Year 4 – Year 6 attended the Presteigne Netball Festival this week. We had a brilliant day participating in, and spectating games with learners across the cluster. Learners demonstrated excellent progress in both confidence, and skill.
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Coding
Dosbarth Miss Burgoyne have been enjoying learning about coding this week. The learners have created sequences of instructions so that they can think creatively and solve problems. They have engaged within a variety of coding activities. Some of these have included practising different directions outside, exploring algorithms using practical activities where the learners were required to follow their partners instructions to perform given tasks and exploring how to retell the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ through directing the Bee-Bot and using J2Code on the computers.
Three Little Pigs House
The learners in Dosbarth Miss Burgoyne have been applying their knowledge and understanding of materials and their properties to independently make their own strong houses for the ‘Three Little Pigs’ to live in. The learners thought carefully about the features of their houses, the materials they used and why, and they talked about what materials they would use if they were going to make a real house, giving reasons for these. The learners have all worked particularly hard and have constructed some amazing houses to confidently talk about. Bendigedig Dosbarth Miss Burgoyne!
Biscuit Houses
Three Little Pigs
Dosbarth Miss Burgoyne have used their knowledge and understanding of materials and their properties gained from their previous Science and Technology lessons, to work in small groups to find โgoodโ and โbadโ materials for building a house with (a real house or a strong toy house). The learners talked about the reasons for their choices and shared these with their peers.
We read the story of the โThree Little Pigsโ and tested the three materials the pigs used to find out whether they were โgoodโ or โbadโ choices to build a house with and why. To finish off, the learners then sorted some more materials, such as concrete, slate and wool, working within groups.
Harvest Festival
Diolch! Thank you!
Thank you to all our parents who joined us this week to celebrate our Harvest Festival. We are very proud of our learners, up on stage for the first time this year…For some, the first time ever!
Huge thank you to all the donations towards the food bank. Upcoming post to detail more about that!
Properties of Paper
Building Site
Dosbarth Miss Burgoyne have been busy on the building site during their own planning time. The learners have made some amazing structures using their imagination, such as tunnels, bungalows, aeroplanes and cars. The learners have also shown great team work when working together to construct these. Well done Dosbarth Miss Burgoyne!