Well done to Charlotte for her amazing piece of natural art inspired by artist Andy Goldsworthy. We’re glad you enjoyed this week’s art lessons Charlotte.

This week, we’ve enjoyed reading and listening to all of your performance poetry. Well done to Freya and Sonny who poems are featured below.

Well done to our PAP 1 children have also been busy performing Roger Stevens’ poem ‘Louder’

Cameron has been busy creating some oil paintings. Inspired by watching Bob Ross’ Joy of Painting on BBC4 Cameron has tried Bob’s wet on wet technique using various brush types.

Well done Cameron, what an impressive piece of art! I especially like the wispiness of the clouds and the level of texture on the trees.

Yet another excellent Zip Line project from one of our Year 4 pupils. Well done Sonny, We hope your rabbit enjoyed their snack!

This week we have learned that rigorous testing is rewarded when making roller coasters…

and that year 4 also build awesome zip lines!

Year 5’s have been busy designing their own rollercoasters.

Sonny created a virtual simulation of his coaster (just like a real mechanical engineer would!) on Minecraft and then made a working model out of cardboard.

Our children based in school have been busy this week creating some Easter masterpieces.

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The children have also created some lovely cards and artwork for the staff and patients in Ward 14 at Bournemouth Hospital to enjoy. Patients cannot currently have visitors and so these works of art have brightened their day.

Many of our families have been working out with Joe Wicks each morning at home and our children in school have been doing the same.

We’ve really enjoyed seeing what our pupils have been learning at home. If you have something to share then we’d love to see. Please email our school office office@cjsdorset.org

Our Year 4 pupils have been getting practical home learning this week.

Matthew has been having great fun investigating volcanoes with his family.

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We’ve really enjoyed seeing what our pupils have been learning at home. If you have something to share then we’d love to see. Please email our school office office@cjsdorset.org .

Year 4 pupils recently had the opportunity to ‘dig into’ some history with a visit from staff from the Dorchester museum. Below is recount of the days events from two pupils:

A huge inflatable museum came into our school hall. They also brought two excavation boxes for us to find Roman artefacts in. They told us about making disgusting fish sauce and let us smell different herbs like rosemary and thyme. We dug out two skeletons with artefacts around them to find out more about the Roman person. In the museum, artefacts were laid out on tables, which were roof tiles, perfume bottles, mosaic tiles, a replica of a legionary’s helmet and more. In the inflated museum, there were IPads that showed extra information about the objects near it, which were also in the excavation boxes. The museum looked like the real version but smaller (pretty small and not in Dorchester). The class had logbooks to write information about their skeleton and the objects around it. The helpers were very kind and gave us a card to act out to the other group. It was fun, especially acting out the cards we were given, as we learnt more when we read them, like when they buried the dead body they put coins on the eyes and mouth to pay the ferryman to take the body to the afterlife and they paid wages of their coins to the money collector.

By Mia and Jess

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