Knighton Church in Wales Primary School
Caru Duw, Caru Pawb, Caru Dysgu
We have been busy designing our rollercoaster and have now started to build a start for our rollercoaster using spaghetti and marshmallows to hold a piece of track ‘ruler’ up. We had a very sticky but fun time and used this practice ready for the big build!
We wanted to establish which shape base was the strongest for skyscrapers. We decided to build models of skyscrapers using LEGO and K’nex and then use LEGO We Do to create an earthquake simulator. We placed the models on the simulator to test how robust they were. Unfortunately the models were either too heavy for the simulator to move or too tall to stand upright on the simulator! We tried it on the table and carpet in the hope that the amount of friction would help, it didn’t. One of our class members thought to attach a LEGO plate as a base for the models to stand on, this didn’t work either!
As part of our Mantle Topic ‘Skyscrapers,’ Aderyn Du have been planning a skyscraper to Build in Cardiff. We have been looking at different designs and structures and different ways they could be built. We explored a variety of structures by using spaghetti and marshmallows. As you can see from the pictures, some of our structures were unsuccessful, so we evaluated our designs and tried again. We discussed how we could improve our structures and how we could make them stronger and taller.
As part of our Mantle this term, Aderyn Du are designing new skyscrapers to be built in Cardiff. We went onto the field to measure the perimeter of our buildings and decided if we thought it was a suitable size. We then calculated the total area and perimeter of our skyscrapers.
Today we learned that our own names are special and God’s name is special too. Here you can see we have used our artistic skills to paint our names and God’s name.
Thank you to our Year Six representatives that visited John Beddoes to demonstrate how to use the drones from our cluster coding kit, while learning how to use the other pieces of coding equipment. You were stars!
We loved using different objects to add texture for the backgrounds of our Autumn silhouettes.
We are working on a small project to show other pupils in our cluster how to use drones. The pupils have decided to build models of skyscrapers, they will then put them out on a ‘map of the world’ and go on a ‘tour’ of the skyscrapers around the world, using the drones.
Following the Creation story, we painted our favourite thing that God created. Amazing paintings!