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We listened to (and joined in with) some brilliant stories!

Year 3 enjoyed a great morning of designing, building and evaluating their inventions to save Rapunzel from the tower. 

We have read Jack and the Beanstalk and talked about Jack's problem in the story that he may face. One problem is that he may drop a golden egg on the way down the beanstalk. So we designed and made landings for golden egg and tested them. Only 1 out of 4 eggs cracked!

Brilliant story teller 

Year 6 enjoyed our science through fairy tales work today.  Their challenge was to make a timer for Cinderella so she would know the time 20 seconds before midnight.  

Today we pretended we were Engineers. We had to create a house that the Big Bad wolf couldn'y blow down. first of all we had tlk about the problem, then we brainstormed our ideas, then we designed them, then we made them and tested them. After we had tested them we were allowed to make…

This morning we designed and built a boat to try and help the Gingerbread man get across the river without being eaten. Some of us made boats out of salt dough and some of us used foil. All of the salt dough boats sank straight away. The tin foil boats sank more slowly, one of the tin foil boats…

We have had a brilliant time designing new bridges for the Three Billy Goats Gruff. There was lots of great discussion and good ideas. 

We have been making coil pots from clay 

We looked at food webs in class today We read all about different species and habitats and worked out where they fitted into food webs.

Today we investigated reversible and irreversible changes and created some new materials. Safety first we wore our goggles, then did two investigations to make casein plastic and carbon dioxide. It was very exciting. 

The year 3 children have been exploring what it was like to be a Roman in Britain. They have found out about technology, hygiene, religion and education in Roman Britain through books, videos and artefacts.