Wow! The 5th November was a busy day in Year 4!

Any passers by would have heard discussions and debates spilling from the classroom walls. As part of our new class topic, Let’s Celebrate, we were preparing to take part in the School Council’s Bonfire Night party in real style.

In our Design and Technology project children were challenged to work collaboratively to create a Guy for the bonfire. To make the challenge especially difficult, our Guy had to sewed together and had to be wearing traditional Stewart costume! Having planned how they would build their Guy, the class were given some final pieces of advice from Year 5 students who completed the challenge last year. This advice proved vital, as it allowed groups to get off to a flying start with their construction. It took all morning to build each section of our rather fine Guy Fawkes!

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During the last few weeks in Year 1, we have been having fun exploring numbers. We have been using Cuisenaire rods to help us understand and explore numbers. We have been looking at pairs of numbers that total up to ten and relating addition to counting on.  It has been great to see the children really starting to use the rods to make beginning addition number sentences.  We also enjoyed making number sentences using Cuisenaire rods on the IWB.

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A fun educational morning, compliments of Miss Jackie at the Amanyara.

How fortunate we Year 3 Dolphins were. We were invited to go and visit the Nature Centre and walk the Nature Trail in the area of the hotel. A fabulous morning of ‘discovery’ was experienced. We were able to observe and handle the live residential conch, soldier crabs and sand dollars that live at the Centre. It was really interesting to see the soldier crabs walking together! We also learnt about plants in the TCI, used a microscope to see natures patterns of plants and insects, painted our own pot to plant seeds in, plus experienced the plants we talked about first hand, during our Nature Walk. Wow! We were so busy!

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Year 6 carried out an investigation to observe exactly how air resistance slows down a moving object.

We have discovered that objects which move through the air experience the force of friction. This is called air resistance. Air resistance acts against gravity on falling objects making them slow down as they fall.

Parachutes are used to slow down the speed of the person or object suspended from the parachute. The parachute is affected by gravity and air resistance.

With this in mind, we got to work making a variety of parachutes. Using different materials cut to different sizes we worked enthusiastically to create a range of different parachutes. When the devising process was complete we headed outside to put the theories to the test.

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