Reception- Science - Three Little pigs 6th Feb 2025
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The children have loved our topic of 'The Three Little Pigs. We have done lots of tests, explored and investigated and were even engineers. We have made kites and explored the ways the wind changes directions and was able to 'blow' the different houses down in the story. We then had a go at designing and making our own houses and used a hairdryer to see if they would actually 'blow' down.

Year 5 - Science - Ice Ice Baby! 31st Jan 2025
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The Year 5 Science curriculum includes watching change over time, predicting, observing patterns and recording. So we decided to investigate whether our choice of materials would insulate an ice cube!

Year 4 - Science - Bug hunt 12th Dec 2024
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As part of our topic of classifying, we thought we'd see how many 'bugs' we could see during the winter months. In spring we will complete another one and compare.

Year 5 - Science - Space Day 2024 15th Nov 2024
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Our science day about all things SPACE!

Year 4 - Science - Hello? Can you hear me? 17th Oct 2024
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In science we investigated how sound can travel through different mediums. We made our won telephones and tested to see how long the string would be before the sound stopped travelling.

Year 4 - Science - musical vibrations 17th Oct 2024
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In science we have been learning about sound and how it is made. We investigated what happens to the pitch of an elastic band when we stretch it by creating our own musical instruments.

Year 5 - Science - investigating Forces - water resistance 2nd Oct 2024
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We have been looking at Forces this term - Each group created a vessel using the same materials. The vessels were then tested for speed through the water to see how streamlined the designs were.

Reception - Science - Our Bodies 25th Sep 2024
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The children have been learning about 'Our Bodies' - We drew round one of the children and then had a go at drawing and labelling parts of our body.

Curly Wurly Championship 2024 with Year 2 17th Jul 2024
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Today was the end of our 'Changing Shape' materials topic. We ended the topic with the Curly Wurly stretch challenge. We knew that a child on Explorify had managed to stretch her Curly Wurly to about 90cm and that the world record was over 400cm!! We had 3 minutes each to stretch the toffee as far as we could. Our results were: Joint 3rd with 123cm Kaylee and Winner. 2nd place was Jane with 126 cm and in 1st place was Nikodem with an impressive 134cm. Well done to everyone who took part.

Science: Stretch Investigation 7th Jul 2024
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Year 2 received a letter from the Science Laboratory of Super Heros asking them to work out the best fabric to design a new outfir for Elastagirl. After discussions last week it was time to put their ideas into practice this week by carrying out their investigations. We got some very good results that we will be tabulating this week and sending our reply and answers to the Laboratory

Year 1 - Science - Working Scientifically - Ants! 10th Jun 2024
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We have been learning about what scientists do. We learned that they ask questions about the world, observe closely and investigate to find answers. Our lovely ant friends helped us with practising these skills. We observed them closely, asked questions about them and carried out investigations to see if we could answer our questions.

Year 1 - Science / Art - Plants - Trees 5th Jun 2024
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We have been learning all about plants. We have spent a lot of time outside finding common wild and garden plants. We have also been learning about trees. We learned the words deciduous and evergreen and what they meant. We have been looking at the leaves and the bark of trees to help us identify them. We had a lovely calm time drawing some trees on the field, making sure we could identify the trunk, branches and leaves.

Year 1 - Design & Technology / Science - Cooking & Nutrition - Fruit or Non-Fruit? 1st May 2024
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To begin our unit of learning, the children learned that edible parts of plants are called vegetables. We learned that if the edible part has a seed, it is also a fruit. We used this new learning to look at different edible plants and decided if they were fruits or non-fruits. We then looked at where on the plant vegetables and fruits grow. We deduced that fruits always grow above ground. This also linked nicely with our learning in science about parts of plants. We loved thinking that we could eat every part of different plants!

Green Fingers In Year 2 24th Apr 2024
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Today we set up our plastic bag green houses and began our journey of growing Broad Bean. First of all we talked about why seeds are important. We used the book ‘Christopher Nibble’ by Charlotte Middleton which is about a guinea pig and his friends and family who eat too many dandelions and end up having to eat chewy cabbage as the dandelions run out. Christopher saves the day by looking after the seeds from the one plant that is left and growing many dandelions from them.

Year 1 - Geography / Science - What Is The Weather Like Where I Live? 15th Apr 2024
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Year 1 have been learning all about the UK and the typical weather that we have in different seasons. We applied all of our knowledge so far and created weather reports for each other! We made our own maps, labelling the countries. We then described the weather in different parts of the UK and even tried to use our new knowledge of North, South, East and West! It was great fun. Watch out Carol Kirkwood!

Year 5 - Science - Investigating Oobleck! 27th Mar 2024
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For the final science lesson of our materials and properties topic, we investigated a non-Newtonian fluid. As you can see, some of Year 5 were fully immersed, others not quite so!

Year 1 - Science / Geography - Seasons 5th Mar 2024
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We have been doing seasonal walks over the year and keeping track of the weather and how long the days are throughout the year.

Year 2. Food chains: What do owls eat. 28th Feb 2024
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Miss Harmer visits a wonderful owl sanctuary in Norfolk each Easter where she is able to get some owl pellets. The owl pellets were disinfected this morning and then we put on our masks and gloves before exploring the pellets and finding out what the owls had eaten. We found ribs, leg bones, teeth and fur. The children were fascinated and the experience has certainly helped them with their learning about simple food chains.

Year 2 Animals and their Habitats 13th Feb 2024
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Year 2 have been talking about animals and their habitats and how an animal is best suited for different habitats. We have discussed how animals such as polar bears, penguins, camels and monkeys are all suited to different habitats. We have looked at The Sahara and Antarctica and found out why they are both deserts. We then used addresses such as 'Igloo Avenue, Ice Cap Ridge, Arctic Way' to decide which habitat was being describe before making the habitat out of boxes and craft material. d

Year 1 - Science - Animals, Including Humans 9th Feb 2024
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This half term, we are learning about biology. We are starting to understand how scientists sort living things. We have been looking at sorting into groups based on characteristics (mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, amphibians) and also diet (omnivore, herbivore, carnivore). We sorted out different mammals into our own groups and explained how we had sorted them.

Year 5 - Science - Investigating materials for thermal conductivity 1st Feb 2024
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Another week, another science investigation! Year 5 love investigating materials! Our investigations create more questions which in turn create the need for more investigations! We recorded and shared our data, then plotted our findings on a line graph..

Year 5 - Science - testing electrical conductivity 24th Jan 2024
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Science this term involves looking at materials and their properties - for this lesson our Year 5 scientists looked at electrical conductivity, they had to remember their work on circuits from Year 4! My rubber glove has definitely seen better days!

Reception- Science- Testing 8th Dec 2023
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The children have been looking at the story of 'The Gingerbread man' In the story the Gingerbread man has to cross a river, so we decided to test different types of water temperatures and types to see which would dissolve the Gingerbread man the quickest. We tested three different samples; one was cold muddy water to represent the river, then we used cold salty water to represent the sea and then we used warm water to represent a bath. The children then had to predict what might happen in each pot and then we tested them.

Reception-Science- Looking at how the wind changes position and appearance of things 24th Nov 2023
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The Children have been exploring the wind and how it changes the position of things. We used a kite to see how the wind moved the kite through the air, the children had a go at flying the kite and then made their own kites to try.

Year 1 - Science - Materials - Water & Ice - Melt & Freeze 23rd Nov 2023
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Those naughty Evil Peas were at it again in Year 1 - they had frozen all the vegetables in ice! We looked at water and ice and tried to describe what they were like. We then used our science brains to make a plan to free the vegetables! We decided to pour warm water over the ice, to use a hairdryer and to smash the ice off! We were so happy to help our veggie friends!

Y4 - Science - Does carbon dioxide gas weigh anything? 22nd Nov 2023
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Year 5 - Science - SPACE DAY 2023 16th Nov 2023
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Photos from our spectacular inhouse Space Day!

Reception-Science-Exploring waterproof materials 14th Nov 2023
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The children have been learning about the story of 'The Three Little Pigs'. We tested different materials to see which ones were waterproof and if used for a roof would keep the pigs dry. The children then went off to make their own houses and test them themselves.

Year 1 - Science -Materials - Rock 9th Nov 2023
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We have been looking at the difference between objects and the materials they are made of. We have been looking at rock. We were so interested to learn that rocks are so different! We carefully drew our rocks, looked at them through a magnifying screen and predicted which rock was heavier.

Year 4 - Science - Solid or liquid? 8th Nov 2023
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Y4 - Science - demonstrating through role play, the particles in a solid, liquid and gas. 1st Nov 2023
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Year 1 - Science - Senses 20th Oct 2023
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This half term, we have been learning all about the 5 senses!

Y4 - Science - Lemon Batteries 19th Oct 2023
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Year 5 - Science - Forces 3rd Oct 2023
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Our very own STEM scientists helped to facilitate a class experiment into air resistance!

Year 4 - Science - Electricity 21st Sep 2023
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Making circuits

Year 3 - Science - Rock types investigation 21st Sep 2023
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Year 1 - Science / Geography - Seasons - Autumn 6th Sep 2023
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Throughout the year, we will be learning about the seasons. We started by thinking about autumn. We went on a walk around the school grounds to look for clues that autumn had begun. We loved the sounds of the crunchy leaves!

Wilderness Foundation 17th Jul 2023
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We had a wonderful (and wet) day at The Wilderness Foundation. We went pond dipping, bug hunting and did some den building too. We even managed to catch 'Noah the Newt'

Curly Wurly Championship Year 2. 6th Jul 2023
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