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Today, we have been learning about thermal insulation. We have carried out an investigation to find out which materials keep ice pops frozen for the longest time. We chose three different materials and kept one of our ice pops unwrapped as the ‘control’. We found out that bubble wrap was a great…

After looking at the ‘Eat Well Plate’, we designed our own pizzas.  We tried to make them as healthy as we could by including lots of fruit and vegetables.  Some of us also included some treats in our designs.  Here are just a few pictures of us making our pizzas.  Be sure to scroll through to see…

How lucky we are to have welcomed none other than British Fencing Paralympian, Justine Moore!

Justine was so generous to come in and work with the children who attend 'Fencing Club', providing them with a very rare opportunity of not only receiving advice from a Paralympic champion, but to…

Today in Science we have planned and carried out our own investigations. 
Using balls as rocks we tested whether larger rocks created larger craters. 
Some of us chose to investigate whether the height the rock (ball) fell from changed the crater size. 

In RE we have been investigating the Christmas story.  We drew pictures of all the things and people we thought might have been at the first Christmas. We then investigated the Bible sources in the gospels of Matthew and Luke.
 

Can you work out which things from our list were mentioned in the…

This week we explored pizzas.  Here we are taste testing different types of bread for the base of our pizzas.  We chose our favourite for our own pizza design.

In Year 6, we have watched the following links and discussed how WW1 affected life in Britain, in particular, via the Home Front. We then worked very heard to create webpages to display this information to help inform others! 

General:

• History GCSE / National 5: Rationing, u-boats and the…

Year 4 have been revising colour names in French. Do you like our pictures of un bonhomme de neige?

Year 4 have been learning about the festival of Hanukkah. We have drawn menorah candlesticks and have played the Dreidel game.

In maths we have been learning about different types of numbers - ask anyone in Year 5 if you fancy hearing the famous Prime Number Rap!  Today it was... cube numbers.

We had lots of fun making the different cube numbers out of multilink. 1x1x1 was quite easy (needing only 1 multilink!)…

With your parents, type in the URL of your favourite webpage and trace each 'hop' the data packet makes from router to router until it reaches the location of the webpage's webserver! Where in the world did the data packet travel from, through and to?!

Visual traceroute - Track and map the…

In Gymnastics, Year 6 have been working on developing counter balances and counter tension balances with partners and experimenting with making them more challenging. They have done this by incorporating the use of apparatus, changing/reducing the number of body parts being balanced upon and…