What a busy end to the year we have had! Here are a few of the things we have done to celebrate the end of the year and Christmas. Gem winnerschristmas dinnerchristmas partyWell done to all of the children who reached their AR Target this term by regularly reading at home as well as in school. 🌟 All KS2 children who have achieved their AR target will be having a treat when we return to school in January. 🌟 The children are continuing to work hard on their soft toys for their buddies. They have been using a whole range of DT skills including using pattern pieces to help them cut the pieces of fabric out accurately, working iteratively (changing their designs as they find things don't work or look as they expected) and using a range of materials and tools. great use of these learning gems:We started our science today with a virtual visit from Jennifer. who is a design engineer for a lighting company. She talked about how she designs lighting, including the circuits, for lots of different places including hospitals, museums and street lights. The children were really interested in her work and were keen to ask her some questions to find out more about what she does. They have begun to work in pairs to make a small factfile on some of the things they learnt about Jennifer from the visit - 2 examples of these are included below. Following the visit, we began to investigate the affect of increasing the number of bulbs in a circuit. We established that we would need to make sure we carried out a fair test to do this and looked at all the variables in such a test and then made sure that only 1 thing (adding the bulbs) was actually changed in the circuit each time. Then we drew a line graph to present our findings and discussed the conclusion we had come to. g00d use of these learning gems:Today we were able to put together our finished patchwork quilt, made up of a variety of dip dyed fabric squares, with a design produced with permanent fabric markers and enhanced with stitching detail. GOOD USE OF THESE LEARNING GEMS:Today we revised square and cube numbers. First we discussed what they actually were and why they had been named that way. Then we had some time on a game on the tablets to practise our square and cube numbers. Following this we looked at how to find the area of triangles. We linked it to finding the area of a square and how that related to finding square numbers. Some of us also looked at how to find the area of a parallelogram. good use of this learning gem:We had a busy, active science lesson today. We started by practising drawing circuit diagrams that matched the circuits we had made in our groups. This was followed by creating a 'human circuit' to show how components in a circuit work once they have had a 'push' from a battery or cell. We ended up with a bulb, motor and buzzer in our circuit and, although it was quite as continuous as an electric circuit is, the children worked well to demonstrate how electrons move in a circuit. After this, we then looked at some circuit diagrams and had to decide if they would work or not. If we weren't sure, then we actually made the circuit to check. During the lesson, we also thought of some questions that we would like answers to during our Electricity topic. Great use of these learning gems: |
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