Pop, Pop, Pop! What popcorn will taste the best?
We had so much fun in Year One today. In O'Keeffe Class we had a science experiment. We had to predict what popcorn would taste the best. We had some popcorn in water, some in oil and the rest had nothing added. The classes made their predictions: Our Predictions: To...
Magnetic Mazes
Today to celebrate STEAM day all of the children in year 1 were able to do 3 amazing activities. In Kapoor Class all of the children experimented with magnets and created amazing magnetic mazes for minibeasts. The children understood how magnets attract some metals...
Steam Day in Hadid Class
Art - Spring has sprung. Hadid class took to the great outdoors to create some wonderful water-colours of our gorgeous garden area. Engineering - What a sticky situation! Combining teamwork with spaghetti and marshmallows, Hadid class raced to see who could build the...
A very horticultural week in Goldsworthy class
This week we have been learning so much about plants! On Tuesday we learnt all about the parts of a tree. Ms Dickman brought her special bonsai tree in for us to look at and we couldn't believe how small it was compared to the trees outside. The we went on a very...
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...