Blog Author: anna

This week has been Science week.

We helped the third little pig investigate which material would be the best for building his house.

We answered three questions:

What should the 3rd pig use to build his roof?

What should the 3rd pig use to build his walls?

What should the 3rd pig…

As part of British Science Week we have been investigating the journey plastics go on to the ocean and the damage this can do to our environment. The children had great fun investigating what would happen when synthetic fabrics were washed and were surprised to discover that small micro-fibres got…

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Mr H

As part of British Science Week we talked about what it meant to be a scientist.

‘Scientists working in a science lab’

‘Scientists make things happen’

The focus of British Science week was tunnels to mark the 25th anniversary of the Euro Tunnel opening.

We decided to be scientists and…

Yesterday we visited Waterstones and Yarm Library. Mrs Kempster from Waterstones, created a number of activities for us to take part in – a quiz, a treasure hunt and then read us an extract from a story, which we all enjoyed listening to.

The children have been learning lots of facts about fish and have enjoyed reading the story of the Rainbow Fish.  They made their own Rainbow Fish and used finger painting to add on the scales.  In the story, the Rainbow Fish learnt to share his beautiful shiny scales and so we have been taking…

Year 4 have been learning how neurons  make connections in our brains and help us to make memories. We made individual neutrons out of artstraws and connected them all together. Real neurons use chemicals and electrical signals to  share their messages. We have learned lots of new scientific…

This morning in assembly a team of Y6 pupils showcased the designs they have been working on in Golden Time for a number of weeks.

Congratulations – your designs are creative and unique!

We then shared the results of the recent Circle Time survey – it was fabulous that 100% of pupils valued…

Morning all,

I came across this yesterday and thought you might enjoy it!

Either post on the blog or bring in your solutions….

Mr H

Your homework this week is complete a 100 word challenge around one of the pictures below. You must use the suspense techniques we have been studying this week. It must include exciting vocabulary, range of sentence types, range of sentence openers and punctuation.