Can you spot who is in the classroom?

The senior half of school explored a short story called Blaze.

We investigated a drama box first, and explored how these items may have been used by the characters in the story.

The children created their own alternative endings for the tale and their own books covers and new blurbs to reflect their new endings.

The children made ‘jiggers’ inspired by the coastal landscape which was the setting of the story.

On the jiggers, the children taped or tied on questions they used when discussing their work.

They used closed, open, rhetorical and leading questions over the course of their work.

The children tried to persuade one another as the work developed in drama.

We’ve made crosses, as always.

What skill we’ve seen this year!

Fr Eustace will bless them and then they’ll make their way home to you!

We made a wall display for St Brigid, inspired by the Celtic Goddess Imbolc, and designed her hair using over-printing of found objects, combing, masking-out and stencil prints of our own design.

We created clay kerbstones and incised patters inspired by the kerbstones at Newgrange.

We mixed our paint and created the various tones to paint our designs.

When dried, we covered them with a layer of PVA glue to create a shine.

We wrapped them and printed our paper bags to gift at home!

We explored some of the Oide’s exemplars in the Maths Curriculum and measured some paper plane flights!

We debated what to use to measure, and had a go!

We also explored HEAT!

We examined how we could keep Santa’s hot chocolate hot!

We used very hot water, our thermometers and various materials to see how long we could insulate our cups!