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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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By Mrs Edyvean, ago

Science Club week 2

we had lots of fun investigating the shaving foam rain cloud experiment. The children used shaving foam represented a cloud, the water represented the atmosphere and the food colouring represented the rain. The children found that as the cloud get heavier, gravity pulls the water down out of the clouds through the atmosphere to get the rain!

By Miss Wilde, ago

Skill Improvement Carousel

On Thursday afternoons this half-term, Year 2 are completing a carousel of activities to improve various skills. They are improving their letter formation using ‘bubble writing’, working on their comprehension skills using information based on our current topics, practising their spellings through a variety of activities and, this week, practised sewing a running stitch in preparation for our Design and Technology task. The children have are really enjoying their busy Thursday afternoons and are already Read more

By Miss Lomax, ago

Cherwell Centre visit

Today Year 6 Rowan were lucky to visit the Cherwell Centre. They spent time in the gardens and at the farm looking at, talking about and stroking the animals. The staff at the Cherwell Centre were very helpful and knowledgeable, they shared a lot of facts with us about the animals. The children have thoroughly enjoyed themselves, some even said ‘Miss when I am older this is exactly where I want to work’. Well done Read more

By Mrs Edyvean, ago

Linking project

Today we went to Ashfield valley primary school to meet up with our friends from the linking project. We started the day by singing ‘ Count on me’ by Bruno Mars together. We then took part in two activities. For first activity, we were given lots of art resources and worked with our linking partner to create a piece of art work that showed our linking project experience. During the next activity, we took part Read more

By Mrs Downing, ago

We made it rain for GSS

Today we celebrated the Great Science Share by improving our understanding of clouds. We learnt about precipitation and how clouds collect evaporated water and make rain. Here are some pictures of our experiment.

By Miss Fisher, ago

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 race, paper bridge, spaghetti sculpture, cup tower and foil boat. They worked very well together in their groups and asked and answered some brilliant questions. Read more

By Mrs Edyvean, ago

The Great science share

We took part in ‘The great science share’, we worked win groups to complete a rainbow colour mixing experiment. We poured a cup of milk into a bowl, we then dropped food colouring in different areas then dropped washing up liquid into the centre to watch what happened. Then we made some predictions on a post-it notes and asked some fantastic, inquisitive questions. We learnt that the fat in the milk and the washing-up liquid Read more

By Mrs Graham, ago

Great Science Share 2023!

We had lots of fun today taking part in the Great Science Share! Children completed the ‘shaving foam rain cloud’ experiment. In the experiment the shaving foam represented a cloud, the water represented the atmosphere and the food colouring represented the rain. the children found when water vapour rises into the air clouds are formed. As it gets heavier, gravity pulls the water down out of the clouds through the atmosphere, we get rain! The Read more

By Miss Wilde, ago