Ice Cube 2014!

Headingly Cricket Ground

We begin the day in a huge sports hall (which was very expensive according to our coach) where we played a series of cricket skills games, before playing a final session of non-stop cricket.





After our cricket practice, we crossed the street to the main cricket ground and were taken up to the VIP area (!) where we got a wonderful view of the ground. Here we were given a lecture about the history of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club which we were told we would be tested on later.

Before the main quiz, people who answered questions correctly were awarded a massive cricket shirt to wear for the rest of the session. They were so big you could even curtsy with them as shown above!

All prepared to have a leather cricket ball hurtled towards you at almost 100 mph?!



Ah... that's more like it! After being shown the cricket safety wear, we had our quiz which involved cool interactive hand-held gismos. There are no photographs of this though as staff were also invited to take part in the quiz and every second counted - sorry!



We were lucky enough to see a machine which fires cricket balls at around 95 mph, just like the best bowlers in the world currently. The machine could be adjusted to affect speed, bounce and so on, enabling varied batting practice.

Finally we got to go inside the Carnegie Pavillion (which we learned cost 23 million pounds to build) where we were fortunate enough to go into the incredible room for journalists which also doubles as a lecture hall for Leeds Metropolitan University.

After that there was just time to check out the away team's changing room, which we were told was vastly inferior to the home team's in order to give a psychological edge over the opponent.

It was a fascinating day out, full of variety and the behaviour of all of the pupils was nothing short of excellent all day. Well done Class 4!

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ~ Class 2

Class 2 present their autumn term production photographs of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We hope you enjoy looking at them.

 

The fantastic narrators Rosie and Oliver.

 

 

Mr Willy Wonka. The eccentric owner of the Wonka chocolate factory and the most renowned candy maker in the world.

 

 

Charlie Bucket with his Grandparents Grandpa Joe and Grandma Georgina. The Bucket family are very poor and undernourished  but they are a hard working, kind and loving family. Charlie Bucket must walk past Mr Wonka's factory every day on his way to school and smell the tantalizing smell of chocolate as his stomach grumbles!

 

 

 Veruca Salt. She demands anything she wants and throws tantrums until her parents meet her demands. She is a mean and spoilt girl.

 

 

Mike Teavee- the boy who only cares for television. The more guns and violence on a show the more Mike likes it. At the factory he wants nothing more than to check out the chocolate television room.

 

 

Violet Beauregarde- an avid gum chewer. At the factory her gum chewing antics becomes her downfall when she grabs an experimental piece of gum and turns into a giant blueberry!

 

 

Augustina Gloop and Mrs Gloop. She is a fat girl who loves nothing but eating. She suffers for her greed in the factory as she falls into the chocolate river and is sucked up by one of the super pipes!

 

 

 

 

The Oompa-Loompas- fun loving dwarves from Loompaland. They enjoy dancing and beating drums and singing songs about what happens to bad children.

Everyone in class 2 wishes you a very happy Christmas and best wishes for 2014.

 

 

 

 

All Fired Up!

Sam, the potter, returned with our fired artefacts today. We were thrilled to see the finished pieces. Sam assured us that if we looked after them carefully they should last 3,000 years - just like the Ancient Egyptian artefacts we used as our inspiration!

Abbey House Museum ~ Class 2

On Wednesday Class 2 visited the Abbey House Museum in Kirkstall to find out about toys from the past.

 

 

We did a workshop that helped us to think about old and new toys. We looked carefully at different toys and sorted them into old and new. We knew one of the bears was old because it was threadbear and  faded. We found out that the old bear was filled with wood chippings and had eyes made of glass. The new bear was fluffy and colourful and its eyes were made of plastic. We also noticed that it still had a label on it which was a clue that it was a new bear.

 

 

 

We found out that many Victorian children would only have one or two toys and that they might have been homemade. Many old toys are made of wood, tin or fabric and have no batteries or switches.

 



 

To make toys move Victorian children would have to pull and push like this pop up dolly..

 





or press a button like this pecking chicken. The toys we played with may look old but actually they were replicas of old toys. This means they are new toys made to look old. We saw many old toys in the museum but we were not allowed to play with them as they are too delicate and might easily be broken.

 

 

We visited the Victorian street and spent some time in the chapel where Victorian children would have attended Sunday School. The desks were very small and had ink wells. All the children sat in rows and faced the front. Class 2 enjoyed playing at being the teacher, they were very stern though!



Arty artefacts!

 As part of our Egyptian work, Class 3 have been lucky enough to work with Sam the Potter to create our own 'ancient' artefacts. The whole class had the opportunity to make a piece.

"It was difficult to work with the clay, but lots of fun," said Billie.

"I can't wait to see my clay after it has been fired," said Jemima.

How do we know so much about the ancient Egyptians? One of the ways that we find out about the past is through the objects that they left behind. The Egyptians made many artefacts out of clay. We can find out a lot about their lives and beliefs from studying these objects.

Warburtons Bread Making Day ~ Class 2

Class 2 had a visit from the Warburtons bakery.

 

First we had to wash our hands carefully with soap, then we put on an apron and wore a hair net to protect the bread from germs.We had to prepare the tables to make sure everything was hygenic.

 

We wrote our names on a piece of paper so we would know which bread was ours.

 



The bread dough was made from flour, water, salt, vegatable oil and a special ingredient called yeast that makes the bread rise.

 

  We had to knead the bread for ten minutes. It was hard work. We used some flour to stop the dough sticking to the table!

  

 

 

We made shapes from our dough. Jasmine has made a hedgehog and used scissors to create the spikes in its back. She has used raisins for the eyes and nose.  

 

 

 

We put our bread onto trays ready to go into the oven.

 

 

 

 

We tidied away and cleaned the aprons and the tables.

 

 

We tasted different types of bread including milk loaf, wholemeal bread and fruit bread. It was all delicious.  

       

We completed some leaflets about healthy eating.

 

 

We had lots of fun on our bread day and hope you enjoyed looking at our blog.