Followers of our blog and the school, will already have heard about our transition topic ‘Our Cultural Museum’. We thought about the things that are important to the people of Liss. We chose our top 10 items that we think represent what Liss is all about and put them in our own Cultural Museum. We were inspired by our friends at Kafuro Primary School, Uganda, who have also made their own cultural museum for their area.
We made this video to tell you about the items in our museum and why we chose them. Have a look! (Click on the link above).
Everyone came back to school after the long summer holidays, in very good spirits. We have enjoyed hearing all about everyone’s news and adventures of what they have been up to during August.
This week, we have introduced our new topic – The Anglo-Saxons. We have a new member of the class who happens to be a Saxon soldier and his name is ‘Bob’.
This week, we found out that Bob and his community were invited to the UK to help fight a battle. They realised that the land was plentiful and of good quality for growing crops and farming animals, so Bob decided to stay! We will be hearing more from ‘Bob’ as the topic progresses.
Also this week, we have displayed our work at the Alresford Countryside Show. We were presented with a ‘Highly Commended’ Award. We thank Christopher and his family for accepting this on behalf of the class. Here is a photo of our work on display in the Education Marquee at Alresford Countryside Show this year;
Well done to all our children who have worked hard on this project and produced some lovely work.
Dear our friends at Liss Junior School.
Congratulations for all the cooperation you had that you have achieved the goal to save energy from the sun for the school.
It has been really nice of all the organisers ( Head teacher, staff and the young responsible citizens)
Have to say keep up the cooperation spirit.
Bless
On Thursday, we had one of our ‘Best Day Ever’ moments! We spent the whole day outside in and around our School grounds. There were many jobs to be done. We started the day by learning how to weave willow in to different shapes. Louise, our friend, came to teach us how to do this, and also helped us make our own ‘Wigwam’ for our Sweet Pea plants to climb up. We also helped tidy up the Willow Arbor that is sited on the school field, by weaving loose willow back into its structure.
Our next job was to cut the turf away from where our tyre planters were going to sit. After that stage had been done, we filled the tyres with soil….. LOTS of soil! It took many trips down the slope to the large sacks of soil, with our buckets to fill. It was quite a “tyre-ring” (boom boom!) job for all of us.
We were glad when it was soon time for our picnic lunch on the playground with our families. After lunch, we were able to spend some time helping Mr Haycock with the construction of our bottle greenhouse. Sean and Charlie lifted some wood for Mr Haycock to saw, helped by Billy.
Then, time for more soil shifting! It wasn’t too long before we were able to plant our seedlings and Sweet Peas and place our Willow Wigwam. All our hard work was well worth it as we were able to stand back and admire our efforts. We wandered around the rest of the school grounds to admire everyone else’s efforts with their class projects too. We were very proud of our school before this day, but we can definitely be super proud now. It looks fabulous. Well done and a huge thank you to all our children, families and friends who helped us.
In HG, we are taking part in a whole school challenge called ‘Grow A Pound’ where we have to attempt to use our entrepreneurial skills to raise as much money as we can from the initial sum of a pound. We began this challenge by buying a packet of biscuits and selling them individually to raise more money.
Once we had generated more money, we bought popcorn kernels and paper bags and have been selling these healthy snacks on the playground. If we win the challenge of making the most money, we will be able to keep 25% of our profits to spend on equipment for our class. All the money raised from this challenge across the school, will go towards our ‘School Grounds Day’ projects.
Fingers crossed our Popcorn is a winner! We will let you know….
We have been to visit Alison at Durleighmarsh Farm to look at how the seasonal changes affect the crops. Alison showed us the different types of squash and pumpkin. The leaves on the plants had changed colour as we are moving from Autumn through to Winter. We noticed how the plants were dying away, preparing to ‘sleep’ for the winter before coming back again in the Spring.
We had a great time with Alison and are looking forward to seeing her again in the Spring.
When we got back we wrote our reports of our trip. Here is our work;
We would like to know from our friends at Kafuro Primary School, how the climate changes with the seasons and how the crops change for this time of year.
On Wednesday, we joined Class AS on a visit to Butser Ancient Farm. At the farm, we learnt how to be Archaeologists and dig for clues as to how people lived long ago. We found bones and rocks. After washing them, we had a go at identifying what they might be or where they may have come from.
We also looked at building methods and had a go at ‘Clunch’. This is where we took handfuls of mud, straw and clay mixed with water. After molding the mixture in our hands, we packed it into a wooden box that was a large brick shape. This would have been left to dry to build up the wall of the building.
We had a go at making ‘jewelery’ using pliers and some thin wire. We wound the wire around the pliers and turned them in to rings and bracelets.
After we had a tour of the farm, we had our lunch in one of the wattle and daub buildings. A small fire was lit inside. We learnt that in ancient times, it was seen as rude if the fire went out whilst there were visitors! The warmth of the fire was welcomed as it was quite a chilly day. Later, we spent some time listening to stories of Ancient times, whilst sat around the fire and eating our oatcakes we had made at school the day before.
There were sheep, goats and pigs on the farm. These were animals that would have been kept for resources in Ancient times. We enjoyed stroking and feeding them! Have a look at the photos of our day;
A lot of activities have been happening at Kafuro Primary School since the term begun.
We are mostly very happy we the pupils of Kafuro for the continued exchange in learning of which we think we have gained a lot from. We also understand that the children in the UK have also gained a lot in learning from us as we also always appreciated the exchange in learning.
In July when Adsm Stanley and Heather Green teachers at Liss Junior School (our link school in the UK) visited Uganda, they talked about the competition about tracing a moth as it was taking at Liss school by the time they came out. The same competition was introduced to our school and each class sent representatives to participate in the competition. It was very great having fun shading using the availed colours bearing in mind that the best in tracing a moth had to take gifts with themselves.
It was real as the gifts were bought in Kasese but we could not know what they were.
By the end of second term, drawing and describing a moth was totally a great deal as the leader of science and conservarion in our school Mr.Byaruhanga Yowasi had posed a question on an assembly to asking is about what we know about moths.
Discoveries done:
We discovered that
1 . Most moths move at night therefore we call such creatures nocturnal.
2. They hate candle or any light as they come and strongly strike any light before them
A characteristic that made most of us understand the moth.
3. It was new to us as children especially those in lower classes to understand some moths are brightly colored as we thought and have only seen the white species with powdered bodies.
4. It was also a nice discovery to compare moths with chameleons which keep changing its color. As different moths have got different colors for different reasons like hibernation, environment , adoption to find food etc
All went well when we returned from our one month holiday as shading and drawing was done in second and we had to proceed with voting the best in the moths traced and drawn.
Mbambu Eveline from P.5 emerged the first in drawing as the assembly recommended her for the first position and then Aine Innocent, Gumisiriza Robert , and the youngest winner was Benerd from P.1c who could only shade the moth but could not use words to describe the colours used and the importance of the colours on the moth he drew.
Other winners followed and the 10 winners were given two pencils a dozen of coloured pencils and pens for those in upper in classes that use pens.
It was great to have the competition in the school.
In other news in the last week, we received all our letters on Monday and we really enjoyed reading them from our friends in Liss Junior school.
On Wednesday, we all had to reply the letter as to have our teacher who hopes to visit in November deliver our reply to Liss Junior School for our friends had some questions for us and we have also wrote some questions as our exchange in learning goes on.
For our studies, our class primary seven will be sitting their final examinations on 3rd and 4th in the month of November and we all wish them the best as they have always worked very hard to succeed.
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On Monday, we visited Alison at Durleighmarsh Farm. We wanted to find out from Alison about the crops grown at the farm this year. We knew it has been a ‘Bumper Harvest’ this year with many fruits and vegetables growing particularly well. We wanted to find out which crops had grown the best and anything Alison had noticed about the farm in general during this ‘special harvest year’.
Alison told us that their best crops for produce this year were Strawberries and Blueberries. This was very good news for everyone in HG as these are our favourites! Alison thought this ‘Special Harvest Year’ was because the hard winter we had, had killed all the bugs that usually are a pest to the plants. With our glorious warm, sunny summer too, the crops had flourished and produced lots of fruits and vegetables. As we walked around the farm, we noticed the tall sweetcorn plants. Alison showed us how to harvest the sweetcorn cobs. We tasted the sweetcorn straight away – it was delicious and so sweet!
