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Using shadows to demonstrate everything we have learned about light
Today in 6D, we used shadow puppet shows to demonstrate our knowledge on light. Some groups explained the science behind refraction with others choosing to explain how we see objects. We had to use correct scientific vocabulary in our performances: light source, light...
We love to explore
We have been enjoying exploring different animals and plants in Year 1 using our microscope and the different slides, learning facts about each slide as we investigate them.
Exploring our local area of Rowlands Gill
Newsletter 24.10.23
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Self-Portraits Frida Kahlo Style
Painting like Frida Kahlo has been great fun. The children learned about Frida, her early life and her career. Examining her pictures to find out their meanings and how she used animals and objects in the background to symbolise feelings and times in her life. The...
Robotics Workshop
We had a great time at Robotics Workshop! During this workshop, we got the opportunity to programme our very own robots using a VexCode Programme to complete tasks. We began by getting our robots to do a simple task of just moving around a cube. However, by the end of the session we could advance our coding even further to get our robots through an obstacle course, where we could even get it to light up different colours and even say ‘Ta-Da!’ at the end.
Fun in Forest School
Once again the children had an amazing time in forest school this term. We had some children helping to lay and set the fire and get it going using a flint tool. There was lots of activity from balancing, building a big hotel, creating, digging, den building, horse...
Judaism
The children have been learning lots of interesting things about Judaism. They have been learning how Jewish people use the Torah to show them how to live according to God's commandments. This includes wearing certain items and they had great fun trying on a tallit...
What do you know about Divali?
This term the children have been learning about the HIndu New Year celebrations called Divali. They have been thinking about the tradition of setting personal targets and how they would like to achieve them. There was a vast array of targets including; learning...