Gardening Club

28th February 2020R Smith
It has been a busy start to our new gardening club.
We have looked around our school environment and worked out what we could do to improve it. We talked about how to improve our school grounds.  Suggestions from the children included putting more bins around school for rubbish, encouraging more wild life and what sort of plants might be needed. We also talked about making things out of recycled objects and keeping the place environmentally friendly.
We did our own litter pick and found some interesting things but also lots of things that were bad for the environment.
We have also recorded the sounds outside and were able to use to listen to what different noises birds make so if we went outside and closed our eyes we could still identify what birds we could hear. We used binoculars to watch for birds around the school.  We did a tally chart and sent off the survey to the RSPB- Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. The children received a certificate for showing interest and helping research in our local environment.
We have been also discussed what plants need to grow and planted cress. The children have been given their cress to take home with them and to look after and care for their plants. Instructions were given in how to care for their cress properly and we will bring the cress back into club next Thursday and judge who has done the best job of looking after their plant.

Learning about synonyms

28th February 2020R Smith

Year 2 have been reading the story ‘Wild’ and tracking the main characters feelings throughout the text. We learnt the valuable skill of how to use a thesaurus to find better alternatives for words such as ‘happy’ or ‘sad’. We will be trying to use some of the interesting words we found this week when we write a diary in role as the little girl.

Money, money, money

14th February 2020R Smith
Year 3 have began a new unit in maths this week, Money. They started by identifying coins and counting up amounts, then adding two totals together using the actual coins to help them, before moving on to subtracting amounts and finding change.

 

Rainforest adverts

14th February 2020R Smith

Children have written and typed up their own rainforest adverts. Children worked together with friends to make heir leaflets as interesting and attractive as possible. using skills such as importing pictures, altering backgrounds and selecting an appropriate size and style of font.

 

Pfizer

14th February 2020R Smith

This week, Year 5 took park in a workshop led by two visitors working for Pfizer. The visitors discussed medicine with the children, including how it is made and tested. Children then developed their own medicine packaging. Throughout the session, children had lots of questions for the visitors and seemed to really enjoy the activities they completed.

Adding and subtracting fractions

14th February 2020R Smith
During the last few weeks, children have been learning how to add and subtract different fractions. Children have found this challenging but have shown great resilience during lessons. Some children have also managed to prove their answers are correct using diagrams, while others have used the new skills they have learnt to solve complex problems.

Spring Focus Text – Journey to the River Sea

14th February 2020R Smith

An Amazon adventure story set in the wilderness of Brazil, Journey to the River Sea is filled with mystery and memorable characters. It is 1910 and Maia, tragically orphaned at thirteen, has been sent from England to start a new life with distant relatives in Manaus, hundreds of miles up the Amazon.

Scaling is delicious!

14th February 2020R Smith

Year 3 have had a fantastic time learning about scaling in maths, they had to initially learning what this meant and how to scale up and down numbers. After developing a good understanding of this they then got to put this into practice with instructions on how to make different quantities of scones. The end result was very tasty!

Pfizer visit

14th February 2020R Smith

Pfizer came to run ‘Medicine snd Me‘ workshops with Year 6. We discovered how medicines are made and what is found in a medicine cabinet. We then packaged medicines to distribute around the world. At the end a q&a session enabled us to discover more about the company, medicine design, medicine manufacturing and careers in pharmaceuticals. We also learned from Adele, Kirsten and Sarah that there are many other jobs at Phizer, and not just scientists. Year 6 pupils were inspired by our workshops and hopefully many of our pupils will enter the science and engineering workplace in the future. Thank you Pfizer!

For more information on Pfizer please visit:

https://www.pfizer.co.uk/science-in-a-box

Algebra

14th February 2020R Smith

Our most recent topic was algebra. We learned how to find rules for solving two step algebraic equations, how to form algebraic equations, express missing number problems algebraically and solve equations, including a crack the code problem! Here are some examples of the exciting work we have completed.