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Today in Maths, we re-capped our knowledge of rounding from year 4. This allowed us to remember the rules of rounding and put it into practise. We were also able to address common mistakes and miss-conceptions and discuss what to do when rounding causes us to cross into the next place value column. Today we …

Today, we were joined by Doctor Khanna, who kindly volunteered his expertise and led a dissection. The children learnt about the chambers of the heart and the purpose of: veins, arteries, the trachea, the bronchi, the lungs and the alveoli. Further to this, on two of the samples, we were able to spot the voice …

Throughout our myth writing unit, we have been reading the story ‘The Rain Player’. Today, we used drama to predict what we think would happen next. Chac (The Rain God), was about to play Pok-a-Tok against Pik, to decide Pik’s fate. Can your figure out what we think is going to happen using our still …

This week in Puffins, we’ve been history detectives, discovering what life may have been like during the Mayan era. Using a gallery of paintings by Frederick Catherwood, we worked with our peers to highlight what their key features told us about what life was like back then. We found evidence that gave us lots of …

This year our school council have been incredibly busy. They’ve held story writing, poetry and design competitions, helped the school save energy and stay tidy, rescued a sea-turtle, made bird feeders, hosted Chill Out Tuesdays, collected for the food bank, recycled thousands of batteries for Duracell’s Big Battery Hunt, met the Mayor of Leeds…and so …

This week, we have created Alien Soup (as you do) in order to demonstrate how materials can be separated. We examined what a solution was and discussed irreversible changes learnt in 3/4 (burning, baking, rusting etc). We then began creating our ‘soup’: water, sand, paper clips, salt and rice. The children were challenged with understanding …

The Big Battery Hunt is over! A HUGE well done and thank you to everyone who has contributed to the competition. So many of you have brought in THOUSANDS of dead and used batteries, and so many of you have done a fantastic job of helping us to count and recycle these too. Overall, we …

Thank you to those who have continued to bring in their dead and used batteries over the past few months. We have now collected and recycled just over 15,000 batteries! The competition is about to enter its final week…you have until Friday 30th June to bring in any dead or used batteries that you wish …

On Thursday, the Puffins studied the male and female structures of flowering plants. We dissected a Lily and identified the pistil/carpal (stigma, style and ovary), the stamen (anther and filament), the sepals and the petals. One or two groups also thought that they had identified an egg (ovule) in the ovaries.

Winners of the survival challenge.

To end our topic on weather & climate, we had a survival challenge day. Pupils were asked to bring to school a rucksack packed with items they feel would be useful if they had to survive in a particular climate. Pupils worked in groups to set up their camp and show what equipment they had …

To mark the end of our topic, Express Yourself, we designed and created our own pencil cases using felt. It took a couple of sessions but we’ve finally done! We used various different stitches, including blanket, back, whip and running. We also had to attach a button and create a fastening loop which was slightly …

After helping promote Earth Day, School Council have been keen to do more to help our planet, particularly through helping the wildlife. This week, we have had a go at creating our very own recycled bird feeders to hang up around the School grounds. We had so much fun making them and are very pleased …

To celebrate Earth Day, which is on the 22nd April, we have been researching why it is important and why we celebrate this particular day. We learnt all about the history behind Earth Day and even looked at pictures from the very first Earth Day, back in 1970. We talked as a class about what …

Just a reminder that UKS2 Outdoor PE has now been changed to a Thursday, instead of a Friday. Children will need to come in their PE kits on a Thursday from now on until the end of the academic year.

Thank you to those who have been bringing in their dead and used batteries over the past couple of months. We have now collected a total of 6400 batteries! A big thank you also, to our school council team who have been making multiple trips to the recycling points to ensure all of these get …

As the majority of us were in Lockerbie during British Science Week, we decided that we still wanted to celebrate it, just at a later date! We read a book called ‘The Most Important Animal of All’ and learnt about lots of different animals, including krill, beavers and elephants. We discussed why they could be classed …

Today is World Poetry Day! To help celebrate, School Council have hosted a poetry writing competition. There were lots of amazing entries and they found it incredibly hard to judge! In assembly this morning, 2 winners were announced… Ruby from Herons and Luca from Woodpeckers. A huge well done to everybody that entered! Below are …

After a successful term of running ‘Chill Out Tuesday’ for KS2 children, School Council have now swapped their club to allow Reception and KS1 children to attend. So far, it’s been very popular! The children have loved mixing with each other through playing board games, building models, reading, drawing, crafting and dancing (thanks to DJ …