Julia Donaldson

Over the last couple of weeks, Julia Donaldson Class have been working extremely hard looking at monarchies, the UK, team building and experimenting with materials in science! Their knowledge on Kings and Queens has developed incredibly this term and they are able to apply their understanding to lots of different areas including, why castles were built, what job roles there are in castles and facts about different Kings and Queens. 

Whilst looking at different job roles, Year 1 role played what they had to do whilst the rest of the class had to guess the job; it was brilliant! Year 1 have also shown amazing team building skills during PE and have even be able to show Year 2 and Year 5  how to play one of our team games. In science we have continued to look at materials and have investigated which materials sink and float. As an added extra to our learning this term, and as a part of science week last week, we have been working on our outside area and began planting lots of different seeds. The children cannot wait to see how our garden will grow! 

Emmeline Pankhurst 

This week, we planned and carried out a science investigation to see what happens to the Sun during the day. We went outside onto the playground at different times of the day to observe our shadows and how they change as the Sun moves. We ensured to make this a fair test by standing in the same spot each time, every two hours throughout the day. We drew around our shadows using chalk and measured the length using a metre ruler. We recorded our findings and observed the changes to our shadows (length and position).  By completing this investigation, it enriched our learning about the Earth, and we learnt that the Earth is constantly spinning on its axis whilst orbiting the sun and that It takes 24 hours for the Earth to completely spin.