Fleet Air Arm photos

 Standing under Concorde.

We put together a model Box Kite plane like the Wright Brothers invented.

We walked through Concorde and saw the flight deck.

There were lots of interesting planes to look at.

 We made model planes out of balsa wood and launched them.

 We were able to sit in the cockpit of this Vampire plane and handle the controls.

Visit to Fleet Air Arm Museum

Dosbarth Twcan had a fantastic trip to the Fleet Air Arm Museum last week. They started the day learning about the Wright Brothers Box Kite plane and helped to build a model of it. In the classroom area under Concorde they build model planes out of plywood which they then launched off a model aircraft carrier that was rolling like it was travelling across the ocean. We measured to see which planes traveled the furthest- Morgan won as his flew 10 metres. After lunch we went on Concorde, sat in the cockpit of a Vampire plane and saw a 3D film about planes landing and taking off on air craft carriers. Photos to follow...

Talk Homework

Following our exciting visit to the Fleet Air Arm Museum, for our Big Writing this week we will be writing a biography about the Wright Brothers. Pupils have had a Powerpoint presentation about the brothers' lives and seen a film about one of their early flights.Can you talk to your child about the brothers and encourage them to use words that show the passing of time eg a long time ago, later, as they grew up etc. There is lots of information online and all pupils should have brought home an outline of the brothers' lives leading up to their historic flight.

Thanks for your support and happy talking!!

Mrs Tucker

Twcan Assembly

Dosbarth Twcan performed a fantastic assembly on their topic theme of Volcanos! Children used drama, musical composition, songs and raps to bring this fascinating theme alive. A huge well done to all the children and Mrs Tucker was extremely proud!! See some of the pictures from the morning...

Half Term News

During our 'Robot Rampage' topic we looked at famous engineers - the children were fascinated by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. They produced interesting biographies about him that focused on his childhood, his designing skills and the legacy of bridges, railways and tunnels that are still around today.

After an exciting visit to the Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff Bay (to kick start the topic) we wrote some exciting adventure stories where we assisted the Doctor in saving the planets with our robots.

We have been developing our teamwork skills and built group robots out of recycled materials. We explored how to make electrical circuits and were challenged to put a circuit into the robots - some groups had buzzers while others had lighting up eyes! We evaluated them to see what we liked about our robots and what we would like to do better next time.

Talk Homework (week beginning 4th March)

Dosbarth Twcan– Talk Homework  (Week beginning 4th March)

This week, as part of our topic  ‘Natural Disasters’, we will be writing about famous volcanoes from around the world. We will be learning about different volcanoes over the next couple of day and the pupils will be selecting the one they will be writing about: Mount Etna, Mount Vesuvius, Mount Pelee and Eyjafjallajokull (they will bring an overview of their chosen one home). You are welcome to start talking and finding out more about the different ones from the internet. I would like you to think and talk about some of the  following:

· Where the volcano is

· What type of volcano it is

· It’s eruptions

· The effect its eruptions have had

· Stories of gods etc that are linked to the volcano

Happy talking!

Mrs Tucker

maths!

This week we are working on our 5 and 10 times tables. We will be multiplying and learning that it does not matter which order the numbers come in, for example, 5x6 is the same as 6x5. We will be dividing by 5 and 10 and using money to solve practical problems.