We have had a messy week in Year 3 creating Egyptian pots.
We began the week with looking at designs and investigating what the Egyptians used pots for.
Then we started creating our pots by molding clay into our desired shape. There was a range of shapes and sizes, some even had lids!
Finally we decorated our pots using paints.
Everyone had great fun!
In Year Three we have been looking at the Egyptians. During half term the children took part in a pyramid building competition.They could use any materials and designs that they wanted to and could ask friends and family members to help. Miss Hewitson and Mrs Davies have been astonished by the fantastic pyramids the have children brought in!
Herbs, spices and vegetables used by Romans
Which one will we try first?
The Romans brought a range of herbs and vegetables to Britain way back but sausage? Yes, it was a favourite among Roman Soldiers who it is thought always carried their sausages with them and enjoyed them as a snack or as part of their meal -usually served with Garum a type of fish sauce.
Year four today tasted a range of herbs, vegetables and spices popular in Roman cooking in their attempts to make the best, most tastiest Roman Sausage.
Some of our favourites included:
Pork,basil, onion and cumin,
Pork, garlic and leek,
Pork, cumin and basil.
Year Four have been busy exploring different forms of poetry. One of our favourites was the haiku, which is a Japanese style. All haikus are three lines long and keep to a pattern of 5 syllables, seven syllables, five syllables. We hope you enjoy reading our haikus about active and dormant volcanoes.
Year Four have also been using simile and metaphor to describe volcanoes. We used our imaginations to full effect in these poems!
A special congratulations to Lola, from Year 3, who raised almost £600 this week for an Alzheimer’s charity. Fantastic community spirit shown. Everyone at Marsden is very proud of you!
On Tuesday, Year six took part in two workshops in school led by a local charity Lifestyle Choices, on how to keep our hearts healthy and how a heart functions. This involved finding out more about diet, what makes up a healthy diet and how to make a a healthy smoothie!
Some of us liked the smoothies better than others!
In the afternoon we learned about the function of the heart and had the opportunity to see inside real lambs hearts, identifying various sections and hearing how they work as part of the circulatory system. The children were amazed at the experience.
Year Four have been learning all about Italy and in DT lessons we have enjoyed designing and making our own pizzas! We had great fun making the dough and selecting our toppings. The best part ……? Eating them, of course! Look out for our very own cookery shows, coming soon to the website!
On Thursday 29th September, Year Six walked down to Whitburn to find out about the buildings that were there during World War Two and to visit the Parish Church to find out more about rituals and ceremonies in the Christian Church. We were met there by Reverend Davies who told us and showed us the different places and parts of the church and why they were used. Some of us were amazed to find out that our local church was build around 1245.
We also found out about the vestments or special clothes that are worn by the vicar and the members of the choir. Why do they he wear them? Traditionally to keep themselves warm and clean! Special colours represent different times of the year such as Lent, Advent, Christmas and Easter.
We found out about the bread and wine used in communion services and what these would be served in.
We had a fascinating time looking around, asking questions and even getting to dress in some of the vestments- no bread and wine though. Perhaps when we are older.
This week in year 5 we have been focusing upon common multiples. The aim of the game was to roll a dice with your partner and identify multiples of the number shown, whoever did it the fastest was the winner. We repeated this process using different colours and identified common multiples of numbers to 12. We had great fun and showed fantastic improvements with our times table knowledge.
