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Year 6 worked hard during their final lesson working with electrical circuits! They created Christmas Cards with electrical components that turned on when the card was closed and switched off when it was opened!

Brilliant designs and fantastic innovative methods for making switches- well done,…

What a great end to an extremely busy week for Year 6. Each Enterprise Week team set out their wares to sell at the fair today and every team sold out before the fair closed! Project managers and accountants checked the sales at the end of the afternoon and were delighted to discover that every…

More cutting and sticking fun in Y2 today!

We have been investigating instructions in literacy and here we are cutting out and sticking a set into our books.  

In Nursery we encourage all children to be creative. We provided a range of loose parts for children to create winter scenes after looking at paintings on our computer. We are using the pictures for our cards this year. No two cards will be the same.

Year 6 continue working together in their teams to make products to sell at the fair on Friday. Today we have had support from several parents who have helped with baking as well as offering some business advice. The accountants in each team are beginning to think about pricing our products,…

We continued to experiment with different materials to look at their properties. We predicted if they were transparent or not. Then we tested to see if they were correct or not.

Year 6 have welcomed the return of Enterprise Week, after a two year break due to Covid. Working in teams of five, each member is assigned a special role such as project manager, accountant and advertiser. Scot4All has loaned each team some money which they must “invest” during the week to make…

Thank you to the SCOT4ALL team who helped decorate the Christmas tree with the lovely decorations the children made on Friday last week. Also, a big thanks to the Long, Tall Plumber, who made sure our very big tree stood up straight and safely.

Sarah led the NISCU puppet Worship on Monday afternoon. They told us about Emmanuel - God with us and sang some great songs. Thank you NISCU.

Thank you to all the lovely mums who came into class today to help us make these decorations for the big tree in the hall.  We had great fun!

During this week, we have started investigating shelters in DT. We began by researching the different types of air raid shelters that were designed and used in WW2. Anderson and Morrison shelters were two of the most common types. We then went on to investigate how to make strong structures and…