ARTS WEEK - World cup fever!

What a busy week it was. Our country Holland (and at this stage they're looking good to hold up the cup!) provided a huge stimulus. As a class we learnt about the geography of the country, it's history, culture and most importantly its football team! We discovered inventors (the speed camera is their fault!) athletes, explorers and a host of other fascinating information. It was a non stop week, but we learnt loads and had lots of fun doing it.

World cup meant footballs, so we had to have a go at making them. (Anyone got a pump!)
 Did you know that you can make a sphere by linking hexagons and pentagons together.

The Dutch originally built windmills to help prevent flooding.


Year 4 created a new Dutch 'map' using the red, white and blue of the Dutch  flag and combined it with images associated with Holland - windmills and tulips!

We looked at the work of Rembrandt and tried to emulate his use of lines to create portraits of the current Dutch football team.

Singing the football chant/song that we                      We each designed a new football for the Holland

composed together.                                                     team.

The Vikings

During our topic work, the class learnt much about the lifestyles of the Vikings and their reasons for traveling to Britain. We made weapons, planned a raid and designed and built our own Viking longhouses. Here are some examples of our work.

GROWING OUR OWN IN Y4

Following our work on healthy lifestyles, the children in year 4 decided to grow their own fruit and veg. Each group decided on a different produce which included strawberries, haricot beans, raspberrys, carrots and potatoes. They prepared the ground, planted seeds and transferred potted plants. Hopefully all being well you'll see the results of our efforts later on.