Our ideas, thoughts, experiments, challenges, opinions and more…
Sponsored ‘Wacky Walk’ – Children are invited to dress in wacky clothes ‘The Wackier the Better’ on Friday, May 16th in school from 1.30 pm. Could Mums and Dads please remember to return any sponsor forms to school by Monday 12th May (to Mrs Sowden). Please note no monies to be returned with sponsor forms until after the event. Many thanks P.T.A.
In Year 4, we have been investigating forces. Today we were thinking about air resistance. We went on to the field in the sunshine and played with the parachute, talking about what we already knew about air resistance. We knew loads!
We came up with the hypothesis that the larger the surface area of the parachute, the slower it would fall due to increased air resistance. We needed to test this out, so we sent Mr Robertson up onto the school roof (being VERY careful of course) with some different sized parachutes that we had made.
Mr Robertson threw the parachutes off and we timed how long it took them to reach the ground. Although it wasn’t a totally fair test due to the wind, the results did support our hypothesis that bigger parachutes created more air resistance and therefore took longer to hit the ground. Thanks to Mr and Mrs Sowden for their help with this experiment!
Last term our topic was schools. We collected objects to represent the different things we learn.
We decided that we could represent the things we collected by drawing a design for a clay tile. Mrs. Thomas came into school to work with the children and we printed our pattern onto a tile.
Can you tell which subjects each tile represents?
Mrs. Thomas put the clay tiles into a kiln and when they were ready the children got to decorate them using colour glazes.
Here are our finished tiles keep an eye out for them appearing on a wall soon!
Year 1 were visted by two scientists Lynne (Mrs Armitage’s daughter) and Scott. We found out lots of new information about plants.
A massive congratulations to Samuel, Ruth and Zac who travelled to York today to compete in the regional megafinals of the British Land UK Chess Challenge. They took part in a demanding day of chess, each playing 6 other opponents.
You all performed brilliantly, representing our school in a very positive way and I was very proud of all of you.
Thanks also to Mums, Dads and Grandads who gave up their Bank Holiday to supprt the children.
Well done!!
Year 4 have been investigating water resistance. They had a hypothesis that went like this:
We think that streamlined objects travel faster through water than non-streamlined objects.
Next they had to test this theory out. So we made lots of shapes out of plasticine (all the same weight of course!) and timed how quickly they travelled down a large tube filled with water. The results proved their hypothesis! Well done Y4!
Here are the competitors:
From the very sleek water resistant torpedo shape:
To those of us who tried to make their shapes travel as slowly as possible:
Down the tube they went:
As you will know, we are currently working with a partner school in Perigueux, France. Some of the children have written letters to each other and we are now working on a project to highlight some of the artefacts that represent us and our language and culture.
We are thinking about things which represent us on local level (Otley), a regional level (Yorkshire) and a national level (UK). We would like to send our partner school a box of items that they can explore and ask us questions about. Our partner school are working on a smiliar box for us.
If you would like to help us with suggestions for the box, then please leave a comment below!
Things to remember:
It must be small enough to fit in a large shoe box
It must be something that won’t go bad!
The more unusual and specific to our town, region or country the better!
Bonne chance!
What does a koala bear eat? Name Rome’s main river? How many colours can the human eye see?
These are just some of the tricky questions our gallant team faced as they battled their wits against Kerr Mackie Primary during Leeds Learning Network’s video conference quiz .
The team in action ………. on the smartboard…
………and in the classroom.
Although we made an excellent start, and were neck and neck for much of the quiz, Kerr Mackie moved ahead in the final stages to win their way through to the semi final.
Well done to all!
Once again, our nostrils have been teased by the delicious scent of baking bread as Goldfinch group became master bakers for the day.
Below, you can see the wonderful loaves produced by children in Lapwing group last week.
I bet these photos are now all that remains!
