Grebes have been making electrical circuits this week, learning to identify electrical components, create simple (and some not-so-simple!) circuits and conducting fair tests to identify problems with circuits that were not working.
Grebes Activities
Grebes Coding on Scratch
Year 4 have been adapting skills learnt on Espresso Coding to a new coding platform, Scratch. Their mission was to create simple games or animations using the Event, Control and Move blocks. Here are the first few games which you can play at home. You can also click ‘Look Inside’ to view the code and ‘Remix’ if you want to play around with the code yourself. Lots more to come!
‘Penalty Shootout’ by Matthew https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/960832219
‘What’s Your Name?’ by Mr. Leaver https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/962511100/
‘Where You Going?’ by James https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/962560810
‘Pong’ by Osker https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/961371420
‘Shootout Penalties’ by Jazz https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/962562646
Planet Clicker by Daniil https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/956983118
Dreamazon by Daniil https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/960538134
Don’t Get Rammed by Matthew https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/963473891
Squirrel Shootout by Harry https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/956798916
THE END IS NEAR! by Blossom https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/962775591
Escape the Human / Catch the Dog by Lily https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/956805065
Money Monster by Alexia https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/960313936
Yellow Card by Jonah https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/963869603
My Little World Doughnut Addiction by Freya and Noah https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/963866026
Calling all Musicians!
Every Friday at Salhouse we enjoy our Music assemblies. This week we had a special performance by Miles from Year 4 on the keyboard. He has been learning the instrument at school with Mr Bell and at home with his dad, and he wowed us all by playing Green, Green Grass, Starlight and Kingston Town.
Are you learning an instrument? (It doesn’t matter what level you’re at!) Would you like the chance to show off your skills to the whole school? Then just let your teacher know and we will arrange a date!
Green Green Grass (Grebes Ukulele)
Grebes have been learning Green, Green Grass by George Ezra on ukulele and after just four rehearsals were ready to perform it to the whole school!
Salhouse School Salsa Band
Our amazing Salsa Band is back with several members making their debut in this performance.
Nursery Rhymes
Members of Grebes class visit Coots class weekly to teach them nursery rhymes.Â
Class Novel: The Jamie Drake Equation
We are now deep into this wonderful Science-Fiction novel by Christopher Edge. The search for alien life has captured the children’s imagination. Stories from our fantastic authors coming soon!
Solar System Presentations
On 29/10/23, Grebes presented their research into the planets and other celestial bodies in our Solar System. The children showed their courage by standing up in front of the whole school and sharing what they have been learning in class. We are so proud of all of them! However, the majority of the students still refuse to accept Pluto’s downgrading to dwarf planet status in 2011, so we will have to do some further investigation into the meaning of ‘clearing the neighbourhood’ – one of the essential criteria for planet status. (https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/in-depth/)
