Over the last few weeks Year 4 have been creating Egyptian Death Masks! Today was the papier-mache stage.
Lots of mess, laughter, squeals of sloppiness and more laughter later and we have 22 masks drying and ready to paint after half term!
Class 9 took part in the cream cracker challenge this week. We tried to eat 3 crackers in one minute. We had many children very confident that they’d succeed but of course they found it impossible.
The methods ranged from eating little bits, eating more than one, shoving as much as possible in and breaking them but none succeeded.
We then looked at the science involved – saliva, enzymes and their role in the digestive system.
An exciting development within our school grounds is starting after the half term holidays!
‘The Secret Garden’ coming soon…
In Year 2 we are getting better with our mental arithmetic. Each week we do a test and our scores are improving and we are quicker at it too!
‘TO GIVE, TO HELP, TO BE KIND AND CREATE HAPPINESS’
Over the last few weeks some of the children in year groups 3 to 6 have been involved with the ‘Giving Project’ to achieve the ‘Dance Together Award’.
This week the children who took part performed their dance for some of the adults in school and received their certificates!
Well done everyone!
This half term in Year 3, the children have been working towards writing their own newspaper reports of the events of the volcanic eruption in Pompeii in 79AD.
Over the last few weeks they have been building up their skills, looking at structural features, the language used and planning and writing their own newspaper reports. Today they published their work using the Chromebooks.
Here are some examples of our amazing work!
Year 3 spent their last afternoon of the half term in the sunshine erupting their amazing paper-mache volcanoes!
In their groups they added 3-4 teaspoons of baking powder and some warm water and food colouring to make the eruption look like real lav. Then they poured in some vinegar until it fizzed and bubbled over the top of the volcano!
This morning Class 3 made the most of the sunshine and took our last Design & Technology lesson of this half term outside!
All term we have been looking at how to make a wheeled vehicle. We have researched axels, axel holders and wheels as well as how they work. We have designed our own vehicles and this week we worked in groups to bring our designs to life!
We spent a lovely lesson on the yard, painting our vehicles in beautiful bright colours ready for our very own Wacky Races this afternoon!
Year 3 enjoyed their final Gymnastics lesson with Mr Gilmore this week in P.E.
They had to complete an obstacle course using the soft equipment putting into practise the skills they have learnt over the course of the half term at each station including balancing, rolling and jumping.
After each run through, Mr Gilmore made it even trickier! Raising the level of the vault, adding in extra stations and even turning benches upside down!
Class 3 have been using lots of resources this week to help them solve their core maths worksheets! Using numicon to add and represent numbers has really helped us ace our addition and subtraction with two digit numbers!
