This afternoon, we worked in groups to find out facts about the eight planets. Each group researched a planet, then shared their facts with the class. We used this to create a fact file of facts about all the planets in the solar system. Great team work!
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UKS2 Attendance winners
Well done to Crew Lotysz for being this weeks attendance winners with 97%. Keep up the hard work guys! Don’t forget to put your 100 Crew Coins on!
Year 5 and 6 Pride of Plover
Times Table Rockstars Superstars!
Crew Myers are the winners of this weeks TTR tournament, a huge well done to them!
Well done to Esmae, Sumit, Shayen, Modish, Taylor and Rehand who are our top contributors to TTR this week!
Don’t forget there is a tournament running every week, 10 minutes playing TTR after school will really help improve times table knowledge.
Expert visitor! Building on our prior knowledge on constellations!
Yesterday, Year 5 & 6 pupils had an expert in school yesterday to build on the work they had engaged in with the space dome earlier that day. They talked in great detail about consolations and how we will be able to look out for these on our upcoming stargazing event.
How exciting!
-Miss Blackham
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An expert visitor on space visits years 5 and 6
We were lucky to receive a visit from Chris, a physics and space expert, to hear about the origins of our universe. We then spent some time asking questions that provoked a lot of excitement for our upcoming expedition.
We were surprised to find that the formation of life from bacteria to humans are all relatively much more recent events than the big bang and creation of our sun (billions of years, in fact)!
Well done to all children in years 5 and 6 for your attention and curiosity during this visit.
5S enjoying the Wonder Dome
5S had a brilliant time visiting the wonder dome, learning about the history of the universe, the size and makeup of stars, and the scale of Earth compared with the wider universe.
It was lovely to hear all of your curious questions and know it has sparked some excitement for our upcoming expedition – well done 5S!
Science Fair: Air Resistance
Today, all the children in years 5 and 6 visited 5M where we learnt all about air resistance and the effects it has on movement. We experimented with paper, and focused how the size affects the speed something is travelling. The children then made different sized parachutes to help them to see this in action.
The children are so excited to demonstrate this to you all.
Science Fair: Night and day
Today, all the children in years 5 and 6 visited my room where we had a discussion about how the Earth’s rotation causes night and day. I demonstrated by using a torch (the sun) and rotating a globe (the Earth), then we held a further discussion about how all our measurements of time are affected by astronomical bodies and their orbits.
We look forward to demonstrating this to you in future!
Cracking the code to our guiding question
Years 5 and 6 had a great time today, solving a series of clues to unravel the guiding question for our autumn expedition.
They worked together to solve a series of puzzles and brain-teasers to unscramble the word ‘infinity’ – part of our expedition title and guiding question: ‘To and infinity and beyond: how does movement affect our world?’
Great teamwork, treasure seekers!
