Diamond Class
The teacher in Diamond class is Mrs Rounce. In the morning Mrs Smith teaches year 3 and 4 and amend to Mrs Glover, Miss Dacosta and Miss Wollington support teaching and learning in Diamond class.
Recent Activities
First, we planned and designed our hats. We watched a video about Christian symbols of Easter for inspiration.
To work out the size our hats had to be, we measured our heads with a piece of string. We then used a compass to draw our base and lid.
Some of us found it hard so we just drew around a plate. We had to measure the circumference of the base to work out our sides though!
We had great difficulty glueing it all together. It was a tedious process but it was worth it for the finished product.
Before we could decorate, we had to collect the items and materials for our design. Mrs Rounce was really mean and would only let us have what we had included on our original design. A lot of people were sent back!
We carefully decorated our hats using our designs. We think they look fabulously unique! Do you?
For our poetry festival in March we have chosen our own poems to perform. We learned how to choose the best poem to convey expression or to add actions to. We are now practising them ready for our performances at the end of March.
Our Art lessons for this half term has been learning about Georgia O’Keeffe. We learned all about her painting of flowers and landscapes and then used her techniques and style to inspire our own flower and landscape paintings.
Year 3 and 4 learned how to measure using centimeters and millimeters. They enjoyed practising the skill by measuring items inside and outside.
Diamond Class celebrated World Book Day by learning dance and drama techniques to explore the book ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’ by Roald Dahl. Some pupils shared their favourite book with the class giving recommendations for why others would love to read it. The class also learned how to write a story in either 25 words or 25 sentences. The stories were very impressive.
On Friday the 25th February, the Mayor of Great Yarmouth came to our school! He talked to Emerald Class, Diamond Class and the nursery. He talked to us about how we will be the generation that changes the future and how adults should therefore look after us.
He also asked if anyone thought there were any issues that needed sorting out. One issue was litter, and the mayor explained he has a team who he calls when there is a place with lots of litter, who then clean it up. Another thing he talked about was how that when our parents receive their taxes, they are annoyed or unhappy, but those taxes pay for things like Great Yarmouth market and doing up the waterways.
The mayor explained about hoe his chain was real gold and there was a coin on the chain which had a lot of history; he even let one of us wear his chain and hat!
Just before he went into the nursery, he invited Diamond Class to come to the town hall and have a debate over a subject to get idea of how decisions are made.
Jamie
Year 4, 5 and 6 learned the features of an adventure story and then wrote one inspired by their ‘expedition’ to Lake Mono. The volcano erupted whilst they were there! Read their stories to see what happened.
The pupils read their stories aloud to the class learning to use expression to convey the drama of the story. We all enjoyed listening to them. They were very dramatic.
We learned about how God is mentioned in the bible and what God means to us. We painted a picture to represent our thoughts about him.
In computing, we learned about the connections we have with other people and how these may be linked to others, creating a social network. We then applied this knowledge to learn how a computer network passes messages and the equipment that is used in the process.
We use an Ordinance Survey map to learn about Snowdonia. We learned how to use a key to find the features of the area and we learned how to read 4 figure and 6 figure grid references.
