Year Five are currently learning about the Rainforest. This week, we looked at the lives of the Yanomami tribe who live in the Amazon on the borders of Brazil and Venezuala. The Yanomami live in Yanos, wooden structures that can house up to 400 people. We made our own yanos in groups out of art straws and sugar paper – not an easy task. The Yanomami, of course, create theirs using handtools – we can only imagine how difficult that would be!
February 1, 2012
Wednesday 1st February – Food tasting from around the world
As part of their Geography topic, Year 4 have been looking at the link Bishop’s Waltham has to other countries and continents around the world, via family holidays, where their relatives live and today, the focus was food.
The children had a selection of food on a platter that came from a vareity of countries and continents which they had to look at, smell and eventually taste! There was a mixture of savoury and sweet food including bananas from Colombia, kiwi fruit from New Zealand, pizza from Italy and mango chutney and puppadoms from India. Some children had never tasted some of the food on offer today and they really enjoyed it!
This evening, the children are going to try and find out which continents and countries the ingredients of their dinner comes from ….
(Report by Miss Pearmain)
November 18, 2011
Friday 18th November 2011 – Eco Warriors 2012 Calendar
For those of you who perhaps haven’t yet picked up your Parent Mail or raided your son or daughter’s bag for letters (and, of course for our blog followers who don’t have children at our school) I would like to tell you all about a fantastic calendar that has been produced by the members of our Eco Warriors Club.
The purpose of this calendar is to spread the word about how we can care for our environment. It is called ‘Love Your Planet’ and each month on the calendar will carry an important message advising/reminding us how we can all help to look after our planet. Beautiful pen and ink artwork researched, designed and ‘painted’ by the club members accompanies each message. Below are a couple of examples – the message for July is ‘Love Great Britain: Don’t Fly Away’ and the message for October is ‘Buy Loose: Avoid Packaging’:
Please support these enthusiastic youngsters in their mission to raise environmental awareness: buy at least one calendar. They will be professionally printed on A4 size silk paper, spiral bound with a wall ‘hook’, very reasonably priced at just £5 and will make fantastic Christmas presents!
Here is an example from the company’s website:
Any profits will go towards the action group’s next environmental project.
If you would like to purchase a calendar or two, please place your order ASAP by filling in the form from the letter sent out on Tuesday, or otherwise collect an order slip from the school office.
Thank you for your support.
(Report by Mrs Milne)
May 4, 2011
Wednesday 4th May 2011 – Year Five Rainforest Work
Before heading off to the Isle of Wight and visiting Amazon World, Year Five have been learning about Rainforests – their locations, their climate, and now the lifestyles of those who live in them.
Yesterday, we spent our afternoon looking at the lives of the Yanomami people who live on the borders of Brazil and Venezuela. The Yanomami live in buildings called Yanos that are built from materials they find in the forest around them. These dwellings can house up to 400 people.
We had a go at making our own Yano models. It was harder than we thought, even on a very small scale with very easy materials – it showed us what an incredible achievement it must be to build a real one!
