Welcome to Cedar Class!
Cedar Class now is full with 30 bright, smiling, sociable, friendly, caring and enthusiastic children who have a great appetite for fun and learning. The Cedar team are Mrs Giles, Mrs Bones, Miss Mills and Miss Walton. Making learning fun is our speciality! There are so many fun things to look forward to in the year ahead.
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PE days for term 3 are Tuesday and Thursday. Please wear your PE kit to school on these days.
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Term 3 - Our projects are Take One Piece and the Romans
We looked at pictures of Roman coins and then tried to recreate our own modern day version of Roman coins.
Steps to Success included..
Did you know, some Roman coins would have been worth 400 asses!
Our observations and ideas about the artefacts
The contents of the small box
This is a coin of Emperor Julian II
On the reverse of the coin there is a faint picture of a soldier with a shield spearing an enemy. Roman coins were often used to advertise victories. The inscription on the coin would be translated as ‘the return of happy times’.
The 4 items together
These items were actually a skewer, a stylus, tweezers and a spatula.
Skewer – used for cooking meat over an open fire
Writing stylus – for writing in Latin onto thin pieces of wood or wooden writing tablets covered in a layer of beeswax. The pointed end was used to make the letters and the flat end was to smooth over any mistakes!
Tweezers – probably used for cosmetic purposes for eyebrow plucking.
Spatula - for spreading ointment or applying cosmetics worn by rich woman. Red and yellow colours were obtained from ochres (natural earths) and white from chalk or lead. The lead was poisonous to the wearer and would make them feel ill!
Term 2 - Our projects are Light and the Nativity
"I predict the shiny foil will be the most reflective, it will reflect lots of light."
"The bubble wrap will be the least reflective because it is transparent, and the light will go through it."
"The dark materials will reflect the light the least."
"The yellow paper reflected onto the light catcher card and made it look yellow."
"The smooth ones will reflect the light."
"People wear fluorescent colours like work men at night."
Surprisingly, the blue material did reflect some light."
What do you think? Whay not try out some more materials and different colours at home?
How did people communicate ideas in the Stone Age?
What ideas did they want to communicate?
What did people use before paints, pencils, pens and sketch books or paper?
What things were important to people living in the Stone Age?
These were some of the ideas we considered prior to beginning our artwork using large paper, charcoal and our hands only to recreate Stone Age art.