Wednesday, 20 May 2015

Hot seating the BFG

Class 2 have used drama this week to explore the characters Sophie and the BFG. 
Questions included "How do you catch the dreams?" "Describe your favourite dream."
"Did you like living in the orphanage?"
We also used decision alley to persuade the characters to make different decisions such as should the BFG take Sophie away.




Tuesday, 5 May 2015

Bridges

We've been making bridges out of art straws and testing their strength...



Kira brought in a model of the Eiffel Tower which she made at home. It shows how engineers use triangles because of their strength.



We've also made bridges out of knex. This is a beam bridge...