Year Two had a lovely day yesterday at Peak Wildlife Park. We learned about habitats and how animals have adapted to the environment. We also looked at African animals and went into the African village to understand what life is like for people in Zambia.
Since the beginning of term, Year Five have been working very hard increasing their knowledge on forces. They have planned their own investigations for air resistance and water resistance as well as sharing their results digitally.
We studied a variation of plants🌱 and trees 🌳 during our Science learning to find out what we could spot that was the same and what was different! We added labels to the roots, leaves, stem or trunk and flower (if they had one) and talked about some of the functions of the plants. We […]
This afternoon, Reception recreated the story of Rama and Sita exploring in the woods. They had a fantastic time and even made up their own Diwali song, accompanied by a range of musical instruments. Fantastic Reception.
The Year Three children have been learning about skeletons this week in science. There had been a disaster – Miss McCann’s skeletons had fallen to pieces! The children were tasked with putting them back together again. There was lots of fantastic conversation about where each of the bones are located in the body and some […]
Year One have been venturing around the school looking for a variety of plants 🌱 They had to work in pairs to search and then create a tally chart to chart how many of the different varieties they found. There were a surprising number of daisies still out and they found dandelion clocks to blow. […]
This week Reception have been exploring a new art technique, marbling! The children loved choosing particular colours to represent the planets in our solar system. They, then mixed them up before carefully placing their blotting paper on top. We think they look amazing!
The children have been learning all about micro habits in Science. They investigated two different micro habits before attempting to create their own for a woodlouse. They gathered what they thought would attract the woodlouse before heading back inside, building it and placing a woodlouse into its new home.
After looking at the nutritional data on food packaging, the children collected data on the fat and sugar content. They presented the data collected in bar charts and then drew conclusions from their findings. All of the Science work the children have produced over the past couple of weeks will be used to create a […]
Reception have immersed themselves in Dino world this week. They have had a fantastic time investigating and measuring dinosaur bones, creating dinosaur artwork, rescuing baby dinosaurs from frozen eggs and learning all about where the dinosaurs used to live, the history of the dinosaurs and why they disappeared. The children were fascinated and enjoyed sorting […]