In R.E, Year 1 have been exploring Judaism. We have been looking at different festivals that Jews celebrate and the reasons why they celebrate these festivals. We learnt all about the Maccabees defeating the King of Israel in the story of Hanukkah. We were amazed how the Menorah stayed a light for 8 whole days!
We made our own Menorah’s. We knew that we needed 9 candle sticks and we added the Star of David and other special details.
Take a look at our Menorah’s!
Today the weather was perfect for a fire, dry and not windy. We talked about how to keep safe. We remembered how to kneel and what to do in an emergency. Then we all enjoyed toasting and eating marshmallows.
In Nursery we love using boxes and other items to make all sorts of different things.
Here are some of the things we have made this week:
This is a work in progress pirate.
A fabulous monster
An amazing submarine
A wonderful owl.
This half term our Science focus is on rocks. and this week Year 3 have been working on comparing and grouping together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties.
Year 3 have been working scientifically by first making their own predictions about which rock from chalk, slate, sandstone, marble or granite would be the hardest. Everyone’s prediction ranked the rocks from softest to hardest. Then each group needed to work collaboratively to decide how to carry out a fair test before having a go and then making observations.
St. Clement’s Stay and Play
This week, we held our first Stay and Play session, at ‘Free @ Last Community Building’. All the families that attended had a great time and the children enjoyed exploring, learning and meeting others. St. Clement’s Stay and Play runs every Wednesday, (Term time only) from 9.15am – 10.15am, at Free @ Last. Come along and join the fun!
How do heavy things float?
We decided that only light things float, but then we thought about boats. How do they float?
To investigate we made our own boats out of play dough and changed the shape to see if certain shapes helped it to float. We found that if we made the play dough into a curved shape, it floated but a big lump of play dough sank. We found out that this was because of air. If you add air into a material it is more likely to float than a dense material with no air it in. Changing the shape of the play dough to a curved boat shape allowed more air into the material so it floated!
Here are some pictures of us investigating:
Our topic is Tribal tales and is based around life in the Stone Age. For our family project, Year 3 have been asked to design and construct a settlement . A settlement is a place where a community lives and would have usually been found close to a water source.
Year 3 have really enjoyed creating their projects and we hope our families did too! The attention to the smaller detail has been fantastic.
Have a look at our creations already in school and remember you still have time to make and bring in 🙂
During this half term Year 6 will be looking at Classification and how all living things are grouped according to certain characteristics.
The children looked at the works of Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish scientist, who begun to classify living things. He grouped them into main kingdoms and split them into smaller groups. 
We have an Eco-Council in school. Their role is to help the school become more environmentally friendly.
Last term they helped run our ‘Switch Off Fortnight’ campaign, encouraging everyone to save energy and money by switching of lights and appliances when not in use. Over the two week campaign we managed to save 30kwh of electricity.
I am going to put one of the members in charge of updating the blog so watch this space for more news soon!
Mrs Grant
In Nursery we have been using the Numberblocks television series to help us with our number work. This week we made numberblocks one, two and three. We practised counting and using language like big/small and bigger/smaller.
