Delves Junior School

Year 4 will be visiting Selly Manor in Birmingham on 27th February 2008. You can visit the Selly Manor website.

As part of our art project, Class 4 have looked at Country and Townscape by the American painter Megan Lloyd-Thompson. If you liked that one, Community at Work is another painting by the same artist in a similar style.

Book Club

• Chris d’Lacey introduces Icefire
• Cliff McNish introduces The Silver Child
• Jacqueline Wilson introduces The Diamond Girls

Find it: English 1 > Book Club

TV News

Find this week’s stories: News 2

Food packaging campaign

The Women’s Institute are campaigning to reduce food packaging.

Find it: Geography > Environmental issues > Taking action

Millennium Bridge sound art

A live feed of the sound of the Millennium Bridge is being piped into the Tate Modern Gallery.

Find it: Art > Galleries > Tate Gallery

News Bites

A news round-up of events in the form of four short video clips. The video clips are reporter-led pieces using language aimed at Key Stage 2 pupils.

• Queen’s children’s party
• Mummies help doctors
• Model insects on display
• Michelangelo exhibition

Find it: English 2 > News Bites

Newspaper articles this week include..

Find this week’s stories: News 2

Chalk drawing helps wildlife

The National Trust yesterday began the first wildlife survey of the Cerne Abbas Giant - a 180ft chalk figure of a man carved into the hillside near the Dorset village.

Find it: Geography > Environmental issues > Wildlife

New emblem for Red Cross

The Red Cross are changing their emblem into an internationally recognised humanitarian emblem.

Find it: PSHE & Citizenship > Politics > World Politics

World Cup 2006 data [Data]

Data handling exercises using recent results from the group stages of the World Cup.

Find it: PE > Football > World Cup and Maths > Handling data > Data

Charles Darwin [Profile]

A profile of Charles Darwin that explores important events in his life.

Find it: History > People in history > More

Bizzikid is a great site for children. It has lots of interesting pages collected together, with info about PSHCE, sport and almost all of the school subjects.

Like Art ? You’ll love the CBBC Art Website. There are lots of activities to do as well as lots of interesting pictures and info about artists.

Show Me provide links to lots of activties found in British Museums and Art Galleries and puts them all in one place. There are sections on Ancient Civilisations (such as Egypt), Romans, Tudors, Greeks, Victorians, 20th Century Britain, Saxons and others including Science & Technology, and Art & Design.

Show Me is a one-stop-shop for all the best online games, interactive activities and teaching resources for KS1 and 2, generated by museums, galleries, science centres and heritage sites across Britain. The site is entirely free to use and non-commercial.

There are lots of ideas for great days out and things to do as well.

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