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This week the children have started a science experiment to see if they were right in their predictions about what a plant needs to be able to grow. They put two Broad Bean seeds into a bag with water and kitchen roll and then I stuck them into the window. Separately, we have denied one seed water…

Pictures from Day 3 of our visit to Borwick Hall with Year 5/6. Climbing Activities. 
 

Pictures from day 2 at Borwick Hall with Year 5/6. We completed a morning of team challenges and an afternoon of canoeing. 
 

Pictures from our very successful Outdoor and Adventurous Activities visit to Borwick Hall. 
Day 1- Monday 9th June, A walk up Arnside Knott  

In our computing lessons we have been learning to understand what an algorithm is. The children did a fun activity, dressing a paper doll practising giving each other precise instructions.

They learnt that an algorithm is a set of clear and precise instructions. Instructions should be…

Using Lego bricks to create prints the children experiments creating patterns, combining colours and creating pictures. They created the new colours by overlapping prints and aimed to work carefully and accurately to create their prints. 
 

The children put their understanding of colour mixing into practise to recreate their own versions of the artwork ‘0-9’ Numbers in Colour created by the artist Jasper Johns in 1958-59.
 

They looked closely at Jasper’s work deciding what the subject was (numbers and primary colours) and then…

The children investigated how to mix primary colours to make secondary ones …

Our design and technology project this half term has been learning about structures. The children have made windmills out of paper cups and showed great problem solving skills as they worked out how to stop their windmills falling over in the wind and how to construct them. So much great learning…

We have been learning how to play the glockenspiel this week in our music lesson. E have been learning a song called ‘Your Imagination’ and have begun to learn how to play instruments along to the song. 
 

The children have been using a variety of tools and learning how to measure accurately. They’ve been introduced to millimetres, centimetres and metres then explored measuring themselves. Great learning children!

Exploring length, measuring and deepening their understanding of standard measures looking if objects are shorter or longer than a metre. Lots of great discussion, comparing and learning.

Reasoning and problem solving … “l only have one metre stick, I can’t measure that it’s too big” … can…