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This week we have been setting up investigations to test air resistance, water resistance and friction. The children were amazing at ensuring they would be tested fairly and they were able to explain their results based upon their investigation question. Fantastic work!

We also looked at how…

In ICT, the children have been exploring the ‘Google Arts and Culture’ app, where they were able to research into any topic. They looked at a range of cultural institutions and artists from around the world.

Continuing with our topic, the children have loved learning about different types of…

What a wonderful musical afternoon we have had today.  We found a nice shady spot and explored the different sounds of the instruments.

First, we closed our eyes and listened carefully to the sounds we could hear going on around us.  We could hear children doing PE, the wind in the trees, cars driving up the drive, footsteps as people walked up the hill and birds tweeting.

We then had to find a musical instrument that sounded the same as the sounds we could hear. 

After that we each choose an instrument and described the sound it made and thought of something it sounded like.

Our instruments sounded like …….

Ducks quacking

Snakes slithering in the grass

Thunder and Lightening

Rain

Father Christmas’ Reindeers

Tinkerbell the Fairy

Elephants stomping their feet

A woodpecker tapping the tree

Superb sketching during for our topic work!

Following on from learning the names of major bones in our bodies, we have explored our joints. First, we tried to walk to assembly without bending our knees or elbows. We realised that drinking from our bottles would be impossible without our joints! We tried to count the number of bones in our…

We have been using graphic organisers to help us learn more about Captain James Cook.  The children wrote facts about him and then used their knowledge of Captain Cook to sort key events and dates into chronological order.  Well done!

On Wednesday, we asked the question: What slope angle is required to generate sufficient energy for a marble to complete a loop-the-loop? We set up the investigation and then made predictions, observed our findings and drew a conclusion. There was lots of great discussion, drawing from prior…

As part of our ‘Bright Lights, Big City’ topic, the children have been learning about The Great Fire of London. Take a look at the wonderful art work the children have produced: 
 

Today, the children were learning about gravity and the force it exerts upon objects. In this particular experiment; a pendulum. Children planned an investigation: do the oscillations across 1 minute increase, decrease or remain the same as an object becomes heavier? As we conducted a fair test…

This week we have used our research skills in order to find our information and facts about polar bears. This links to our English lessons, where we are reading the story of ‘Ice Bear’ by Jackie Morris. The children found out about what the bear eats, where they live, who is part of their family…

As part of our topic 'Off with her head', the children have been researching about Henry VIII's six wives. The learnt lots of facts about them and created an engaging non-chronological report. They look amazing!

We were very lucky this morning as some children brought in some treasures that they had found at the beach.

We had crab body and a crab claw, some seaweed and some beautiful rocks.

We thought the crab was very smelly.

To explore crabs further we talked about different…