Mrs Edyvean

Beach day!

Year 5 had a great day at St Annes beach today. It was glorious weather and the children had lots of fun in the sunshine. The Lancashire Wildlife Trust set up camp for us and carried out some fantastic beach school workshops learning about the wildlife that live in the coastal habitat and how to protect them. The children explored the sand dunes using nets and found lots of minibeasts were living there. We also explored the strandline searching for signs of life such as egg cases and shells. We also carried out some practical activities to learn about the tides and why there is so much life on the beach. The children decided that they didn’t like the litter on the beach and carried out their own litter pick to clean the beach up. There was also some time to play on the beach. Everyone enjoyed building sandcastles, flying kites and frisbees. There was some fantastic teamwork going on.

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STEM challenges – GSS

Yesterday, Year 6 had a great time working on five different STEM challenges for the Great Science Share. The Great Science Share allowed the children to develop their own scientific questions,  carry out their own enquiries and to gather evidence to answer their questions.  The children had five challenges: balloon Read more

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Great Science Share

This afternoon, Year 5 had a great time working on an egg drop challenge. The children were given the challenge of creating a parachute to a protect an egg. The children thought about which materials would be best to protect the egg. We then discussed which variables would need to Read more

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Eid Celebrations

In RE this half term, we have been studying the religion of Islam. We have discussed the five pillars of Islam and why the month of Ramadan is important. We also found out about the celebration of Eid-Ul-Fitr. We compared this to Christian celebrations such as Christmas. We found that Read more

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What is Evolution?

In science, year 5 have been learning about evolution. The children researched Charles Darwin and the work he did. To help reinforce our learning, we played a game outside which demonstrated the evolution of finches and their different shaped beaks using pegs, tweezers and chopsticks. We found the children with Read more

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Ethos team assembly

Today Ethos did a fantastic job retelling the story of Joseph and his coat of many colours. The children spoke clearly and confidently during collective worship. They retold the story with a modern twist. We spoke about how Joseph showed forgiveness towards his brothers even though they were unkind to Read more

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