Forest School Cook Out
What a fantastic forest school session today. We harvested courgettes from our garden to create delicious courgette and chocolate muffins. We followed the recipe: stirring, mixing, grating and measuring and had so much fun. It was fantastic to use produce from our own garden.
Thank you to Mrs…
Class 1 Detectives
Our science topic this term is all about people who help us and this week we have focussed on the police. We became detectives and used our careful observation skills to study fingerprints. We had a mystery to solve - who stole Miss Jennings cup of tea? The culprit left a fingerprint on the mug,…
Fantastic Phonics
We have enjoyed exploring our phonics creatively this week building CVC words with play doh and magnetic tiles. The children have made such great progress.
Which materials are best to make a parachute?
Class 2 had more egg-cellent science fun this afternoon. They used their growing materials knowledge to design, make and test parachutes. Wonderful learning everyone!
Creating imagery in poems
Today we listened to 4 different pieces of music thinking about what memory or idea each piece of music brought to mind.
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.
Phunky foods
Our Phunky foods ambassadors delivered a wonderful assembly about healthy lunch boxes and the importance of having a balanced diet.
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…
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…
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.
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.
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