Ford Class 2023-24

Ford Beach Day - Topic, Science, English and D.T.
 
Well despite the weather looking dubious we had another wonderful treat taking our learning down to the beach.  We definitely packed it in by reflecting and thinking about our recent Ancient Civilisation Topic, Science, English and even our Design Technology!
 
We began the day thinking about the Ancient Civilizations - Sumer, Indus Valley and Shang Dynasty.  We thought about how they lived and had a go creating and recreating our favourite of these ancient civilisations. 
 
Then before lunch we though about our Science with plants and photosynthesis by looking closely at leaves and their shapes to help us think why they are like this.  There was some great species identification too.
 
After a lunch break we went on to think about our recent Design Technology topic - Castles.  We discussed castle construction, what makes a castle a castle and then we built our own castle using
as many different parts of a castle as possible in our Crew teams.
 
We finished the day with some beach poetry and sketching in our beach books.
Ford Ancient Egyptian Beach Day - Friday 16th Feb
 
What a wonderful way to end the half term with some fabulous outdoor learning on a beautiful beach day!
 
After a bit of nature spotting on the journey to the beach it was a morning to help reflect and reinforce our half term's learning on Ancient Egypt.  First we had to think carefully about the structure and engineering of the Pyramids including thoughts about why they were they built.  Then we built our own in teams.  This developed into deepening a better understand about life for Egyptian people by thinking, planning and building our own Egyptian homes.  There was lots of great discussion and explanation showing each teams creation.  Before lunch we concluded our Egyptian thinking by writing a poem or a dairy reflection and sharing it with the class.
After lunch we too our thinking about our class story 'Wild Robot' and in our teams we created our own 'mini drama' performance of a section of the story.  We made a really impressive show of our chosen parts as we performed them to the class using the sand dunes as our little amphitheatre. We finished the day by creating our own islands for the story for 'Wild Robot', there was so much imagination and creativity.
 
Well done, Ford Castle Class.