Blog Author: Karen-Jane Bowers

Pictures from our art and DT project creating a diorama of one of the polar regions. Children started with a shoe box and selected from a wide range of materials to select the most suitable to replicate the freezing environments. This was the result of all of the children's work this term learning…

Children spent three weeks this term in English learning about and composing their own playscripts focusing on the news of Ernest Shackleton's return from his ill fated mission to Antartica. Children took on roles as newscasters and set up a range of interviews with people to gather as much…

In Science, the Koala's have been learning about materials. 
We did an experiment to see what would happen when certain materials were heated and cooled. 
We tried: cheese, chocolate, an ice cube, jelly, wax and bread. Before the experiment began, the Koala's predicted what they thought would…

Here is the results of our tooth decay experiment, it has been 2 weeks and look what's happened to our tooth!

Thankfully the rain stopped just as we went out to Forest school today and we were able to enjoy some mud sliding, as well as beginning some Christmas crafts. Thank you for kitting the children out with wellies, it is so helpful.

We made soup and invited our parents/carers in for a taste!

Our Science topic this term is; Forces. This week the children have carried out two investigations. The first was designing and making an air resistant costume. Racing in our costumes and recording the times without and with our costume.
Our second investigation was: making a paper helicopter and…

We have been learning about celebrations and this week have been looking at Diwali.- Diwa lamps and rangoli patterns.

Children were presenting reasons against deforestation of the Amazon rainforest

We put a tooth in water and a tooth in coke we predicted what will happen and will use magnifying glasses to observe 

The children were designing and making bridges

We have been looking at different celebrations throughout the year. Today were learned about Bonfire night.