Blog Author: Miss Jennings

In English this term our focus text is Around the World in 80 days. This morning we attempted the same journey as Mr Fogg. We boarded our train in London and visited several countries across Europe taking in the sites, sounds and smells from our train window. Next stop, India.

This week in science we have furthered our understanding of states of matter through some exciting investigations. 
Why don’t you try one at home, pop some raisins in a glass of lemonade and see what happens.

Over the holidays the children were given an optional task of creating shadow puppets based on their learning from their science unit on light. This week we have watched all of the shadow puppet plays, it was fantastic to see all of the hard work that went into these. Well done! What a creative…

Year 3 and 4 have been investigating materials and using their comparison skills to determine whether they were solids, liquids or gasses. They then grouped the materials into vent diagrams looking at whether some materials could be categorised as both.

This week the assembly team performed their drama based around the story of Moses and the Burning Bush. They worked so hard on their performance which helped further enhance our understanding of what respect is and can mean to others.

In Science this week our investigation centred around identifying the best material to make curtains. We used our lux metres to measure how much light each material allowed through and then used the results to inform our decisions. We then evaluated how we would tweak our investigation next time.

We have worked hard on our scientific enquiry skills this afternoon investigating factors that affect our shadows. We created our own results table, recorded results and formed conclusions from these.

Years 3 and 4 have been busy editing their independent writing today. We used our purple pens to correct errors in our work after spotting our errors using our funky glasses.

What a fantastic few days we have had creating bread loaves for our Harvest celebrations.

We worked in our house teams to design and create the loaves to take to church. 
We can’t wait for you to see them.

We had lots of fun this afternoon in the outdoor theatre retelling the story of Osiris in our history lesson.

Today we used UV beads to test out how we can protect our eyes and skin from the sun. We tested different factor suncreams to see if they protected the beads and used layers of different transparent materials to investigate how sun glasses protect our eyes.

Today we used lux metres to calculate how much light was reflected off different materials. We used our knowledge of the properties of materials to create scientific predictions and then test our theories.