Wonderful Week!

30th April 2021Mrs Graves

What a great week we have had in LKS2 this week!

We began the week by setting up our scientific experiment, to investigate the impact of different substances on our teeth. We did this by covering eggs in different liquids – coke; milk; water; and orange juice. We looked at the results yesterday and looking at the reactions of the egg shells, it is safe to say that coke and orange juice are not good for your teeth! We have to make sure we brush our teeth well after drinking them!

We continued our learning about how to make Doncaster more healthy, with an expert visitor – Mr Price a paramedic. The children had lots of great questions and were fascinated by what Mr Price had to say.

We are looking forward to what more we will learn next week!

We will see you all on Tuesday!

Mrs Graves

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Practising PE with Year 4

30th April 2021Mrs Graves

We have been developing our sporty skills this afternoon in Year 4.
Miss Lotysz, Mrs Pass and I were really impressed with the way children were working on improving the accuracy of their throwing and catching. There was also some great critique to help each other improve.

It would be really helpful if children could bring PE kits to school on Monday and leave them for the week, especially with our current expedition about health.

Have a lovely bank holiday weekend and I will see you all on Tuesday.

Mrs Graves

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LKS2 investigate ‘How clean are your teeth?’

26th April 2021Mrs Graves

We have had a great week in LKS2 this week learning all about our teeth.

In English we have been comparing diary entries, looking at an extract from ‘A poo, a gnu and you’ and ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’. When then wrote our own diary entries around visiting the dentist.

In Expedition, we have learnt the names and functions of the different teeth, as well as what a tooth is made from – but best of all, we investigated how clean our teeth are using disclosing tablets – that created a few giggles!

Hopefully parents, you won’t have a battle getting the children to clean their teeth this weekend!

Mrs Graves

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4G’s Scientific ‘Eggs’periment

26th April 2021Mrs Graves

Today we have started a scientific experiment to see what effect different substances have on our teeth.

We set up a fair test by using an egg to represent our teeth and placed it into cups of milk, coca cola, water and orange to see if any changes occur to the egg.

We have made our scientific predictions and we will be measuring our results by comparing the eggs with each other in a later lesson.

Check back later in the week to find out the results.

Mrs Graves

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Accelerated Reader League

24th April 2021Louise Chapman

Well done to Crew Blackham for coming first again in our reading league, and to Crew Chapman for coming a close second. A shout out goes to Crew Lister for gaining third place; you must have been reading your socks off.

4G Pride of Plover

23rd April 2021Mrs Graves

Congratulations to Abigail, this week’s Pride of Plover for 4G. She was really grappling with her maths inverse times tables but stuck at it!

Well done, Enjoy the yellow T Shirt!

4G find out “How clean are your teeth?”

22nd April 2021Mrs Graves

It was our much anticipated science experiment today to find out how clean our teeth are.

Having spent the week learning about the different types of teeth and the parts of a tooth, our focus today was on how clean our teeth were.

We cleaned our teeth and then used a disclosing tablet to reveal any plaque remaining on our teeth. We had some very pink smiles and lots of giggles – but most importantly, we have learnt the importance of cleaning our teeth really well, for two minutes twice a day!

Special Appreciation this week goes to Jamilia, for arranging for her tooth to fall out right in the middle of the lesson when we were learning about the structure of a tooth. Talk about bringing learning to life!

Mrs Graves

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A day in the life of …. a reader!

21st April 2021Mrs Graves

Today we have been looking at one of the key English texts for our expedition ‘A day in the life of a poo, gnu and you’. It is a fabulous new factual book in really fun style. We have discovered that it is written in the style of a diary, but who writes the diary entries is the surprise – today it was written by a tooth!
we will also be using extracts from Kay’s Anatomy, another new factual book, but written in a really engaging style.

We can’t wait to read more!

Mrs Graves

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