Blog Author: Karen-Jane Bowers

Year 6 – planted sunflower seeds – a legacy to be passed onto the rest of the school as we will harvest the seeds and use them with next year’s year 6

Year 6 – planted sunflower seeds – a legacy to be passed onto the rest of the school as we will harvest the seeds and use them with next year’s year 6

WW2 Evacuee Day - Led by Mr O'Sullivan

Our WW2 day has been a fantastic success. The children were brave evacuees, disciplined soldiers and most of all respectful and welcoming to our WW2 specialist. The children fully immersed themselves in today’s experience and enjoyed the practical…

The children have taken part in a 3-day (STEM) science investigation. We were joined by a real scientist, from discovery park, who helped us understand more about industry and inspire us to conduct the investigation on how to make a cough syrup. The first investigation was to find the best active…

In art, we learnt about primary and secondary colours. We practised colour mixing! The Koala's loved seeing what colours they could create using the primary colours.

We wanted to know and find out how penguins keep warm in Antarctica. We discovered that penguins have blubber to help keep them warm. We did a science experiment using ice water and lard to test it! We had to put our hand in the ice water to see how long we could last with it - not very long! Then…

Our Forest School learning this term.

Throwing powder paint to celebrate Holi

This was us investigating which material is best for a bouncy ball

Making fire in forest school

In science, we have been conducting an experiment to see what happens to sound over distance. We tried talking to our friends normally at distance, then we tried by using paper cups and string. The vibrations along the string helped us to hear our friends a lot clearer.