Our Learning
Madrono and Wisteria work together for Peace Day
For Peace Day, Wistera and Madrono worked together to create a song and dance to promote peace. We then showed our video at the Peace Day celebration at Abbey Campus. We changed the lyrics to our two favourite songs and dances, Cheerleader and Nae Nae, to lyrics about peace.
Dog's Trust visit from Sarah and Lyra
We have had another visit from Dog's Trust to teach us all about dogs and the responsibility of looking after them. Lyra the Dog, and her owner Sarah, did an assembly and worked with Year 1, 2 3 and 4 in 'how to look after dogs' workshops.
Diwali lantern making
We had some visitors in Madrono to teach us how to make Diwali lanterns and why we celebrate Diwali. We had lots of fun.
Community theme planning
Madrono enjoyed working with Miss Parmjit to plan our new theme 'community'. We played games that allowed us to work together as a community, as well as games where we had to follow a leader. We then talked about the idea of community and came up with big questions such as 'do we always need a leader?'
Aikido Demonstration
Madrono enjoyed learning all about Aikido with Tad.
Hugo Cabret acting
We have enjoyed learning all about Hugo Cabret and coming up with our own versions of the story by just looking at the pictures in the book. We then used freeze frames to show our own versions.
Wishing you all Eid Mubarak from Madrono class.
Election Day 2015
Madrono joined together with Year 5 on Election Day 2015 to learn all about the General Elections. They talked about the different political parties running in the election and their leaders. We also looked into each party's policies and discussed who they would help and which groups of people they would not help.
Small Action Big Change Protest Art exhibition opens
Madrono Class have been really busy creating work as part of the Protest Art Project and this is now all on show in an exhibition at NUAST.
The children have created a wonderful stop frame animation which is projected large as part of the exhibition, they also created part of the large flock of protest badges and some of the posters and small books on show. Their thoughts and ideas ran incredibly deep and their work shows a great depth of care, questioning, ideas and creativity. We are incredibly proud of what they have created.
Some more images and information are on the Creativity Events page of this website.
Madrono Class have been really busy creating work as part of the Protest Art Project and this is now all on show in an exhibition at NUAST.
The children have created a wonderful stop frame animation which is projected large as part of the exhibition, they also created part of the large flock of protest badges and some of the posters and small books on show. Their thoughts and ideas ran incredibly deep and their work shows a great depth of care, questioning, ideas and creativity. We are incredibly proud of what they have created.
Some more images and information are on the Creativity Events page of this website.
Protest Art Project.
Madrono Class have begun working on this project with Miss Claire as part of a wider school initiative and working towards an exhibition in February 2015. The project links directly with the whole school curriculum topic of Greed and Power.
The class looked at lots of different examples of Protest Art including graphic design (such as posters, t-shirts and badges), street art, giant puppets, poems, songs, paintings, sculptures, "Craftivism" (where artists work with things such as knitting, cross stitch and cake decorating to stage acts of protest) and much more. The children created "I Am" poems as part of exploring their thoughts and looking at the issues that are crucial to them in their lives.
The children had some incredibly deep, thoughtful and articulate ideas about protest and about issues to protest about, they generated many different ideas about the direction the project will take with their class (each participating class are exploring different things) and it's going to be really exciting to see what they create in the coming weeks. It was incredibly inspiring to see how much the children were motivated to write and to gather their thoughts, their ideas and their concerns.
The class are working on this project weekly with Miss Claire until February half term, more information will be added here as the project progresses. There is more information about the Protest Art Project on the Creativity Events Page of the school website. Miss Claire is also writing about it on her blog at her website Stories Under Stones in the link here.
Madrono Class have begun working on this project with Miss Claire as part of a wider school initiative and working towards an exhibition in February 2015. The project links directly with the whole school curriculum topic of Greed and Power.
The class looked at lots of different examples of Protest Art including graphic design (such as posters, t-shirts and badges), street art, giant puppets, poems, songs, paintings, sculptures, "Craftivism" (where artists work with things such as knitting, cross stitch and cake decorating to stage acts of protest) and much more. The children created "I Am" poems as part of exploring their thoughts and looking at the issues that are crucial to them in their lives.
The children had some incredibly deep, thoughtful and articulate ideas about protest and about issues to protest about, they generated many different ideas about the direction the project will take with their class (each participating class are exploring different things) and it's going to be really exciting to see what they create in the coming weeks. It was incredibly inspiring to see how much the children were motivated to write and to gather their thoughts, their ideas and their concerns.
The class are working on this project weekly with Miss Claire until February half term, more information will be added here as the project progresses. There is more information about the Protest Art Project on the Creativity Events Page of the school website. Miss Claire is also writing about it on her blog at her website Stories Under Stones in the link here.
Remembrance Day 11/11/2014
Our class visited the Lenton War Memorial on Armistice Day to lay a wreath to remember people who died in the First World War.
The start of term
For the first three weeks of term we focused lots of getting to know each other, working together as a class and how to be a good learner. We played lots of team games, took part in group tasks and thought about how we could make Madrono class a happy, stimulating learning environment.
The Romans
Our new school topic is 'Greed and Power'. In Madrono class we are going to be learning all about the Romans. We kicked off this topic by exploring what life was like for the Celts before the Romans came. We enjoyed researching using a variety of sources, including some real Celts artefacts Miss Dance had been given by her Uncle who is an archaeologist!
The children enjoyed finding out lots of new facts, comparing the life of the Celts to our modern day lives and were excellent at describing what the Celt artefacts were used for! We particularly enjoyed finding out about the arrow heads and axe head, the Celts used for hunting animals, but had to be very careful as they were sharp!