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• Year 5 Walk Around the Village...

  Thu 30 Jan 2020 Year 6 News Team

  A special day was awaiting the lucky year fives of Aston Clinton school. Since they were learning about the Victorians as their topic, the teachers took the year around Aston Clinton to identify Victorian buildings. They learned that buildings that are Victorian often have bright red brick, bricked up windows-which were very common at Ginger’s Farm- and a lavish amount of chimneys. The windows were bricked up because you had to pay ‘window tax’ in the Victorian times so, instead of having to give their money to the government, the Victorian people filled up the window holes with brick. Looking around the village, year five learned that The Bell Inn is Victorian, as well as our school’s clock school and the Anthony Hall.

  “I learned a lot and it was really fun. I would make it better by being able to go closer to the buildings and see them in more detail because when we looked at some houses, we weren’t allowed to go too close” commented Lara in 5GW. 

  “My favourite part was when we saw the washhouse, the huge white mansion down London Road,” Jayden in 5GW quoted.

• Year 6 Heart Day

  Thu 30 Jan 2020 Year 6 News Team

  On one most thrilling Thursday, year six got to look inside a lamb’s heart.

   

  Mrs White, the teacher of 5GW, kindly volunteered to show them the heart in a demonstration and then help out around the classroom. They got to identify main veins and arteries and put their fingers behind the heartstrings... yes, there is such thing! They also learned about how the blood is pushed around the body.

   

  ‘It was very fun and educational but quite disgusting. I want to do it again!’ quoted Joshua and Alfie in 6HP.

  ‘It was really cool to feel the heartstrings. They were really wiry, though it was also a bit disgusting and smelled,’ remarked Thomas in 6MW.

   

  ‘I found it really interesting that the muscle in the bottom left chamber of the heart was much thicker than the bottom right because the left chamber pumped blood all the way around the body whereas the right only had to push blood to the lungs,’ commented Rose.