Great Fire of London cakes in Year 2

Year 2 made ‘Great Fire of London’ cakes using a contemporary recipe from 1666. There is evidence that it could’ve been the burning of small cakes which caused the fire!

Bible sketching- bringing God's Word alive

 Y5C have been illustrating the Easter story on bible pages. 

Resilience & drawing skills

Year 5 have been working on resilience and drawing skills. The children were given the activity of drawing a butterfly and were then asked to undertake the task again making improvements. The children kept going making improvements with a new picture until a final design was produced.

Investigating parachutes and air resistance.

 Year 5 have been investigating parachutes and air resistance.  

Making 3D shapes from nets

 

ELLI skills lesson in Year 2

Year 2 begun the term with a lesson where we talked about Elli’s friend: the Resilient Tortoise. We talked about how we can be like the Resilient Tortoise and why this is important to help us learn. We then tried to stand up back-to-back with our arms linked with a partner. It was very challenging but we didn’t give up! 

Moving jelly with chopsticks!

 Year 5 undertook a fun science activity which required lots of resilience. The children needed to move pieces of jelly only using chopsticks. After this was completed, cooking oil was added to make the task more slippery.  We discussed the forces involved and what happened when the oil was added.