Elder Class had an amazing time visiting our local allotment. We were able to plant radish and rocket seeds. We also saw a scarecrow, a green house, apple trees and pears trees. We learnt how to keep slugs away from plants and why insects like to live on allotments. 

We had a great time visiting the allotments today! 

We were shown around by some very knowledgable gardeners who answered all of our questioned and showed us many wonderful plants and vegetables that were growing in their gardens. 

Did you know there are over 30 types of pear tree and over 2500 types of apple tree! 

We saw lots of wildlife too, including some tiny forgs. 

We went on a school trip to the allotments today. First we had a tour around the allotments and went on a bug hunt. We saw snails, slugs, a baby frog and a bird. We also learnt about the different plants that were grown there including gooseberries and strawberries. We also saw apple and pear trees! We loved looking at the compost heap too! Afterwards, we plants our own radishes and had to carefully fill our plant pots with soil and water them. We had the best morning! 

We have been so lucky to hear from alot of people who work within science throughout the day. Our exciting morning started with Mrs Dale who spoke to us about the company she works for within Engineering and found out that engineers have built or taken part in the building, of lots of things around us. 

We met Ethan, who works as a wastewater modeller and he spoke to us all about climate change and how he investigates urban dainage to prevent flooding. 

We then completed an experiment, investigating the right environments for seeds to grow and learned all about a Botanist called Emma Williams.

In the afternoon we had an assembly with Dr Chennell and Mr Rigby from Nikon who talked to us about how they use microscopes in their job to research medicines. We even got to have a look through the microscopes!

We have had the best day in Fir class during Science day. Firstly, we read 'Greta and the Giants' and discussed climate change. We made posters to show how we could help look after our planet Earth. We then went to an assembly and listened to a STEM ambassador called Ethan. He knew lots of information all about our climate! It was fasinating listening to all of his science facts. After, we learnt about Emma Williams, a famous Scientist. Later, we went to the hall and had a workshop with Dr Chennell and Dr Rigby about miscroscopes. We had the chance to use the microscopes to look at slugs, other insects and lots of different plants. It was the best day ever!

Elder Class have had a super Science Day today. First we read the story of Greta and the Giants which helped us think of things we could do to help save our planet. We then meet Ethan who talked to us about climate change and how he works as a wastewater modeller investigating our urban drainage networks to prevent flooding.

We then learnt about another scientist called Emma Williams who is a Botanist. She told us why she loves being a Botanist and what her job involves.

We completed an experiment, investigating the right environments for seeds to grow.

Finally we met Dr Chennell and Mr Rigby from Nikon who talked to us about how he uses microscopes in his job to research medicines.

We have had the best day ever!  

This week we have been getting into superhero scenarios and thinking like a super hero! 

We have been using the past progressive tense to describe major events in our stories. 

Super Joe was running quickly when a ginormous rhino came towards him! 

Super Joe was saving helpless passengers when the tremendous train came off the track! 

Super Joe was swimming silently when a dangerous Megladon came slithering by and ate him up! 

 Elm class had a fantastic James and the giant peach day full of exciting activities! They made fruit kebabs, designed peach collages and completed observational paintings of a peach using watercolours.

Thank you so much to all the adults who joined us this morning!

Elder Class had an amazing Wow day today, taking part in lots of activities linked to our topic of James and The Giant Peach.

We made Cloud men masks, completed book reviews, observational drawings of peaches and made Peach collages.

It was great to have so many parents join us to make healthy fruit kebabs which we enjoyed eating. For some of us it was the first time we had eaten a kebab!  

The children have really enjoyed learning about 'algorithms' in our Computing lessons this term. We learnt that robots and computers use an algorithm to follow a set of instructions. We even used robot caterpillars to design our own algorithm and test them out.

For our last computing lesson, Miss Perry said that we could make a 'Fir Class caterpillar'' and see how far it could travel around our playground. Each child chose an instruction and added it to the caterpillar; it ended up being over 30 pieces long!

It didn't work the first time when we pressed the start button so we had a discussion on why we thought it didn't work and came to the conclusion that there were too many instructions for the robot to process. We decided to remove some instructions to make it easier to follow and it worked!

We really enjoyed testing our our class algorithm and look forward to learning about programming next term.