Academic Year 25-26:

Nursery have been learning about the body and have completed several activities looking at different body parts.

Rowen liked making a body out of blocks.

Reception have been looking at how much they have grown and the changes that might happen as they continue to grow.

They have also been learning about what plants need to grow and have planted bean plants. Abel suggested that their plants would need sun, water and mud grow and Rosalie noticed that both humans and plants need water to grow.

We can't wait to see what happens with our plants as we complete our bean diaries!

Year 1 have enjoyed learning about the human body and our senses. It was great fun trying to pin the tail on the donkey and identify a range of objects using different senses.

Year 2 have been learning all about Animals Including Humans.

They have had lots of fun learning about minibeasts and habitats as well as going on minibeast hunts to see how many minibeast they could find. Year 2 have been working hard to create tally charts to record all of the minibeasts they found. Well done, Year 2!

Max liked learning about minibeasts and he said, 'I think my work is very neat! We had to go in the minibeast garden and find minibeasts. I used a tally.'

In our Key Stage One Bases, the children have been learning about animals and their habitats. They did a great job matching some of the features to different species. Well done, everyone!

Year 3 have been learning all about plants!

We have learnt all about the parts of a plant and their functions including 'tap root' and 'lateral root'. Year 3 have also observed plants over time and researched what plants need in order to grow. Fantastic work, Year 3!

Lottie said, 'I am very proud of my work because I love my picture and I labelled it all on my own!'

Aliyah enjoyed making predictions and observing the plants every few days to see if her predictions came true. Aliyah stated, 'It turned out my prediction was correct which was actually pretty cool!'

Year 5 have had lots of fun learning about forces and investigating air resistance. They tested the effect of different sized parachutes and some children had their own mini competition during Inspire!

Year 6 have had lots of fun learning about light. They have worked hard to use energy transfer models to show how light moves. Brilliant work, Year 6!

Aaliyah said, 'I am proud of this work because we got to do an investigation to see how light was reflected, absorbed and transmitted. I used the knowledge I got from the investigation to create the piece of work and labelled it with vocabulary I learned in the lesson and some vocabulary I already knew from year 3. I also remember the energy transfer model from year 3, 4 and 5.'

Freya explained, 'In Science, I am most proud of the Investigation Planning because I loved how we got to write a hypothesis using what we had learned in the first exploration task about properties of card and the mirror. I also liked how we drew our own method (diagram) of the torch, data logger and materials. We learned about doing 2 tests and taking an average to keep our results reliable.'

In our Key Stage Two Base, they have been learning about animals. Kyle was very proud of his work on carnivores, herbivores and omnivores an could explain what these words mean. Great work, Kyle!

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.