Cornered!

The story so far….by Arshia

Cornered! There we were, in a colossal cave, trapped. The menacing silhouetted creature snorted an inferno at the cave’s wall. Fire bounced everywhere. The flare hit us. Sweat trickled down my palms.  I stood up and threw dirt and stones at both it’s eyes. We ran as fast as our little legs could carry us. As I struggled up the rocks, I tried to remember how I had got into such a mess.

It was just like a normal day, I was going to the cave to find some coal. As I climbed in it was then that I’d heard it. A furious roar and someone screaming ‘Help!

That’s how it happened. I’d squeezed through the gap leading into the huge cave. Suddenly, ominous smoke lifted and a colossal beast towered over me and snorted. The sun’s blinding beam squeezed through the gap into the beast’s face and I saw it. A dragon!

“Shh…”the boy said appearing out of the darkness. He started telling me that he was the prince of England.

So there we were balancing on a rock, floating on lava, jumping rock to rock…(To be continued)

Blood flow experiment

We set up an experiment to see how the diameter of a straw effected how quickly water flowed through. This showed us how the blood flows differently through the arteries, veins and cappilaries.
What did you learn from this experiement?

‘Hit the Button’ Multiplication Game

Find the game by clicking here.

 

How to keep your heart healthy.

Follow the link here to find out more about keeping your heart healthy and the effects of smoking.

What does smoking to you heart?

Healthy heart.

Today, we have been learning about foods that are good for our health. We made coleslaw, following a recipe.
Who had coleslaw for tea? Did you enjoy it?

SATs Parent Workshop

Some parents are enquiring about the dates for SATs this year. There will be a parent workshop this Thursday to find out more. This will start at 2:15pm and will last for about 30 minutes (with time for questions after.)  We will talk through what to expect this year, what children will need to do and how you can support your child.

Here are the dates for the SATs tests this year:

Monday 8^th May           Reading

Tuesday 9^th May           English spelling, punctuation and grammar

Wednesday 10^th May    Mathematics Paper 1 and 2

Thursday 11^th May       Mathematics Paper 3

Give Blood Website

Click here-  Give Blood Website

Read the information on the tab ‘WHY GIVE BLOOD.’

What have your learnt from your research?

Artificial Blood!

We went over to our local high school, Four Dwellings Primary Academy, again today. We mixed home cooking ingredients to make artificial blood in test tubes. This will enable us to better understand the proportions of red and white blood cells, plasma and platelets within blood. It was also a lot of fun!

High School

Four Dwellings Academy are continuing to support us this year with our Science lessons. We are able to pop over regularly to use their science laboratories. This is very useful as it enables us to be more adventurous with the work that we can do and also gives the children an insight into life at high school. We always send a text to let you know which days we head over and are always back before the end of the school day.
Our next visit will be on Monday 12th. We will be going over to make artificial blood ( out of food ingredients) so that we can better understand what blood does in our bodies.

Clay hearts.

We had a wonderful time this afternoon making hearts out of clay. This enabled the children to revise their knowledge of the heart anatomy as well as being creative in their use of tools and clay.