21 May

Steady On, Year 6!

We have combined our newly-acquired Scientific knowledge with our D&T skills, alongside a dash of creativity and produced our very own, fully-functioning steady-hand games this afternoon! We had a fantastic afternoon, showing off and applying all of our new Electrical Circuits learning from the…

15 Apr

Flower Collage

We made a collage of a plant naming each of the parts of the flower and describing their jobs. 

14 Apr

Planting seeds

We enjoyed planting our sunflower seeds and making sure we knew what the seeds need. 

29 Mar

Science - Year 1 Garden Walk

We went on a walk around our school to identify local flowering plants. We spotted daffodils, bluebells, crocus’ and tulips to name but a few. We also spotted some trees e.g the horse chestnut, conifer and beech. We enjoyed seeing some buds and going into our sensory garden. 

17 Mar

Our Year 1 Wormery

We have enjoyed looking after these worms for the last couple of weeks. We have made sure they have been fed, watered and kept in a dark place. They are amazing animals and we have enjoyed watching them. 

11 Mar

Minibeast Hunt

We have been looking at animals this half term.We discussed what makes an insect ? 
We spotted a few in our garden and then drew them, looking at the features. We made sure we put them back exactly where we found them. 

10 Mar

Signs of spring

We looked at different types of flowers in our Scotforth garden. We spotted daffodils, crocus’ and bluebells too. We looked at how they started- as bulbs. 

10 Mar

Spotting Our Horse-chestnut tree changing through the seasons.

When we went on out autumn walk, we spotted the green leaves that had fallen down and collected cookers in their spikey casing.

When we came to see the tree in winter, we saw it had lost most of it’s leaves. 
 

Today we came back too see if had changed. We could now see big brown buds at…

18 Nov

Materials Experiment- Testing Properties

As part of our topic of “Toys,” we are looking at different materials and their properties. We are using different vocabulary to describe the materials like hard, smooth, rough. 

18 Dec

Creating Scientific Keys

In science we have looked at using keys to classify things, particularly living things. Today we used our knowledge of keys to create our own ones for a wide variety of sweets! We had to look at size, colour, texture, the ingredients and the structure in order to sort the different sweets. Look at…

28 Nov

Friction experiments

We have been completing lots of investigations to learn about friction. We used force meters to move our PE bags across different surfaces and have devised our own experiment to test which surface creates more friction. We have also made paper spinners to test air…

28 Nov

Investigating circuits

In Year 4, we have been exploring different circuits and making our own. We have been investigating materials that are insulators and those that are electrical conductors.