Today, Sycamore class enjoyed making a vegetable curry. They practised skills such as cutting and peeling as well as showing good safety and hygiene practices.
Sunday, 2 February 2025
Division with Year 2
This week in Maths, Year 2 have been working hard on dividing objects equally between groups. We also discussed how some numbers cannot be divided equally. We used counters and cubes to help us.
Year 4 - Poetry Performance Competition
Year 4 Poetry Performance Competition
Here are some ideas of poems you might like to learn:
Active English in Year 1
Children in Year 1 enjoyed their practical lesson learning about different types of words. In the first instance children learned about adverbs and their purpose. Children found partners and together they acted out actions according to the adverbs. After that children learned about time adverbials to sequence events. They went on a scavenger hunt to find some to use in their diary writing.
Year 6 - Science - Building Robots
This term, the children in Year 6 have been learning about electricity in their Science lessons.
The children built upon their prior learning of of electricity from Year 4, by revisiting components, how they are represented within a circuit diagram and the role they play in a wider, functioning circuit.
Year 6 enjoyed exploring the differences between cells and batteries, and series circuits to parallel circuits. However, after identifying different parts of a circuit, the children were given the final task of building a robot.
Equipped with a cup, pens, wires, motor, propeller, cell and some tape, the children began building their own electronic writing device. This was a brilliant way for the children to put their knowledge of electricity into a practical investigation - a child from Linden exclaimed that they if they wanted to "[..] do this investigation again, before we break up for the half term!"
Some electronic devices worked within the first go of constructing the robot, others did not. However, Year 6 took this as an opportunity to not be deflated at the disappointing result, but rather to think along the lines that most physicists do - if we were to do this again, what variable would we change? What could I do to ensure a different result next time?
Please enjoy some pictures from our robot building lesson!
Year 6 - Science - Burglar Alarms
To further develop Year 6's understanding of electricity and circuits, the children had another practical lesson this term. The objective was to construct a burglar alarm!
Before doing so, the children learnt what a burglar alarm is and how modern alarms that are used in our buildings work. Burglar alarms require a disturbance of an infrared light (which is not visible to the human eye), which will then trigger the alarm to sound.
While we did not have infrared light at hand for the children (much to their dismay), we explained that a working burglar alarm could still be made by constructing a switch and attaching a protected item (fake coins from the Maths area) to it. If the protected item was taken, the switch would close, thereby allowing voltage to flow across the whole circuit completely and enabling the buzzer to sound off.
By constructing an open circuit alarm, the children's burglar alarm would only produce noise when the item was taken.
The children really enjoyed this practical lesson and it was a prime opportunity for them to explore how devices that protect them, such as burglar alarms and fire alarms, work. Additionally, it was a prime opportunity for the children to explore the significance of a closed switch in a circuit - specifically because they were able to make their own (using aluminium foil, a peg and some cardboard).
Subjects in Spanish - Year 6
Children in year 6 have been learning to use their grammar skills in Spanish by writing sentences with the correct opinion words to express which school subjects they like. Teachers have been very impressed by their language skills and their showing of outstanding use of the vocabulary and pronunciation.
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