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Whilst learning about the Stone Age, the children in year 3/4 found out that Stone Age people drew pictures on the walls of caves to tell stories and depict everyday life. They used media such as clay, blood and grasses to add colour to their work. The children used oil pastels to create their own Stone Age style cave art. We turned off the lights and drew by torch light to fully immerse ourselves in the experience.

Look at this fantastic Egyptian style tomb art! The children focused on depicting events from  every day Egyptian life into their work, as was the Egyptian way.

After studying the properties of magnets, the children in year 3/4 were challenged to make the longest paperclip chain that could be suspended by a single magnet. Most groups found that the Horseshoe magnet could suspend the longest paperclip chain.  They had lots of fun experimenting with the different types of magnet.

We have recently been learning about life in the Stone Age. The children were particularly interested in the Stone Age method of heating liquids with hot stones. We therefore decided to try to replicate this method by attempting to raise the temperature of cold water by adding hot stones. This was much more difficult than we thought it would be! It led us to ask the questions: Why not hold  the vessel directly over the water? and How long would it take to raise the temperature of the liquid to boiling point?

The children in year 4 have been investigating the effect of changing the conditions needed for a gladioli bulb to grow. They had previously learnt about the basic conditions needed for plant growth; food, light and water so decided to experiment with the soil type and amount, nutrient type and frequency of watering. They found that the bulb grew tallest when it had been covered in a good layer of soil, watered regularly and had had bone meal added to the soil. They were quite surprised at how tall each plant grew!

wk beg 30 Jan

FS1 had fun using the Ipad’s to take photographs of themselves

This morning we have read the story ‘The Magic Porridge Pot’.

We really enjoyed it, ‘stop pot, stop pot!’.

We had lots of ‘porridge’ activities… it was lots of fun!