Provo Primary School

After many weeks of patience and hard work, we have finally completed our pop-up books in Year 4! During the Autumn term, children wrote adventure stories based on our Tudor Explorers topic. We wanted to bring these adventures to life, and so set about creating our very own pop-up books! This design project took longer than we thought, as we worked carefully to make sure each page worked correctly.

We tried to make each page of the book interactive, so that the reader could move something in the story. We learned about how real pop-up books are made, and what kind of tricks they use to make things move.

We also had to learn about how to lay out or page in ICT, so that our writing and front cover looked as professional as the rest of the book. We were pleased to finally combine all elements into a completed book!

We were really happy with our completed books – we hope you enjoy seeing them! Take a look at the video and photos of what we created! [Read more…]

Year 4 recycled pizza boxes and scrap paper to make a game that would help them to learn about fractions. Each child created pizzas cut into a variety of number of slices.  In the game, the children matched mixed number and improper fraction cards to the pizzas that showed these fractions.  Some of the cards were equivalent fractions so the children had to imagine cutting or combining slices to match them.  This game certainly got the children thinking and learning lots about fractions.  It also got everyone feeling hungry – especially for pizza!

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The Pelican class recently took a look at the artist Andy Warhol and in particular his vibrant portrait paintings. We took the children’s photographs and they painted on top of them using bright water colours. They then made their own background in Andy Warhol style printing. To do this they took a small rectangular piece of foam, carved a simple pattern on one side with a pencil, covered this with paint and used it as a stamp to make 4 prints. The results were simply eye catching!

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Our Hummingbird class has been learning about light and dark during our topic work.

We started off by exploring what is a natural source of light and what is a ‘man-made’ source of light. We brought our learning outside to draw around our own shadows and investigate how our shadows seem to ‘move’ even though we are standing in the same spot, at different times during the day!

Read on to find out more about our shadow show, firework poetry and science work. There are lots of photos of us busy exploring!

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One of our Year Five Science Topics this term has been on the cardiovascular system, where we have been learning about the heart and how it pumps blood around our body. A visit to our recently built hospital was a fantastic opportunity to see how doctors monitor our hearts with a variety of equipment.

The best part of our visit was examining a child’s heart using an ultra sound machine. We could see the four chambers of the heart (atrium and ventricles). We could see the tricuspid and bicuspid valves opening and closing, allowing blood to flow through from the heart to the lungs. The children were able to identify the pulmonary artery, lungs and the aorta. [Read more…]

As part of this half-term’s “Let’s Celebrate” topic, Flamingo Class have enjoyed a week learning about and celebrating Bonfire Night! We explored the occasion’s history and traditions, in order to understand why this event has become such a popular celebration in Britain. Read on to find out more about our Design & Technology task to create a life-sized Guy Fawkes and to see photos of Bonfire Night, Turks and Caicos Style!

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Year 6 have been investigating the forces around us and learning all about Sir Isaac Newton’s laws of physics. We decided to have some fun with an investigation on elastic bands and what happens to an elastic band as the pulling force is increased and what will happen to the elastic band as weights (masses) are suspended from it? Will the elastic go back to it’s original size? All these questions needed to be answered so we donned our safety goggles and started investigating! As you can see from the photos we found that elastic bands are stronger than you would think and had some super scientific fun along the way!

Year 5 have been learning about parts of the flower and their role in the life cycle of flowering plants.  We opened up a flower by removing the petals to look at the reproductive organs.  We took out the stamen of the flower and wiped it on black paper to look at the yellow dust like material called pollen.  The children were surprised to see how much pollen came out of each stamen.   We carefully used a toothpick to open the carpel to look at the female organs which contain the ovaries.  This is where the seed of the flower is reproduced.

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