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Tigers class have been adding words an images to creat postcards from Victorians on holiday. They created pictures using Green-screen that they have saved and uploaded to their postcards. The children used Purple Mash to create the postcards. 

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. 
 

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…

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!

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…