spot?
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 3:00pm
In our dance lessons the children have been thinking about the Industrial Revolution. Using their imaginations, the children became the workers, building the bridges, railways and tunnel. Then they proceeded to create this improvisation using the rhythm of the music to convey the repetitive nature of their actions.
