Summer holidays!

I would like to say to all the children and parents that have very kindly bought me a present or given me a card over the past couple of days a HUGE thank you! It was very kind of you and I appreciate every single thank you and gift.

I also want to wish everyone a wonderful summer holidays and 6 1/2 weeks off! Have fun and enjoy the weather (it is going to be 30 degrees next week!) Don't forget you can still blog over the summer holidays. I will look forward to reading all about your summer!

See you in September and thanks for a great year!
Mr Santy

Busking day performance

Greek poem from Mr Santy on Vimeo.

Introducing:

Perseus - Georgia
Medusa - Lily
King Polydectes - Jack
Danae - Shannon
The Graeae - Amber, Benjamin and Lewis
The 2 gorgons - Callum and Gillian
Hermes - Josh
Athena - Eve

Readers - all of 5/4!

Some of our final animations

We were asked by Mr Santy to make an animation over 15 seconds long, using about 200-300 frames. Here are two of our clips: Callum's car journey to football practice

IMG 0543 from Mr Santy on Vimeo.

Reece's, Jack's and Max's robbery

IMG 0022 from Mr Santy on Vimeo.

Trial animations

We are been looking at animations in class and have used the iPads to create some short clips. We have used the app, iMotion to take photographs (frames) and then stitch them together, increasing the speed to 12 frames per second (as used in cartoons).

This is Benjamin's, Eren's and Harry's football clip:

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This is Shannon's and Gillian's shopping scene:

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This is Reece's and Max's Harry Potter/jail episode:

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This is Kieran M's and Alex's car crash:

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Websites being used in class

We have been using these websites in class.

Here they are for you to have a play:

Animations - Flick book
Greek myths - http://www.wingedsandals.com/
Division by chunking - Maths division using chunking

Our goldfish

Proudly presenting Bubble and Squeak. Bubble and Squeak have been with us since the beginning of the spring term. We all take turns feeding them. There is also a snail called Garry! Isn't that just the best name for a snail? We love our gold fish.

Art week in the 5/4 Deers

The children at Roydon Primary School have been involved in art week this week. To begin with we looked at Henri Matisse and tried to recreate some Matisse style paintings, mixing colours and using the correct brush strokes.

Within our maths lessons we learnt about tessellating shapes. We also experimented with tangrams.

Here are some of our repeating patterns and some of our tangram designs.

In class this week we have also designed clay medals. We have been learning about Ancient Greece and that the Olympics started in 776BC.

We have also learnt about the Greek gods and goddesses and when they have appeared in various Greek myths. Below are some of our paintings.

Visitors from Ancient Greece

 

We were treated to an afternoon with an Athenian woman and a Spartan man. We learnt a lot about the differences between the two sets of people. We asked our visitors many questions about their cultures and habits. These included:

• The lives the children had
• The lives the woman had
• The men's professions
• What they would have eaten
• How their homes may have been decorated

Perimeter investigations

 

 

The Minotaur's Maze...

We have begun reading some Greek myths. On Monday and Tuesday we have begun looking at Theseus and the Minotaur.

We learnt about The 7 men and 7 women that were sent from Athens to King Minos each year. These men and women were sent to stop the threat of war, and were food for the dreaded Minotaur... The Minotaur lived in a maze and was half man, half bull. He ate anything that dared to step foot in the maze.

We read that Theseus' father (King Aegeus) agreed to let Theseus travel to the maze to battle the Minotaur...

It was at this moment in the myth we stopped. Thinking carefully about Theseus' thoughts and feelings we wrote a paragraph from Theseus' point of view:

As I walked towards the maze I felt anxious and scared I thought that a calamity was about to happen. My heart was thumping as fast as a beating drum. I smelt stale blood and bull droppings I may have been scared but inside I was fearless.

BY SHARNA

As I walked towards the maze I felt terrified but I didn’t stop. I got deeper and deeper I smelt flesh and blood and herd the bellow of the Minotaur the man eating beast. There was a bone on the floor along with scratching of hooves.

                                             BY SHAUNA

As I walked towards the maze I was confident to kill the beast. In the maze it was dark and it smelt like the inside of a human body there was blood that covered the walls and I heard roars from the great beast as I got closer to the horrible beast I got more frightened.

                                                BY MAX

As I walked towards the maze I saw blood sprayed up the walls’ herd the Minotaur slurping up the last of the blood from the last person that entered the maze. Quite scared now I approached the Minotaur trying to defeat this horrible beast.

                                                  BY LILY

As I walked into the deserted filled maze I gagged from the rotten smell of flesh. I felt determine to kill this thing once and for all. I heard the roaring, I continued walking as I walked I stepped on some charred bones. But then I came face to face with the horrifying beast, I froze and I stopped

                                                  BY LARA

As I walked into the maze, I saw blood stains on the floor, brains rolling around like bowling balls and smashed spines dangling from the sealing heard roars and grunts and horns scraping down the walls, but I could not find the minotour.My blood ran cold ,thinking, “I am crazy to come down with this challenge” .I took my first step in feeling dizzy and sick shaking and terrified.

                                                  BY EVE G