Queenswood – Year 1

This week, Year 1 went on a trip to Queenswood to become leaf detectives. In pairs, we searched for leaves and matched them with the ones on our leaf identification sheet. We really enjoyed searching for them and also managed to identify some flowers too! When we had collected enough leaves, we made some leaf […]

Science Little inventors

Thank you so much to the KS2 children who took the time to create an invention idea after being inspired by our British Science/DT/ History week.  I sent the top 6 off to the brilliant website littleinventors.org and they have just emailed to say that they have been featured on their site.   Check them […]

British Science Week Visitors

This week we have been lucky enough to have some special visitors come in and talk to us about their jobs. First we had an assembly with Brenda Finney (BSc, MRes, PhD) who talked to us all about her experiments in biology using microscopes. We also attended an assembly from Pauline Garner, who told us […]

Spheros Science Investigations – Year 5

In Year 5, we have been learning about forces and carried out an investigation on water resistance using our new Spheros. We kept the time the same but changed the speed and measured the distance which the Sphero travelled in the tray of water.

Expeditions to rainforest biomes

Year 5 are currently learning about the rainforests and recently explored several of the world’s biomes using Google Expedition.  This allows the children to become immersed in another worlds.

Lego WeDo Computing/STEM projects

This term classes Year 4, 5 and 6 have been involved in exciting Computing/Science/DT projects using Lego WeDo sets. Year 5 have created prototype moon rovers, investigated the use of sensors, motors, gears, levers and pulleys and finally creating code to control their robots. Year 4 pupil have created electric fans and Year 6 will […]