Those of you who’ve been enjoying (or even those of you who missed them first time round) the RI Christmas lectures might like to know that they are available to watch again on the RI website alongside other recent RI Christmas lecture seasons:
http://richannel.org/christmas-lectures
Posted in Science
Not long now…….
See where Santa is on his way round the world by following him on the NORAD Santa website:
Posted in Christmas
For those of you who are dreaming of a White Christmas and wondering what chance you have of waking up on Christmas morning to a blanket of the white stuff, here is a link to the Met Office infographic about previous White Christmases:
http://metofficenews.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/infographic-how-often-has-it-been-a-white-christmas/
Don’t forget the House art competition over Christmas. Based on the Olympic ideals, your work should be inspired by one of these five words:
RESPECT
COURAGE
FRIENDSHIP
EXCELLENCE
DETERMINATION
Draw, paint, build, make, photograph, animate or sculpt a work in 2D, 3D or 4D!
Bring your work to school the week we come back after the Christmas holidays.
Good luck.
Posted in Art, Design and Technology, Olympics
Today Year 5 came to school and spent the morning working as Tudor apprentices, learning a range of crafts including soap-making, Blackwork embroidery, candle-making, miniature painting, calligraphy and bread-making.
In the afternoon we celebrated with a Tudor Christmas feast, with the children providing the entertainment as jesters, jugglers, dancers and actors.
Olivia made a Powerpoint presentation based on some of the things we were learning for our Remembrance Day Assembly last month:
Posted in Assembly, History, Remembrance
We did some speed writing this morning. Can you guess where we are describing?
I saw the gold, magnificent ornament crosses. The crowd was bustling like termites trying to make a nest. I could hear lots of languages, like American, Australian, Japanese, Chinese. The sun burnt my back as the hot rays touched my skin. (Alice)
The warm, golden sun was behind me and urged me to take my cardigan off. I can hear a Chinese man shouting impatiently and soldiers are telling him to “Shut up”. I glance up at the monster and admire its strong marble pillars And glass windows with platinum frames. The golden fence is as shiny as the moon. For some reason it reminds me of Italy – oh how I do miss my home country. I can now smell a cigar on the floor. A guard commands me to put it in the bin. All the way in London everyone is so excited!!! (Alfie)
It is a huge place, with huge oak tree wooden doors with about a thousand windows glittering in the sunlight. Everyone is talking loudly and is bustling about. You can hear babys crying loudly and tourists snapping away wildly on their cameras. Half the people I can hear don’t even talk English. I can hear Spanish, French, American, German, Japanese, Chinese and Polish. Around the edge of the building, which was as tall as about six giraffes was a gate with little golden statues. Suddenly the crowd gasped as we saw the Queen standing on the top of the balcony. Everyone cheers and then she goes quickly. I can hear the soldiers stamping their feet. (Isabelle)
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Henry VIII is having an important visitor, King Francis I of France, coming to dine at Hampton Court Palace. King Henry needs you to draw up a menu for the banquet that he is giving:
• What food will you serve?
• What drinks will you serve?
• What sort of meats would you serve for the main course?
• Which part of the animal would you serve? Trotters? Tongue? Ears? Wings? Rump? Shoulder?
• How would it be cooked? Roasted? Boiled? Baked? Stewed?
• What would you serve with the meats?
• What desserts would you serve?
Use the internet and books to produce a menu for an authentic Tudor banquet. (Level 3 – find answers using sources of information/show knowledge of main periods studied).
If you are really interested in this topic, perhaps you might like to research Tudor food and ingredients to make a Tudor recipe book or fact file (Level 4 Point out changes within and across periods of time/give reasons for change/select and combine information from different sources):
How does Tudor food differ from modern cooking? What common modern ingredients did they not have access to? What did they use instead? Were there any curious customs involving food? Where did the ingredients come from? How would Henry’s food differ from what a poor person would eat?
Perhaps you may even want to cook a Tudor recipe. Photograph the result and include this in your project together with any comments about how it tastes. For those who are really keen to see it first hand, Hampton Court has live cookery demonstrations 27 December – 2nd January: http://www.hrp.org.uk/HamptonCourtPalace/WhatsOn/tudorcookery
You will have the opportunity to attend a Tudor banquet on December 13th as part of Tudor Day. You may present your project as an ICT presentation, a podcast, a cookery programme on video or on paper. Some of the best presentations may be uploaded on the @mountsbridgewater blog page.
Lots of books have sections on Tudor food, including Terry Deary’s ‘Terrible Tudors’. Internet links can be found on the right hand side of this page under Tudor Food.
For those who would prefer not to have to work over the holidays, you may hand your work in before the Christmas holiday if you wish. The king has requested that you provide him with your sample menus by Friday 6th January 2012.
The penalty for those who do not hand in their project on time!
On Friday we extended some more simple sentences into more imaginative creations:
“The cat walked down the road” and “The man looked at some stuff in the window” became:
In the darkness of the mist, an old unloved tabby cat came creeping along the pebbly, narrow road – Phoebe
Drenched and abandoned, a shrivelled-up, scratched and scared tabby cat limped precariously down the bombarded dirt track – Emily.
“I didn’t know that it smelt so bad around here,” thought the tatty ginger cat as he strolled down the dusty, damp road, which really did stink because there were dustbins filled with mouldy banana skins and half eaten rotten apple cores – Isabelle.
The chubby man stood looking gormlessly at the model of a beautiful orange Bugatti Veyron Super Sport in Toys R Us – James.
Rumble, rumble went the cat’s lime green tank as he tore down the road, crushing cats that walked across it – Zachary
Tonight the open evening took place for prospective parents and children. We built a Tudor model village from the year 1565 which we called Bridgehamsted. The village has a forest on the outskirts, a fishpond and even a communal dung heap. Thanks to Phoebe, Phoebe, Angus, Emily, Jamie and Alice plus all the Year 4s who helped.
Posted in History, Open evening, Parents, Tudors
I gulped. The frosty sea air whipped in my face like a gladiator forcing his horse to go faster.
Alfie
Posted in English
