Blog Author: Karen-Jane Bowers

We had an unexpected visitor in Koala class (who looked an awful lot like Miss Thomas!)! He couldn't remember who he was or where he was from. The Koala's noticed he had a bag containing maps and photos and had to become detectives to help figure out who he was. 
The Koala's discovered that he…

Children have been busy exploring their new topic of electricity. The children were given the task of making a bulb light up. They had to work scientifically to choose the appropriate equipment, work out what variables to change and investigate why some circuits worked and others didn't.

In Geography the children used maps and play-doh to retrace the steps taken by the Germans and the Allied countries when invading Europe in the first year of WW2. 

Attached are a couple of photos of children completing a collaboration exercise in pairs. Both children had to have hold of the crayon at all times, but were not allowed to talk to each other. The children then had to draw a picture but neither knew what they were drawing as they couldn't…

We have had great fun in English this morning as we have been using our senses to describe some of Mr Willy Wonka’s new inventions!

We even tasted apple and custard sherbet!

As always this term has been a super busy one. We have discovered a tin forest, made dream jars, aliens landed in our very own playground and we explored outer space as well as finding out about Superhero Supertato and real life heroes …. Eastry Fire Brigade. We planted potatoes, flew kites and…

Year 6 designed and recreated their own ancient Maya masks, using designs and ideas from the ancient Maya civilisation. The Maya used masks for special celebrations, war and death!

We created London landmarks to create a London landscape.

Today, we took a super stroll down to Eastry Fire Station. To follow up our learning about Supertato, we went to meet some real life super heroes. We squirted the hoses, sat on the fire engine, tried on the fire fighting clothes and had a look at some of the equipment on the engine. Fledglings,…

During Science, we looked at a range of different instruments to consider: what was the source of the sound, how could we change the pitch and volume, how did our ears process the noise and what would happen if we played it in a different way.

Titanic day - The children participated in a debate, to argue who should go on the life boats first, they then researched and created a poster showing facts and statistics. To conclude the day the children drew the Titanic and used Charcoal to show shading. 

Pictures from our pancake races this term which we did alongside year 5.