Base 8 have been learning about money in maths this week and enjoyed finding the correct amount to make their purchases.

The children were also set some extension homework and Jacob sent his in for everyone to see.

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Last week , Year 2 were learning about bees and their habitat and as part of this they were making garden prototypes and then the best bits of each prototype were put together as a garden to enter into the Radio Two Big Bee Challenge!

We were so impressed with the work that the children did and the garden has really come together with lots of flowers to attract bees and benches for people to sit and enjoy the garden that the children designed.

Here are a few photographs and we will let you know how we get on.

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Year 1 were very excited on Friday because they got to play some djembe drums that Miss Cliff delivered! They have been learning about Sub- Saharan African music in their music lessons this term and having these drums really brought the music to life

Miss Hedges ran out of time before Half Term to add this to the blog.

In Base 8 the children were learning about what plants need to grow and have enjoyed creating their own experiment to see whether their beans will grow without soil.

Butterflies!

As you know Reception have been learning about the life cycle of a caterpillar and over half term we had some very exciting news! The caterpillars became butterflies!

The children were all very excited to see them in the butterfly garden and this morning we took them to the forest at the back of our school and watched them fly away!

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Year 2 have been using daisies this morning for an interesting Maths Investigation.

Eden and Isabella explained to me what they were doing to find out the answer.

The children were all working hard and looking forward to analysing the results later on in the lesson.

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Year Two made the most of a sunny day to plant some seeds outside. We look forward to watching how they grow. The boys in the first video will tell you a bit more about what is happening!

The Rainhill Trials was an important competition run in October 1829 to test George Stephenson’s argument that locomotives would provide the best motive power for the nearly completed Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

Stephenson’s Rocket was the only locomotive to complete the trials, and was declared the winner.

Base 8 have loved learning about the Rainhill Trials and in challenge time designed and made their own steam engines before recreating the competition in school.

Reception are looking at the life cycle of a butterfly and we have a butterfly garden in the classroom.

The children are very excited to watch all the changes.

Alina tells us a bit more about it in her video.

Base 8 have enjoyed learning all about the Muslim festival of Eid this which is the celebration that comes at the end of the fasting month of Ramadan .