STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Years Three and Four were very lucky to have a lesson delivered to us by Mr. Butler, a volunteer STEM Ambassador who has lots of experience in this field and has visited many schools to help inspire and enthuse children in this field. He certainly did this today!
We started thinking about all the different electricity appliances we use all the time, and how these things are powered. Then we did some investigations into making an energy stick work! (A low-voltage appliance) We discovered that if we held both ends, we could safely create our own human circuit and make the energy stick light up and buzz. We also found we could keep adding children to make bigger circuits, as long as we were holding or touching hands. If we didn’t, then we were acting as switches, stopping the flow of electricity.
We used all this knowledge to apply to a variety of circuits, to work out if they would work, and if not, why not?
This session was a great opportunity for expanding not only our knowledge and vocabulary but also our thinking skills as the children had time to consider different investigations. They are all looking forward to putting this new found knowledge into practise as they begin their Science topic on ‘Electricity’ and in ‘Design and Technology’ when they will be making a reading night light.
Your homework for tonight is to create a word bank consisting of amazing adjectives, vivid verbs and nouns to describe the Blitz, ready for tomorrow’s English lesson. Your vocabulary needs to be up levelled and be at the standard we expect in Year 6. It should take around 15-20minutes and have as many words as you can think of. Below are some pictures to inspire you!
The Year 2 children and adults have had a lovely week settling into our new classroom. We are getting used to a new routine and have moved all of our things into the cupboards and drawers!
To celebrate our first week back together, we had a beautiful liturgy in our new garden. The whole class was involved in preparing it and they all participated through prayer, listening to the Bible and sharing kind words with each other.
Our mission was to treat everyday as a new beginning and embrace the opportunities that come our way.
Year 2 are learning about courage and bravery this term. They were set a summer holiday homework task to build their own lighthouse.
Our lighthouses are inspired by someone who showed real courage and bravery. Grace Darling lived in a lighthouse in Northumberland a very long time ago and she did something very special. We will be finding out all about her later this term.
There have been lots of visitors to Year 2 this week as news has got out that our lighthouses are very impressive. They have got everyone talking about the attention to detail, shining lights and light switches to turn them on. It certainly looks like our families had fun being creative together. Thank you to everyone who brought in a lighthouse for our display.
Year 3 and Year 4 had a fantastic day out today. We visited Nottingham Contemporary in the morning and had the opportunity to explore our creativity in lots of different ways – including using our bodies to represent giraffes and working in groups to make out own models! We also explored what support means, and how we support one another. Thank you so much to all the gallery staff who supported us today!
Then we visited Broadway Cinema to watch Horrible Histories: The Movie. It was great fun to see our history lessons to come to life in a funny musical way, as well as learning more about the habits of the Celts and Romans.
Year 5 were lucky enough to visit the Nottingham Trent Bridge Cricket Ground last week. We began our day in the Pavilion and learnt about past players and some history of the sport. After the Pavilion, we ventured outside to look at the ground and even got to ring the bell. We then put our geography and history knowledge to the test by using atlases and timelines to find information about key events in cricket history. After lunch, Grahame taught us how to play cricket and developed our catching and batting skills – ending in a game. We had the best time and are so inspired to learn about cricket next year.
This week, Year 2 have been using their bodies and getting physical, learning cricket skills on our Cricket Enrichment Day and dong yoga outside with Miss Bathgate.
See what we’ve been up to below!
Year 3 were lucky enough to have lots of visitors to our classroom last week. Even better, they helped us with our very own ‘Fraction Museum’ We then sang with Year 4 for our families with Mr Treloar. What a lovely afternoon it was!
Our Art topic last term focused on the technique of printing, through the artist Andy Warhol. We began by exploring who Andy Warhol was, what he was inspired by and why he made his artwork. We then examined key pieces of artwork of his and discussed what made it so unique. Once we were experts, we used our printing knowledge and Pop Art to create our own Mayan masks, in the style of Andy Warhol… take a look at our work!
Click on the images below to expand, and see our amazing artwork!
Last Wednesday, we had a lovely afternoon exploring the history of music. We looked at pop music through listening to the artist, Adele! We listened to her song ‘Skyfall’ and discussed what we liked/disliked, what instruments we could here and even described the music using musical vocabulary. We also loved that our parents came to join us… especially helping us with finding the names and dates of ways to listen to music throughout history! Some of us also helped out at the Open Afternoon’s French Café, practising their French and offering parents some delicious French cuisine!
