This afternoon Hornet Class turned into gatherers, picking blackberries, plums, apples, and even a couple of rosehips and raspberries, from the school grounds and stewing them with honey. The children learned about how to pick fruit safely, and got to taste the kind of food it is believed Stone Age […]
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Gecko Class have been looking at the work of Edward Tingatinga, a Tanzanian artist who painted in the late 1960s and who gave his name to a whole style of painting. They have also been studying mammalsin science. These pieces of computer art are a combination of the two topics. […]
Toucan Class have made moving pictures linked to their Science and English work on animals and their habitats. They followed the design process of researching, designing, making and evaluating.
During STEM Week we completed an experiment to find out how to make the egg float. We added salt to water to make a solution, this made out eggs float! We are thinking about trying this with flour and sugar to see what happens.
And then came the oceans… Following on from the making of the globes (which you can see pictures of here) Toucan Class have today painted on the water. More to follow…
As part of STEM Week Gecko Class studied birds’ nests. After looking at some pictures of real nests, they trawled the school grounds for sticks, twigs, moss, feathers, and other suitable material to use to make their own nests. Using only the collected materials they had to work together to […]
Today the children were put into mixed-age groups named after scientists, and worked together on a range of STEM-related activities. During the course of the day the children learned about how to care for the chicks, created a house of cards, made pictures out of perfect squares, built towers from […]
Our STEM Week coincides with British Science Week – this year it is all about our diverse planet. In assembly the children considered all the types of diversity in our world. We talked about our diverse weather and attempted to create a cloud in a bottle!
Panther Class went on a walk up the High Street this morning to make observations on food retail outlets as part of STEM Week!
Year 2 finished off this half term’s science topic by thinking about why exercise is important. As part of this they completed 10 minutes of intensive exercise by doing some basic circuit training. They described themselves as: tired, sweaty, exhausted, dizzy, refreshed, good, hot, achy and happy when thinking about […]
Today, Year 4 investigated complete and incomplete circuits by first predicting which circuit would work. They discovered what a circuit needs to be complete in order to allow the current of electricity to flow.
In science this week Year 5 had to try and keep their ice pops* frozen for half an hour so they could eat them. Each group were given three ice pops to preserve, whilst three control pops sat and melted. Mostly the groups managed to keep things cool, but as […]
Year 3 became archeologists this afternoon, investigating the diet of early Stone Age people. They delved into ‘poo’ and found fruits, nuts and seeds. Just look at their faeces!
As part of our topic on the the circulatory system Kestrel Class made blood to help us remember the components that make up our blood, and the functions of each of them. We calculated the percentage blood parts we would need to represent: 55% Plasma , 44% red blood cells […]
Kestrel Class investigated how refraction changes the direction in which light travels. We completed two different experiments which showed distorted images due to light being refracted.
Gecko Class had a fantastic outdoor adventure day. They have been stick whittling, plant identifying and labelling, litter picking and flower using recycled plastic!
Year 4 were asked which chocolate will melt the fastest. They investigated dark, milk and white chocolate by first creating a prediction then analysing their results to compare. They found that most people said the white chocolate was the quickest to melt and that the dark chocolate melted the slowest. […]
To end our theme this term ‘My Home is My Castle’, Gecko Class have been investigating the best mixture of sand and water to build a sandcastle. We gradually added more water to our sand and made careful observations of the castles we built.
To help learn and recall information about the human digestive system, Year 4 played a game called Quiz, Quiz, Trade where they retell information and swap (trade) their cards with each other. The children were able to recall specific functions of the digestive system – see what they can remember […]
Gecko Class took the opportunity of the cold weather to explore and make close observations of the snow this afternoon. We enjoyed using magnifying glasses to get a closer look at the snow particles.
Yesterday Octopus Class had a great time finding out about and experimenting with magnets and many different types of metal. They all enjoyed meeting ‘Spider Magnet’ who did whatever a spider magnet does, and clung on to the underside of the table…
Year 4 have been investigating how to make an electrical circuit with a switch they made themselves through their topic of electricity.
Kestrel Class are learning all about electricity this term and how it has changed our lives over the years.
Gecko Class are starting their Computing Lessons with Mr. Handy and their class topic this term is Autumn, so it made sense to let the children loose around the school grounds with the cameras – using a new piece of IT equipment to look for and record signs of Autumn. […]
Hare Class cut up and prepared fruit and vegetables to make their own ‘super healthy drinks’ today! A lovely refreshing and nutritious juice on this sunny day!
