Year 6 -Materials

Walk On Wednesday - Results

Well done Mars this week!!

Remember to keep walking on Wednesday next term!

Read Write Inc

Mrs Daniel's Group- Planning a Christmas Party

 Ho Ho Ho!

Light Workshop

Kaleidoscope design

Science Week- The Mobile Farm Experience

Science Week -Tuesday 23rd October

Year 4 working with Ken Harrison looking at Forces.

Science Week

On Monday 22^nd October - Friday 26^th October we are having a Science week in school. Throughout the week the children will have lots of magical experiences to help bring important elements of the National Curriculum to life and to experience Science live!

On Tuesday 23^rd October The Mobile Farm Experience is coming to visit our Nursery to Year 3 classes - bringing the farm experience to school! The children will learn a range of fascinating things about Food, Farming and the Countryside and throughout the visit the children will have lots of opportunities to get close to the animals. Sessions include:

• Free time to meet the animals
• Hands on encounter sessions
• Feeding and grooming
• Talking through each animal in turn including: differences, baby names, what they produce and what each animal needs to stay healthy.
• Quiz and activity sheets

For years 4, 5 and 6, the children will be working with Ken Harrison, an experienced expert from Mayfield Grammar school, who will be doing some amazing science with the different year groups. Their sessions will be on the Tuesday and Wednesday. The Year 4 workshop will be exploring forces, the year 5 workshop is all about light and the year 6 workshop is about materials. Each of these sessions will be practical and inspiring. Some of which will go with a bang!

Martin Rapley, more famously known as ‘The Bugman!’ will be visiting children from year R up to year 6 on the Thursday. He will perform an animal variety show where the children will have plenty of opportunity to learn about, and where suitable, touch animals, like a snake, lizard, harvest mouse, pygmy hedgehog, praying mantis, stick insects, an emperor scorpion, Mexican red knee tarantula and giant millipedes. The show has plenty of WOW factor and the children will love it. There will also be smaller close up sessions too.

As a finale, Doctor Julie’s Heaps of Science Fun will be performing a wonderful show to years 1-6. The show will demonstrate a range of exciting repeatable scientific experiments using everyday household objects. The children will be amazed and inspired!

I am really looking forward to a very exciting end to the term!

Outstanding Attendance!

As a reward for the best attendance last academic year, 13 pupils went to Cineworld today for a Film Education "Monster in Paris" movie with Mrs Green and Mrs Brierley.

Year 4 - Natural History Museum

Monday 15th October

Today Jupiter and Neptune went to London to the Natural History Museum to visit "The Powers Within" and "Restless Surface" galleries to support their topic -Active Planet.

Harvest Celebration

Today Wrotham Road pupils collected a bumper crop of food donations. Children brought in items from home, including tinned, powdered and dried food, tea, coffee, fruit juice and vegetables.These items will help stock up  ‘Foodbank’ which sees volunteers providing essential food items to families who have suffered in some way,who are less fortunate than us.

A big thank you for all the donations!

Walk on Wednesday assembly

Yesterday we were visited by the WOW bug!

The assembly style presentation celebrated the launch of the new WOW scheme, to get the children thinking about why it is important to walk to school and encourage others to get involved. 

(Posted Mrs Green)

Year 3 - Natural History Museum

On Friday 28th September the Year 3 classes visited the Natural History Museum as part of their IPC topic, Footprints from the Past. The children enjoyed dressing up as Dino-scientists and were delighted when other visitors to the museum said that they looked like real scientists! And that is exactly what they were as they developed scientific skills of observation and drawing conclusions from evidence. They looked closely at prehistoric skeletons, looking for evidence to decide how their animal moved and ate as well as thinking about where it lived. They then had to decide whether or not it was a dinosaur. They also used clues to identify a mystery dinosaur! The rest of the time was spent enjoying interactive games and looking at dinosaur skeletons and huge working models. We were very proud of their learning and behaviour. We would like to thank the parents who gave up a day to come with us to work with small groups.

(Posted Mrs Green)