Federation Day

The children spent the day at Catfield with their friends from the Federation learning about Malawi. They took part in four activities.

1)               African drumming & traditional stories.

2)               Art – Chitenje patterns.

3)               A day in the life of a Malawi child.

4)               Making a Galimoto toy.

They also learned some songs in Chichewa and found out how children in our partner school in Malawi have very large classes, walk a long way to school and have to help with farming.

Well done Orange Class for working so well with your Federation friends and for being very respectful towards our visitors.

More Malawi

The children have been continuing to research Malawi as part of their Topic work this half term. They have used maps and atlases to find the country and have read facts and watched videos to learn about the physical features of the country. The children worked in house teams to put together all that they have found out so far.

Diamond

Sapphire

Emerald

Ruby

You could ask your child which hosue they are in and to let you know what some of the pictures here mean.

Keep an eye out for more Malawi news in the next blog post after our federation day!

Malawi

Very soon we will be having a Federation Day, organised by our executive head, Ms Wones, who is off to our Federation's partner school in Malawi very soon.

This week, we have done some learning to help us prepare for this. First, the children learnt all about the 7 continents with Mrs Gray and had a go at rebuilding a chopped up map. They enjoyed using an Atlas to help them to label each place.

We found Africa on our maps and discovered that Malawi is a country on this continent. We looked at a patterned fabric, called a 'chitenge', which is worn by many African women in Malawi. We talked about the prints and colours before working together to create our own chitenge sheet. We each contributed some small prints to create this...isn't it beautiful?!

Here are the team at work...

Then we danced to the music from Malawi that we had on in the background because it was funky and...well, why not?! Have a smashing weekend!

Easter

On Friday, the children took part in an Easter surprise thanks to our lovely Mrs Fiske! The children used their Easter baskets, which they made on our craft morning, to store eggs which they found on the school field and playground. Afterwards, they swapped these for some real chocolate eggs. Happy Easter everyone!

Bread Week

This week the children have enjoyed working with bread. The week started with the children trying and evaluating a range of breads. They thought about the appearance, texture and taste of each bread and were able to use these criteria to make a decision about which their favourite was. Later in the week, the children planned their own bread product and gave me a shopping list of ingredients that they would need. They also designed packaging for their product and came up with their own brands and logos.

On Wednesday, the classroom was very noisy and messy as the children enjoyed making their bread! The children worked well in their house teams to follow a recipe and enjoyed using weighing scales and having a go at mixing and kneading. They were so excited and assured me that bread with chocolate, cheese, chives and garlic would be tasty! To my surprise, they loved the weird flavours! Well done to all of the children who showed me how creative they could be and how well they could work in a team.

Have a look at our photos and I hope you enjoyed the interesting products that I'm sure you were asked to try!