We love the Autumn leaves.
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Fun in the water!
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Knighton Church in Wales Primary School
Caru Duw, Caru Pawb, Caru Dysgu
We worked with Mr Meredith, looking at a piece of art work by Romola Parish, called ‘Wilderness’
We discussed how the image made us feel and then tried to answer the following questions:-
Where are you standing in relation to the picture? Are you in it, or an observer, watching what is going on?
Which do you relate to- the bird or the sheep? Can you think why you feel more like one, or less like the other?
We wanted to establish which shape base was the strongest for skyscrapers. We decided to build models of skyscrapers using LEGO and K’nex and then use LEGO We Do to create an earthquake simulator. We placed the models on the simulator to test how robust they were. Unfortunately the models were either too heavy for the simulator to move or too tall to stand upright on the simulator! We tried it on the table and carpet in the hope that the amount of friction would help, it didn’t. One of our class members thought to attach a LEGO plate as a base for the models to stand on, this didn’t work either!
If the school is closed for a day (or more) due to inclement weather, please complete some of these activities!
If it is due to snow we would also love to see some photos uploaded to your Hwb accounts to show us what you have been busy at!
As part of our Mantle Topic ‘Skyscrapers,’ Aderyn Du have been planning a skyscraper to Build in Cardiff. We have been looking at different designs and structures and different ways they could be built. We explored a variety of structures by using spaghetti and marshmallows. As you can see from the pictures, some of our structures were unsuccessful, so we evaluated our designs and tried again. We discussed how we could improve our structures and how we could make them stronger and taller.
As part of our mantle, we decided to pick some possible plots to build our rollercoaster on and decided that Bryny would be the most suitable because it was flat, big and had a car park near by. We then went over to Bryny and measured the area and perimeter using trundle wheels and drones to help measure accurately.