Our day at the beach

Finding seaweed!

More seaweed

Building a moat

Digging

Burying Mr Swindell

Working as a team

Looking at shells

Making another castle

A bit of relaxing!

Getting wet in the cold sea

Adding finishing touches

The paddling pool

Digging another hole!

The Olympic Flame

On Thursday 12th July we walked down to see the Olympic flame come through Blandford. 

We were lucky with the weather and it only rained at the end! 

Have a look to see what we got up to! 

How do you get to go to the Olympics?

 As part of our topic we wanted to find out how you get to go to the Olympics.

We started by thinking about our dreams and aspirations and how we can reach them.

We then began to think about athletes and what their dreams are at an Olympic games.

 We divided in 4 Ancient city states and competed against our own team to decide who was the best of the best. These 2 athletes went onto represent their city state in the final.

It didn't seem fair when some of us couldn't compete but we thought about this after we had finished and decided that only the best of the best could go!

Art - Clay work and sculpture

One of our learning journey questions has been - Where did the Olympics come from? 

So, this week we have been finding out! 

We have started by finding Greece on a world map and then used information and books to help us create a 3D sculpture of Greece. We had to look at the atlas very carefully and we noticed that the brown areas were higher than the green areas. We worked hard at creating this in our sculptures by building up certain areas. 

We got very sticky and messy! 

We then started to think about why they held the Olympics and which Ancient Greek gods were important. We learnt about 4 of them and even interviewed them! 

Finally, this week we have been developing our clay skills and learning how to knead, roll and shape the clay. We have created faces of the Gods and we even learnt how to roll things like strands of hair and then attach them using water. 

Have a look!