We visited the Discovery Museum to help us to learn more about electricity, our Science topic. During the day, we made a bulb light up by forming a human circuit then we investigated electrical circuits further and made our own mini torches.
We also explored the Science Zone and learned about Joseph Swan, the inventor of the light bulb.
Many of us completed our Bikeability Level 1 course and have greatly improved our cycling skills.
We enjoyed performing our assembly about the Anglo-Saxons to our visitors and the rest of the school. In particular, we enjoyed learning the song and hope you enjoyed it too!
At the end of June it was time to say ‘goodbye’ and ‘thank you’ to Mrs Arnstein who had been teaching us throughout the year.
We were very active this month! The Hoopstarz session was great fun and we thoroughly enjoyed our visit to Walker Activity Dome where we took part in the Team Games Festival against other local schools. The focus of our PE sessions was tag rugby and some of us really improved our attacking and defending skills.
In our computing lessons, we used Logo to create different shapes on the screen.
In our science lessons, we learned all about states of matter – solids, liquids and gases. In order to help us understand how the molecules behave in the different states of matter, we went outside and pretended to be the molecules. We know that the molecules in a solid are held together by strong forces whereas those in a liquid are weaker so the molecules can move around more freely. In a gas, the forces holding the molecules together are the weakest of all so the molecules can move very freely and fill the space they are in.
We made our own Easter baskets and filled them with Easter treats! Some of us were lucky winners in the annual Easter Egg Raffle.
It was great fun dressing up as our favourite story book characters for World Book Day. We also enjoyed our drama work linked to Goldilocks and the Three Bears, the traditional tale our class focused on during the week.
This year, our school sold red noses to support Comic Relief.
The school nurse visited our class and helped us to think about the different relationships we have. We worked together and discussed what it means to be a good friend.
We were very lucky to be given the opportunity to take part in a yoga taster session. It was a lovely, calm way to end the afternoon.
Some of us visited CHADCA playgroup as part of our Everyday Magic project. We read stories to the young children and played with them. I think some of us enjoyed playing with the toys a little too much!
Some of us read stories to the children in Reception class. We used lovely clear voices and asked the children lots of questions about the stories.
During our Everyday Magic graduation ceremony, we described all the wonderful things we had been doing to make other people, as well as ourselves, feel happy and became official ‘Everyday Magicians’!
We made some beautiful bracelets and key rings to sell at ‘Milecastle’s Christmas Market’. They proved to be extremely popular and we were sold out in no time at all!
Our Christmas lunch was delicious!
We enjoyed learning the songs for our Key Stage 2 Christmas production of ‘The Hoity Toity Angel’. Some of us also had dancing parts.
We all enjoyed performing our class assembly about Ancient Egypt and we hope you enjoyed watching it!
In maths, we collected our own data and presented it in a bar chart. We then thought of questions we could ask in order to interpret the data.
We thoroughly enjoyed our visit to Durham Oriental Museum where we learned more about life and death in Ancient Egypt. During the day, we had the opportunity to handle real Ancient Egyptian artefacts. We all thought it was amazing to think that Ancient Egyptian people from thousands of years ago had used the objects that we were holding! We also explored the artefacts on display in the Wolfson Gallery and completed activities linked to them. After lunch, we were taken to see a real Ancient Egyptian mummy in a sarcophagus then we ended the day by acting out the mummification process and the Weighing of the Heart ceremony.
Milecastle Class 4 