K'Nex challenge in Year 5

Year 5 have had the pleasure of welcoming Mrs Batchelor, STEM Ambassador (Science, Technology Engineering and Mathematics) to learn about, design and build some bridges as part of the K'Nex Challenge2022. The children were inventive creative and incredibly successful. Well done to everyone for building bridges. More information can be found here: https://www.stempointeast.org.uk/education/primary/knex-challenge/

The children fed back, 'We saw loads of teamwork!' 'It was challenging but fun!' ' We kept making adjustments to original plans to make things better.' 'It was nice to do something a little different.' 'We got there in the end!' 'It was a great experience - especially for those not used to K'nex.' 'I felt really pleased with myself.'

Science Week Celebrations and Narrations

We started off our Science Week with a fascinating STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Assembly organised by our talented STEM Ambassador, Mrs Batchelor. The children were given two presentations by two doctors of science from our own community who shared the amazing impact their own STEM learning had caused!

Dr. Senderovich is a molecular Biologist working on T-Cells to support developing new cancer treatments. He showed the children how to extract DNA from a banana live on stage!

Dr. Said's research is in exploring and identifying new medicines. He taught us all about the likely spaces we might find new medicines - who knew fungi and moulds were so critical to our wellbeing! Thank you Mrs Batchelor, Dr. Senderovich and Dr. Said for their fascinating and inspirational presentations. I wonder if many children in the hall will reference this experience when someone asks them why they became doctors and scientists in the future!

There has been a range of exciting engaging hands on science exploration and learning this week. A huge thank you to Ms Reile, Science Leader, for supporting all the year groups to have an amazing opportunity to explore.

Three Rivers Waste Workshop with Year 5

Before the Easter holidays, Year 5 were lucky enough to receive a visit from the Climate Change, Sustainability and Recycling Officer from Three Rivers District Council. This was a wonderful opportunity to tell her about all of the wonderful things we have been working on at Little Green to support our environment. She told us all about how the council were working to meet targets of net carbon-zero for the Council by 2030, and the District by 2045 and the focus on community engagement, waste and re-wilding. We were amazed and proud to hear that Three Rivers had the highest recycling and reuse rate in the country in 2019/20 at 64.1%, a 1.1% increase on the previous year.

We learnt many interesting things in an exciting and engaging way, one of these was racing against different teams to organise waste into the correct refuse bins.