A day discovering Science in the real world!

By admin21st October 2016

What an amazing day we had on Tuesday at the Milton Keynes Discovery Centre! Have you ever wondered how Chemistry and Science are used in the real world? If yes, then ask a Year 6 student because we learnt all about it on our trip!

We discovered: the different parts of soil, how potholes are formed, how to build roads and bridges, how solar panels work, the digestive system of a horse and lots more!

We hope you enjoy looking through our pictures!

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We succeeded in building an arch bridge!

 

 

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We cannot wait to continue on our Science learning journey!

Computing in Year 6!

By admin21st October 2016

Year 6 have started their Computing learning journey this week!

We have been on a QR code treasure hunt researching information about the internet and understanding which sources are reliable.

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We acted as web crawlers (spiders) to help us understand how search engines choose and rank information. We looked around the classroom for an item and then wrote down its location and how many items were there. After that, we ranked our data – just like search engines do!

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Also, we deconstructed laptops and identified the different components and functions.

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Year 4 – A Roman Experience

By f gilders14th October 2016

Year 4 have had a busy week this week as we begin our new project – The Romans! It was great to see everyone dressed up and in character for our Roman Ignite.

We created Roman helmets and laurel wreaths which we bought with the Roman money we created. We also made some extremely tasty Roman pizza with feta cheese, honey and oil on top – yum! We had some grape juice which we crushed with our hands (which got a little messy). In the afternoon, we visited a Roman Forum to buy our goods and we were drilled outside by General Kerinus as Roman soldiers!

In Literacy, we continued with our Invent character descriptions. We are almost ready for our Hot Task next week and are looking forward to seeing the improvements in our writing following the last teaching sequence!

Now we have all become more confident with addition and subtraction, we are ready to move on to multiplication and division. Can you think of any way you might use multiplication over the weekend?

Our homework this week includes spellings and a diary entry or recount of the ignite day.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Bliss, Miss Cooper, Miss Courtney, Mr Kerin & Miss Gilders

 

 

Year 5 Titanic Ignite Day

By S Forbes14th October 2016

Year 5 have had a brilliant day igniting their Titanic Project. Each class were able to explore items that were actually on the Titanic! The children were also really excited to be able to try on a life jacket from the actual Titanic film! Alongside this, the children were fantastic at debating who was really to blame for the sinking of the Titanic. They used drama, multimedia and posters to present their argument. Well done Year 5 for all your hard work. We are really looking forward to continuing our project next week! Have a great weekend!

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