Giraffes@taddy

Giraffes have continued their work on the stages of growth and development in humans . This week, they were focusing on changes in old age.  We talked about what we thought we knew about changes in old age, bringing in some prior knowledge of older people that we know. After looking at the facts, we realised that some of out initial ideas weren't quite right.  We decided to make posters to inform people of the things they can do to help them stay healthy in later life.  One of the things we can do now is to look after our teeth, so hopefully we will still have them all our life.   Using Canva, we combined text and images to create our posters. 

  On Monday, Leopards and Giraffes had a go at re-enacting the day of the ancient Egyptian Queen's funeral. They imagined they had entered the tomb for the first time and that they had to sacrifice themselves to join her in the afterlife.     

Having finished reading the Sleeper and the Spindle, by  Neil Gaiman, Giraffes have been inspired to plan a sequel as the queen goes off on her next adventure. Show don't tell They have thought carefully about how the want to portray each character to the reader , so after deciding their characteristics, they have considered how the character would behave towards others and how they would speak. Dynamic dialogue Knowing that dialogue should be only be used to show character or move the action on , they have been considering carefully what their characters might say to create dynamic dialogue with no boring bits!   Magical tales Inspired by other fairy tales, they plan to include dragons, goblins, enchanted forests as well as links to other fairy tales - with their own twist to create their own magical tales.  Fantastic first drafts started...  I can't wait to find out what happens next.

  Year 5 have been working on multiplying fractions and happily solving one step problems.  Next, we had to tackle some tricky fractions problems with more than one step. Here is an example: W e used  bar models , which helped us to 'see' the problem.  This made them much easier to solve.

Report by children in Y5  Models by children Reception to Y6 Lego club is a great club and I run it with my friends. We make different  things like a cat or a dog by using our imagination in different ways. If you enjoy playing with Lego this is the perfect club for you. Every week, on Thursday, after you have  eaten your lunch, then we do Lego club. (reported by H Y5) Garden with penguins Ocean and the swamp Lego is fun to use and make new things by just using your imagination and a bit of Lego. All the Y6s made a hotel/house for each of them, so they had their own rooms. 2 Y5s made the biomes from Minecraft each with different animals. They used different characters from Lego friends and pretended they were in Minecraft.   (reported by N Y5) Tropical island Ender dragon Lego club is a great club, and your imagination can be used in your Lego builds. There is a lot of builds you can make. Let your imagination run wild. Lego club lets you be a creative and imaginative person. Lego club

Giraffes have been busy writing in role as part of their work on The Sleeper and the Spindle. As estate agents, we wrote adverts for the castle in the Forest of Acaire using noun phrases, prepositions and persuasive language. In role as the queen, we considered whether to return home to get married to the Prince, or to carry on with another adventure. Unfortunately for the Prince, the decision was not in his favour! We are writing letters to explain the decision using formal language, passive voice and the subjunctive.

  On Monday, the juniors built pyramids using different materials such as clay, lego, paper, magnets and jenga blocks as part of their topic on Ancient Egyptians. 

The juniors were learning about Christian wedding ceremonies and the promises which we make during a wedding. In order to have a real understanding we held our own ceremony.