This afternoon we enjoyed sharing our World awareness week experiences with each other. All of the children visited the other classes and got to see what they had been learning about.
Month: October 2013
Busy again
There are still lots of fantastic events happening this week, and great smells wafting along the corridors!
Lots of cooking for world awareness
Many classes have been busy cooking and eating today!
Able Writers Workshop with Marcus Alexander
Gastrells hosted another super writing workshop today, this time lead by writer Marcus Alexander. Ten schools came to visit to find out about Marcus’s books and writing style, and found that not all writers spend their days sat at a computer…
As an athlete, cage fighter and free-runner, Marcus helped to expel the stereotypes about what authors look and sound like. The children enjoyed hearing about his travels and some of the unusual things he has eaten around the world!
Thanks to Marcus for inspiring the children, and to all of the children for working really hard to produce some super writing.
World Awareness Week
Gastrells children have continued to develop their knowledge and understanding of the world in a variety of different ways.
Around the World
Gastrells pupils have been travelling around the world with some of their activities.
Have a look at what they have been doing, and see if you can guess where they are.
Gloucestershire Fire Service
The Children in Ospreys welcomed Gloucestershire Fire Service in to Gastrells this morning. They enjoyed learning about how the equipment used to fight fires today is very different to that of a long time ago. The children even taught the fire fighters a thing or two about the famous ‘The Great Fire of London’.
Here they are in action
Bad Habits?
Sparrowhawks and Goshawks have been to Gloucester Cathedral, learning about the Tudors. This included rubbings, looking at the stained glass and dressing up as monks.
We All Join In!
The Peregrines have been inspired by Quentin Blake’s book, All Join In. We we specially liked Ferdinand’s chocolate fudge banana cake, and so we decided to make one of our own.
The children had to ‘all join in’ to read the recipe, crush, mix, whisk, spread and slice to create our own version of the pudding.
Then we all joined in to eat it!
Learning new art techniques
The Infant Art Club have been learning about wax resist this week. The children drew fish, seaweed and wave shapes using wax crayons before painting over their picture with watercolour paints. We found that the paint would not stick to the crayon, so their wax markings showed up through the painted water.
