Year 1s Human Clock

Today Crew Marsh have been learning how to tell the time, in particular o’clock and half past. They worked extremely hard using their own clocks to answer the questions in lesson and then we decided to challenge ourselves to create the time shown on a clock by using our bodies to represent the clock, the hour hand and the minute hand. Time really does fly when you’re having fun!

Can sounds travel through solids, liquids and gases?

Today, we carried out an experiment to see if sounds can travel through solids, liquids and gases. First we made a prediction as to whether we thought that sound would travel through the different mediums. Then we started by investigating if sound could travel through solids. Partner one rested their ear on the table while partner two tapped underneath. We recorded how clear the sound was. Next, we then used a bowl of water and a plastic bottle to investigate how sounds travel through liquids. We put the bottle into the water and gently rested our ear on the bottle. We then tapped the cubes in the water to see if we could hear the sound. The last experiment we conducted was to test to see if sound travels through gases. We used a balloon to test this. We placed the balloon next to our ear and our partners talked into the balloon from varying distances. We concluded that sounds can travel through solids, liquids and gases but from the results of our experiment, they travelled best in the gas and worst in the liquid.

Demonstration Comprehension

Today, our crew worked hard in their demonstration comprehension lesson. We focused on the next chapter of our class text, Dark Flood, and tested our fluency by aiming to read 185 words in one minute, in line with the Year 6 expected standard. Following this, we worked with Miss as she modelled how to accurately answer a comprehension question, thinking about the best strategies that we could use. We focused on questions that had arisen as a problem for us based on our recent assessments. Once we’d done this, we then worked in pairs to attempt to answer some of our own questions, before coming back together as a crew to check if we all agreed on the answers.

Summer Slice

Crew Robson have loved our summer slice this week. We have revisited some science standards and they have really impressed me with how much they can recall from the past two years!

UKS2 Presentation of Learning

UKS2 were very proud to present their learning to their adults yesterday afternoon. After giving an introduction explaining all about our expedition titled: At The Coalface, the children explained what we had done during our case studies to answer our guiding question: How has the mining industry shaped communities?

Children then got to share their amazing final product – a lapbook that brought all of their hard work from this term together whilst showing off their fantastic artwork. Adults were able to take part in a gallery walk to view their child’s work and were also able to take part in other activites – looking through expedition books, taking part in a Kahoot quiz to test their mining knowledge and an opportunity to create some charcoal art of their own!

Thank you so much to everyone who attended and made it a lovely afternoon!