Our Aliens!

On Friday, St. George's Class were set the challenge of creating a 3D sculpture of an alien. They could choose an alien from Doctor Who, or create one of their own! Firstly, in teams, they drew their designs and labelled the diagrams with the materials they would need. Then, I opened my 'shop' and each group had to negotiate for the materials they needed, then get to work! Here are the fantastic final alien sculptures: 

Well done everyone! Have a wonderful safe half term!

TARDIS Lands at School!

Friday was a very bizarre day at our school! Not only were the children wearing their own clothes, but also we had a visit from the Doctor!

At 11:15, a TARDIS landed in the small playground, just outside St. George's Class. We rushed outside to investigate.

As journalists, we knew that we would need some eye-witness statements. We politely interviewed some children from Years 3 and 4, Mrs Meaden, Miss Boyle, Mr Croft and even Mrs Day! They told us what they had seen, heard or smelled as the TARDIS arrived. Mr Croft had noticed a strong smell of fish fingers and custard!

Following our interviews, when we were hard at work on our newspaper articles, something even more fantastic occurred! We had a visit from the Doctor himself! We were lucky enough to hold a press conference with him. We found out that he had rushed to our school because he had received a distress call from the School Office. He was worried that we had been invaded by aliens!

Our Quiet Critters accompanied us as we worked!

The Doctor and the Dalek Coding

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/games/doctor-who-game 

This half term we have been learning to code... and saving the universe! We have been developing our programming skills, by playing a fantastic game called 'The Doctor and The Dalek' from the BBC.

We have been learning that coding is how we tell computers what we want them to do. We have learned to put together sequences of commands, use repetition and 'if' or 'when' commands. There have been some very tricky challenges, which have taken a lot of patience and concentration, but we are becoming great programmers!

Here are some pictures of us, hard at work coding:

Here are some screen shots of the game, can you remember what you had to do to pass these tasks?

Source of both pictures above: drwho-online

We will be completing our Doctor Who coding next week, but we'll come back to programming soon. In the meantime, if you would like to play at home, click the link below:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/games/doctor-who-game 

Weeping Angels

This week, we completed our Weeping Angel statues. 

On Wednesday, we painted them with a base coat of white paint (mixed with PVA glue), then on Friday we mixed a stone-coloured paint and finished them off. 

Next week, we might add some extra details to make them look more crumbly and realistic! 

WARNING! An Invasion is Coming!

Last week, we heard some terrible news! An invasion was coming to Planet Earth!

The Doctor wasn't certain which monsters were coming, but we knew that it would be one of the following:

The Ood

The Judoon

The Cybermen

The Weeping Angels

 Source of all above: bbc.co.uk

In order to protect our fellow citizens, we made these posters to warn people about the invasions. We had to tell them what to look for and most importantly give them advice about what to do if they saw these monsters. You will see these posters up at school this week- keep your wits about you; the monsters are coming...

Weeping Angels!

St. George's Barbie dolls have made a reappearance this week! This time, instead of being mummified, they have become rather evil!

Today we took the first steps towards turning our dolls into stone Weeping Angels. 

Source: BBC.co.uk

We decided which pose to position them in, then made wings for them using polystyrene tiles. Finally for today, we gave them Weeping Angel hairstyles and made the draped clothes for them. 

Next week, we'll be painting them to make them look like real stone evil aliens! Keep an eye out for more pictures next week!

Fabulous Imaginary Maps!

On Friday, we worked in groups to use inks to make these marvellous maps! 

We scrunched up, scrumpled, stamped on and tore the paper, to make it look old and worn. Then we covered it in water, before drawing the outline of our land. Then we used our hands (it was very messy!) to fill the paper with blended inks. Finally, we added shelters for our creatures, somewhere for them to find food and a land feature (such as a volcano, forest or river). There were some very imaginative ideas! 

Well done for your excellent artwork and more importantly, for working brilliantly in your teams.

The Doctor, Amy and Rory

Last week, we wrote some descriptions of three of the characters we have met so far on our Doctor Who adventure. We were particularly thinking about using similes, to show when something is 'like' or 'as' something else.






Four of these descriptions were so wonderful that I decided to share them with Mrs Day. She was very impressed! I loved how original and interesting their similes were.






Please click the pictures below to make them bigger and easier to read:

By D

By Justin S

 

By Ace

By Kiara

Very well done!