You’ve got the job!

This morning, Year 4 enjoyed taking part in roleplay in our English lesson! We have begun our learning about Ernest Shackleton and on Friday we wrote letters to Shackleton persuading him to choose us for his expedition to Antarctica!

Luckily, today our applications were accepted and Shackleton invited us for an interview. Here are some photographs of us practising our interview techniques, asking questions and answering them in role.

Were you accepted for a job on the crew?

Did your candidate answer the questions successfully? 

Rocket Rodents in Year 6!

Rocket Rodents!

Over recent weeks, Year 6 have very much enjoyed learning about different materials and their properties.

We learnt about the absorbency of materials by planning and conducting our own experiments based around a fictional scenario - scientists have sent hamsters into space to keep our astronauts company, however, rockets do not have hamster toilets. We worked together to investigate what material would be absorbent enough to solve this issue.

We were able to choose a range of materials to test using pipettes, scales and water. This was a fun task as every pair was able to choose their own method to test the materials, implementing their observational skills to record and analyse their findings.

Below are some pictures of us thoroughly enjoying our learning.

Gardening in Year 2

The children in Year 2 have been busy in the garden harvesting the last of their crops, tidying up and planting new bulbs ready for the spring. So far we have planted daffodils, hyacinths and tulips and have more to plant! 

Road Safety Week with Key Stage 2

This week was Road Safety Week and to support this event the children's Community Champions in Bannockburn have been taking turns in their Year groups each day to ensure parents and children are following the road safety rules. The Community Champions have held up a posters with clear instructions on road safety outside the school gate at closing time each day this week .

 

Year 1 (Lime Class) get creative with clay!

Today, Lime Class used clay to design their transport for the future. For the past week we have been thinking about what type of transport we want to create that does not exist yet. We each created a design booklet where we wrote down the equipment we would need and then drew a picture of our design that we could refer to when using the clay. 

Firstly, we explored the clay by manipulating it into different shapes. We then practised joining two pieces together by scoring the clay. After, we used our design booklet to make our transport for the future. Some of the ideas the children came up with include a flying bus, a flying motorbike, a glow in the dark scooter, a car that travels under the sea and an aeroplane that can sail on the sea. 

We really enjoyed our Art lesson today and now look forward for our creations to dry so we can paint them. 

What piece of transport would you design?