Academic Year 24-25:

Nursery were very excited to take part in a minibeast hunt! 

During their minibeast hunt the children used grids to help them look for minibeasts and to help them identify minibeasts. Some children even found a worm while on their minibeast hunt, once observed by the children the worm was returned to its natural habitat. As a further task the nursery children drew their favourite minibeast that they hoped to find on their minibeast hunt.

Year 1 have been learning all about the parts of a plant.

The children have made their own plant and have been able to label the parts of a plant, including the roots, stem, petals and leaves. Some children also included the function of each part of the plant!

Year 2 have been learning all about electricity. The children have discussed both electrical and battery powered items and they were able to sort these items into 'mains electrical' and 'battery powered'.

Some children in Year 2 went on a walk around school and identified some of the electrical items, they then drew and labelled one 'electrical' and one 'battery powered' item in their Science books. 

Year 3 have been investigating and exploring light!

The children have explored what materials can reflect, absorb and transmit light energy. Year 3 have discussed how light travels in straight lines and the children were very excited to learn all about sun safety, where some fantastic posters were created!

Year 4 have been learning all about electricity and circuits. The children explored and showed their understanding of a circuit by becoming the circuit themselves in groups and showing the role of each component in a circuit, including the battery, bulb and switch.

The children then created their own circuits on PurpleMash where they further explored the components used in a circuit.

Year 5 have been recapping vertebrates and invertebrates from Year 4 and have also been learning all about sexual reproduction (sexual and asexual). 

The children received a talk from the nurse and have shown their maturity and understanding through recapping their knowledge from the talk. The children in Year 5 have then used their knowledge to create a life cycle of a duck.

Academic Year 23-24:

Year 1 have used sorting and classifying when learning about Animals Including Humans.

Autumn said she sorted some of the animals by looking at whether they had fins or not.

Year 2 enjoyed exploring the minibeast area of our school grounds during their Living Things and their Habitats topic. 

Emily enjoyed counting some of the different species she found and was proud of the tally chart she produced to show her findings. 

Phoebe said she liked finding out about why the animals lived in these habitats.

The children also learned about food chains and Bella found this particularly interesting!

Year 3 have been learning about plants.

Isabel was very proud of her new learning about seed dispersal.

Year 4 have been learning about sound.

Cole was proud of his work on investigating the most effective material to make ear defenders. He said it wasn't an easy task as he had to listen extremely carefully to make his judgements.

Year 5 have enjoyed learning about the different properties of materials. 

Macie said she was really excited to see which materials conducted the most electricity and make comparisons to the ones that didn’t. She like using cubes to represent the energy transfer model and then writing her thoughts and ideas linked to the investigation.

Year 6 have been investigating Electricity.

They were proud of their problem solving skills to determine whether the given circuits would light. They also planned and carried out their own investigations.