How light travels

In our science topic we have been learning about the properties of light and how it behaves.

Here the children took part in an experiment that allowed us to make predictions about how lights behaviour can effect its visibility when passing through different materials.

Initially the light travelled through the clear transparent water easily. As we added food colouring to the water the amount of particles in the water increased. This meant that the light had more particles to reflect off or be absorbed by. It was harder for the light to travel through the water without particle resistant and slowly but surely the water became translucent and then opaque.

Year 3 showed brilliant skills at understanding the appropriate language to use in the experiment and they continued to use them across all the tasks of the lesson. Well don year 3. A special thank you to Miss Allison for her brilliant work in the lesson.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Roses are red,

Violets are blue,

I think you're canny
Wey aye, pet, it's true!

So, we had a think about what happens on February 14th and what Valentine's Day is. Some responses were - 'It's when you tell someone you love them', 'You give people cards and something nice' and 'You could draw a picture for someone you love'.

We then talked about someone we love, why we love them and what we could do to show them we love them. Children decided that saying something kind, asking them to play with you, giving them a hug or simply telling them you love them are all good ideas. 

We stuck tissue paper to both sides of two heart shapes and said whose name we wanted written on the heart - Mam, Dad, brothers, sisters, cousins, grandparents. Each child then said why they love that person. We are so blessed with people who love us - people who make delicious food for us, give amazing hugs, make us laugh, give us Saturday morning cuddles in bed, play with us and help us! The hearts then joined together to form a hanging decoration.

Jungle Explorers!

We made binoculars out of toilet and kitchen roll tubes so we could explore the jungle! We recalled all the different animals we have learnt about over the last few weeks and played a game with a talking partner where we took it in turns to describe an animal for our partner to guess.

Then we used our fantastic writing skills from phonics to write some clues for our chosen animal.

Peek-a-boo!

Amazing Medusa masks.

Miss Sykes was so impressed by y3's creativity that she invited some pupils to show their amazing Medusa masks to the rest of the school in assembly. The rest of the school were certainly impressed. It's just as well that nobody was turned into stone!

Year 5 - Teaching Each Other..

Year 4 have begun to learn all about homophones during their SPAG lessons. As we have already learnt about homophones in Year 5 and created some fantastic, motivating homophone games, our classes got together to teach each other what they knew about homophones. The Year 4 children tested out the games we had made to challenge their homophone knowledge. We had a great afternoon learning from each other!

Year 5 - Amazing Artists!

This week we have been putting our painting skills to the test! We have spent time this week carefully painting our summer flower sketches for the Gateshead in Bloom Flower Painting Competition. Although we had to carefully concentrate on the patterns and colours we were using, we have had great fun creating these paintings.

Computer programming using Scratch.

Y6 have recently enjoyed using the Scratch computer program. They created a maths game and used a range of commands that sprites would follow as part of the game. Pupils certainly choosessome interesting  characters and backgrounds for their games!

Short story writing success!

Ks2 recently entered a mini saga writing competition, in which entries had to be no greater than 100 words. The Young Writers competition encouraged pupils to produce an original piece of writing that could be selected for publication in an anthology.  It was fantastic to discover that 55 pupils had written stories of such high quality that they were selected as winners. It was lovely to share their success with the whole school in assembly. Pupils are still in with chance of winning further prizes so here's hoping.

Greek Bowls

We have been creating our plaster bowls ready for our parent workshop. They are looking fantastic!

Painting Flowers

We started our designs for Gateshead Flower Competision. In Year 4 we need to create paintings of flowers that represent our focus season which is Spring. We looked at a range of flower to help us plan our art work!

Homophones with Year 5

We developed our understanding of homophones by completing a range of fun and exciting games created by Year 5. We worked with Year 5 to complete a range of spelling games and they helped us to understand our new spelling focus.