Welcome back! It was lovely to see lots of happy and smiling faces on our return to school this week. We have started our new topic for the term- Ka-Pow! We will be learning about fictional and non-fictional superheroes. Our focus book is ‘Supertato Veggies Assemble’....
In Year 5, the children have been learning about the differences in the life cycles of mammals, amphibians, insects and birds. They enjoyed drawing the life cycles and describing the life processes of reproduction in some plants and animals, Including Humans. They understood that humans...
In the Meadow this week, we have been cooking. We learned how to knead dough and each child made a roll. Some children took a bit of time to come to terms with their hands being dirty, but enjoyed experiencing kneading. All children enjoyed eating...
This week in the ARP we made pizza toppings. We used our fine motor skills to cut some of the ingredients very carefully. The ingredients included, cheese, tomatoes, peppers and sweetcorn. We placed our favourite ingredients on top of our pizza base and once they...
This week our big question is, ‘How can we create shadows?’. We have been learning about different types of light sources and what happens when a person or object blocks the light source. We discovered that when something or someone blocks a light source, a...
This week in Nursery, we were looking at our Big Question for Science– ‘What floats and sinks?’ We started off by observing a boat floating in a tray of water. We talked about why it was floating and experimented by pushing it down slightly and...
In the Meadow this week, we have been looking at solid and liquids and explored melting. Children used different tools to get the dinosaur frozen in the ice out. We learned the vocabulary of solid, liquid and melting and we will continue to practise this...
This week in Year 4 science, we learned about solids, liquids, and gases by doing an experiment to find out which of three items chocolate, margarine or butter melts first. We placed small pieces of each into foil dishes and left them in a warm...
In Science, Year 3 have been exploring different forces. We have learned about the forces of gravity, friction and magnetism. We have focused upon the non-contact force of magnetism, learning about how different poles attract each other but how the same poles repel. We tested...
This week in Science, we have been investigating the properties of materials and selecting materials for a purpose. We conducted an egg drop experiment where we had to select materials to create a container to protect an egg dropped from a height. It was trickier...