Careers Related Learning
Year 3 School trip
Today year 3 had a great day exploring Manchester University Museum.
We got to study taxidermy animals to help our understanding of scientific animal classifications
Careers Related Learning
Careers Zoom – Phoebe Bamford, Design Engineer
We were very lucky to be joined by Phoebe Bamford, a design engineer from Heywood, as part of our Careers Week. She took us through her earl education, the subjects she studied, what her job entails and some of the projects that she has been part of. The children were Read more
Careers Related Learning
Science Show
This afternoon year 3&4 got a visit from a scientist. He spoke with us about all the exciting careers we could have in science and taught us more about our topic ‘light and sound’. We completed some fun experiments too!
Science
STEM Club Week 4
In this weeks challenge, the children had answer the inquiry question ‘can we build a nest as well as a bird? We used a range of materials to make the nest and then tested them to see if they could survive in the wind and rain.
Careers Related Learning
STEM club- Week 1
STEM club have been working towards the Crest Award. The children have looked more into various scientist careers and the skills that are needed. In order to be successful, the children have taken on the role of a scientist and independently completed different challenges/ experiments. This week the children completed Read more
Science
Stem Club Week 5
This week the children have been thinking about helicopter blades, and how different blade sizes change the way a paper spinner falls. They took on the challenge of trying to help Mr Sycamore…Mr Sycamore arrived for work in a helicopter, amazing the students. He’s testing which helicopter is best. Can Read more
Breakfast & After school club
Water Cycles
Our unit in English this half term is factual guided tours. The first tour we are going to write about is water around the world. For one of our experience days we learnt about the water cycle and created our own mini water cycles.
Breakfast & After school club
Water Cycles
During our English lessons this half term we are looking at writing our own guided tours. The first tour we are going to write about is a tour all about water around the world. For our experience days we looked at The water cycle. First we listening to a book Read more
Science
Stem Club Week 3
This week the children in Stem Club have been thinking about dinosaurs. We discussed what we know about them and what different dinosaurs look like. We then designed and made models of different dinosaur shapes. We thought about the size, shape and weight of them and how each dinosaur would Read more
History
History- explorers
We have started learning about Christopher Columbus and to see what different items he brought back from ‘The America’s’ we became explorers. We used our different senses to try to work out what he brought back. We used: tasting and smelling – pineapple touch – a freely bag with potatoes Read more