Blog Author: Mrs Dowson

Today we have been making musical instruments using recycled materials. 
Thank you to all our parents who helped us find the materials we needed at home. 
We will finish our instruments in the morning. 
Watch this space for our finished products. 

Today we have been testing different materials to see which one was the best at blocking sounds from reaching our ears. We set up an experiment, carried it out, recorded our results and wrote a conclusion to answer our enquiry question. 

We made string telephones in our science lesson and then took them outside to test whether they worked. We came up with lots of questions to investigate including, does the length of the string matter? Can we have a conversation when the string is not taut? And can more than 2 people be part of…

Today we finished off our bread by decorating it using icing, chocolate and sweets. Our bread had to look like our designs when it was finished. Mrs Walsh and Mrs Cocker were the judges. It was their job to choose winners for 3 categories.

Congratulations to our winners 

Monty, Gigi, Izzy…

Today we made our own bread using our designs. The basic recipe was the same but some of us chose whole meal or 50:50 rather than white bread. We chose whether to add extra ingredients to the mixture before leaving it to rise. The bread was then cooked. 

Tomorrow we will be decorating our…

Today we have been following the path of food through the digestive system from beginning to end. It was messy but lots of fun. 

Today we have made cheese scones in Year 5. The DT skills we were focusing on were mixing, rubbing in and grating. We compared the making process with our bread from last week and found the similarities and differences. 
 

Today we have been learning how to make white bread in class. We weighed out the correct ingredients, mixed them together and then kneaded our dough, before making a shape. The bread was left to prove and then cooked. 
This lesson was a chance to learn the basics of bread making. Next lesson we…

This morning we made stained glass baubles to decorate our school Christmas tree. Thank you to all our parents for giving up their time to help us. Our baubles look beautiful.

After designing our own African Mask we have now entered the making phase. Step 1 was to create our mask outline in cardboard. Step 2 was covering the whole mask in Modroc which is a plaster product that  hardens as it dries. Keep watching for Step 3 (coming soon). 

In Science we dissected Oriental Lilies and Alstroemeria flowers to find all the parts of the flower we had learned about in our pollination and fertilisation lessons. We were amazed at how small some of the parts actually were. 

We found out about sound waves and how they travel today in our Mad Science Assembly. It was fun, exciting and at times hot, hot, hot. After Christmas we are hoping to run a Mad Science Club in school on a Friday. Look out for the flyer for this if your child is interested.