'A setting description' by Harriet

It was lovely.

The over grown bushes on the path were bursting with leaves. Lucy felt free and alive as she waltzed forward on the mossy green path with the wind blowing her hair back in waves of ginger. Birds sang and danced as they flew, this is a truly magical world thought Lucy. She danced forward tripping on a step, but no cut at all was found on her. The slanted steps led to an opening with a well. The well had an old brown iron frame work that spun and twisted in loops, in shapes like birds, it was almost as if the birds came alive. Lucy danced and danced with them feeling as free as a swift.

The blossom on the tree was as pink as a rose, and looked as fluffy as candy floss. Lucy stood for a while and watched the wildlife before going on her way.

'The Hanging Gardens Of Babylon' by Daisy

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

The ancient city of Babylon in Mesopotamia under King Nebuchadnezzar must have been a beautiful wonder. It was walled with fortresses and temples with statues of gold. Rising above the city was the famous tower of Babel, a temple that seemed to reach up to the heavens.

The gardens were built by the King who ruled the City in 1605bc to cheer up his homesick wife. She came from a green, mountainous land but Babylon was flat and depressing.

The King tried to recreate her homeland with mountains, terraces, rooftop gardens and trees.

As time went on the gardens decayed and today there is nothing left but the foundations.

"Snow" by Rosie

All About Snow
Snow is made up of crystalline water ice made up of lots of snowflakes. Snow is formed when water vapour is formed at a temperature of less than 0 C in the atmosphere and then it falls to the ground. The amount of snowfall varies with seasons and locations. For example the amount of snow in Greenland will be much more than the Caribbean!
Snowflakes are made when it gets so cold that the water in a cloud freezes and turns into ice. Snowflakes all have six sides or points, but they form millions of different patterns.
On the coldest parts of some mountains, snow builds up and turns into ice. Solid rivers of ice, called Glaciers move very slowly downhill.

A Leweston setting description

The sun tried to peak through the smallest gaps between the heavy trees. The squishy mud stuck to their shoes as they wondered through the beautiful gardens of St Mary. You could tell that it was about 4:00 in the afternoon. The two men, one scruffy and kind and one perfect but mean, (both thinking where should they go) came to two very wide and large gates.

'The Human Skeleton' by Olivia

The human skeleton has 206 bones. We are actually born with about 350 but many join together as a child grows up. Each hand has 26 bones in it and so does the foot. The longest bone in our bodies is the femur or thigh bone. The smallest bone is the stirrup bone inside the ear.

Your nose and ears are not made of bone they are made of cartilage which is flexible but not as hard as bone.

'Bats' by Annabel

Bats

Bats are the only flying mammal.
Did you know?

Bracken cave in Texas

has close to 20 million

Mexican free tail bats

living there!
Did you know?
Bats live on all

continents except

Antarctica.
Did you know?
That the white winged

vampire bat often

feeds on the blood of

chickens!

'Zebras' by Catherine

Zebras

Stripes

Zebras are striped horses.
The three species live mainly on the plains of east and southern Africa. They live in herds.

Zebras are black with white stripes. The stripes act like a camouflage to their main predator, the lion. e.g. After running a long way the Zebra will hide in the green grass. You might think this sounds silly considering the grass is neither white or black, but the zebras main predator, (the lion) is colour blind!

'Elephants' by Molly

Elephants

Introduction

Elephants are the largest land animals on Earth. African elephants are larger that Asian elephants. They are mammals and they are herbivores so they don’t eat meat.

African and Asian Elephants

There are two different types of elephants (African and Asian) African Elephants are slightly larger and have enormous ears. The African Elephants have 4 toes at the front and 3 toes on the back feet, the Asian Elephants have 5 toes on the front and 4 toes on the back.

Life Span

In the Elephants tummy the baby Elephants take 22 months to grow, a human body takes 9 months to grow.
Most Elephants live up to 70 years and they normally have babies up to 50.

Elephants die when they have to teeth left because they can’t eat.

Food

Elephants eat lots of things here are some things that they like to eat.
· Roots
· Grass
· Fruit
· Bark
An adult Elephant eats up to 3000 pounds in a single day.

Size

St the birth Elephants are 3 feet tall a weigh up to 200 pounds. They grow to over 2 feet tall, and weigh up to 7 tons. A large bull can be 10 foot high at the shoulder and weigh 6 tons. Female elephants are a lot smaller and are often only half the size of a male.

Interesting Facts About Elephants

· Elephants tusk are made of ivory so never buy ivory because it means killing an Elephant.
· Elephants can cry, play and have incredible memories and laugh.
· Male Elephants are called bulls and female Elephants are called cows!

cuckoos by mimi

Cuckoo

Going cuckoo

Cuckoos are a very common British bird and are getting killed. As they fly to Africa for their winter holiday (migration) they stop at Malta to refuel but the Maltese kill them or keep them a pets. We have tried to stop them doing this awful deed by petitioning (Writing to the government) and even there government made a law to stop it from happening. But it hasn’t stopped. Traditionally the first sign of Spring is the lovely cuckoo (singing “cuck oo”) Will we have to wait another summer? Or will we ever hear the lovely sound at all!

A leweston setting discription by JoJo

A Leweston Setting Description

Daisies dotted the grass as Helen wandered into the chapel. There were some wonderful glass lights hanging down from the ceiling. It had the most wonderful stain-glass-windows which, because it was so bright, made the chapel look beautiful. There were weaved kneelers and lovely carved wooden pews. The ticking of the clock sounded like glasses clinking together. The wood worms had made holes in the wood which looked like pin heads.
There was a bowel of water which was on a snow white napkin. The little candle looked like Jesus. The end of the pews had been caved in the most beautiful way.

A Leweston Setting Description by Mia

A Leweston Setting Description

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Jenny strolled elegantly down the path towards the tiny little church. She had always thought that the church had been ghostly cursed, but she never liked to think about that. She glanced at every thing in the dark church until the only thing she had not looked at was the floor. It seemed strange to want to look at the floor, but she was so tempted to. When she did peer at the floor she saw a difference in the floor colour, one bit of the floor was grey and the other was brown. She noticed that the brown area was the floor colour and the grey was a grave. The windows were all fogged up because it had been raining late that night. Jennie’s eyes were glued to the windows. She felt good when she looked at the square window that said ‘The Merits of Christ’. But Jenny felt so uncomfortable.

Ice hockey by Phillipa

Introduction:
Ice Hockey is the best game in the world because it has speed, skill, acrobatic goaltending and heavyweight fights which result in the loss of teeth and brain fluid.


The pitch:
Hockey is played on a rink 200m long and 85m wide, with rounded corners. On the ice it has painted lines on it, which show face off circles, the goal crease and various zones. The blue line is called the defending zone, the area behind the opposing team’s blue line is called the attacking zone, the area between the two blue lines are called the neutral zone.


Equipment:
Each player has a stick, the use their stick to pass and shoot a puck. They use a small, hard, rubber disk which they hit around the rink. To avoid being hurt all the players wear a good deal of padding and helmets.

'India' by Freya

India

India is a very big continent with lots of different people who speak Hindustani and many other languges. India used to have people called untouchables which they used for all the dirty jobs on streets and in houses. They are very poor.

More people in India are poor than rich. The many rich people did not build their own beautiful palaces. This was a job for the poor. Mother Theresa lived and worked amongst all the very poor people.

'A Leweston Setting Description' by Rosie

A Leweston Setting Description

As Lisa strolled through the bright spring morning car park and suddenly the Leweston Chapel came to sight. When she got to the slippery path up to the church she stopped to admire the yellow daffodils that looked like trumpets, all of the wonderful ripe flowers, buttercups. She looked at the church and its beautiful surroundings. She admired all of the old carvings on the old church. As she walked into the all she could hear was the ticking-tick, tock, tick, tock. When she sat in her seat, the bell rang and the mass began. During the hymn, Lisa glanced around at all of the wonderful carvings. When it was the end of the service everyone strolled over the graves and read all the carved inscriptions.

'William Shakespeare' by Cressida

Good frend for Jesus sake forborne,
to digg the dust enclosed here,
Bleste be ye man yt spares thes stones



Shakespeare became an actor with the Chamberlains company which was later called the Kings company. Shakespeare became a partner with the actor Richard Burbage and they performed in theatres in the Southwark part of London.

They were the Globe and Blackfriars. He was born in 1564 in Strafford and died in 1616 in Strafford.

'Rocks' by JoJo

Rocks
We live on the surface of a huge ball of rock, the Earth! The whole world is made up of rock.

Most of it is covered by grass, soil or trees.
Others such as Ayer’s rock in Australia, a massive lump of sand stone 335m high, rise from the ground so they are visible.
The oldest rocks on earth are about 3,800 million years old. Other rocks are much more recent, and new rocks are forming all the time.