1. Class Three Funny Bones

2. Why is he famous? Why is he famous? We started our topic by focussing on the famous runner Usain Bolt. Just how fast is he?

3. We learned that His 100m time of 9.58 seconds during the 2009 World Championships in Berlin is the current world record.

4. We tried to run as fast…..

5. We were better at his ‘signature move.’

6. We researched how he can run so fast and discovered that… John Barrow at Cambridge University who has previously analysed how Bolt could become even faster, explained his "extraordinary large stride length", despite having such an initial slow reaction time to the starting gun. fast twitch muscle He has lots of fast twitch muscle fibres that can respond quickly, coupled with his vast stride is what gives him such an extraordinary fast speeds.

7. We wrote reports about his amazing achievements

9. This led us on to thinking all about our own skeletons

11. We grouped different skeletons The hydrostatic skeleton, exoskeleton, and endoskeleton support, protect, and provide movement to the bodies of different types of animals

12. We thought about how many bones are there in the human body? 206 This led us onto some math work focussing on word problems.

13. And using a tape measure to measure different parts of our bodies.

14. We know that skeletons are very important to make our bodies work. But we also thought about the importance of muscles.

15. Muscles and joints What do you think a joint is? A: A joint is where two bones meet. It can be movable or fixed. Q: Why do you think we have joints ? A: If we did not have joints we would find simple tasks like eating very difficult. Any movement needing bending would be impossible!!!!

17. After learning all about the skeleton we moved onto learning about an artist who focussing on the human form Alberto Giacometti

18. We used the IPADS to find out that He was also a friend of Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso

20. We initially looked at the different shapes Usain Bolt’s skeleton made during a race. We decided to recreate our own Giacometti sculpture

21. We started by bending metal coat hangers into different running shapes

22. Next we covered our sculptures in pipe cleaners…

25. We then covered them in tin foil..

26. And then we displayed them around school Don’t they look fantastic!

27. We now really understand just how clever our bodies are!