Year 6 (Class 16) - Design Technology - Preserving Strawberries

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Class 16 have enjoyed trying the different ways that strawberries can be preserved. 

They tried tinned, dried in the air fryer and jam. The jam was the winner. 

Some of the children were surprised how nice the tinned ones tasted once the got over the look of them. 

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Year 6 (Class 16) - Science - Finches on The Galápagos Islands

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Class 16 have been learning about the evolution of finches on the Galápagos Islands. 

We experimented with different beak types to empathise with the finches and understand why they evolved their beaks the way they did. 

We especially enjoyed learning about the blood sucking vampire…

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Year 3 (Class 8) - Science - Human Skeletons

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This week in science we have been looking at human skeletons. We worked in groups to play a game where we had to collect bones and make a skeleton. 

We then labelled a skeleton and self marked our work. 

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Year 4 (Class 11) - Science - Skeletons

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Today we developed our knowledge of human skeletons by playing ‘skeleton drive’ We had to roll the number we needed to collect the bones one by one. 

We were in a race against our opponents to create a complete skeleton. 

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Year 6 (Class 15) - Science - Light and Shadow

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Class 15 have spent today learning about light and shadow, we drew around our shadows on the playground in the morning then revisited later in the afternoon to investigate the changing shadow and relationship to time.

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Year 6 (Class 15) - Science - Life Cycles

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Class 15 released the tadpoles and a couple of frogs into the nature garden pond today. 

Hopefully we will have our own frog spawn next year to watch grow. 

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Year 3 (Class 8) - Science - Amazing Bodies

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Today we started our new topic ‘Amazing bodies’ We started by labelling all the body parts that we knew. 

Then we drew round each other and labelled any internal parts we thought we knew. 

Once we had discussed all the things we though we knew, we generated questions about what we wanted to…

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Year 6 (Class 16) - Science - Frogs

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Some children in class 16 have enjoyed feeding the tadpoles.

We have some that have nearly changed into frogs and will soon be moving into the school nature pond where they will hopefully return next year to spawn.

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Year 3 (Class 8) - Science - Tadpoles

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Our tadpoles have been going from strength to strength. 

They are beginning to develop legs with some already having back legs and front legs on the way. 

We can’t wait to see how many frogs we get before we release them back to the pond where they came from.

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Year 3 (Class 8) - Science - Magnets

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Today we investigated making our own magnets. 

We investigated the question: how long will our magnets stay magnetised for? 

We decided how to carry out our tests by discussing what we needed and how to record the results. 

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Year 3 (Class 8) - Science - Yorkshire Sculpture Park Trip

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Today class 8 had a fantastic day visiting Yorkshire Sculpture Park. 

In the morning we had a guided tour around looking at some of the amazing sculptures. We did some sketching and even made our own sculptures out of clay. 

In the afternoon we worked in teams to create sculptures of…

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Year 6 (Class 15) - Science - The Human Eye

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Class 15 enjoyed learning about the different parts of the human eye.  

Children had to identify each part of the human eye and their function.

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