Look what we’ve been up to

We had a great time today at Carnival House showing how we can move and travel and experimenting with light and shadows too!

This afternoon, Year 3 investigated friction. We set up a fair test investigation where we looked at what material would cause the most friction and slow the car down the most. We all made predictions before we started and we all had a different idea about which material would cause the most frictions. We set up a ramp and either covered it in sand, a towel, corrugated cardboard or didn’t cover it at all (wood). We found that the sand caused the most friction as the car hardly moved down the ramp at all.

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We moved our learning on today by using the skills we had learned last week and introducing the nets. We also used hoops to improve our aim and accuracy

We had a great time today celebrating and raising money for Children in Need-we loved getting dressed up too!

This week’s science was looking at air resistance. We looked at Galileo’s experiment and what was proven all of those years ago. We then created our own parachutes, using a fair test, to investigate whether the surface area of a parachute had an effect on the time it took to fall-we were shocked by our results and had a great time!

We put our odd socks on this morning for anti bullying week to show everyone is different!

Miss Bell from Redhouse is coming into school to work with us for the next few weeks. We are learning to play badminton and we were amazing today!

As part of Outdoor Learning Day, Year 1 embraced the season of autumn by becoming young explorers in our school grounds. Armed with clipboards and curious minds, we set out to collect data about the natural world around us — spotting colourful leaves, fallen seeds, and other signs of the changing season. Back in the classroom, we sorted and classified our findings into different groups before using Purple Mash on the

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Year 3 went outside and discovered how the school grounds have changed now that it is autumn. We looked at the different kinds of leaves and how they have changed colour, from green to orange, red, pink and brown. We examined the leaves and saw that the leaves have veins.
Rio Spencer explained that water moves up the veins to help the leaves grow.
Around the grounds different fruit and berries were found. Apples have fallen on the ground – we discussed how this is ‘windfall’ which we spoke about at the farm trip. Animals and birds have started eating the fallen fruit which will help them when they either hibernate or migrate to warmer climates.

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Today we looked at gravity and how it is measured. We chose a selection of objects and found their mass and weight using a Newton Metre. We also learned about Newton himself and his ground-breaking theories!