This week we were set a challenge from Willy Wonka. He was inventing some new sweets in his chocolate factory and was on the look out for ingredients to put in them that would not dissolve in water. He had four ingredients in mind, haribos, orange flavouring, sweetener and chocolate. We had a discussion about the word dissolving and what it might mean before going into groups to work collaboratively to share ideas. We made a hypothesis about what would happen to the different ingredients when placed in the water and recorded this in the form of a drawing. After that we made an observation and drew what actually happened when the solid was placed in the water. We came together as a class to share our findings and shared some questions that we could investigate further next time.

On Tuesday we had our nativity performances and the children were absolutely fantastic! They demonstrated all of our school values and made everyone very proud. Our week ended with a trip to the pantomime to see ”Jack and the Beanstalk” which we all thoroughly enjoyed and laughed the whole way through.