Dosbarth Helygen - Mrs Smith
Croeso i Dosbarth
Helygen!
Spring Term 2025
Please scroll down to see some of our work from this term!
Our ‘Big Idea’ for this term is
‘Let’s Explore!’
To launch our new topic, we discussed and shared our ideas and sorted them into the six areas of learning.
Here is our shared planning:
Some of our fantastic topic covers!
We used laptops to create mind maps of our ideas linked to our topic ‘Let’s Explore!’
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To begin our topic, we set up an experiment to find out which substance would melt ice the fastest out of:
- salt
- sugar
- baking soda
- sand
Predicting...
We discovered that salt was the fastest substance to melt the ice, whilst sugar was the slowest.
Conclusions...
Daily Temperatures
We have also set up a weekly challenge where we measure the classroom temperature each morning and afternoon, and then calculate the mean average every Friday!
Antarctica Non Chronological Reports
Non Chronological Reports about Antarctica
Our Work on the Titanic
Our focus over the last few weeks has been on the Titanic. Here is some of the great work we have produced!
Titanic Timelines
Our Stop Motion Animation Project!
First we worked in pairs to design and create our own air dry clay models of the Titanic and icebergs. We also painted a night sky background.
Next, we used the iPads to carefully record our animations and then edited them using iMovie!
Our Stop Motion Animations about the Titanic!
Titanic Stop Motion Animation
Autumn Term 2024
Our ‘Big Idea’ for this term is
‘Long, Long Ago!’
As a class, we discussed our ideas for the topic and what we would like to learn throughout the term. Then we sorted them into the six areas of learning.
Here is our shared planning wall!
Here are some of our topic front covers!
Our Work This Term
We have been very busy this term learning about World War Two. Here is some of the fantastic work we have produced!
Adolf Hitler Biographies
Hitler Portraits
'Goodnight Mister Tom' Descriptive Writing and Artwork
Spotlight Remembrance Week
Our Autumn term spotlight week was all about Remembrance Day. As part of our learning, we wrote WW2 free verse poetry and created some beautiful artwork.
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Our War Themed Poems
Silhouette War Paintings
World Diabetes Day!
Anderson Shelter
Models
This term, we have worked so hard in teams to plan and create model Anderson shelters. We are very proud of them!
