Dr Jamie Gallagher launched our STEM Fortnight today at Assembly . He works in Nano technology and does super cool things. He showed us how technology has changed over the years. He showed us his microscope and showed us insects in detail. He also had a drone and showed us how it works. It was amazing. Mr Tyler told us about all the brilliant things that are happening in the next two weeks, including our amazing STEM Showcase on Thursday, 21st March 6pm -7pm. Come along ! It’s free!!
Monthly Archives: March 2019
ASDA trip
Please remember to return your child’s completed consent form so they are able to join us on our trip to ASDA. We are all really looking forward to it 😁
Thank you,
Miss O’Neil
Microscopy
We kicked off STEM Fortnight with a real treat. We had a great time learned all about microscopy . We got to use the digital microscopes and look at things close up. It was amazing to see how things looked when we looked at them closely. The science lab technicians in P7 came along to talk about it and show us how to use the digital microscopes.
Values Assembly
We performed our poem “ Ambition”at our Values Assembly today. We wrote the poem together at one of our writing lessons. Needless to say, we were amazing! 😁😁😁😁
Aliens
We created our aliens using play dough. We read “ Aliens In Underpants Save The World” for World Book Day. We had great fun discussing our work and put in a lot of detail.
Aliens In Underpants
For World Book Day, we read “Aliens In Underpants Save The World.”. It is a brilliant book. We designed our own pants; made play dough aliens and designed our aliens. We had a brilliant day!
Hour of Code
We were continuing to learn about directions in maths today and we used Hour of Code, which teaches us coding. We had to give BB-8 directions to pick up packages. We were very good at programming the blocks.
Composer
In music today, Mrs Fingland taught us about the composer John Williams. We listened to some of his “Harry Potter” music and some of his “Jaws”music. We learned that music helps tell a story and that it is the composer’s job to help add to the story with music. Music can help us feel excited in a film.
Making Beetles
We were making beetles with Mrs Hillan. We had to cut out the body parts. It was quite tricky, but we have been doing lots of practise with scissors this week. We then had to decorate the head, thorax and body. They looked beautiful in the end.
Codapillars
We were learning about directions today and used the Codapillars. We had to put the different parts on to tell the Codapillars which way to go. We tried to,program them to go from one child to another . It was great fun to do. We got better with practise. It gave us lots of discussion!