We are Scientific Engineers!

28th January 2024Sarah Winkley

Nursery have been working hard to resolve social conflicts this last week, as part of our first case study “How can the Goats and the Troll be friends?” This is within our new expedition “Once upon a time” and working towards answering our guiding question “Who is hiding in the pages of this book?”

Nursery have listened to the traditional tale of “The Three Billy Goats Gruff” and an alternative version of the story “The Three Billy Goats Fluff” by Rachael Mortimer. They have thought hard about the issues of both key characters; in that the Goats would like to eat the juicy, green, lush grass, but unfortunately they have to trip, trap across the bridge to reach it which in turns wakes up the Troll, who is desperate for some sleep, peace and quiet. Mummy Goat made the Billy Goats booties in the alternative story, but we wondered what if you insulated the bridge? So we have tried hard to make a quiet bridge for the Troll to live under using a variety of insulating materials. We tested baking paper, tinfoil, felt and bubble wrap. Here’s how we got on……

Some of the language and ideas expressed throughout this problem solving was amazing! The children said “the troll is grumpy because he is tired”, “the troll is frustrated because he wants to sleep”, “trip trap, trip trap keeps waking him up, because it’s noisy on the bridge”, “The goats need to be kind and go quieter”. The children spoke in depth about the materials, carefully using their senses to investigate them, some of the words used were; “Shiny”, “Crunchy”, “Crinkly”, “Rattly”, “Soft”, “Fluffy”, “Furry”, “Bubbles”, “Popping”, “Too loud”, “Quiet”, “Silent” and “noisy”.

What beautiful work Nursery – most children either came to the conclusion that the felt was the “quietest” or “softest” material or that the paper and tin foil were “too loud” or “noisy”. Some of the children thought about folding materials into layers to make the bridge even softer and one child thought about using the soft toy troll as a material, as he thought the felt was “still too noisy and the troll is bouncier”. Great experimenting!

Life skills – Zipping!

26th January 2024Sarah Winkley

Nursery have been working hard over the past couple of weeks to fasten their own zips on their coats. At first, the couple of children who could already do this, helped their crew mates to practise. Then more and more children rose in confidence to have a go and resiliency to keep on trying! Well Done Nursery, we now have a long list of children who can do this all by themselves!

Thoughtful Thursday

25th January 2024Claire Goodyer

In crew today we checked in with something we have enjoyed so far this week. It was great to hear the variety of activities that everyone is enthusiastic about from singing assembly and reading sessions to learning about food chains and playing emotions corners.

We shared and celebrated some of the work we were most proud of and made pledges for the week ahead. Well done Crew Goodyer keep up the great work and never loose that enthusiasm for learning.

Delicious Recycling 🥛

17th January 2024Laura Parsons

We have had the most delicious expedition session this afternoon! We were really lucky in class 5 Carter’s mummy brought us some chocolate milk in glass bottles. We thought about why it is better for the environment in a glass bottle than cartons or plastic bottles. We then talked about what happens to the glass bottles next so that they can be used again.

Miss Tinker and I enjoyed everyone’s chocolate moustaches 🤣

Investigating Animals

16th January 2024Claire Goodyer

Class 6 have been busy this week reading to research different animal groups. After sharing their findings and creating class anchor charts they were able to work collaboratively to identify and sort animals into their correct groups.

It was great to see everyone willing to share their ideas and ask questions to clarify their understanding.

Great work Class 6, keep it up!

Animal Collaboration

16th January 2024Laura Parsons

We are busy working on our HOWLt of sharing the same goal as our crew this morning. We are working together to sort the animals into the different groups, using the anchor charts we created yesterday. We finished our lesson with the post it note game – we had to think really carefully about the questions and vocabulary we were using!

Well done class five 😊

Animal Experts

15th January 2024Laura Parsons

This morning we used a jigsaw protocol. Each group worked to research a different animal group – we then became experts and presented our learning to everyone else. We even created anchor charts to help us later in our expedition.

We all worked really hard to meet our HOWLt of sharing the same goal as the rest of my crew.

Awesome job class 5 xx

Dead, Alive or Never Alive?

15th January 2024Laura Parsons

We have been learning about life processes in class five this morning. We have then been using our iPads to apply our knowledge to work out what is dead, alive or has never been alive.

I wonder how many you could get right? Here is the link to have a go! https://wordwall.net/resource/64469168

Great job Scientists 🔎