In our topic lessons we have been looking at food groups and healthy eating. To support us in our learning we have had visitors in for the last two Fridays. We spent the first half of the session outside doing sports games for exercise and the second half inside learning Read more
Year 5 used their maths skills to complete a table containing the size of the planets and their distances from the sun. We quickly realised that we wouldn’t be able to measure these out in the classroom so we scaled the measurements down. We explored which fruits would best represent Read more
This morning Year 5 were lucky enough to have a visitor come in to class to carry out some exciting investigations. We learnt how to be safe with lots of different materials and completed challenges to sort and observe the materials.
This afternoon Year 5 worked hard researching the solar system. We used the laptops to find out information about different planets. We discovered lots of information including the size of the planets, the distance from the sun and whether they were Jovian or terrestrial. The children worked in pairs to Read more
Today we have been learning about James Lind, a surgeon from the 18th century who discovered the importance of vitamin c in our diet. We were experimenting with different fruits to work out which ones had the most vitamin c in them. We tasted different fruits and rated them depending Read more
A fantastic first day back for Year 3 Birch. Our topic for this half term is ‘Scrumdidlyumptious’ in which we will be learning all about food. To engage us in this topic, we spent our 1st lesson food tasting. We tried a variety of fruits and vegetables and discussed with Read more
To end our topic ‘Land ahoy’ we have been making some pirate ships. To begin we had to think carefully, from our science experiments, about which materials would be best to make our boat so it would float. We had lots of fun making these in school and would love Read more
This afternoon, we enjoyed carrying out a practical activity to demonstrate how plants are pollinated by insects. First the children drew a brightly coloured flower to attract insects. I then gave each child some nectar (cheese puffs). The class were transformed into bees and ate the delicious nectar. Whilst eating Read more
This afternoon, year 5 worked in Kaden’s garden finding out about the roles of different parts of a flower. We then studied the flowers in the garden to see if we could find the different parts. Back in class, we carefully dissected some flowers and managed to find the anther, filament, Read more
Year 4 Hawthorn have produced some fantastic diagrams showing the structure of the tooth. They also explained each part of the tooth with some amazing writing. Think we have some future dentists in Year 4!