18.10.15 Visit to city museum and flying saucers pottery workshop

Year 6 enjoyed a fantastic visit to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery and also had the opportunity to paint the willow pattern they have been studying onto ceramic plates.  As well as having a variety of European and Eastern ceramics, the museum hosts a wide range of different galleries including the natural world, fossils, art and the ancient Egyptians.
After half term the fired plates will be return to school ready for the pupils to take home!

12.10.15 Designing our willow pattern plates

On the 19th October

Year 6 will be painting a plate in the style of  'Willow Pattern' ceramics.  We are focusing on the Willow Pattern as, although an English pattern, it is heavily influenced by Ancient Chinese patterns, which links to our topic.  In preparation for the trip each pupil in Year 6 has designed a pattern on a paper plate.  This will save time on the day so we focus on getting the design painted onto a ceramic plate.  The Year 6s will be able to take their real plate home, once it has been fired (heated to a high temperature in a special oven called a kiln).  Firing the plate will make it stronger and 'fix' the painted deign in place meaning it can be used like a normal plate.

Chess 8.10.15

Year 6 started The Chess in Schools Project.  This will help develop many skills including strategic thinking, reasoning and team work.  Our Chess master is called Chris, he will be coming in every Thursday afternoon for the whole year.

National Poetry Day. Visit to Waterstone's 8.10.15

To celebrate National Poetry Day, Year 6 visited Waterstone's bookshop in the Galleries, Bristol.  Once there each pupil randomly chose two nouns, a verb and a descriptive word (either an adjective or adverb).  After that, the words needed to be arranged to make a grammatically correct, descriptive sentence.  In order that it made sense, there were also determiners, conjunctives and suffixes/prefixes that could be used.  The lines created will be used as a starting point for a poem which will be displayed on bunting around the bookshop this weekend.
Thank you Miss Davies for organising the visit!

Paul Cookson (Poet) visit 29.9.15

We had a fantastic time writing and performing funny poems with published poet Paul Cookson:
http://www.paulcooksonpoet.co.uk/