Category: 2020 – 2021 Blog Posts

In Reception this week we have been doing some ‘Marvellous Measuring’ and some ‘Fantastic Phonics’. Look at our Weekly Planner for further details. You can see this on ‘About Us’ under ‘Reception Weekly Planner’ on our website.

Here are some photos of Forest School in Year 5 for our Allotment topic. As we cultivated last week, we were now ready to plant some veggies. We planted cabbage, radish, kale, lettuce and carrots. We can’t wait to take them home to eat once they’re ready!

Here are some photos of us making predictions. We had to work out how many of a certain item it would take to sink our boats. We used stones, cubes and 100g weights. We found out that it took over 200 stones to sink it but only 6 weights and around 150 cubes!

We enjoyed an active maths lesson outside in which we practised rounding numbers.

We learned the names of some of the parts of a ship and which of those would move. We then used Lego to build our own ship – we added masts, steering wheels, anchors and then we tested them in water. we found that lots of them sank because they were top-heavy!

Our challenge was to make a floating boat from plasticine! It was very difficult to get it to work but we found that the best shape was a bowl shape. Some of us managed to get one which worked.