Cracking coding and steam day clay
This week is Science week and in Lichtenstein class we have been doing many steam day activities including coding and experimenting with solutions. For coding we were editing a Witch and a Wizard using Scratch and added speech and text. It was difficult at first but...
Future Engineers
As part of STEAM Day Van Gogh class chose the E in the word and took the monumental task of designing and building a structure that is strong enough to hold the weight of as many books as possible. How did they get on with this challenge? The children worked in teams...
Full STEAM ahead!
It's science week so we have been participating in STEAM (Science, technology, engineering, art and maths) activities throughout the week. We started the week with some science experiments relating to materials, their properties and changes of states of matter...
STEAM Day in Hirst Class
This morning, Hirst Class took part in STEAM activities in class. Our activities centred around the 'M' in STEAM - Maths! One of the activities was the Domino Game. We worked collaboratively in teams of 4 to match the number patterns with our dominoes. The challenge...
Greek Clay Pots
Kahlo Class had such a fun time working with clay yesterday morning. The children sculpted and moulded the clay in the shape of Ancient Greek pots and vases. Thank you Mrs Sellens for helping us! Everyone worked in pairs to create a pot We used water, sculpting tools...
Shireen the Scientists.
This week has been Science Week in Shireen class, we have been exploring different textures in the classroom. The cornflour feels sort, sticky, gloopy, and slimey. We also made a volcano eruption, by mixing bicarbonate soda and vinegar together. It was floating up. It...
Year One Races for Red Nose Day
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School Council Trip to the Houses of Parliament
On Wednesday 2nd of March the the School Councillors from year 3 to 6 embarked on a trip to the Houses of Parliament. We arrived and was introduced to our friendly tour guides. The tour guides gave eveyone headphones to wear so that we could always hear what the tour...
Are you Sugar Smart?
As part of our school commitment to reduce our sugar intake, the sugar smart ambassadors produced a display in the hall showing some of the swaps that could be made on high-sugar foods. Make sure and ask your children if they have spotted the display and what they...
What’s the Solution?
Year 5 got experimental this afternoon testing different substances to see if they were soluble or insoluble. After designing a fair test, we measured out 6 half cups of water, placed two spoons of substance in each cup and stirred. The substances we tested were:...