This morning, Sycamore were delighted to be able to welcome parents and family members in to join us at our shared learning and lunch. As part of our new Sustainability topic, Year 6 have been looking at ways to reuse, recycle and reduce the amount of waste and products Read more…
As part of this half term’s Science topic we are learning about physical and chemical changes. Today’s lesson focus was ‘What is a chemical change and how can we identify them?’. We learnt that a chemical change is often difficult to reverse and that the change is usually permanent. We Read more…
A huge thank you to all the parents that attended our shared learning and lunch this week. The children had a fantastic time working with their parents and it was lovely to see. We completed a fun science lesson where groups had to work together to create a solar system Read more…
Wow! What a fantastic morning Year 2 had with their shared learning and lunch. The children and parents were split into groups and set a task to make a hanging solar system. The children and adults worked together, using planet fact sheets, to colour each planet correctly and write a Read more…
We met today with our new team of Science Ambassadors they all received a very special Science Ambassador badge to wear. We discussed what the role of a Science Ambassador entails and what responsibilities the pupils’ will have. We talked about the things the ambassadors would like to see happen Read more…
This week in forest school we had lots of fun; we used our knowledge of seasons and weather to discuss changes we could see in the environment and how forest school had changed since we started coming again in September – there are lots more leaves on the floor and Read more…
Year 4 were very excited today as we made some oobleck during our Science lesson. We know from our knowledge organisers that scientist find it difficult to categorise which state of matter oobleck is so we were intrigued to find out why. We first made the oobleck with 2 cups Read more…
For our Design and Technology lesson we have been asked to make a healthy wrap. In the wrap we have been asked to think about the different food groups to include: protein -hummus, ham or chicken. Vegetables- tomatoes, cucumber or lettuce. Dairy- cheese. We looked at each food, felt it, Read more…
Thank you to all the parents who joined us for our shared learning experience! We loved sharing our science lesson with you. We learnt all about absorbent and waterproof materials by carrying out an investigation. We used the curious caterpillar to plan our investigation and recorded the results in a Read more…
This afternoon Juniper have been carrying out a separating investigation. We used our knowledge of filtering and sieving to separate our river water back into pure substances. We used lots of equipment: filter paper, funnels, beakers, sieves. We discussed our ideas and planned our method. We finished with some fantastic Read more…