Year 4 and The Pharaohs

Year 4 have just come to the end of their Cornerstones Pharaohs topic. Here are some of their blogs:-

This term we have been learning about Egyptians which was fun Tutukamen died at 19 after he became king.
Egyptians belived that if your heart weighed less than a feather you would go to the after life and if
your heart weighed more than a feather you would go to the under world and have your heart eaten by a crocodile. LG
Mummification
First, tickle the person to see if he or she is dead.
Second, wash the body with the water from the Nile.
Next,make a slit on the side and take the intestines, stomach, liver and lungs out.
After, get a red hot hook and take the brain out.
When you have done that, put the organs in canopic jars.
Then, stuff the body with linen to make it look real again.
After that, cover the body in a salt called natron and leave it for 40 days.
Cover the body in oil. Then cover the body in linen.
Next, cover the body with the second layer with amulets.

The Big Dig
 We made a 9 squared grid and went outside to The forest school area.We put the grid where Mr. Crees put sticks in the ground. I dug around the side of the grid. Then I took off the grid and started to dig in the inside.We found lots of Egyptian stuff like pieces of potery and shabtis. VR

When we did the big dig we had to look for things in Egyptian
times like coins and jars and other stuff . We had to use a template to dig out it was great fun because I got really messy. But as well it was FREEZING! MO

THE BIG DIG was great fun and it was not warm. I had to do it in my forest school kit. My group found a brick and a bit of corckery and some metal.It was great fun! RC
In our topic we did a dig we found loads of stuff like glass ,toys and other stuff it was brillo. Our topics are really good I loved this topic. AM

The Visitor
 For our project there was a special funny visiteor proffessor McGinty. I know he was funny but we learnt a lot of stuff. I hat to dress up as a pharaoh boy, it was so fun. AM

4S's class assembly

. On Friday 15th March, 4S did their class assembly. It was all about the finding of the tomb of Tutankhamun. The archeologist who found the tomb was called Howard Carter and his sponsors Lord Canavan and Lady Canavan. They looked around the Valley of the Kings and came upon a tomb. Howard saw great things inside the tomb and when they went inside they had a big shock. There was many things in the tomb and they had a shock when the hieroglyphics talked to them on the wall. Then the mummy of Tutankhamun came and talked to them telling them information about his life ruling egypt. Some information was about his personal life and life as Pharoah. He was crowned at the age of 9. 9! He also married his sister who was 13 because he needed to keep the line of Pharoahs the same blood. He ruled for 10 years and died unexpectantly at 19. He was buried in a tomb that wasn't meant for him in the valley of the kings. Scientists these days believe in many reasons why he died so young like, his uncle Ai killed him so he could have the throne earlier, he could of died of a wounded leg and he died because he had hurt his head. Either of these could be the correct answer and scientists are still working on finding the solution.

 

                                                          

  After this Carter explained that the treasures that he had found in the tomb had to be taken to be on display at mueseums so people could know about him and his rule. Tutankhamun reluctantly agreed as he thought it may appear babyish to keep old house hold items.

Then Osiris king of the dead appeared. He weighed Tutankhamun's heart against the feather of truth, it was lighter so Tutankhamun got through to the afterlife. 

To finish they danced to The Bangles walk like an egyptian.

4W's assembly

On Friday 8th March it was class 4W's assembly. They did their assembly on their topic from last term it was called Blood, Bones and Gory bits. They started off talking about the human skeleton. They explained that the human skeleton keeps us upright and if we didn't have it, we would be like jelly people. They then sang a song about the bones in the body and what they are connected to.

They then told us all about our teeth.


We have four different teeth in our mouth as a child, even when we have our baby teeth. They are Insicors,Canines,pre molars and molars. When you become an adult you get an extra four teeth which are called wisdom teeth. The Teeth play an important role in the Digestive System, as they mash the food people put into their mouths. It goes through into the stomach and intestines and the moisture gets squeezed out. And you know what it turns
into? POO! They even did an experiment to show us how it happened. Urrgh!!!!

 







After the experiment they told us information about the heart. The heart is a muscle and a major organ. We also need to do excersice dayly to make it stronger. The class showed an example for exercising the heart.





They finished their assembly by dancing to Gangnam Style.

Art Gallery - Year 6

In our topic called 'Galleries' we have visited two Art Galleries and looked at 3 different artists. The first one we looked at was Vincent Van Gogh. We looked at his self portrait that was painted in 1889. The next picture we looked of Vincent Van Gogh was where he had a bandaged ear. The reason that he had a bandaged ear was because he chopped part of his ear off during a low stage in his life.

After this we looked at Pablo Picasso. We looked at one of his self Portraits that he did in 1907. We also looked at more modern art.

Here is some abstract art that our class produced, inspired by Robert and Sonia Delaunay.  JT

Shakespeare

Here is a class play written by class 6C based upon their learning about the story of Romeo and Juliet.

5M's Class assembly

On Friday 14th December 2012, class 5M did their class assembly, it was set in the time of King Arthur.



Morgana and Morgause were step sisters, and they were plotting against Camelot. Morgana decided to use her magic to bring a villain from the future to create the downfall of Camelot. Morgana said the spell and brought Dick Turpin from the future.

Dick Turpin rampaged through out the lands of Camelot. He and his two companions robbed people of their money and never got caught. One day, Dick Turpin robbed in the forest where a pack of Camelot knights were on patrol. They were eventually overpowered by  King Arthur's knights. They were took to court, had their weapons removed and were sentenced to death.




Morgana and Morgause were outraged and Morgause cast a spell and it returned with Adolf Hitler. He was a powerful speaker and they thought highly of his power to persuade the king to divide the kingdom causing wars and fights over peoples rights.

Hitler was escorted to the castle where he would start his mischievous meddling. He managed to persuade Arthur to make impure blooded people in Camelot to wear a medallion saying 'Impure Blood'. Hitler was secretly delighted to see everything was going to plan, so were Morgana and Morgause.

The next thing Hitler talked about was removing
the Impure Blooded to there own town, so they would not mess with the Pure Blooded people in the town. Merlin and Gaius shared an eye conversation and Merlin decided to see the Great Dragon for advise. The Great Dragon was were merlin always went for advice. The Great Dragon explained that only a Hero with the best intentions could undo Hitler's work on Camelot. Merlin cast a spell and brought Robin Hood from the future. The question in Merlin's mind was - will he be the right hero?

Robin Hood robbed from the rich people and gave it to the poor citizens of Camelot. he brought food with the stolen money and organized a feast for the hungry people who starved. Sadly, he didn't have the right intentions to undo Hitler's work on Camelot. Merlin cast another spell and brought Mohandas Gandhi from the future. Will he be the right hero?

Gandhi was taken to the throne room and was allowed to speak to the king. Gandhi explained how the poor people felt to be left out, the hungry people left to starve and how Hitler was taking control of King Arthur and destroying the kingdom of Camelot. Arthur then realised he had been a fool an d Hitler had been controlling him. Hitler was thrown out of the palace and left in the woods to rot. Once this was done the kingdom was restored and returned to it's natural happiness.

Morgana and Morgause were outraged to find their plan had failed. They summoned Hitler and Morgana was in such a rage she speared him with her trident.









Meanwhile at the palace a great celebration was going on to celebrate the kingdoms repair and Hitler's failure. King Arthur called to Merlin and yelled to bring on the entertainment. Merlin hadn't realised he needed to organise that as well, so he summoned Bob Geldof from the future and Band aid to sing their song 'Do they know it's Christmas Time?'. Incase you don't know it we uploaded it for you all.




Thank you for reading all of the blogs over the year we had a lot of fun writing them and we hope you have a Merry Christmas!

5B's class assembly

On Friday 7th December 2012, class 5B did their Class Assembly all about Dr Barnado. It all started when the Finding a Hero theme tune played with the amazing dance group Two by Two performing. After, we went straight over to Steven Fry and Davina McCall the hosts of the new programme. They had a tie-break in the votes last week between Bob Geldof ( The man who held a fund-raising concert for poor children)and Severn Suzuki ( The girl who adressed the United Nations to ask them to save the planet). When the results of the votes came through Severn had won. We all had a look at her speech.

two by two dance group

After her 2 representatives from Lyndon Green Junior School came up to collect the awards and ipads, but instead of accepting them they refused them. They explained how true heroes like Severn don't want awards or prizes, just to know they made a difference in the world. They were taken off the stage by the people who brought on the prizes. They then welcomed on Bob Patterson who had nomminated the hero they were going to look at.When we met Bob, we found out that this hero helped him when he was a child.

 

Davina McCall

Dr Barnado was born on the 4th July 1845
When we saw him it was the year 1862 when he told his parents he wanted to go and be a missionary in China. When his parent's finally accepted that he wanted to go to  China, they let  him go to London to train to be a doctor. When he arrived in London, it was nothing like he had expected. It was full of dirt, sick people and street sellers. Then he met a doctor and a nurse, called Dr.Simmons and Nurse Jones and they taught him how to look after the poor, sick people.

We met one sufferer of the raging disease of Cholera. She was called Mary Jarvis mother of Jim Jarvis.They got sent to the workhouse where Mary died and Jim managed to escape. He went onto the streets of London and begged for food and money with his good friend Shrimps. Jim's talent was skipping, he and Shrimps skipped to this sort of music.

After a few of these happy months, a man caught him and sold him to a cruel master that treated him severely.

The master made Jim shovel coal into a hold of the boat and they would sail down and sell the coal to a big cargo ship and go back again. The master didn't pay Jim very much so he grew quite thin. After quite a few months, Jim made a plan to escape his work. He opened the hold of the ship and brought out some planks of wood, he then picked up a piece of rope and tied up the master's dog Snipe by the neck to a nearby post and stood in wait. When  the master came back from the ale house he was as drunk as a skunk as usual. He walked back home singing weirdly as he was drunk.              
Jim said good night and then the master fell into the trap Jim had set up, Jim covered up the trap with planks of wood and he ran for his life. He could hear Snipe barking but didn't look back. He decided to head back towards London.

When Jim arrived in London everything had changed, due to the Industrial Revolution many people had lost their homes. The outbreak of cholera forced many people onto the streets, Jim was forced onto the streets. he met a group of street children on the streets of London and asked if he could go and live with them. They said he could but attempted to stop him as they slept on rooftops and what a bad condition it was in. Jim went with them to the rooftops and met many people and joined them for many months. But the Cholera affected many people on the rooftops so many people died. It was a horrible sight for a young child which I'm sure you'll agree.

Dr Barnado was going out for a walk to try and campaign to get money to spend on the street children, but got caught by Nurse Jones. She called to Doctor Simmons.They decided they wouldn't be able to make a Doctor out of Dr Barnado, but he found it alright as he had a new goal in life, to help the street children lead a good life while they lived. He walked out onto the streets and bumped into Jim who was seated on the street. Dr Barnado gave Jim some money and told him to accompany him on his way to the Ragged Schools. When they got there  Jim was given a warm dinner and drink. Jim asked Doctor Barnado if he could help his friends as well as himself and Doctor Barnado, the teacher and two helpers went and brought the children to the Ragged Schools where the received free education and accommodation and warm food while they grew up. Dr Barnado went to public places and delivered speeches to rich people about the children. He was very persuasive and many people listening and donated money to him to help the children.

 Back at the studio, Davina, Steven and Bob were telling everyone about the work the charity Barnados do. They decided to sing a song for the charity instead of awarding it a prize. They sang Blowing in the wind with Katie Melua in the background.