The children in year 4 have made designs for a ‘Slingshot car.’ During D&T this week, we began to make the chassis of our cars. It was tricky measuring all the parts as we had to make sure our measurements were accurate or the parts wouldn’t fit together. We can’t wait to show you our cars when they are finished.
This week in Science, we have been learning all about mixtures. We investigated what would happen when we mixed a substance with water. The substances we mixed with water were; washing up liquid, hand soap and bubble bath. We used our fingers as bubble wands to see which mixture would make the best bubbles. We also used our mathematical skills to measure each substance and the water into each of the containers. We had lots Read more
What a fantastic day we had for sports day! Well done to all of the children, they were amazing and a big thank you to Mr. Tomkins for organising everything. We had lots of fun!
Last week, Year 5 made the most of the sun with a trip to Queen’s Park for our geography fieldwork. The children worked in pairs to find a suitable location for a picnic taking a number of factors into consideration, such as safety, suitable grounds, surrounding nature, weather etc. We took a route round the back of school, making a number of stops along the way. At each stop we decided if it was or Read more
We followed instructions to make paper windmills. We coloured in the nets for each part and then cut them out and stuck them together. We then make a working turbine at the top! We are super proud of our work. Please take a look!
Today Year 6 took a trip to Queen’s Park to carry out fieldwork linked to our DT topic – playgrounds. The children ‘investigated the location and usage of a local playground’. We looked at where the playground is situated within the park grounds? Is it easy to access? Who is the park aimed for and what equipment in available? This activity required the children to think more deeply about the provision and location of such Read more
This week in Science club the children had the opportunity to make lava lamps. What fun we had! The children changed the amount of oil and water they used to investigate whether it changed the end result. The children realised that in some it took a while for the oil and water to separate, if they children poured oil then water, it appeared to take a lot longer to separate. Either way, the children were Read more
This week in Year 4 Maple we had a special information session all about Charcot Marie Tooth. One of our wonderful pupils has this condition and wanted their friends to learn all about how it effects their day to day life. Our NHS visitors provided lots of information and set up some fun activities which were designed to show how it feels to have this condition. The children loved the session and we were so Read more
This half term Maple are learning about ‘Mechanical Systems’ and designing and making a slingshot car. Today we have been working independently to produce an accurate, functioning car chassis and design a shape that is suitable for the project. We have discussed what air resistance is and attempted to reduce air resistance through the design of our shapes.
This week we have been learning about Minibeasts and have learnt lots about them. We worked at five different stations, the caterpillar station, the painting minibeasts station, the bug hotel station, the bug hunt station and the sorting station. In the caterpillar station we observed our caterpillar and drew our observations on a piece of paper. We talked lots about what they looked like and compared our caterpillars with other types. Outside we painted our Read more