Celebrating who we are
As part of our Local History Week, we interviewed our families; asking them questions about how and when they moved to Hackney, what they like and dislike about Hackney and what makes Hackney special. Following on from our family interviews we had a go at drawing maps of Hackney and discussed what we think makes Hackney a special place. We also got very busy painting our flags and creating art pieces inspired by local Hackney artists Gilbert & George.
We used Bee Bots to learn about Road Safety. We discussed ways of being visible when travelling in the dark. We also had a look at different road signs, crossings and the use of traffic lights for pedestrians. We made sure our Bee Bot remained safe on the streets!
In PSHE, we talked about who our community heroes are and when we might seek help from them. We discussed who we would go to in an emergency by looking at different roles in the community. Have a look at our puppets of some of our community heroes…
We used photographs we took on our Monument trip to create presentations on KeyNote. We added transitions and voice notes using the keynote app.
We went on a trip to Monument to see where the Great Fire of London started. We walked along Pudding Lane and saw the River Thames. We took photos on our iPads to document the trip.
We launched our first topic: The Great Fire of London, by getting creative. We designed and built Tudor houses using cardboard boxes and paper. We decorated our houses using strips of ribbons for the windows and doors. As a class, we had a good think about the materials that we were using to make our houses as close to real Tudor houses as possible. We were so proud of the outcome!
We had a visit from Hackney Archives where we learnt about Hackney in the past and how it has changed.
We have been learning about all the different cultures in hackney and where we are all from and how that has created a diverse community. We made our own flags to represent the countries of our class.
16 different countries!
This term our topic is focusing on our local area and we will compare our area with an African Country where we will be thinking about similarities and differences between the two places.
Identifying the continents and oceans on a map using an atlas. Finding England and London on a map of the UK. Using an atlas to label a world map - continents and oceans
Climate zones, locating hot and cold places in relation to the Equator and Poles. The closer you are to the Equator the _________ it gets. The further away from the Equator and closer to the Poles you get the ________ it gets.
Identify landmarks on a Map following on from our trip around our local area we then used locational language to describe and find human features.
This week we designed made and evaluated our own toy cars. We had lots of fun working together to create our transport models. We had even more fun playing with them and guess what they all worked.
Today we learnt about Vikings and how many many years ago they used to travel far and wide using Longboats. We thought about the reasons why they travelled and why they travelled so far. We then made our own Viking Longboats
We carefully looked at our chosen mode of transport, then we drew them on paper, carefully looking at shape, colour and pattern. I think that Willow class did a brilliant job.
As part of our transport topic we wanted to do some observational drawings of different types of transport. This morning how lucky was it that John Yusuf Tania and Mrs Barry decided to park in our playground instead of the staff carpet so we went out to compete our observational drawings!!
Today as part of our transport topic we completed a traffic survey. We did this using a tally chart, using the data collected we then made our own Bar Charts to represent what we had found out.
Designing and Making Clay Transport Models
Making models using construction toys
We visited the National Portrait Gallery to see the only portrait of Mary Seacole and to see some of the portraits of Florence Nightingale nursing at Scutari Hospital
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