This is our Topic for the Summer Term

WHAT IS DNA?

The chemical structure of everyone's DNA is the same - the only difference is the order of the base pairs. There are so many millions of base pairs in each person's DNA that every person has a different sequence

No two fingerprints in the world are exactly alike. Everybody has at least 150 individual ridge characteristics on each fingerprint.

Forensic scientists and detectives take advantage of this when solving crimes. Our hands are constantly producing sweat and oil – even on our fingertips.…

The cross reminds Christians that God loved them so much that he sent them his only son.

Work completed and sent in by:

Edie Forster

Alyssa Johnston

Rebecca Gawthorpe

Felix Lambert

Emily Townsley

Mia Bennison

Sheleena Claridge

Ross Grimbley

Matthew Johnston

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Stained Glass Biscuits

We have made stained glass cookies. We had to follow a recipe with the ingredients we had been given.

Ingredients

250g plain flour

1 tsp ground ginger

100g (3 1/2oz) icing sugar, plus extra for dusting

150g cold butter, diced

1 orange, finely…

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s in America and Britain, drawing inspiration from sources in popular and commercial culture.

Different cultures and countries contributed to the movement during the 1960s and 70s

We learnt about the artists who influenced Kandinsky, and how his style changed over time, becoming increasingly abstract. We considered ways in which ideas, people, places and objects can be represented in an abstract way using simple lines, shapes, patterns and areas of colour. After this, we…

Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow, Russia on 4th December 1866

While travelling, studying and painting, Kandinsky began to develop ideas about the ways in which music and painting were related. He, and many other artists, thought that the colours and shapes…

Secondary colours

Secondary colours are made by mixing equal amounts of primary colours together:

· Blue and red mixed together make purple

· Yellow and red mixed together make orange

· Blue and yellow mixed together make green

Purple, orange and green are secondary colours. On the…

Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)He was born in Holland in 1872

Mondrian’s art
He first liked painting trees. Then he started to paint shapes like this using lots of straight lines to make rectangles and squares. He liked to paint with blue, red, yellow and sometimes black. He died in New…