Month: September 2012

The Fun Run

On Friday 14 September MRPS had the fun run. We all enjoyed doing the fun run and at the end everyone had run a lot of laps. Our parents were allowed to come to watch us and they all cheered us on.

After the fun run we had a fair. We had lots of games to play and it was great fun. We raised quite a bit of money and we hope that we can get a little bit more technology for our school. I hope everyone really enjoyed it and you all had fun! Well did you all have fun? 😆

 

CONSTRUCTING SEIGE ENGINES

Yesterday everybody worked really hard to construct their battering rams or seige towers.  Technology and Design is so much fun! 🙂  It was just so interesting walking around and seeing the different ways you went about it.  This week we will be reflecting on our designs to share what worked best and different ways of problem solving tricky bits.  Please thank your parents for their hard work and creativity too.  Here is a photo slideshow from yesterday.  As you can see, there were great results using simple materials.  Wow! 🙂

 

 

 

Dragons

This week is Dragon Week.  As you will see, our Dragon is resting on our back wall.  We will be finding out all about dragons in inquiry groups.   To do that, you will need to go to our Fairytales and Middle Ages Blog for the links.

1.   BASIC DRAGON INFO

2.  DRAGONSVILLE 

Some descriptions of dragons:

1.  Smaug from “The Hobbit”

Smaug by John Howe

When Bilbo Baggins first encounters Smaug he can hear his snoring – “like the noise of a large pot galloping in the fire, mixed with the rumble of a gigantic tom-cat purring” – but is most of all struck by the reddish glow and heat that Smaug gives off, both of which travel up the passage-way so Smaug is felt long before he is seen. His flames are green and scarlet.[5]

There he lay, a vast red-golden dragon, fast asleep; thrumming came from his jaws and nostrils, and wisps of smoke, but his fires were low in slumber. Beneath him, under all his limbs and his huge coiled tail, and about him on all sides stretching away across the unseen floors, lay countless piles of precious things, gold wrought and unwrought, gems and jewels, and silver red-stained in the ruddy light. Smaug lay, with wings folded like an immeasurable bat, turned partly on one side, so that the hobbit could see his underparts and his long pale belly crusted with gems and fragments of gold from his long lying on his costly bed.

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ATTACKING A CASTLE

This YUDU flipbook will give you  lots of information on how castles were attacked.

(sorry people, it is still coming as its website is down right now.)

Look at the pictures of a SIEGE ENGINE to plan your model you are going to make, using popsticks, cardboard and string.

HERALDRY – COAT OF ARMS

In the Middle Ages it was really important when a knight was dressed in armour and out on the battlefield that he could easily be recognised and that he could tell who his friends were and who his enemies were.  That is why they had coats of arms which were very clear SYMBOLS of who they were.

Read about heralds and heraldry here. WHAT WAS HERALDRY? 

You can create a coat of arms on-line here then print it and read what your choices mean.  CREATE A COAT OF ARMS