Class Trip to Canterbury

For our class trip we went to Canterbury and went on a punting trip along the river Stour. We loved seeing the city from the river and learning about how the river has been used through history. We travelled under buildings and the high street. We especially loved listening about the rare cave-dwelling spiders that live under some of the old buildings.

Next, we headed to Toddler's Cove for a picnic lunch and a play in the playground. We had a fabulous time and were so lucky with the weather!

Finally, we went on a treasure hunt around the city to learn more about the history. What a day!

Boat Making

As part of our science learning about water resistance and streamlining, the children made boats which they then sailed across our school pond. The aim was for the boats to cross safely and quickly. Thank you for all your donations, the children had so much fun making their boats!

This term we have been studying the artist Vincent Jason Scarpace. We looked at a range of his imaginative fish paintings and investigated how he created pictures within pictures and a range of patterns and resources to create the most imaginative, vivid art pieces. We recreated paintings in this style; sectioning images of fish and then using brushes, bubble wrap, fabric and many other resources to create beautiful artwork!

Water resistance experiment

In science, we have been learning about water resistance. We learnt about the effect of resistance on shapes in water by molding modelling clay into a range of shapes. We then used stop watches to record how quickly each shape fell to the bottom of a jug and calculated mean times.