Around West Berkshire, seven ‘Giant Schools’ have been taking part in a huge range of exciting games and activities in the run up to the coming of The Berkshire Giant and have gone mad for our enormous friends!
At Streatley Primary School, Years 1 and 2 have created a visual retelling of Jack & The Beanstalk, are growing their own beanstalks and have started a giant sculpture project looking at Matisse. Years 3 and 4 have been writing their own versions of the Aldworth Giants myth, addressing the reasons that John Ever Afraid had been hiding in the church wall for over 600 years. Years 5 and 6 have been working on a maths project using ratios to work out how tall a Giant would be based on the size of a footprint and the ratios of their own bodies. They are also designing chair, scaled up to suit the size of their Giant.
"This has been a thoroughly inspiring project sparked by our West Berkshire history. It is valuable for the children to have something that is so local but also truly giant in the ideas it has generated.”
Chris Prickett, Headteacher
Sounds brilliant!!!
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