We have had loads of fun so far today, doing zorbing, team games, archery, caving and fencing! And we survived the heat!!!!
Year 5 have had a super first day. Even in the heat! See below for a few pictures of the day!
Today 5c moved onto to looking at the Architecture aspect of our building project. We are now looking at designing the outside of buildings.
This afternoon we explored the history of architecture by creating timelines showing the key architecture movements in history, from Mudhuts to Space architecture and Pyramids to Eco-Friendly designs. We looked carefully at the features of different buildings to discuss how architecture has changed over time.
We also had an assembly from Matt and Richard (the architect), who explained how to design the outside of the building and the important things to keep in mind such as sustainability and durability.
After our re-drafting assembly with Matt on Wednesday, we realised the importance of listening to our client and allowing them to review our designs. Therefore we met with Foundation (our clients) to share our designs and to listen to their feedback. They told us the things they liked and disliked about our designs. We are now using this feedback to redraft before meeting them again to share our final designs.
To support the design layouts, 5c have created mood boards in their design groups. We looked at the mood boards created for the new Brooklands Farm school to create a success criteria. We chose the materials and colours we want to use in our areas, and have also included pictures of example furniture and equipment.
Our next step is to share our designs and mood boards with Foundation to gather their feedback. We will then redraft our designs based on their evaluation!
5c have today started their design process. After a careful look at our client’s brief, we created our own project brief to make sure we were clear on our client’s requirements and priorities. We then split into two teams, one team was in charge of designing the layout of the space. Where would each area the client wanted go? Was it a good ideas to have a calm, relaxing area next to the noisy play area? They used a new app on the ipads to help them create this!
The other team were in charge of choosing a colour scheme, we used watercolours and paints to create different shades of colours. We worked as a team to choose the colours which we thought would look good together!
Our next step is to split into our area design teams, in small groups we will design a specific area with the allocated space and agreed colour scheme!
Also we were very lucky today to be visited by Kate and Simon who both work for Willmott Dixon. They spoke to us about the whole building process, from the design all the way to maintenance and client feedback. We learnt about the importance of listening to our clients and redrafting our designs!
Year 5 were extremely lucky today as they were the first children to visit the new Brooklands Farm Primary School!
We walked (very sensibly) to the new school, where we met the builders from Willmott Dixon! We were the first children to step into the new school, it was very exciting and a privilege!
Year 5 split into two groups. One group went on a tour round the new building, we had to wear high-visibility jackets and hard hats. We got to see all the new classrooms, as we walked round we thought carefully about how we could transform this building into a Brooklands Farm School! We had lots of ideas including colourful pieces of artwork and coloured tiles on the carpet, and of course making it clear that we are ‘weaving a learning journey’! Finally, we got the see the new school hall and the school field! As part of our building project, we are designing a space for another year group so we asked the builder lots of questions to help us with our designs!
While the other group were having their tour, the rest of year 5 had a picnic in the new school hall! We had some biscuits and squash. Miss Low really wanted our opinion on the school hall and asked how we can reflect the ethos of Brooklands Farm in there.
We thoroughly enjoyed our trip to the new school and felt very privileged to be the first to visit!
This morning 5c looked at a picture book called ‘Belonging’, it showed how communities grow and change over time. We explored how this changed the relationships within the book.
In groups, we ordered the stages of the book which demonstrated how the community and relationships grew over many years. We also thought of key words to describe the relationships and thought about the community we want to create at Brooklands.
We had a class circle and discussed what ‘belonging’ meant to us and our community. Here are some of the words we thought of:
socialising
conversation
satisfaction
positive
We created our own Wordles to show our top 10 words to describe ‘belonging’. We had to write our most important word using our biggest writing and the least important in small writing.
Year 5 completed their endorphin investigation today as they spent time in a dark, silent room completing their work. We monitored our well being and learning zones and the majority of us found that our well beings dropped when in this situation because endorphins were not being released. We have written diaries this week to monitor our personal emotions and learning zones, writing how we were affected by the situations we were in. Also, we plotted our changes in well being and involvement on line graphs and drew our conclusions from them.
Finally, we started creating our presentations (posters and drama) about our learning to share with the rest of the school tomorrow.
Here are some examples of line graphs and diary entries:
Year 5 continued their investigation into endorphins today and chose to look at the effect of sport and exercise. We started by levelling our well being and learning zones before we started our lesson. Then we played a game of rounders which created an excitable buzz!
After, we completed a short written paragraph about our investigation and endorphins and again assessed our well being and learning zones. We found a slight increase in learning zones but our well being wasn’t affected as much. We discussed the possible reasons for this: one team lost at rounders which affected well being, there can be a lot of standing around in rounders so maybe no or not many endorphins were released.
We decided to raise our heartbeats even more and tried a zumba routine!
Then, while completing some brain challenges, we made a final assessment of our learning zone and well being. The majority of children in the class found their well being and learning zones increase dramatically after zumba!
We are now plotting the changes in our well being and learning zones on line graphs.
