This week has been the big science share. Reception were challenged to build strong bridges for the Billy Goat’s Gruff goats. Whilst playing outside, the children have built their bridges using different resources such as the big wooden blocks, crates, wooden planks, chairs and the foam bricks. Some of the children decided to test their bridges by standing on them!
Thank you to everyone who attended the shared learning and lunch this week. The children really enjoyed showing you around their classroom and having you here for lunch time. Thank you!
We had a fantastic day at Beeston Castle! The children learnt lots of interesting facts about the Stone Age and explored the castle, the round house and caves.
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.
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!
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…
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…
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…
Mrs Spears surprised Year 1 today with some new Lego! They got to choose to either play on the playground or play with Lego. There were some challenges for the children to complete. What a lovely surprise… the children loved it! Thank you Mrs Spears.
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.
