9 May

Victorian Holidays

The children looked at a mystery suitcase, photographs and artefacts to make deductions, predictions and to share prior knowledge about living and holidaying in Victorian times. 
 

27 Apr

Planting trees in forest school

Panthers Class have been planting trees which were donated to our school by the Woodland Trust! We learnt how to care for saplings, and the importance of keeping the soil moist in the early stages. We learnt about the depth of hole that is necessary for the trees, and that they would need a stick…

9 Mar

Learning about the heart

As part of National Science Week, we are learning about our circulatory system. Today, we focusses on the heart and learnt about how it is structure. To help our understanding, we built plastercine models!

 

17 Feb

Building flood-safe houses

Panthers Class have been learning about Cambodia this week, and looking at life on the Tonle Sap Lake. Thousands of people live on the lake, either in floating houses or in houses on stilts. 

We looked at solutions for flooding from all over the world and designed our own houses that would keep…

13 Jan

Textiles- Fossil inspired art

After learning about Mary Anning, the children produced some beautiful textile art that was inspired by fossils. Firstly they investigated the shapes of fossils by creating images from natural objects. They then used pencil to create lines to mimic fossil shapes. Their textile pieces were created…

27 Nov

Rivers Topic Week

This week in Panthers Class, we have been studying rivers. We started by looking at the Water Cycle by making mini terrariums, before looking at the features rivers. We studied the impact of dams and the human geography of rivers, as well as investigating the course of the River Ribble.

For our…

13 Nov

Year 5 fire poems

Year 5 wrote fire poems using charcoal! We gazed into the flames and tried to work out what we could see.

Here are some of our favourites:

 

Flames leaping up

Like an antelope seeking food,

Sparks popping like a balloon,

Wood melting in the warm cabin

Of orange fire,

Smoke…

12 Nov

Making toys using crumble

Panthers Class have been learning how to program using crumble kits. We had to learn how to put together code, using loops for repetition. Our end of unit project was to create a programmable toy using crumble and we had to use our DT skills for the construction. We had to think about how we could…

25 Oct

Moving water

Over the past two weeks we have been investigating moving water, in forest schools. The children firstly used pipes and tubes to transport water from one container to another. This week we looked at how water could be moved without us physically touching it. They investigating adding objects…

25 Oct

Investigating orange fruit

The children have being studying health and nutrition in science. The year twos investigated if larger orange fruits had more segments and the the year threes investigated if the larger orange fruit contained more fruit. Accurate counting and reading scales was required for successful…

25 Oct

Tigers’ Harvest poem

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