In our new History topic, we have been learning about Christopher Columbus. Today, we focused on the new foods and items he encountered when he travelled to North America. During the lesson, we ‘discovered’ some of these ourselves by using our five senses. For smell and taste, we were blindfolded Read more
As part of our Science unit on the circulatory system, and our first Art lesson, we produced a junk model to build a human circulatory system. We had to create chambers of the heart, blood vessels and label the model accurately to show what we had learnt across the Read more
This half-term, our Science topic is Animals: Sensitive bodies. In our first lesson we began by singing heads, shoulders, knees and toes to warm up and activate our prior knowledge before sharing the names of body parts we already knew. As a class, we used our teamwork skills to draw Read more
This half term, year 1 are focusing on ‘Sensitive bodies’ as our new topic for the first lesson, we identified our different body parts, labelled them and understood what they are used for we are then played a game to quickly point to different body parts
Attention grabber The lesson began with a Fetch and Find activity, where pupils collected objects from the table. We discussed how the objects were the same and how they differed, focusing on the materials used to make them. For example three photo frames, one made from wood, one from metal Read more
Week 1 of STEM Club and the children have been making ‘Crafty Rafts’. They had to design and make a model raft using just a piece of paper. Then they had to conduct a fair test to see which raft design could hold the most weight. There were lots of Read more
This half term we have been learning about staying healthy and how to look after our bodies. In Design and Technology we learnt about the different food groups then create a healthy wrap. We also had a visit from our school nurse who explained how to keep our bodies Read more
In our science topic this half term, Year 5 have been looking at the properties of materials. In our final lesson of the topic today, we carried out an experiment to see if we could create an irreversible change and create a new material. We filled plastic bottles with different Read more
Pine have been investigating irreversible changes this morning. We planned an experiment to answer the question: Does the amount of vinegar affect the amount of new material (gas) created? We put different amounts of vinegar into 5 separate bottles. We filled 5 balloons with the same amount of bicarbonate of Read more
In our science topic, we have been looking at properties and changes. Year 5 carried out an experiment to test thermal conductivity. The children had 4 cups per group and wrapped each one in a different material – aluminium foil, bubble wrap and newspaper. The children’s cups were then filled Read more