Year 2 Science - Plants

Year R- Jungle topic Week 1

This was the first week of our new ‘Jungle’ topic. We’ve enjoyed making parrots using paint, glue and tissue paper. We also made our very own binoculars to use for jungle exploring! There has been lots of den-making again this week using various materials and methods. It was so much fun to pretend that we were camping out in the jungle! It has been lovely to see so many children enthusiastic to write about our new topic! In other news, we had to say ‘good-bye’ to our butterflies, who emerged from their cocoons over the weekend. They’ll be fluttering around the school area so no doubt you may see one of the one day soon!

Year 2 - Maths Reasoning

We have been looking at 'Talk it...Solve it' Maths questions and discussing our ideas in groups. We have also been justifyng our reasons why we think the answer is correct.

A week in Year R....

This week was SO much fun! We have been learning about bees! We had lots of fun tasting honey and exploring our bee sensory tray. We all dressed up on Wednesday for the 'Ugly Bug Ball' and had great fun in the sun buzzing and flying around showing off our costumes. We've added a pizza oven to our Minibeast Cafe and have been dishing up some very gross pizzas for the customers. Today was a very rainy day and so we built a den in the woods to shelter us from the pouring rain. We also used foam to play 'Minibeast Ice-cream Shop'. We hope you enjoy watching!

Year 2 Getting Close To Nature

Year 2 are learning about plants in science this half term. Today we got out and about to observe the trees and plants around our grounds and to make observational drawings of some of the things we found. We also looked closely at the different trees and took some rubbings of their bark. As an added challenge, we looked closely at some of the sticks that have fallen from the trees and tried to work out which ones they belonged to.

Year 2 Maths - Telling time O'Clock and Half Past.

Year R-The Very Hungry Caterpillar

We've been very busy this week learning about the story, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". We've really enjoyed painting symetrical butterfly wings, using our new minibeast cafe and exploring how we can use dance and intruments to retell the story.

Year 6 Design and Build the Perfect Playground!

Year 6 have been working today, creating their perfect playgrounds. They looked at examples of real life playgrounds, created a design criteria and made their playgrounds in teams. Check out their brilliant hard work! Well done Year 6!

Static Electricity DT Challenge

Today we explored static electricity using lots of experiments. Then using our findings we were set the challenge of designing a game for our classmates to play, that had to use static electrictity. See what we got up to!

Ferris Wheels in Year 2

Year 2 have had a fun first day back after half term with their DT Day, which involved designing and making ferris wheels. First we learned all about the inventor George Ferris who created the very first wheel back in 1893. We were then given a design brief for the wheel we needed to make, as well as learning about how an axle and wheel mechanism works. We had great fun working in teams to make our wheels. Do you like them?

Year 3-Curious about Static Electricity

 Year 3 have been having fun finding out all about static electricity: we have been very curious to discover what might happen. What did? Take a look:-