As part of Year 3’s National Curriculum Essentials Science topic, May the Force be With You, they have been learning about magnets.
Today they were tasked with finding the magnetic items in our classroom by using a magnet and placing it over a selection of objects, just like in a scrapyard. If the items were magnetic they would be attracted to the magnet.
They had to sort the items into magnetic and non-magnetic. They discovered that all of the magnetic items were made from metal, however not all metals are magnetic as the pencil sharpener blade was magnetic, but the rest of the object wasn’t!
Year 2 have been practicing their throwing and catching in PE with Tony our Multi-skills coach. They were challenging to make it harder by changing distances and adding a clap before the catch.
Year 4 continued their journey through India this week, following in the footsteps of adventurer Levison Wood.
Having collected our supplies on previous missions, this week our aim was to cross the Tawi River during flood season.
The children had to get the whole team and their equipment across the hall without touching the floor (the floor represented the fast moving river).
They showed great teamwork and communication skills and some team members showed great leadership and problem solving skills.
Year 4 started a new topic about rocks and fossils this week.
We found out about different types of rocks such as metamorphic and sedimentary, we looked at which rocks fall into these categories and then spent time examining and drawing different rocks in detail.
Here we are using our magnifying glasses to look closely at rocks to help us with drawing them. We also tested several rocks (both man made and natural) to see whether they were permeable or impermeable.
Reception children have been celebrating Diwali. In the creative area they designed their own Mehndi patterns. What talented artists we have in Reception!
On Monday 1st November, children were invited to come into school in their Halloween costumes for a fun-filled day of spooky activities! Here are some things that some of us got up to…
Year 1 made some magic potions. First of all they found their own wands and then they gathered some disgusting potion ingredients from the allotment – eyeballs, wing of fly, teachers fingers and so many more.
Year 2 looked AMAZING in their spooky costumes! Here they are pulling their scariest faces!
Year 3 wrote some spooky poems linked to Halloween in literacy. Don’t they look fabulous in their costumes!
Year 4 did some spooky writing to celebrate spooky day. They described a haunted house by torch light whilst listening to creepy music. They also made ghost lollies and spell books.
Class 7 enjoyed their first drumming lesson of the year today with Mr Bird.
They found out that samba drumming originated in Brazil. They then learned names of all the Samba drums and percussion instruments (from left to right) agogo bells, tamborims, surdos, the repinique and the caixa.
Finally, Mr Bird split the class into two groups and the children had a go at repeating a rhythm altogether as a band on the samba drums.
As part of Year 3’s Dimensions topic, ‘May the Force be With You’, they have been investigating the force, gravity.
They used tennis balls and examined what happened when they threw the ball upwards in the air, they noticed that gravity pulled it straight back down again.
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