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British Science Week

This week is British Science Week and Juniper have carried out an investigation relating to this year’s theme of ‘Time’. We began by investigating animals, their variations and how they adapt to their environment over time. Evolution by natural selection is the process of changes in a species over time to suit their environment. Although adaptations can happen within our lifetimes, evolution that creates entirely new species takes millions of years. We looked in particular Read more

By Mrs Grindrod, ago

British Science Week- apple 🍎 🍏 Changing Apples 🍎 🍏

As part of British Science week, Year 1 are completing the investigation ‘Changing Apples’. In this exploration, the children delved into the world of apple varieties. They used their senses to describe the apples’ appearances, textures and taste. They discovered the smallest, tallest and widest varieties, making comparisons between each. The apples cores were then put in bags for children to observe over the next couple of weeks and children have made predictions about what Read more

By Miss Lomax, ago

Making biscuits

Our DT unit this half term is ‘Cooking and Nutrition: Adapting a recipe’. Last week we carried out some market research and taste tasted different biscuits as well as looking at the packing and deciding who the target audience was for each biscuit. This week we followed a basic recipe and made our own biscuits. We made three different batches, one with white chocolate chips, one with milk chocolate chips and one with raisins. We Read more

By Mrs Murphy, ago

British Science Week

This week in class we are celebrating British Science Week! Our given activity focus was – Effective Particle Sizes! We focused on our respiratory system and how participles can pass through some aspect of it. We completed our experiment to see which particle size can pass through each stage of the respiratory system. we made prediction before carrying out the experiment.  

By Miss Jones, ago

Year 3 Birch – British Science Week

During British Science Week, we focused on the theme of “time”. We looked closely at what time means and how we experience time. We also looked at how it would be relevant to Science – experiments need the passing of time to show results, nature changes over time etc.   Our lesson focused in on nature and what grows over time. We used a map of the school to plot where the grass, plants and Read more

By Ms. Dewhurst, ago

World book week – careers

We have had such a fun week learning about different careers. We have read books and watched a video about lots of different types of careers we could do when we are older. We then completed a piece of writing about our preferred job and why. Mrs Graham’s sister Emma, came in to talk to us about her job – a hypnotherapist. She used the characters from Inside out to help us to talk about Read more

By Mrs Graham, ago

Careers Week

We’ve had a brilliant week in Maple, we have learnt so much about different types of careers. We have been reading books which include inspirational characters and real life stories about how people achieved their dream careers. We’ve had lots of visitors such as Police Dog handlers, The Manchester Fire Service and Wincanton. We can’t thank them enough for telling us all about working in their job roles. In Scarf we discussed different types of Read more

By Mrs Pillitteri, ago

Bluebells World book day and careers week

Wow! All of the children did a fantastic job of dressing up in their careers themed costumes today, you all looked fantastic!! This week we have really enjoyed learning about different careers, we have read lots of stories about people with different careers and even practised doing different jobs to see if it sparked an interest in a future career – we have been builders, teachers, doctors, nurses, hairdressers, artists etc. Well done Bluebells, it Read more

By Miss Horrocks, ago

Careers Week

We’ve had such a lovely time during careers week. Throughout the week we’ve looked at a number of different inspirational people in books, linking to World Book Day. We loved dressing up as ‘what we want to be when we grow up’. We’ve also created our own job adverts for different types of jobs. It was great to see which skills you needed for different jobs. Finally, we had a lovely visitor in who works Read more

By Ms. Dewhurst, ago