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Year Five had a great time learning about the many inventions, from the Islamic Golden Age, which have since shaped the world. We studied Hasan Ibn al-Haytham, who studied optics and created the first concept for the camera obscurer. We then created our own working camera obscurers using boxes,…

Year Five have been investigating how air resistance can work as an opposing force to gravity. We also found that air resistance is influenced by the surface area of an object as it falls to Earth. To investigate this, we dropped parachutes of three differing sizes, with 3 specific surface areas.…

This term, we have been studying the Victorians. We have started our study by comparing our lives to theirs and what better place to start than with the things we love the most, TOYS! Firstly, we looked at what playground games they may have played and enjoyed and realised that some of these games…

The children in Reception have continued their learning about ducks. They have enjoyed weighing two of our ducklings (Doris and Fluffy). They weighed them both on Friday and weighed them again on Monday, they were shocked to discover how big they had grown over a short amount of time, Doris…

Year 2 have #enjoyed using their class library this week. Some children have been to London with their stories, others have been to a deep, dark cave. Books take you to lots of different places. where will you go to next?
 

Year 6 have been learning how to play the Jurassic World theme on their ukuleles this week in music! They’ve picked it up so fast - so many amazing musicians the making! #enjoy #embrace #evolve

Year Five have made huge progress in maths, this week. We have been studying decimals and how to represent equivalent decimals and fractions using base 10, tenth and hundredth discs, and place value charts. Great work, Year Five.

Year 3 are loving their Thursday afternoons of Spanish and Music. They learnt to say ‘My name is’ in Spanish and play glockenspiels along to ‘He’s got the whole world in his hands’ 

With even more new faces this week, our diddy Delph Siders have been happily building the most adorable little friendships. 

Year 5 #enjoyed exploring stencils today, looking at cogs, gears and chains. Today we explored tone by layering outlines creating an explorative page in our sketchbooks. 
 

In The Hangout we love our weekly sensory sessions. During these sessions we explore different foods with our senses. This week we explored piccalilli, mint sauce, cucumber and pickled onion monster much.