Out and About in the Springtime!

Year 5 and 6 have had two trips this half term!  Woop woop!  As part of our D&T Unit about designing and making a fairground ride we went to Making It! in Mansfield.  It was a fantastic day and we came back with some great models of carousels as well as great ideas about moving parts.

We also went to Dovedale to look at the River Dove for our geography unit all about Rivers.  It was the most amazing day!  Father God blessed us with incredible weather and we even managed to make it up Thorpe Cloud for a very windy sketching session.

We hope you enjoy the pictures...

Reading instructions carefully.

Our marvelous guide and helper for the day!

Hard at work on their carousels.

Happy with her work so far.

Setting off on our trip up the River Dove.

Crossing the Stepping Stones!  We all made it across safely.

Stopping for a snack.

It really was a beautiful day!

We had our lunch in a cave.  We were joined by some very friendly ducks.

At the top of Thorpe Cloud!  We made it!  It was a hard climb up but most of us thought it was worth it.

Crossing the bridge and heading home.

Tough Plants!

Our Science unit this half term is looking at chains and webs and as part of that we have spent the first few lessons of the year focusing on the start of any food chain, plants and their relationship with the sun.  We did a two week long experiment looking at 4 plants and what happened when we denied them things which we thought they needed.  Our results were very interesting and mainly showed that plants can survive quite a lot (including being put in a box and given no water!).  We put together the photos we took over the two weeks and made a time lapse video showing our plants growing.  You can see it below.  From left to right the plants had: 

Water and No Light.  No Water and No Light.  Light and No Water.  Water and Light

We are now being nice to the plants and have a lovely mini classroom garden which also contains a hyacinth and some daffodils that Caleb's Crew planted before Christmas.

Slippers

After weeks of hard work and a few major setbacks the slippers finally got finished (and after weeks of trying to work out where he put the photos Mr Snowdon finally got them on the Blog!).  All of the students worked incredibly well on them and we're very proud of the results.  Special thanks to Mrs Morgan for her help with needles and the like.  Enjoy them!