This week the Dragons took a time-travelling trip to the Tudor Age at Sulgrave Manor. They learnt about how the Tudors lived; how they dressed, ate, slept, cooked, wrote and danced. The dragons got to dress in Tudor clothes, write their names with Tudor pens in Tudor-styled letters, and learnt dance moves in Tudor style!

The guides were very complimentary about the Dragons in regard to their listening skills and shapes on the dance floor!

In class, the Dragons have finished their miniature portraits in the clay frames that they made last week.

The Wizards

This week, Wizards have continued writing their diary entries in English about life for children during the industrial revolution. 

As part of our RE, the children have been looking at world faiths, including the Jewish festival of Hanukkah and the Hindu and Sikh festival Diwali. The children have drawn a storyboard of the Rama and Sita story to help them to retell the story verbally. They have also been looking at the Christmas Story through our readings for the Nativity next week. 

Our layered portraits (in the style of Mike Barrett) are now complete. The finishing touches included blending the portrait with the background as well as adding some ink quotes and pictures from the era. The children really enjoyed the process, which included watching each part on video before they continued with their artwork. 

In DT, the children are making Christmas decorations to hang on their trees at home: these have been created using different stitching techniques with the support of Mrs. Attwood, our resident expert!

In PE, the children put all their netball skills into practice by playing matches, focusing on footwork, different types of passes and shooting skills. 

Finally, thank you to all those parents who came to watch the brass assembly: the children worked really hard this term and did a magnificent job of playing jingle bells in two parts. Another busy week for the Wizards! 

The Shire

In the Shire, the Elves, Griffins and Pixies have been busy rehearsing for the Nativity next week. Elves and Griffins continued making Christmas cards and stars, also focusing on phonics and spelling tests. They have been busy with data handling, taking surveys of favourite ice cream flavours and the most popular Beatrix Potter character, which had interesting presentation of character attributes and result interpretations!

The Pixies have been learning about shapes and went on a shape hunt around the school and in cooking they iced some Christmas biscuits.