Blog Author: Sarah Kinsey

Can you solve the above problem?

Why don't you create some of your own for your grown-ups to solve

Hello everyone!

I hope that you are all safe and well and enjoying spending quality time with your family. 

Do you remember the experiment that we did in our classroom where we found out if plants really do transport water around their body? We placed some white carnations in different jars…

Today  marks the anniversary of the Unity Brook disaster.  To mark the occasion we visited the graves of those who were buried in St Stephen's graveyard in the morning and then, in the afternoon, we took part in a moving service at the memorial which is close to where the disaster took…

The weather was wonderful today which meant that we were finally able to walk to Clifton Marina and look for evidence of its industrious Wet Earth Colliery past.  The children had a good time looking for evidence despite it being rather muddy!

This morning, the children took part in a whole school poetry recital.  We rehearsed and performed a poem called Mornings which is about a small child during the Industrial Revolution and her father who works in a local coal mine. The children were absolutely fantastic and recited the poem with…

Do you remember the Pringles cans that we collected? Well, we applied our scientific knowledge and understanding of light to transform them into kaleidoscopes.  We were very impressed with them!

Here we are in the computing suite designing and creating a robot. It was a lot harder than it looked because, once we had selected the various components needed, we had to manipulate their size and position until the robot was just right

As part of our maths week, we are learning about parallel lines and perpendicular lines as well as horizontal and vertical lines. We decided that a super way to learn about them was by creating an abstract piece of art in the style of Mondrian

Here we are at the start of our Maya workshop.  I wonder what we will find out?

Well done to last weeks Star Award winners

Up until half term we will be having a rugby lesson outside on the school field.

Here we are having a computing lesson about coding. We are using a programme called Scratch.