The children in the senior room have been learning all about bridges this week and had a go at designing and building their own. Future engineers in the making!
The senior room have been investigating the effects of heat on different substances, particularly the oxidation of acids by heat and tried their hand at making invisible ink.
A colourful display by the Junior Room who have been learning all about spring and the life cycles of different plants and animals
Our writing genre this term was ‘Explanation Writing’ and, to celebrate all our learning, children in the Junior Room chose a topic to research and create an explanation project on for an in class competition. Today we were treated to the presentation of projects on the life cycles of plants and animals, why do we have day and night, how rainbows are formed, why cats purr, how airplanes fly and how volcanos erupt – complete with a volcano explosion! Such excellent work by the junior room children – it was very hard to choose just two winners!
Ready to be planted outside in our school garden!
This term the senior room took part in START- schools teaching about randomised trials. Children investigated if therabsnds would improve the wellbeing of the children in the junior room. They chose a research question, randomly assigned groups, conducted daily surveys and tabulated and graphed their results. They concluded that therabands did not make the children any happier.
The experiments group had a ‘blast’ today for Genius Hour!
Today the children planted a range of seeds for our school garden – we can’t wait to watch all our fruit and vegetables grow!
The senior room have been learning about length and perimeter and took the opportunity of a sunny morning to carry out some investigations around the school grounds, estimating and measuring using a variety of tools.
For Genius Hour today the infant group and cooking group came together to make two different types of healthy smoothies!
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