Well done to the children in Years 5 and 6 who took part in the Great Science Share with the other schools in the Arch Alliance. We had a really fun afternoon getting to share our investigation with all the other schools, as well as carrying out the other investigations Read more…
On Thursday we started to learn about the properties of certain metals. We learnt lots of new vocabulary such as: Alloy Malleable Conductor Tensile Magnetic Rust Oxidise Durable We then used these words and our new knowledge of the metals to predict what Optimus Prime (from Transformers) would be Read more…
Eco Council went up to the garden today to check on the veggies! Some of the veggies seem to be sprouting very tall! We watered them all but the watering cans were so full that they needed 2 people to carry them! We always try to fill up from Read more…
In our topic we have been looking at how we have changed over time. Yesterday we brought in our baby pictures so that we could look at the similarities and differences in ourselves between then and now.
As part of our ID topic, we have been collecting data about our class. We have taken significant measurements of each member of the class and recorded them on a table. From there, we have begun to present the data effectively on a range of graphs and charts. This has Read more…
When Miss Lomax got into school this morning, she found something strange in the school grounds. Year 3 went to explore. We found a really large outline of what looked like a body but was much too big and oddly shaped. We questioned what it may be and how it Read more…
Thank you to everyone who brought batteries in! We managed to fill around 8 barrels in total. They will go off to be weighed and hopefully our efforts will put us into the prize draw for some amazing prizes for the school. We will continue to collect batteries and Read more…
To begin our ID topic, which is all about us and who we are, we sketched ourselves by identifying the key characteristics of our faces. We looked at our eyes, hair, nose and mouth, paying attention to size, shape and colour. We used half of our own face as a Read more…
Year 6 continued their work on inheritance, evolution and Darwin by exploring what DNA is, how it helps decide what type of person we will be and how genetic engineering and selective breeding have affected living things around us. We studied selective breeding in dogs, looking at how species Read more…
After weeks of studying Darwin’s work, we were able to use his notes to recreate some of his experiments. We decided to focus on his work on seed dispersal and what he felt he could learn from owl pellets and the study of diets within food chains. The first thing Read more…