Miss Mulligan's Class

Mrs Frankland, Miss Mulligan & Miss Walker

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A message from Mrs Frankland

Message for Miss Mulligan's class - 24.1.21

Hi Everyone!

Another week has passed and I've been so impressed with the learning most of you have been doing! The chocolate bars that you have designed sound delicious and your adverts are definitely very ice catching - I would be persuaded to buy your chocolate bar.

It was lovely to see a couple of you on our Zoom story last Wednesday and I really hope to see some more of you this Friday (I have sent a Zoom invitation to the adults at home). If you couldn't make the Zoom story on Wednesday we read a story called Supertato, it was about some evil peas overtaking a supermarket. Supertato and his vegetable friends (the veggie heroes). I challenged the children that heard the story to make a vegetable superhero (complete with cape and underpants over their tights if you want!) so if you would like to have a go at making your own veggie superhero, I would love to see them!

Keep being those persistent learners and having a go at the home learning each week, even if you can only do a couple of pieces of learning each day, that is a great start and well done to those children that are doing even more than that!

Keep washing your hands and stay safe!

Love

Miss Mulligan, Mrs Frankland and Miss Walker

Our Viking Picnic

Here are some pictures of our Viking picnic. We made our own Viking bread and porridge and also had, ham, cheese, tomatoes, fruit and Skyr yogurt!

English

We have been studying Viking Boy this term, using it as a basis for our suspense and action writing. We have been exploring what atmosphere in the text and how we can use the setting, adjectives, powerful verbs, our senses and dialogue to create an atmosphere. We have turned our favourite part of Viking boy into a play script and have written a diary entry as a Viking boy/girl.

Maths

We have been practising lots of number work in class including adding, subtracting. multiplication, and division. We have also started to measure length and mass and explore the properties of 2D and 3D shapes.

Science

WE LOVE SCIENCE IN OUR CLASS!

We are exploring reversible and irreversible changes in Science this term. So far we have explored how salt makes ice melt quicker as it lowers the melting point and how to make a solution of salt and water and how, when the water evaporates it leaves the salt behind. We learnt that the Vikings used sphagnum moss in their version of a nappy so we have tested how absorbent a sphagnum moss nappy is compared to a modern day nappy which has polymer crystals to absorb the water. Although the Sphagnum moss absorbed more water than we predicted, it was no match for the modern day nappy that held an amazing 320ml of water without leaking.

We will be doing PE on a Thursday this term.

Black History Month

We have been exploring Black History Month, what it is and why we celebrate it. We have been looking at lots of inspirational people of colour like:

Nelson Mandela

Jessie Owens

John Blanke

Martin Luther King Jr

Rosa Parks

Marcus Rashford

Diversity

Dave

We have written our very own 'I have a dream' speech modelled on Martin Luther King Jr's speech in 1963 (please see below).

We also explored the poem 'Invictus' which Nelson Mandela recited to himself whilst in prison on Robben Island. We looked at how reciting the poem allowed him to be 'free' for a few moments even though he wasn't physically free. We then wrote about Freedom in which ever way we wanted (also see below).