2NL - Material detectives

2NL went on a hunt looking at all the different materials they could find around the school building.

Year 2 - Oh we do like to be beside the seaside!

Last week, year 2 had a fabulous trip to Southend Beach and Aquarium.

Year 2 - Science week!

As part of science week, Year 2 combined the theme of journeys with their topic on plants to design and make perfume!

There were 7 different activity stations for the children to try incorporating lots of different Maths, ICT, Geography, Literacy, DT as well as Science skills.

As part of ICT this term the children are learning what it means to be a 'researcher.' They used the skills they have learnt to discover all of the different parts of the world that the plants we are studying have come from.

Next, they used their maths skills to create a year-group bar graph of their favourite smells.

Then, they had to look, smell & feel to guess the plants.

After that, they smelt all of the different fragrances using lots of descriptive words to describe them.

We even got a visit from Mrs Moore who asked us to make her some special perfume. 

At last, they got to make their perfume using their 3 favourite fragrances.

Finally, they had to think of a suitable

name for their perfume and design a suitable, eye-catching bottle.

Lots of fun was had by all!

4JI Science Week Experiment

As part of Science Week, Year 4 experimented with static electricity, and pretended we all had powers like Matilda, by using the static electricity from the balloons to lift up newts made from tissue paper. The children absolutely loved this experiment, and were really rather shocked that it had worked!

 Afterwards, the children then experimented with different materials to see which were conductors and which were insulators. This included attaching crocodile clips to door handles, coins and even borrowing Miss Irvine's jewellery to see if it worked!