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What a day! This afternoon we spent the time thinking about our well-being. With so many activities on offer, it was hard to choose which ones would help us be happy and calm. Thank you to all the staff, governors and parents for organising and supervising the activities.

Today, we have been looking at buildings from 1666 and using our observation skills to make detailed drawings of them for a 3D diorama.

Year 4 spent some time this afternoon orienteering in the playground. The children had to identify the buildings and features on the map and then orientate the map correctly. There were 9 checkpoints around the school grounds identified by a number. At each checkpoint there was a letter which when…

Today we learned about how Jewish people celebrate harvest. They build Sukkahs - temporary huts in which Jews may eat, sleep or spend time in during their week long festival of Sukkot. We tried building our own and made sure that there was a way that the stars and sky could be seen.
 

A very big thank you to Debbie Green for coming in to school this afternoon to help us with our learning about the Bible.  Never before have we ever seen such a large bible!

This week we have been talking about the jobs farmers do in God’s wonderful world. We have looked closely at fruits and vegetables that grow at this time of year. We predicted what we might see when we cut the squashes open and if the colour on the outside made a difference to the inside.

Here are our finished pictures in the style of the street artist Keith Haring! We are really proud of them.

Today in Year 5 we dissected flowers to find all the main reproductive parts. We knew the names of the parts but bringing the outside in helped us to learn where each part was and its function in pollination and fertilisation. We had remembered a lot from our lessons in Year 3 where Mrs Dowson…

Today we had a visit from Debbie and Abi from NISCU. We learnt about some of the stories from the Bible and how the Bible is important and special for Christians. We sang some songs and made our own mini Bibles.
 

We have been exploring the mixture of cornflour and water. It is known as a non-Newtonian fluid as it doesn’t follow the rules for either a solid or a liquid. We squeezed it, turning it into a solid and them let it go to see it turn back into a liquid. It was really fun, interesting and…

Today we have been learning about Joseph Priestley, the man who invented fizzy drinks. He worked out that if he put a gas called carbon dioxide into drinks it made them fizzy. We have been investigating whether gas weighs anything by shaking bottle and letting the carbon dioxide escape. We found…

We made raisins dance today by putting them into a glass of lemonade. The bubbles (carbon dioxide) made the raisins dance. We talked about how this happens.