In Year 6 we are studying World War II. This week the children have been designing and making Anderson shelters. They had to use a variety of methods to join and assemble the materials together.
The children remembered how the people disguised their shelters underground by growing flowers or vegetables on top.
Have a look at the plans and the finished shelters.
In science year 5 have been learning about forces. We have been looking at air resistance and gravity.
We investigated different materials to see which one would make a good parachute. We decided that the carpet would be too heavy.
In the end we decided to make our parachutes out of tissue paper. Securing a figure with 4 pieces of string.
Air resistance slowed down our parachutes so our figure so it could land safely.
In Science, we have been learning about our bodies and our senses. We know that there are five senses: hear, smell, see, touch and taste. We have been working in our groups to sort pictures into the senses that we use. We also thought about activities that we do at school and drew them into the sense that we use.
Next week, we are going to use our senses to explore different food, yum, yum!
As part of the children’s work in the community they attended James Memorial Homes to chat with the residents and serve refreshments. The children were able to talk with elderly people from the community and share their similarities and experiences. Dave, a local man, spoke with the children about his weekly routine. The children were able to tell Dave all about their day at school and can’t wait to return next week.
On Thursday Year 4 visited the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery to find out more about the Anglo Saxons. When we first arrived, we headed to the Anglo Saxon gallery to try and solve the mystery of the Staffordshire Hoard. We used our activity pack to identify mystery artefacts and answer questions about what they might be. We also learnt how Anglo-Saxons relaxed by dressing up in their clothes and heading to the Mead Hall to play games. After this, we headed to the education room to take part in a history workshop. We became archaeologists and excavated artefacts from the sand to find out more.
It was a great day and we will soon be producing some fantastic writing and art work linked to our trip.
This week Nursery haven’t let the cold weather spoil their fun outside.
We found a slug under the round table when we moved it. We watched in fascination as the slug pushed out it’s ‘feelers’ or ‘tentacles’. When we gently touched the slug the tentacles went back in.
We have been getting the large pots ready for planting. We took the weeds out of the pots. We noticed that some bulbs had already started to grow so we carefully dug around them.
The children decided that the bulbs needed some water so they headed off to the water butt, filling whatever they could find!
We have also been thinking about where to store the resources in this area of the garden. The children used the planks of wood to build a temporary shelf.
Our topic this half term has been focused all around heroes and villains and this week Green class were set a challenge to create and design their own hero or villain.
Lots of discussions were held around the qualities of a hero and also of a villain. This led to Year 3 designing their own and also naming their character. Next lesson we will be using watercolours to paint the background and then using a range of materials to collaboratively create a collage. Look out over the next few weeks to see our final pieces.
I wonder if you can guess if there will be more heroes or more villains designed by Year 3?
As part of our topic in Year 5 we have been learning how the Ancient Egyptians built pyramids.
We built our pyramid
We had to try and see whether the ground was level and used different methods to test this.
We found out the Egyptians used water to see whether the ground was level.
We had to make sure our blocks of stone were completely straight so they would stack together properly.
