In Spring term 2 Oaks continued our fantastic topic: Frozen Kingdoms.

In history we learned about the great age of Arctic Exploration and were amazed when 2 days after learning about Ernest Shackleton and the survival voyage of the Endurance, his ship, which had remained under the Arctic Ocean for over 100 years are finally found! We looked at significant discoveries and evaluated the decisions made by some famous explorers and how these decisions positively or negative impacted the expeditions. We looked at different sources of information and made our own decisions and opinions on events based on facts.

As part of our Science week we looked at adaptability of Polar creatures, such as penguins and found out some incredible facts:

Did you know that Penguins bones are heavy and solid, unlike most other birds and this allows them to stay under water, similar to how a diver uses a weigh belt?

Did you know that a group of penguins is called a raft when they are in water and a waddle when they are on land?

In art we looked an Inuit artists and created our own stencils of arctic animals and even made sculptures out of bars of soap in the same way that Inuit artists use soapstone to create sculptures. In design and technology we looked the history of bridges, how they have changed, improved and developed over time before we create some of our own using masking tape and straws to hold various objects of different weights. We then evaluated our designed, made adjustments and improved our designs.

Mr Graham and Oaks