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We were privileged to be able to have a visit from Rachel and Mhairi from STEM Ambassadors this afternoon. Today’s session was all about setting up an (paper) aeroplane business! 
The children were asked to organise their teams to come up with a plane company and logo first of all. Next they were…

Last week, we had a wonderful trip to the Lakeland Wildlife Oasis. 
The focus of our trip was to consolidate our knowledge about biomes and climates as well as to remind ourselves about our rainforest topic from earlier in the year.

Our morning started by investigating some interesting objects…

At the end of the last half term, middle school combined their learning from geography, science and DT to create a diorama of a biome of their choice.

Children began by choosing one of the world biomes from ice, tundra, coniferous forest, deciduous forest, desert, rainforest or grassland.…

Today Upper School had their first STEM session with the PNE staff in which they were introduced to  Ozobots. These were tiny wheeled robots that were able to follow instructions using special pens.
The class were told to draw an oval shape with black pen on a white piece of paper and then put…

The children have been learning about toys in the past and comparing them to toys that they have today. 

The children in Years 1 and 2 are investigating mechanisms in their design and technology lessons. They are learning how a fairground wheel works. 
 

In our first lesson they investigated wheels and axles. 
 

Today the children in Upper School were introduced to our new topic, Evolution and Adaptation.
We started off by learning what adaptation in nature means for plants and animals.

Next we learned briefly about Charles Darwin’s theory of adaptation after he studied the 16 species of finches on…

Our Year one and two children learnt how to stay safe this afternoon and made a fire plan to how to escape from their bedroom if there is a fire.

This morning was very ‘productive’ as the class did their first read through and decided parts for the end of year production of School Daze. Everyone was so encouraging and supportive of each other which made the process really easy for distributing parts appropriately. After all that hard work,…

Today we went out using the compass to observe what we could see in different directions. 
 

We have been revisiting colour mixing seeing which secondary colours are made from the primary colours. 
 

Taking inspiration from Jasper John’s painting ‘Numbers in Colour’ that he painted in 1958 - 1959 the children used letters from their names instead of numbers and practised their colour…

Whilst the Year 6s completed their SATs tests on Monday and Tuesday morning, the Year 5 children spent time independently preparing presentations about a topic of their choice. They could use Power Point or paper and used their laptops and own knowledge to develop their ideas. After the Reading…