History
Welcome to the history blog
This Blog has been started following the teaching of a Local History Project last year, in which many of the children became actively interested in History and finding out more about their local community. Initially, their investigation was into the origins of the village as found in the Doomsday book, local war heroes and possible family connections to the war, but then took a sudden turn when a local family knocked down a garage and discovered some old bottles which local historian/archivist Rosmarie Gant was able to identify as indigestion bottles. In response to the children's continued enthusiam we have created this blog and the attached virtual museum where the children's finds will all be catalogued by the children who will receive training in a lunchtime history club open to all that wish to join . At the momemt it is restricted to four children that will later be the club Ambassadors and train future children.
This week in Lowry Class budding archaeologists have been sharing their finds from the Easter break.
There have been some amazing items and I am really pleased to see how involved the other children are in the debate surrounding possible origins and uses of items.
'Today Xander brought in a tip of a spear, kind of thing. we have five things it could be a top of a fence, something to keep pigeons away, bayonet.' Harry KF
This week, there has been much excitement in Potter Class, as children in Reception brought the Fire of London to life in Forest School. First, the children made a bakery and placed a 'loaf' inside. Next, Mrs Bicknell set light to it! The children then watched as the fire quickly took hold. After that, the children knew just what to do and organised themselves (with a bit of help from adults!) into a line which stretched from the pond (Thames) to the fire (Bakery in Pudding Lane) armed with buckets of water which they quickly and sensibly passed from one to another.
Lots of fun was had by everyone and the fire safely put out. Hurrah for Reception!
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Fri 8th Dec
Last few weeks of term!
Well, we've nearly made it to the end of another terrific term: the Christmas Tree is up in class; the Newton Orchestra is rehearsing well for playing in the Carol Concert on the last afternoon of school before we break up for the festive season; and we've been flying around the world with the MAF Advent Calendar. You can do this at home too if you'd like. https://gb.mafadvent.org/ The user name is ChrishallAdvent and the pass word is Advent.
Experience Outcome
Thank you to every who joined is for the first part of our experience outcome this term. It was great to see so many come along to our artefact exhibition last week. The Kingdom of Benin has been a new learing area for us at Chrishall and has real engaged the children in its cultural, historical and political facets.
Next week, we'll be starting the second half of our experince outcome to write an animal creation picture for the children's YR and Y1 buddies. Excited is a bit of an understatement. Mrs Crooks and Mrs Stratton are really looking forward to reading these too!
Santa Fun-Fit Camp
Thank to our four sports leaders for organising a morning of fun and fitness activties for the whole school. They invented theyir own games, orgniases the resources needed and lead some great sessions for all the classes. Well done girls. Ten children also went to Lord Butler Leisure Centre to compete in the next round of the Dodgeball Tournament.Mrs Hill fedback on their sporting behaviour and honesty in the face of some tough competition.
Science: Light
Last week in science, we learned that light travels in straight lines. We deduced that this must be physics as it was about how thing travel (or don't travel). This week we looked out how we can "bend" light using two mirrors and build our own periscopes. Some children also got to crerate their own optical illusion spinners by creating coloured discs and a double thread to spin them as farst as possible. Handly, the spinners also double up a great tree baubles too! Here is an experiment to try at home if you have a mirror and a reasonable powerful torch with a narrow beam to explore rays of incidence and rays of reflection. The protractor is optional. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp-4CIqORQs. We couldn't get the class room dark enough to do this successfully this week.