Artists, explorers and a very hungry caterpillar

Maple

Maple Class have loved being artists this week, developing their colour mixing skills and have enjoyed learning to use watercolours. As part of their 'Mix It!' project, Year 1 children worked collaboratively to make a stunning autumnal wreath which demonstrated their knowledge of primary and secondary colours. 

Rowan

In geography this week, Rowan have been thinking about human and physical features that are in our school grounds. We had a think about what we might expect to see on the playground and then went outside to collect our data. We lost count of how many trees we could see! 

Birch

Birch Class have continued to practise their brass instruments (and hopefully are beginning to practise at home). Alongside this they have started to try using other tuned instruments. This week, alongside Rowan class, they have composed a short piece of music on the glockenspiel and tried performing it in time with a partner. Some of them even tried implementing crescendo into their piece. 

 In history, Birch have been looking at the stone age. This week we looked at the tools they used in the stone age and how they changed through the stone age. We talked about why some tools have surviving examples while others have decayed. The children have come up to adults several times on the playground to tell me what they think various sticks would have been used for.

Sycamore

Sycamore Class have been creating a timeline showing the important events of when the Anglo-Saxons invaded Britain. They also discovered a very strange looking creature in the school grounds - watch out! 

Aspen

This week in science Aspen class have been exploring friction. They created and planned an experiment where they would roll a toy car down different types of ramps (one covered in foam, carpet and wood) to see which would create the most and least friction by measuring the distance travelled. They discovered that the carpeted ramp created the most friction due to the rough, treaded surface, and the wooden surface created the least friction as the surface was smooth. Well done Aspen.

Elm

This week in Elm we have been using our data collection skills we built on at Stubbington in order to carry out a class experiment. Linking to our Evolution and Inheritance project we are in the midst of answering is our eye colour and height a continuous feature or discontinuous.