We're Willow Class! We're Year 3 and 4 at @BurghillCA.
Burghill, England
Joined September 2018
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Busy afternoon in Computing today 💻🎬 We’ve got children hacking HTML on Nat Geo Kids and changing the election page and we’ve got a director and film assistant recording weather reports using the green screen! Lots of lovely relationships being shown 🤩
In Computing, we are learning about HTML and how web designers use it to make websites. This afternoon, we remixed HTML to create our own monster wanted poster.
Lots of excitement and giggles listening to and meeting @mazevansauthor - in September, we will be reading Oh Mummy Mia! Lots of the children chose to buy her book ready for class novel time 📚📚@hayfestival
Rev. Phil has joined us this afternoon to discuss our learning about Pentecost. He kindly read the story of Pentecost from the New Testament and discussed how Christians celebrate Pentecost in church ⛪️🔔
In Geography, we are developing our atlas skills and identifying what countries certain foods grow in. We are then going to calculate the food miles these food would have to travel to get to shops in the UK!
In computing, we had a busy afternoon learning about how weather machines work. We designed our own weather stations and learnt how to use the micro:bits to make a thermometer to record the temperature inside and outside!
In PSHE this term we are looking at Economic Wellbeing. Today, Miss Way gave us a budget to spend at a shop to buy breakfast, lunch and dinner. It was much trickier than we thought and made us think how to budget our money effectively. 💰💷 we enjoyed using the calculators too!
Science week 🚀
After a fantastic trip to the National Space Centre in Leicester last week, this afternoon we celebrated our learning by presenting our science projects at the Fayre with Sycamore class.
In DT, the children made a paper template for their book cover designs. Next week we will be assembling and sewing our book covers 🪡🧵
A huge well done to the netball team! We’ve had a brilliant time and they played amazingly, growing in confidence every game!
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In Computing, we are learning about how to work collaboratively on online documents and presentations! We made some rules for working collaboratively so that we can work effectively together 💻👩💻🧑💻
In DT, we are learning about fastenings in textiles. We looked at our coats and identified the most common types of coat fastening and discussed pros and cons of each type!
Over the last couple of days, Willow class have been making sculptures using a variety of techniques to join shapes and objects.
As part of Children’s mental health week we learnt about ‘Growth Mindset’ with the help of our friend Mojo from @ClassDojo. We discussed how we can use growth mindset to help us when we face a challenge!
Willow class have been writing letters to each other this morning as part of Children’s Mental Health Week. The children loved reading the positive messages.
In Computing, we have been learning about the different components in computers and laptops. This week we were challenged to build a paper laptop!
In Geography, we’ve been learning about tectonic plates and how mountains are formed. We used atlas to locate different mountain ranges across the world!
Reindeer run for @StMichaelsHosp 2023 - a rather windy run with Santa this morning! Even Cooper joined in for a lap 🐶🎅🏼🎄
