Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Year 1 and 2 visit Testwood Lakes.

On Monday, we had a very enjoyable day at Testwood Lakes in Totton. The day was crammed full of lots of activities, and it even managed to stay dry!

Following the trip, Year 2 children wrote about the day, and Year 1 wrote thank you cards.

Josh wrote...I really enjoyed everything, but the best bit was catching bugs and I caught a ladybird. We did pond dipping and I caught a water beetle.

Dylan wrote... I had fun at Testwood Lakes. All the activities were fun, but my favourite activity was pond dipping, because I nearly fell in the pond!

Lee wrote...I had a lovely day at Testwood Lakes. My favourite part was finding the little insects in the meadow. And I liked seeing the wormery and feeding the worms.

Laken, in Year 1 wrote... Dear Testwood Lakes, Thank you for a lovely day. I really liked catching bugs. Love from Laken.

Miss Proctor

Friday, July 10, 2009

Blue Class DT and writing

We started the week looking at the toilets in our school and talking about what could be improved. We then designed a toilet cubicle for the new school.

There were some very interesting designs... underwater toilets, Hannah Montana toilets, Soccer toilets,World War 2 toilets etc.

The children then made a model of their toilet in a shoe box, adding all the appropriate details like TVs, footballs, mirrors... and soft toilet paper.

They then planned an advert for their toilet design and, working in groups, filmed it.














Finally, they made posters to advertise their design, and next week we will be writing a presentation, and choosing the best one to present to the 'dragons' in our Dragon's Den assembly.














Miss Proctor

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Green Class DT


Green Class has been really buzzing with amazing design ideas for school desks of the future! Children want to do away with boring traditional tables and bring in exciting new personalised workstations. Features should include individual laptops, retractable privacy-screens to eliminate distractions, storage space for personal belongings and equipment, water bottle carriers and much more. The class has created a fabulous product which should impress those dragons. With the right advertising campaign it will surely find a market. What do you think?

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

D.T. and Everybody Writes week

We are all in the middle of our special D.T. and Everybody writes week. The theme is ...'The school of the future!' which links to the building of our new school. All the classes are focusing on a different idea...chairs, desks, school bags,musical instruments, toilets... and even the teacher of the future!

We are starting off designing, and making models, and moving on to making adverts, posters, and presenting the best ideas in assembly to the 'Dragon's Den'.

Examples of work, adverts and presentations will follow shortly. Today was pretty messy in most of the classrooms, and although we were all enjoying ourselves, I don't know whether our cleaners Della, Nikki and Nickki had quite as much fun!

Miss Proctor