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Summer Term 2022 - Year 6 - What Is Science?

To help answer the question: "What Is Science?" we have been learning the skills that scientists use. In this video we have been learning about classification.

Summer Term 2022 - Year 4 - Science At Nell Bank

Year 4 had a fabulous day at Nell Bank. They walked through The Bluebell Woods down to the river looking at geographical features, including tributaries and ground water. Once at the river played a game of Pooh Sticks, which showed the river speed around the meander. They then looked at the physical features of rocks and stones on the beach.
The afternoon was filled with science activities including a habitat hunt and pond dipping, finally finished with a play on the wooden playground. The sun shone and it was a brilliant day!

Summer 1 Outdoor Learning Maths Year 3 Measuring Perimeter

Spring Term 2022 - Year 5 - The Battle of Hastings

Year 5 re-enacted The Battle of Hastings. (No pupils were blinded during the making of this video.)

Spring Term 2022 - Class 4I - Muddy Puddle Day

Class 4I used Muddy Puddle Day mainly to identify and build geometric shapes. They drew on ideas from Jordan Romero and mountain studies.

Spring Term 2022 - Class 6G - Muddy Puddle Day

We used our Muddy Puddle Day (no mud and no puddles this year!) to do some maths outside. This video shows what we were up to.

Spring Term 2022 - Year 6 - Muddy Puddle Day

We used our Muddy Puddle Day (no mud and no puddles this year!) to do some combined maths and art outside. This video shows what we were up to

Spring Term 2022 - Year 3 - Muddy Puddle Day

Year 3 spent time outside hunting for, and recording, 2- and 3- dimensional objects. They then made their own objects using both found materials and modelling straws.

Autumn Term 2021 - Year 3 - Muddy Egyptians

As part of Muddy Puddle Day we hunted outside for a variety of natural materials and used them to create our names in hieroglyphs.

Autumn Term 2021 - Year 3 - The Egyptians

We went outside and a great time recreating Egyptian Tug-O-War competitions.

Autumn Term 2021 - Year 4 Science - The Digestive System

We learned about the digestive system using instructions from a BBC Bitesize project. The playground was the ideal place for this experiment!

Autumn Term 2021 - Year 5A - Muddy Puddle Day

5A continued their study of the Greeks in the school grounds.

Autumn Term 2021 - Year 5H - Muddy Puddle Day

As part of Muddy Puddle Day 5H continued their study of the Greeks outside.

Autumn Term 2021 - Year 5 - Groovy Greeks

We designed some Greek inspired pottery, then we prepared some Greek food and finally we went out to the fire pit where we cooked and ate the food.

Autumn Term 2021 - Year 6 - World War II and Muddy Puddle Day Part 2

We also experienced other aspects of World War II. We looked at some precious and interesting mementos; we studied Morse code; we played wartime games; we designed propaganda posters and finally we toasted muffins.

Part 1Autumn Term 2021 - Year 6 - World War II and Muddy Puddle Day

We made our own version of an Anderson shelter and spent time experiencing a little of what it would have been like in there during an air raid.

Autumn Term 2021 - Year 4 - Muddy Puddles

Year 4 merged their study of the Romans with their Muddy Puddles day. They took part in several different activities.

Autumn Term 2021 - Year 6 - How we see objects

We have been looking at how light travels to our eyes so we can see things. We made our own videos and here they are. (Sorry about the wind noise - hope you can still hear what we are saying.)

Autumn Term 2021 - Year 6 - Den Building

As part of their World War II topic Year 6 have been studying air-raid shelters. As part of this topic they have been evaluating different shelters and then building their own.

Summer Term 2021 - Year 5 - Eco-Schools - Biodiversity - Bug Hotels

We made bug hotels and placed them around the school grounds.

Summer Term 2021 - Year 4I Eco-Schools - Litter Picking

Continuing our litter topic we went litter collecting in Nunroyd Park.

Summer Term 2021 - Year 5 - Eco-Schools - Biodiversity

We spent a lovely sunny day hunting around the school grounds for living creatures.

Summer Term 2021 - Year 3 - Outdoor Maths

We had to hunt out analogue clock faces and then convert the analogue time into digital time.

Summer Term 2021 - Year 3 - On the Allotment

We tidied up our allotment, watered the plants, gathered some crops and ........ ate them!

Summer Term 2021 - Year 6 - Pond Dipping

We have revisited our pond to see what changes there have been since earlier this year.

Summer Term 2021 - Year 6 - Eco-Schools

As part of the Eco-Schools project we have been studying water. We made some basic filters and used them to clean some of our pond water.

Year 4 harvesting and tasting their produce from the garden.

Year 5 re-creating the Carnival atmosphere of the Brazil with a musical Samba in the sunshine!

The warm weather has really encouraged the Year 4 peas and rocket to rocket!

Year 3 lettuce is ready to harvest by the children.

Summer Term 2 Year four litter picking and locating key litter areas in our school.

Summer Term 2021 - Year 6 Adventure Writing

After reading Robinson Crusoe and Kenuke's Kingdom we have been designing our own desert islands.

Year 4 enjoying planting fruit and vegetables and looking for mini beasts in our pond.

Summer Term 2021 - Year 3 Stone Age Day

Year 3 spent a whole day studying Stone Age life. These 5 videos Show them experiencing foraging, weaving, cave painting shelter building and making fire. They had a great day.

Summer Term 2021 - Year 3 - Stone Age Day

Summer Term 2021 - Year 3 - Gardening

We have been planting sunflower seeds. We will be using them over the next few weeks to investigate what plants need to survive. Watch this space!

Summer Term 2021 - Class 6G - Classifying Living Things

Using the School Pond and School Grounds as a resource we collected a variety of living things and began to classify them.

Spring Term 2021 - Year 4 - Mayan Culture

We have been studying Mayan culture. This has involved outdoor learning, history, food technology and a lot of fun!

Spring Term 2021 - Year 4 - Gardening

We planted seeds in the vegetable garden and also had a look at the tadpoles collected from our pond.

Spring Term 2021 - Year 5 Visit The Pond

Our first trip to the pond this year. We observed what was going on. Then we did some pond-dipping and collected frog spawn and tadpoles.

Spring Term 2021 - Year 5 - Orienteering

Have you ever navigated an orienteering course whilst being chased by aliens? This was the challenge for Year 5 on a sunny March afternoon. Year 5 enjoyed following a route using their map skills whilst racing against their peers. However, they had to be careful of three pupils wearing alien hats. If they were caught, they would have to hand their map over and become an alien themselves! Much fun was had by all.

Spring Term 2 - Year 5 - The End of the Anglo-Saxons

We finished this topic re-enacting the defeat of the Anglo-Saxons by the Normans.

Spring Term 2021 - 6G - Gardening

6G are growing a herb garden.

Spring Term 2021 - 6G - Shading Techniques

6G are studying the work of Michelle Hughes, the Yorkshire lino print artist. Here is their introductory work.

Autumn 2020 - Year 6 - Learning French outside

Year 4 Roman army battle formations

Year 4 used the Roman shields they made to practise the different Roman army battle formations that they would have carried out in battle. We did this indoors because of the rain.