This half term we have been doing all about animals and minibeasts. Last week we looked at ladybirds, we learnt about the life cycle of a ladybird and read some lovely stories. One of the stories that we read was ‘What the ladybird heard’, in the story, the bad guys Read more…
We had lots of fun in forest school last week. To link with our new science topic ‘Animals’, we created animals with clay and natural materials, searched for mini-beasts, completed mud paintings and had lots of fun exploring and climbing trees. It was lovely to see such an improvement in Read more…
Our trip to Manchester Museum was FANTASTIC! We absolutely loved looking round the museum and making our own exhibition in our workshop. The lady was brilliant and kept us all engaged with the taxidermy animals and made sure we were treating them with respect.
The Digital leader had a fantastic opportunity to explore how to merge Computing, Design Technology and Science in an extremely fun and creative way. After learning how to connect the microcontroller by creating an electric circuit, the children then wrote programs using the free software (a block based language, similar Read more…
Maple have had a brilliant day at Eureka. We looked around the ‘Living and Working together’, ‘All About Me’ and ‘SoundSpace’ Gallery and enjoyed the science show ‘From the Chew to the Poo’ Science Show. Well done Maple – you were all fab!
Yesterday, Hawthorn went on their class trip to Eureka! we had a great time. We took part in lots of workshops and then watched a science show called ‘chew to the pop’ We also had time exploring the different galleries at Eureka: -all about me -sound space – living and Read more…
Year 2 have had the best day on our class trip to Imagine that. We have made lots of fun things and done loads of exciting activities. Well done to all the children who were very well behaved.
We have been learning about properties of materials and this week we investigated which materials were absorbent and which materials were waterproof. We tested a range of different materials and recorded our answers into a table.
To celebrate British Science Week this year, year 6 focused on ‘Communicate to Protect’. This focus this year across the country was time. We first looked at time. What is time? How do we measure time? What careers use time to enable them to be successful? Then, the children were Read more…
Juniper had a visit to their classroom today from Sphere Science. Our visitor spoke to us about the use of uranium to generate electricity. They explained how it needs to be dug from the ground and separated – as there are 2 types of uranium and only one type is Read more…