A first look at the Iron Man.

Here are some of our drawings of what we think the Iron Man might look like, Mrs Haxell sneakily hid the front cover of the book whilst she read the first chapter!

The next lesson as a group we imagined what the Iron Man would look like, what he is made from and how big he is; we created these amazing drawings using charcoal, tin foil and grey pencils.

 Table five

 Table one

 Table four

 Table two

Table three

Sensational Shadows.

On 18th June we went on a trip to the Horniman museum. We had a busy day, we had  a puppet workshop, visited the aquarium and enjoyed the lovely outdoor musical instruments in the sun.

Our current science topic is light and shadows so we were very interested to find out about shadow puppets. We looked at two types which were from India and Bali, the Indian puppets were made from transparent coloured plastic and the puppets from Bali were made from card.

Here we are performing our own shadow puppet shows. We had to make sure we ducked out of the way when puppeteering so our bodies didn't block the light.

 Here we are enjoying the aquarium.

The Iron Man is coming!

We have just begun our new Literacy book- The Iron Man by Ted Hughes.

We are very excited to begin reading The Iron Man. So far we have read the first chapter and can't wait to find out what happens next.We have found out that nobody knows where he came from, nobody knows how far he has walked and nobody knows how he was made. His head is shaped like a dustbin but as big as a bedroom.

Source: Cabanon Press 

Click here to watch an animated video of chapter one.

Belonging Art work.

We were inspired by the beautiful collaged illustrations in the book Belonging to create some of our own artwork. We used oil pastels to make pictures of the view from our own bedroom windows (like Tracy in the story). Before we began we looked at this colourful painting by Henri Matisse for inspiration.

Source: Henri Matisse.net

Here are some of the finished works, which were also displayed in our school Art Exhibition.
Emily

Francis

Sirous

Blessie

Daniel

Venus

Rory

Lily

Kenan

Esther

Mia

Isaac

Sol

Kiara

Nicholas

Vanessa

Maria

Sophia

Chidera

Alex

Owain

Erhun

Darcy

Our Platinum Prince!

A huge well done to Jeremiah, our Platinum Prince. Jeremiah is the first to earn his Platinum merit certificate in St Bernadette's class this year. Who will be next?

Sponsored walk.

On Friday we took part in St Anthony's annual sponsored walk for Africa. St Bernadette's completed one lap of the outer path in Dulwich park; all money raised goes to an orphanage in Zambia. Please make sure you bring in any outstanding sponsorship money as soon as possible, this is a great cause and any amount of money will be greatly appreciated.

Recycled pictures.

We were inspired by the brilliant pictures in Belonging so we decided to have a go at making our own. Each child took a photo of the view from their bedroom window and used this to make a relief collage using recycled materials. Here are some of the collages.

Blessie

Sophia

Emily

Erhun

Bella

Sol