This week in DT the children continued their work on strengthening structures. Their aim is to find a suitable material to build their mini greenhouses.
They compared the use of cocktail sticks to spaghetti and found that the cocktail sticks worked much better to build their structures because they did not break as easily!
In science, as part of their scientific enquiry unit, the children in Willows have been making their own solar ovens.
They had to make sure that the materials they used were the most effective for making their ovens, so they had to think about what materials would reflect and absorb sunlight.
It was a brilliantly sunny afternoon so they headed out to melt their pieces of chocolate!
Willows joined forces with Cherries this week to create and test some 3D structures they made using spaghetti and plasticine. They found that spaghetti didn’t make the best structure… it was a bit flimsy and not very sturdy!
This is the first step in their journey to making their own miniature greenhouses for their DT topic this term.
Check in again next week to see them testing some other materials!
At construction club this week, the children were challenged with the task of using Lego to make some edible creations.
Mmm…delicious!!!
This week we have continued our English work using the story Escape form Pompeii and children used iPads to research facts to complete a fact file. They found lots of artefacts that were preserved in Pompeii, including people, a dog and buildings.
In Geography they have been using map skills to locate countries on a world map, including Italy, to link to our Emperors and Empires topic.
As part of the coronation we researched King Charles’ robe and designed our own with Willows. They made crowns and flags and enjoyed coming into school wearing red, white and blue ready for the coronation party.
Birches created their own Union Jack flags. We used different tools to create the dotted effect in the style of pointillism.
The boys in Birches created their own flowers out of paper plates to make a class bouquet.
On Thursday 23rd March, Willows celebrated World Maths Day… even the date read the same backwards as it did forwards (23.03.23)!
In English we used one of Roald Dahl’s famous stories, Esio Trot, to base our tasks upon. The children worked hard to estimate the amount of tortoises Mr. Hoppy had and then used that number in many different ways. For example, they had to represent the number pictorially, partition it and then write a maths problem using it.
In maths, they brushed up on their money skills using ‘Topmarks toy shop game’ and then went on to calculate people’s orders at The Beach Cafe.
To explore maths in art, the children created some wonderful symmetrical insect drawings.
The children in Birches enjoyed some calm and quiet time in our daily mindfulness sessions. 
The children had fun choosing their own games to play with friends. They worked as a group to play Twister.
