This week, we have focused a lot of our time and energy into making Celtic shields. We learnt that the Celts were a group of tribes that lived across northern Europe and Britain. We started the week by looking at different Celt shields and talked about the difference between them and Roman shields. We then created three designs drawing from our inspiration. We noticed that some of our designs were a little too intricate so we had a go at redesigning our shields in preparation for building them. 

The building stage saw us draw out the outline of our shields and cut them out using scissors. We then created shield bosses (the middle part of a shield) by stacking cardboard and glueing it on – which made a relief. 

Our Design and Technology sessions ended with us all painting our shields with a base colour and then adding our patterns using chalk pens. I was really impressed with the skill each child showed and the overall finished products. Thank you to everyone who brought in cardboard over the last couple of weeks.  

On Thursday, we celebrated National Poetry Day by learning On the Move Again by Michael Rosen. The poem focuses on the migration of people from one place to another. We incorporated lots of actions to help us remember the poem – which we all really enjoyed.

Our TTrockstar of the week is Olivia and our Lexia legend is Sienna. It is really important that we continue to keep up our Lexia usage as well as completing our TTrockstar sessions. I was also so proud of the class for once again leading the way in LKS2 attendance with a fantastic 98.6%.