Topic
The Commonwealth Games
Our Commonwealth design and technology project
Creating our designs
Displaying results in various ways
Using force meters to measure the amount of pull force it takes to move the shoe. This depends on the amount of friction the sole has.
We researched existing shoe soles
The finished product...Commonwealth Games themed artwork in the style of artist, Keith Haring
Commonwealth Games themed artwork in the style of artist, Keith Haring
Researching and creating the Queen’s Baton
Researching Birmingham as the host of the Commonwealth Games using the ‘jigsaw’ effect
Creative topic time... designing our own Commonwealth Games mural exploring different techniques.
Learning to use the internet safely to research all about the Commonwealth Games
Using map skills to locate the countries of the Commonwealth
Exploring the Commonwealth’s values of destiny, equality and humanity.
We researched the Commonwealth by all becoming experts using ‘the jigsaw effect’
We then taught each other what we had learnt
Hall of Fame
Martin Luther King Jr.
- civil rights activist
Wassily Kandinsky
- Pioneer abstract art
Kandinsky Inspired Concentric Circles with water colours and Miss Rowland
Some of us even became adventurous with colour mixing!
Kandinsky and Shapes with Miss Rowland
Today in Topic we looked at different shapes, lines and angles that Kandinsky used in his Art. We then had a go at creating our Art inspired by Kandinsky.
Topic with Miss Rowland
Today in our Topic lesson we learnt all about Kandinsky through active reading we then made posters with our new knowledge about Kandinsky.
John Williams
- Music Composer
Topic with Miss Rowland
In today’s lesson we drew a portrait picture of John Williams. We used our new skill of shading to add tone to the portrait.
Jacques Piccard
- Oceanographer
Colour mixing the depths of the ocean
Stepping into the mindset of Jacques...attempting to sink a ‘vessel’
Ernest Shackleton
- Antarctica Explorer
Encountering pack ice
Plotting Shackleton’s Journey
Rotten Romans
Goodbye Romans! Research to find out the Romans lasting impact on Britain
Creative topic...making shields
The social hierarchy of Rome
Roman bath houses
Rich Roman Mosaics
Can you design a shield deadlier than a Roman Solider’s?
Sword making
Drawing England then invading each other’s land
Finding out where the Romans would have landed...
Bronze Age to Iron Age
Making Bronze / Iron Age roundhouses
In creative topic time making roundhouses
Creative topic time...
Researching the past...
Researching the Bronze Age using secondary sources
Step back in time to The Stone Age!
I wonder…
College Stone Henge
Making Stone Age Scenes
Cave art
Foraging for useful Stone Age items
Local Democracy
- improving Chesterfield
Business meeting with the council to discuss our ideas on how to improve Chesterfield
I am ME!
- a week on emotional intelligence
Guess the emotion - Kenning Poem
I am me and I feel all these emotions and that’s ok!
Making breathing buddies
