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Reception have had fun exploring ice. During their science lesson, creepy crawlies were frozen due to the cold weather. How could Reception set them free? 
 

Our next stop around the world was India. We caught the steamship over then travelled by train through the Indian jungle. We even rode on an elephant! Where will our journey take us next?

This week we completed a great investigation focusing on melting points. We looked at how adding heat could change something from a solid to a liquid. Which do you think melted quickest the jelly or the chocolate?

Out new design and technology topic started this week and our task is to build a moving fairground ride with a Christmas theme.  We started by putting together some design ideas and the got hands on with axels, pulleys and motors.  Watch this space to see our finished designs.  

Class 1 had some special visitors today in their forest school session. They thoroughly enjoyed showing their grown ups how they use the forest school and exploring pumpkin related activities inspired by our English story ‘Pumpkin soup’!

Thank you to Mrs Carter and Mrs Blakeman for setting up…

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.

November started with a bang as we were kindly invited to be involved in an incredible
community event run by our friends at Sheepwash Farm. We were so grateful to have the
opportunity to join the Whittington Community Bonfire and Fireworks Event and went full
throttle into planning our part in…

We have had lots of fun this afternoon in our music lesson. The children really got ‘into the groove’ by finding the pulse in different pieces of music. They stomped, clapped and swayed in time to some Latin music. They then used the musical instruments to play in time to the pulse. We listened to…

Halloween Sale

It’s been a terrific start to the autumn term, which came to a spook-tacular end. The PTFA has been
in full-swing planning events and special initiatives for all to enjoy throughout the term, and what
better way to celebrate the last day before half term than with a Halloween…

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.