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16 October 2026

Marvellous Mummification

Using what we have learned about what happened after death in Ancient Egyptian times, today we conducted our own mummification process using salt, bicarbonate of soda and a tomato. 

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14 October 2026

Phunky foods

Our Phunky foods ambassadors delivered a wonderful assembly about healthy lunch boxes and the importance of having a balanced diet. 

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12 October 2026

Melting and Dissolving

This week, Year 5/6 investigated which substances dissolve in water! We tested coffee granules, sugar, flour, sunflower oil and butter to find out what would happen when they were mixed with water.

We made sure our experiment was a fair test by keeping the amount of water, the amount of…

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9 October 2026

Egg-citing investigations

With our growing knowledge of materials and their properties, we conducted an investigation to answer the question “Which materials are best to protect fragile objects.” First we discussed a range of materials, decided on three to test, conducted our investigation and recorded our results. With a…

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9 October 2026

Martha Maps It Out

We had a fantastic afternoon walking around Elford village today. We spotted key features of the village such as the village hall, the school and the park to tie in with our Marty Maps it Out book. We are looking forward to making some of our own maps now that we know the way around our village.

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9 October 2026

Shadows in Science

Today we created our own shadow puppets and experimented with what happened as we moved the light source closer or further away. 

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7 October 2026

Super science

Today we have created our own shadow puppets and have been experimenting with what happens to the shadow when it moves further away from the light source

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6 October 2026

Can you explore different hues?

This week we have explored the art term ‘hue’. We were given two primary colours and tasked the make different hues of green. Great art skills shown by everyone. 
 

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2 October 2026

What was childhood like for our parents and grandparents?

We welcomed a special guest into our class today to talk to us about their life as a child- our wonderful governor, Mrs Billingham. Thank you so much for helping to bring our history topic to life. The children asked thoughtful questions and gathered their answers. Quote of the afternoon, “I could…

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2 October 2026

Sometimes you just have to dance in phonics!

Year 1 love an alien word Thursday disco! The rules are you have to show the alien words your best dance moves, zap their sound buttons then blend to read their words. So much fun and learning too!

 

 

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2 October 2026

People Who Help Us

We have really enjoyed our topic this week exploring different jobs of people who help us. We especially enjoyed our visit from a local fireman who brought us some fire fighter uniforms and helmets to try on. We shared stories about fire safety and he taught us how to check our fire alarms and…

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2 October 2026

Shadows

Today we have conducted a science experiment looking at the difference in shadow length and direction at various times of the day.

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