Class 2 had a great time during music today. They played percussion instruments and showed what a great sense of rhythm they had when moving in time to the music.
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Remembrance Day
Today, the children from Class 1 took part in observing the 2 minutes silence as part of Remembrance Day, along with the rest of the school. They also watched a short animation about this event and learned about why we observe it. Each child made a collage poppy and did some writing to support their learning. These are on display on our classroom windows.
Class 1 Science Day
In Class 1, we wanted to focus upon the word ‘investigate’:
We listened to the story of The Gingerbread Man. The children were given a Gingerbread Man each and used their senses to describe it.
We stopped the story at the point where the Gingerbread Man got to the river.
Question 1: What would happen to the Gingerbread Man in water? The children made their predictions and then we placed them into a container of water.
After 10 minutes we retuned and made observations about what had happened.
Were our predictions right?
The next question that Class 1 investigated was:
Question 2: What would happen to the Gingerbread Man if he fell into different puddles whilst running away?
We placed Gingerbread Men into ‘puddles’ of vegetable oil, orange juice and vinegar. Again, the children made suggestions as to what they thought might happen in the different liquids. After 5 minutes, the children returned to look closely at their Gingerbread Men. They all looked unchanged so then they touched them and found that the ones in oil were still very hard but the ones in the Orange juice and vinegar had gone very soft and mushy.
The final question for Class 1 built on some learning that we had done in the Summer term, about Floating and Sinking.
Question 3: Can you help the Gingerbread Man get across the river using Playdough?
We had a letter from a Gingerbread Man who needed our help to get across the river. The children were given a ball of playdough each and observed what happened when they placed this into the water. It sank.
We then talked about other things we could use. They wanted to make a raft each. These were much more successful.
Class 2 Science Day
Class 2 enjoyed investigating materials today for science day. They sorted materials and identified objects in the classroom and on the playground that were made of different materials. They investigated which type of paper was the most absorbent, a busy afternoon with surprising results!
Class 3 Science Day
Today Class 3 investigated Newton’s Third Law, the theory that for every action there is a reaction. They took an empty carton and placed small holes in each of the bottom corners then used masking tape to seal these again. Using a funnel, they filled the carton with water and removed one of the pieces of masking tape. The water jetted out one way and the carton spun the other. It wasn’t as spectacular as they had hoped but they enjoyed getting wet in the name of science!
Class 3 proved that water molecules are attracted to each other causing surface tension. They used pipettes to drop water on the surface of a coin. When washing up liquid was added to the water the surface tension was dramatically reduced.
Science Club
Science Club spent their time cleaning tonight and they enjoyed it!!! They had to choose a variety of unusual cleaning products to clean their coins. The selection included; soy sauce, tomato ketchup and hand sanitiser. The ketchup and the soy sauce had the coins sparkling which surprised us all!!
Football Challenge
Class 2 and 3 have been practising for the inter schools virtual football challenge. They were passing the ball between their feet, passing to each other and aiming to knock a ball off the cone!!!
County Map Work
Today in geography Class 3 were learning about counties using social distanced map work.
Poppies
In Art Club today, the children worked on paintings and collages inspired by Remembrance Day this Wednesday. We will be using these to make a display marking the occasion.
50th Anniversary
Today we are marking the 50th birthday of Dudley House school on its current site. All the children took part in planting the bulbs of some golden daffodils that will pop up in the Spring. We also looked at photos of the original site; the house and family that were here. We saw pictures of the school being built and looked closely at the uniforms worn then. What was the same and what was different? The children used to have to wear a school hat as part of their uniform so we made our versions of them. We wore these as we celebrated with a special assembly and some chocolate cake.
