Science council enjoyed making slime with Katie from Science Buddies.
To celebrate World Book Day an author visited our school called Jodie James. She visited every class to complete an activity and read part of one of her books. All lessons during the day focused around various books and authors. Everyone also took part in a school competition to design a World Book Day token.
All pupils were given a £1 World Book Day book voucher and we held a Scholastic book Fair where books were for sale after school on Monday 9th March.
Year 6 had a fabulous time at Nissan. They went on a Nissan coach and arrived at the Nissan Education Centre where they took part in lots of fun activities: a Lego car making factory line, a Lego car creative build competition, talks about Nissan and apprenticeships and jobs for the future. They had a delicious snack and drink and also toured the workshop where they met Woody the robot who used coding to create car designs. Later in the afternoon, they played a response/reaction machine game and had a go at production line tasks like hammering out bumps in body panelling of cars, screwing and unscrewing industrial car joins, searching for nuts and bolts and speed tasks. The day was brilliant fun and the presenters from Nissan, Karen and Robyn made the day exceptional.
We came to school dressed with a number focus and spent the day exploring number with a focus on estimation.
- We made pictures from numbers.
- Estimation Activity – We got given pictures and the we had to order the pictures on from smallest to largest. We discussed how we did it and then gave our best estimate of the amount.
- We did a fun number Scavenger Hunt around the school. We estimated first then had to go around the school finding our if we were right!
- We had fun creating a page for a Number Book for a younger child. Mrs Rennie is going to send them to the Infant School as a stapled book.
- We found out if we were Smartie Pants! We had to guess how many Smarties were in a tube. We then had to think of the colours of the smarties and estimate how many of each colour there might be.
- We estimated how much it would cost to buy enough apples for every child in our class to have 1/4. We then got to check and eat the apple!
We took part in a World War 2 work shop ran by ‘That History Bloke’. We learned about what it was like for people to live through World War Two and listened to some real accounts of situations people lived through. We also got to examine many artefacts and find out what they were used for. Pupils back then would be taught how to recognise British and enemy planes to keep themselves as safe as they could, we played a game where we had to try to identify various WW2 planes. It was great fun but trickier than we thought!
Year 6 were lucky enough to take part in a workshop run by ‘Science Buddies’ as part of our Science topic linked to ‘Light and Reflection’. We used torches and mirrors, and what we had learnt about about reflection to move the light rays around the maze. The winners of the task were the group who were first to make the ray of light shine onto the jewel, positioned at the end of the maze. We had good fun, while testing our problem-solving and team-working skills.
Year 6 visited our local church where volunteers welcomed us and took us around different stations which represented the journey of the magi following the star from the Nativity story. We reflected on difficult journeys we may make in our life and different emotions we carry around with us as well as hopes and aspirations and gratitude. Afterwards, we sang some Christmas carols to the volunteers who were incredibly impressed with our voices.
This week in Science Council club we made sherbet using different powders like citric acid and icing sugar, flavouring and a choice of dippers.
The children had a great afternoon.
