Valley Art

In class 8, we have been doing art work in the style of Martyn Evans. Martyn Evans sketches Welsh valleys and he draws the houses using triangular shapes. We used his picture as inspiration for our own pictures of marvellous Merthyr. We coloured our houses in felt tip and the detailed buildings and the sky in water colour paint and pastels. All of the class enjoyed doing art in his style and can’t wait to carry on with them!  We will upload pictures of our final masterpieces very soon! 

You can see more of Martyn Evan’s work by visiting http://www.valleysart.com/index.php

Three, Two, One …BLAST OFF!

Astro Cymru came in to talk to us about rockets! After she talked to us  it was time to make our own rocket! We made a cone shape out of paper for the top of the rocket and then we could design our own wings. We had to make them aerodynamic! After break time we went over to the field to launch them… the woman had a pad with a stand that when you press the button it would shoot up in the air they went really high!

A couple of days later we had bottles of coke and some mentos. We made our own rockets using a chemical reaction. We put the mentos into the coke and whoosssh! The last one was the biggest one because we put loads of mentos in it and it went really high. We all had a go of putting the mentos in but we had to run fast when we did or we would get splashed with coke (and no one wanted that!).

Reported by Tillie-Rose Taylor 

Marvellous Maps

By Aran Harris  

We used our Geography and Math skills to interpret and estimate where specific places are on the Ordnance Survey Map, but we had to write for instance: Port Talbot is estimated as 60cm- 30km away from Abercanaid, but actually 67cm- 33.5km. We had to use scale to work this out, every 2cm on the map was equal to 1km.