British Science Week 2023

23rd March 2023A Tod

Willows celebrated British Science Week with lots of fun activities and experiments.

The theme this year was ‘Connections’.

For their first activity the children explored their fingerprints; using magnifying glasses to determine the pattern of their prints. Are they whorl, arch or loop?

Then the children used pencils and sticky tape to produce prints of their fingers. They were able to see the pattern of each print in much more detail.

Afterwards, the children experimented with peppery water and hand soap. This experiment showed the children the importance of handwashing to prevent germs. When they touched the water with soap on their finger, the pepper (germs) moved away from it!

Investigating Prints for British Science Week

20th March 2023Mrs Storey

Blossoms had a great time for British Science Week investigating our fingerprints and types that we have.  We first tried taking the prints with flour but these were not very clear so we then tried graphite pencils and they were much easier to see.  Next, we used magnifying glasses to see if we could decide on our fingerprint types from arch, whorl or loop.  We discovered that our fingerprints didn’t always follow the same type even if they were from the same hand and that none of the class had identical prints.  Finally, Blossoms connected their learning with occupations that may use this technique such as Forensic Scientists.  Super investigating Blossoms!

 

World Book Day

14th March 2023A Tod

Willows had a wonderful time on World Book Day!

They all wore fabulous costumes and took part in some exciting activities.

Their friends form Cherries joined them in the morning and they did some shared reading. Then, later on in the day, they went to the book swap and were able to choose a book to take home.

Plant Experiment

14th March 2023A Tod

Our science topic this half term is ‘Plants’, so the children set up their own experiment to test the different factors that affect plant growth.

As a class, we discussed the things that plants need to grow and then we decided on where we would place our plants to test our questions.

Can a plant grow with no water?

Can a plant grow with no light?

Can a plant grow with no heat?

We have been observing how are plants are growing and taking pictures of them regularly.

 

 

Inuit Soap Sculptures in Oaks

10th March 2023S Graham

In our Frozen Kingdoms topic we have been looking at Inuit art. In the last few weeks we have been printing, making stencils, sketching and blending colours.

This week we created our animal soap carvings inspired by the Inuit people who have produced many incredible pieces of art using soapstone.

I think you can all agree they look pretty amazing…plus our classroom smells amazing!

Mr Graham

The Great Fellgate Book Swap 2023

6th March 2023S Graham

As part of our book swap celebrations we asked for children to donate any unwanted books. We hoped that we would have lots of books brought into school and that every single child could then choose a new book to take home and enjoy.

We were all blown away by the amount of books we kindly received. The children loved picking their new books and it was fantastic to see all of the happy faces throughout the day.

With the remaining books we will have a permanent book swap display in our school where children are free to take a book whenever they like. We also have used some of the books to make a brand new outdoor reading books. This will allow even more children to read at break times and lunchtimes.

Once again, thank you to everyone who donated books.

Mr Graham

World Book Day in Chestnuts

3rd March 2023G Mills

As part of our World Book Day celebrations, Chestnuts came dressed as their favourite book characters. Don’t we look amazing?

We also chose new books as part of our whole book swap.

During the afternoon, we entered a competition to design a new book token and Blossoms class visited us. We read stories to each other; it was lots of fun!