Class 3

To complete our learning about volcanoes, we made our own model volcanoes and used vinegar, washing up liquid, bicarbonate of soda and water to cause them to erupt! 
 

The children looked very festive today, thank you for all of your donations that will be sent to ‘Save the Children’. 

We have been learning about the British designer Charles Macintosh and how he waterproofed material. We learnt how to origami fold paper boats and then we worked on waterproofing them. We had a range of materials like sticky tape, wax crayons and plastic wallets to choose from. Once we had…

Congratulations to this weeks winner, who was so excited to pick a new book! 

Today the Year 4 children completed a practise Multiplication screening check online. EVERYONE improved on their previous score so very well done Year 4! 
 

Today we researched Mount Vesuvius during our Geography lesson and created a fact file about it. We chose this volcano because it is the one we have been reading about during our English lessons, it’s the most active volcano in Europe! 
 

Today our Year 4 children played some games to practise multiplying and dividing by a ten or one hundred. Some of them have already noticed a trick to help them calculate the answers really fast! 
 

This afternoon we made Christingles ready for  our service in Church tomorrow. It linked nicely to our RE lesson, which was learning about the symbolism of the items used on the Christingle. 
 

We have learnt about British designer W B Wilkinson who in 1853 came up with the idea of setting steel bands within concrete to make it much stronger. We looked at all the amazing concrete buildings that are around the world. We particularly liked the tallest bridge in the world which is found in…

We have been investigating which objects are magnetic in Science. We made predictions and then tested the objects using magnets. We now know that magnetic materials are iron, nickel, cobalt and steel. Non-magnetic materials are aluminium, copper, gold and silver. We loved investigating so much…

It was a bumper week for reading, with 12 children entered into the raffle! Well done to this weeks winner. 

The children all chose something new at the Jumble sale today. Thank you parents for the many donations and to the Eco and School council members who helped to organise it all. All funds raised will go towards resources for our outdoor classroom.