Spring 2024

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.
 

Design Technology
Ford class have been researching and designing smart wearables.  Each child has designed and created an eCharm to enable them to be seen in the dark.  They have used foam sheets and stickers to create their eCharm pouch and Microbit computer software to create a flashing light for the inside.