Horbury Bridge CE J&I Academy

Wakefield Youth Choir

On Monday we welcomed Mrs Whitlam from Wakefield Music Service to lead our singing assembly and teach us some fun new songs. Mrs Whitlam also runs Wakefield Youth Choir who are looking for new members aged 9- 18.

Rehearsals are at Manygates in Sandal on Wednesday evenings at 4.15pm. Class 3 children were given details of this or for more details email music@wakefield.gov.uk

Lower Nursery

This week Lower Nursery have been learning about Chinese New Year. We have been retelling the story of all the animals crossing the river, making Chinese lanterns and trying some Chinese food. When trying the Chinese food we developed our language skills by using our eyes to talk about what we could see, our fingers to say what things felt like, our noses to describe what we could smell and then describing the taste of the food in our mouths. The children said the food was bumpy, crunchy, yucky and yummy. Even though the children didn't like all the food, the grown-ups were proud of them all for trying it.

Class 2

This week Class 2 have been particle physicists and have explored how the particles in a solid, a liquid and a gas are arranged. The children used their bodies to represent each particle and found out that a solid has a very set structure and particles will only move when when they are forced by something pushing against them.

They then investigated how a liquid turns into a gas by a process called 'evaporation' and how a gas turns back into a liquid by a process called 'condensation'.

They placed a wet handprint on a paper towel and began to explain what was happening as the water seemed to disappear.

Class 3

The children have been challenged to plan a scientific enquiry about how the brightness of bulbs varies in different electrical circuits. First the electricians in Class 3 devised their own scientific question to answer. Some included:

"How is the brightness of a bulb affected by the number of cells in a circuit?"

"How does the distance between a cell and a bulb affect its brightness?"

Next, they designed their circuit and decided cow they were going to collect their data. Finally. they carried out their fair-test enquiries using data loggers to measure bulb brightness.