Cherries have recently visited Marsden Beach to take part in Beach School.
We explored the rock pools and found lots of small sea creatures, including a very large crab which tried to nip us! We then played games and enjoyed the sunshine. We can’t wait to go back!
This week in Science, Cherries carried out an experiment where we cleaned dirty 1p and 2p coins. We used a variety of household liquids, like brown sauce, mayonnaise, floor cleaner etc to clean the coins. We predicted which we thought would work best and then tested to reach a conclusion. We found anything containing vinegar cleaned the coins perfectly.
This week in Science, Cherries made a solar power oven. We then experimented with wrapping the oven in different materials to see if this had an impact on the temperature inside. We measured the temperature using a thermometer and found out that tin foil made the oven even hotter, when the sun shone down to increase the solar energy.
Cherries had a fantastic day at Arbeia, the Roman Fort, in South Shields.
We have learned lots about the Romans and what went on at the fort over 1000 years ago. We loved digging for artefacts and deciding what each item would have been used for.
Everyone was so well behaved and made us all so proud of their listening and hard work.
Team Cherries
Cherries had a fantastic World Book Day! The children (and staff) dressed as book characters and we used paper plates to make them into a wide range of characters from Harry Potter to SpongeBob SquarePants.
This week in Willows, we have been learning and talking about Internet Safety Week. We wrote down words relating to online safety and then worked as a class to create a poem about ‘Keeping Safe Online’. We performed our poem to everyone in our whole school assembly.
As part of our instructional writing in English, Cherries made pancakes this week on Shrove Tuesday.
We used our maths skills to measure the ingredients, then we developed our cookery DT skills to whisk the ingredients and cook the mixture in the pan. Finally, we ate the pancakes with sugar sprinkled or jam spread on top. We even washed the dishes!
As part of our Geography topic “Rocks, Relics and Rumbles” Cherries have been investigating soil by carrying out fieldwork in our school gardens.
We know there are 3 types of soil: sandy, silty and clay.
We collected soil samples around school, and in class we performed tests (rolling, squeezing and observing) to establish what type of soil we had found. We decided they were silty and clay soils.
This week in science, Cherries were testing to see if different surface materials on a ramp would change the speed a boat travelled down.
We found a rough surface slowed down the boat, due to increased friction.
The smooth wet surface made the boat speed up, due to less friction.
Oaks and Birches visited the OpenZone at the Word this week to take part in a Lego coding activity.
We needed to build a range of different things before adding code to make them move or dance (see our video linked below). The children enjoyed experimenting with coding and adding more complex instructions, evaluating what went right…or wrong and made improvements.
Afterwards we visited the library and enjoyed the Lego exhibit currently on show.
