We have been thinking about how we might survive on our planet. We tried some unusual planet food first: Then we looked at the different food types that make up our food. We learnt about the different food groups before sorting food into them.

Thank you for the great half-term homework that you have already brought in. I know a couple of you said you had forgotten to bring it last week; please do so this coming week so that we can show it all off in a gallery of your work on Friday. If you have missed the… Read more »

This week we started our new term imagining that we have crash landed on an unfamiliar planet. Each day we have been writing a diary entry using a different skill. Here are some of our diary entries.

Today we read through the fairytale story of Jack and the beanstalk. Whilst Miss Mansell read out the story, we also acted out some of the crucial parts of the story. We had lots of fun doing this!

Today we had our last Body Care session with Paul and Amanda. We had great fun and have learnt lots about keeping healthy!

Today we played games using the parachute! We had fun working together as a team.

This afternoon we have been demonstrating how pulleys can reduce the amount of force needed to pull objects. We managed to pull Miss Mansell’s car through the use of a pulley system and saw how ratio affects the distance travelled. So if you ever break down, you now know who to call (just make sure… Read more »

Today we learnt about inequalities <> and =. We had forgotten which way they went when we compare numbers. We used balances to visualise the symbols. This helped us see that the inequality always ‘chomped’ the larger number. By the end we could solve problems like this: 23 < ? < 50

We have been looking at the human body. We learnt about how astronauts bodies change in space, how our muscles work and more about the skeleton. On Tuesday we looked at digestion. To start with we shared what we already knew or thought. We found that there were lots of things we were not sure… Read more »