Hallelujah Mountains

Can you describe the Hallelujah Mountains from Pandora - remember to use lots of imagery.

Avatar Tribal Jewellery

Here is our tribal jewellery that we made in design and technology.

Haka

Our Active Start sessions this week have been inspired by the Maori's Haka. It was performed to James Cameron by the New Zealand stuntmen, who worked on Avatar, as a sign of respect. James Cameron was inspired so much by this gesture he created a scene involving a Na'vi Haka although it never made the final cut of the film.

The Maori are the indigenous people of New Zealand. They have a culture uniquely their own (called Maoritanga) and part of their cultural heritage includes ta moko, a form of body modification historically used by the Maori to signify rank and social standing, enhance attractiveness and indicate eligibility for marriage.

A huge part of their culture is the Haka and performed by the men and women to signify a war cry, for amusement, as a hearty welcome to distinguished guests, or to acknowledge great achievements or occasions.

Ka mate! Ka mate! Ka ora! Ka ora! Ka mate! Ka mate! Ka ora! Ka ora!
Tenei te tangata puhuru huru Nana nei i tiki mai,
Whakawhiti te ra
A upane! ka upane! A upane! ka upane!
Whiti te ra!
Hi!
*'wh' sounds like 'f'

English translation

I die! I die!
I live! I live!
I die! I die! I live! I live!
This is the hairy man Who has caused the sun to shine again
The Sun shines!

Super Star of the Week

Well done to Aqeela who has a fantastic week. We think she is:



kind and caring, unique, cute smile, laughs and great sense of humour, always gives 110%, confident, kind, cheeky smile, honest, lightens up the classroom, cheerful, always helping others, neat handwriting, helpful, a good friend, she is a caring person, giggles all the time, cheers everyone up, nice, thoughtful, friendly, I am proud she is my friend, enthusiastic, always does her best, takes a lot of pride in her work, great member of the class

AVATAR 2

Jamal, Samirah, Alvena, Raheem and Sadiq

5 years after the Battle for Pandora Jake is a settled member of the Na'vi. The Na'vi have created a new Home Tree and the tribe is happy unaware of the trouble brewing on the other side of Pandora, a darker world with scarier creatures and an evil red Na'vi. The evil red Na'vi are waiting for a time when they can take control of Pandora.

The red Na'vi are able to bond with creatures and alter their soul making them bad. They begin to bond with more and more creatures and plants.Neytiri senses trouble and explores.

Neytiri finds out the red Na'vi's secrets and is captured before she can warn the others. She is kept hostage and they make her evil by bonding with her. Jake finds a washed up bracelet in the water and thinks that Neytiri has died as he is unable to sense her soul (because now she is evil). He goes for revenge. The Blue na'vi and the Red na'vi have a war . Jake just sits there and dosen't eat and drink. He remember's that he is linked to lord Banshee, the Leonopteryx, and goes to the gloomy part of Pandora. He sees Neytiri with the leader of the red Na'vi. He goes to her and she doesn't recognise him. Then Jake sees her eyes and are a different colour. He fights with the chief and Neytiri and manages to break the link between the Red Na'vi's and Neytiri.

The red Na'vi realise they are defeated and retreat back to the dark side of Pandora.

Teaser of Avatar 3: The Sky People return with Colonel Quarritch's brother ready to take revenge and teaming up with the red Na'vi destroy the blue Na'vi

Avatar: Creating a Banshee

Thanks Mrs Bradley for putting up our great Avatar display - you've helped bring Pandora to Forest Fields. The mask in the middle was drawn by her too!




Look at our Banshee Dragon Pop Up cards we made in Design and Technology.

Avatar

The door to the Cryogenics capsule opens with a loud, ear piercing hiss awakening your senses. Immediately, you are placed in a zero gravity chamber and after over 5 years of travelling from Earth, you are feeling tired and disorientated by your unfamiliar surroundings. Your body is aching from head to toe and you crave water. The next passing moments are a blur as you undergo a brief medical, change into your RDA standard issued clothing and brace yourself for re-entry into the Alpha Centauri's atmosphere. The ISV Venture Star shudders and grinds to a halt in the cargo bay of the Avatar Compound. Your heart is pounding out of your chest as you hear orders being loudly barked in your direction and fumbling nervously you place the oxygen mask over your head. Another deafening tremble travels through the ship as the cargo bay doors open and your eyes catch the first glimpses of natural light they have seen for several years. Slowly, you follow the rest of the men and women of RDA out onto the main deck and there you see your new home, a world so beautiful it takes your breath away... welcome to Pandora.


Year 6 'Sky People', the time has come for you learn the ways of the Na'vi. understand the elements and educate yourselves of the dangers within this awe inspiring and hostile planet. To help you on your way please visit the following link before you are briefed fully on your mission.
http://www.pandorapedia.com

Survivor Day

6POB and 6KH went on a trip to Colwick Park and The Arches Adventure Base for a totally amazing Survivor Day. At Colwick Park we built shelters in the woods and went for a hike around the lake. We were really lucky that the weather was so sunny and we were able to have a picnic by the lake. We stopped for some team games and played with the parachute which was very fun.

In the afternoon, we went to Trent Bridge where we had to face up to some challenges by climbing a rock wall, abseil down a huge wall and work as a team on Jacob's Ladder. Even though it was hard - it was so much fun.

Inspiration

As we come to the end of our topic on Survivors we are already looking towards our next theme which is called Inspiration. Over the next couple of weeks we will be writing poetry and producing artwork based upon the world around us. We have been looking at the natural world to inspire our artwork this week and you can see some amazing detail in these beautiful pieces created by the children using pastels.

Super Star of the Week

Well done to Zak who has had a fantastic term and thoroughly deserves to be our Super Star of the week.

Our class said that he was a human dictionary, full of knowledge, helps with work, a best friend, our very own Einstein, friendly, wonderful, proud to have as a friend, good defender, funny, good, cool, always smiling, enthusiastic, an excellent learner, helpful, well mannered, lives on words, caring, keen to learn, honest, polite, prepared, super haircut, sensible, hardworking, conscientious, giving, gorgeous, brain box, thumbs up, never lets anyone down

Survivor Science

During Carl's talk with us he mentioned lots of interesting facts and information about our planet. In order to get a better understanding of Greenland, travelling on an expedition and why it is important to care for our planet please answer the questions below

Why is it never completely dark in Greenland in the summer?
Why did one side of the skis need to be rough and one smooth?
Why did Carl need to eat so many calories?
What evidence did Carl see which showed the evidence of global warming?
What causes global warming?
How did the wind help Carl move across the ice? Could he use it to slow down?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/

Carl Alvey

Today Carl came in to talk to the children about his job as an Expedition Guide. He has travelled all over the world leading teams of people to fulfil their ambitions of reaching spectacular destinations. Carl has recently led teams to Mount Kilimanjaro, making 5 accents in one month and is about to take a team of teachers to the South Pole. He told us about his trip in May this year where he used wind power to travel across Greenland using a kite. At times it seemed to be a lot of fun but due to the effect of Global Warming the trip was very scary. The conditions were so bad due to the extent of unexpected melted ice that Carl and his team were unable to travel safely off the ice cap and had to be helicopter rescued. As Carl was only back in the UK for such a short time before he flies to Antarctica tomorrow we know we are very lucky to have had him spend the morning with us.

More information about his time in Greenland can be found at

http://weather.thisconnect.com/2010/04/kite-greenland-2010/

Thank you Carl for a really interesting morning.

Forest Fields In the News!!

Our journalism unit had an exciting conclusion over half term as we were published in the Nottingham Post on Wednesday 27th October. We featured in the Education section on page 19 and it was fantastic to see our work written about by reporter Bryan Henesey. It covered our work on the Chilean Miners Rescue in the Daily News and Forest Fields Fortnightly's coverage of the 'earthquake that destroyed the school' just days before. There were some excellent quotes in the paper from Lilly, Saima and Alvena who spoke about what it felt like to be an Editor in charge of a team of reporters. There were some super photographs of some of our reporters (with supporting captions) and Zak's team had their work published too!

To read the article in full click the link below

http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/news/Chilean-miners-inspire-pupils-reporters/article-2800857-detail/article.html

Brilliant work Year 6!