This week in Literacy we have been learning all about India and have focused on the story ‘Festival Of Colours’. The children use the flowers they have to create powder colours and use it to throw during the Holi Festival. In writing we have been able to write down the colours they used and used Fred talking to help us. Miss Longmire brought in some flowers for us to create our own colours. We rolled and Read more
As part of our learning in Science, Year 6 have been provided with laboratory coats. Each lesson, one child is selected to wear the coat to represent that we are scientists and must work and think like scientists within our lesson. After the lesson, children who have impressed get the chance to decorate part of the coat to summarise their learning from the lesson. This week, we looked at different types of energy stores, and Read more
This week, Year 5 began their new Science topic ‘Electrical Circuits’. Our first lesson was all about static electricity. We learnt how static electricity is created, why we feel static shock, when we see evidence of static electricity and how thunder and lightning is created. To support our understanding, we experimented using balloons and went outside to use our own bodies to show how lightning and thunder are created.
Well done to all the children who participated in last weeks science challenge at home – how amazing was it to see the water rising, even after the flame on the candle had gone out. We were both so impressed to see so many different children getting involved yet again. This weeks challenge is ‘Milk art’. This looks so fun and easy so lets see how many people we can get participating this week. Follow Read more
Last week the whole school carried out science activities based on the topic ‘Growth’ for British Science week. Through assemblies in class, the children discussed, drew and imagined what a scientist looked like. Then we all recognised that anyone, including the children could be a scientist as long as you work hard and try, just like some of the famous scientists that year 3, 4, 5 and 6 looked at (Sir David Attenborough, Mae Jemison, Read more
Today we discussed what is happening in the Ukraine. We talked about the news and what we can do if we feel upset like talking to a grown up about our feelings. We wrote letters of positivity to the children in Ukraine to make them feel happy. We planted Sunflowers as they are the national flower of the Ukraine and have become and symbol of showing support for all those affected.
This half term, we are reading the story ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ in English. Last week, as part of our experience lessons, we went for a walk in forest school, pretended we were Little Red Riding Hood and used the FANTASTICS to collect vocabulary about what she might see, hear and feel when walking through the forest, we then used this vocabulary in our writing throughout the week. We then had another experience day, Read more
Thid week we have been exploring climate change and how that can effect the future of earth. We researched David Attenbourgh and discussed different habitats which are being effected by global warming. Here are some pictures of our learning
This week we have had lots of fun for British Science week. We have worked together to make a wormery, we discussed a worms habitat and then went into Kayden’s garden to search for worms. We were looking for three different types of worms – Earthworms (endogeic worms), Deep borrowers ( anecic worms) and Surface Dwellers (epigeic worms). Luckily it was raining so a lot of worms had come to the surface of the soil. Read more
This week in Forest School, Year 5 have focused their learning on British Science Week. The theme for British Science Week has been ‘Growth’. We discussed how growth is all around us and everyone took part in some exciting science activities. We talked about how the population is growing and how people who work in construction are continually building to deal with this. The children worked together using natural resources to build their own towers. Read more