Year 4 were given samples of soil from Mars to investigate if Mars had ever sustained life. We inspected each sample closely before making a prediction as to which sample could contain life. We recapped the 7 life processes too. We gave the soils water, then food and then water and food together-we were shocked at our findings and are oing to let NASA
Lola Smith sketched and painted her nana this wonderful giraffe for her birthday. She worked on it at home for 3 days and 6 hours and has blown us all away with her wonderful art skills-well done Lola!
Children had a fantastic day dressing up as their favourite story character! Well done Class 5
We had an amazing time today and all got into the spirit of dressing as our very favourite book characters. We read lots of stories and created our own characters and settings too-we had a great day!
The British Library hosted fairy stories with Michael Rosen, Jasbinder Bilan and Allen Fatimaharan and year 4 took part to start off World Book Week. We listened to a Punjabi taditional tale and did a draw along of the main character (The Snake Prince) and we listened to Michael’s retell of Golilocks and The Three Bears, Glodilocks and The Three Crocodiles-in this version Goldilock had
Class 6 decided they needed a new reading corner so we linked it to our theme of space and it is out of this world! The children love it!
At the end of Spring 1, the whole school took part in a maths problem solving day focusing on the problem solving strand of conjecturing. Each maths group worked with a different conjecture and used their maths skills and knowledge to investigate it. Take a look at the ‘Celebrating Maths’ page of the website to find out what each year group got up to.
We moved on this week in our art and used the skills of applique-our finished products are going to look amazing!
Year have been investigating what makes a good non chronological report. They each chose an animal linked to their text ‘we’re going on a lion hunt’ and research some facts which they could use in their writing. Here are some photos of the children completing their research, they can’t wait to write their reports!
