Our topic this term is Seeds of Change.

Tolkien Class

P.E.

Please have your P.E. kit in school all week.  Our dedicated P.E. sessions are Monday and Thursday.  

Spellings 

Test 3rd May                                                  Test 10th May                         Test 17th May
 (RWI - Unit 10 il-                                                    (TOW)                                                     (TOW)
  revising un-, in-, mis-, and dis-.)
illogical                                                                          ordinary                                                 medicine
unkind                                                                           particular                                               mention
impatient                                                                     peculiar                                                   minute
disqualify                                                                     perhaps                                                   natural
illiterate                                                                        popular                                                   naughty
unclear                                                                          position                                                  notice
illegal                                                                              possess                                                   occasion
impractical                                                                  possession                                            occasionally
illegible                                                                         possible                                                   often
disobey                                                                          potatoes                                                 opposite

Growing our own!

Many of the children have planted seeds. 
They are going to nurture them over the time of our topic - let's see how many we can keep going strong!

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Chinese Tea Ceremony

Andy, a friend of Mrs Hartley, visited Tolkien to share in a Chinese tea ceremony.  He brought his special crockery and all the children shared in the rituals.  Andy brought a variety of tea and the children chose which one they wanted to try; one group were even brave enough to try the strong pu-erh tea! He also made Chinese dumplings for the whole class.  Andy steamed them in a bamboo steamer.

P.H.S.E.

In our P.H.S.E. sessions this term, we are exploring emotions.  We wrote down as many emotions that we could think of... but not before an impromptu dance to Pharrell Williams' track, Happy​!

Decoration Day

To begin our festivities at Christmas, we enjoy decoration day.  Parents and friends of school come in and help us get the festivities started with lots of crafts and fun!

DT

This half term we are making toys featuring a cam.  We have explored moving toys and we have made a prototype with different shaped cams.

Science

In science this term we have been exploring forces.  We have been learning about different types of forces and have been testing our predictions through experiments.  We have been thinking scientifically and writing up our experiments under the following headings: Apparatus (with diagram), Method, Results and Conclusion.

This week we have been continuing our topic by experimenting with levers, gears and pulleys.  We had fun playing tug of war and understood the difference in resistance once a pulley was introduced.  Below are pictures of our tug of war experiment - we had to be careful not to catch our fingers in the ropes!