On the way down to Dorset, the children got to munch on this scrumptious giant cookie, which was generously donated by Cameron and his family. Thank you very much.
What a wonderful way to start the adventure.
Year 6 are currently on their way to Dorset. They have just arrived at Brownsea island and are all very excited!
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.
To mark the end of our fantastic brain project, we created our own aerial view of the human brain! As you can see, each colour makes up a different part of the brain.
Over this week, we have learnt that our brains have many different parts that work together. Our visitors from the ‘Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust’ taught us about the following five parts of the brain:
- cerebrum (say: suh-REE-brum)
- cerebellum (say: sair-uh-BELL-um)
- brain stem
- pituitary (say: puh-TOO-uh-ter-ee) gland
- hypothalamus (say: hy-po-THAL-uh-mus)
Click here to find out what each of these parts do.
3c have demonstrated incredibly high learning zones over the past few days! They have been working on a persuasive text to encourage others to wear a helmet when riding their bike, skateboard, scooter or skates. Every child has incorporated persuasive openers and technical language. When their text was complete, the children came up with actions to perform their work to each other. A huge well done to Alyssa and Ariella who performed a persuasive poem alongside a dance in a whole school assembly! 🙂
Today yellow team has worked together to make posters about everything we have learnt during brain week.
There has been great team work between the children from different year groups.
WOW! What a busy morning at Brooklands Farm! As we see Brain Week come to an end we took the opportunity to meet as a whole school to share our learning from the week. Each year group presented their learning in different ways including drama, actions, posters and writing!
We are now in our colour groups and consolidating our learning in the form of posters. Blue team are using our knowledge of the different sides of the brain, neurotransmitters, growth mindsets and how to protect our brain from injury! We are collaborating in groups across year groups to share the learning journey we have undertaken this week.
To raise awareness of our brains and how to protect them our posters must be eye catching, colourful and have a clear message! We look forward to sharing these with you!
Red team have been working incredibly hard this morning to produce their own brain posters! They have gathered the information they learnt in assembly this morning and then created a success criteria with their mixed year group team. It has been amazing to see the Year 6 children leading their groups and everyone working together. Well done red team!
Year 3 made some jelly brains on Friday. We left them over the weekend, but we left them in the heat and exposed with no protection. Thus when we returned, the brains had gone mouldy.
We learnt that unless we look after our brains with learning, vitamins, protection and connections then they can become damaged.
