Science Week

The 11th-15th March was Science and DT week in Shirley Warren!  The theme of the week was Journeys with each year group having their own stimulus to explore.

Year R - Looked at tunnels: thinking about what makes a good one before constructing their own.

Year 1 - Looked at bridges: thinking about what materials would be best before creating their own that would have to carry the weight of a beebot.

Year 2 - Looked at static electricity and how it could transport the paper animals they made.

Year 3 - Found out about the important role bees play in pollination and then created their own digital animations to show this.

Year 4 - Investigated forces and the effect they had on the fabulous flying machines they created.  They then used iPads to create their own explanation videos.

Year 5 - Found out all about scientists that had visited space.

Year 6 - Had two mini projects of their own; 6L investigated natural disasters whilst 6W looked at the journey of diseases before creating their own viral videos.

The children thoroughly enjoyed practically investigating these areas and learnt lots during the week! Special mention needs to go to the ambassadors from each class that stood up in a special assembly at the end of the week and shared what they had been doing; they were fantastic.

If you want to find out more, why not ask your child what they discovered during this week or try and carry out your own experiment at home!

Un, Deux, Trois.....

We have had fun in 1S this week learning all about France. We know how to count to ten, we discovered different ways of travelling to France and we now know the capital city.
We made our own French flags and also discovered that France has a better football team than England!!!

2J Do Safer Internet Day!

This morning, we learned all about this year's theme for Safer Internet Day - "A Better Internet Starts With You." 

We thought about how were connected to different places because this is a bit how the internet works. We used pictures, paper plates, drawings and lots and lots of wool. We are definitely connected in 2J!! After that, we made a promise about how we could be a good friend on the internet. 

The Garbage King

In Class 6C, we have started our new class novel, The Garbage King.  

We are investigating the different characters and how they feel.

Here is a group exploring the Zone of Relevance for Dani's character.  

The most important characteristics are in the middle and the least important ones are round the side. We had a lot of interesting discussion deciding what we thought he was like and justifying our decisions from the text.

Learning with Dory and friends.

In Shirley Warren we have been thinking about how we learn with the help of Dory, Nemo, Squirt and Gill.  This fantastic display shows attitudes to learning we are hoping to see in Key Stage 2.

Children can earn stickers when they demonstrate they have shown one of these qualities.

Everyone enjoys collecting and displaying stickers, just look at this lunchbox from year 4.

 

Year One Traveled Around the UK!

In Year One we have started to learn all about aviation and the countries in the United Kingdom. We decided we wanted to write an exciting adventure story about flying around the UK on an aeroplane. So, we created our own aeroplane in our school hall and flew to the different countries where we learned lots about the characteristics of each country... including special foods! We had so much fun and really enjoyed being passengers on Year One Airways! 

Our Flight around the UK

World Water Day 2016

Today Shirley Warren Primary School helped to celebrate the 23rd United Nations World Water Day.

We started off with a very interesting assembly from Ashleigh from Southern Water who challenged us to think about where we could save water.

We then heard from Stella Typhoon (Mrs Bullas) and Aqua Lakes (Mrs Williams) who were hosting Shirley Warren News, about water around the world.  But they kept getting crackly screens! There were no reports!  So every year group found out about an aspect of water during the day. Here are some games from Year 3.

From Environmental Health correspondents to Weather Reports via songs and lots of practical activities, Shirley Warren News was finally aired at the end of the day.

Then we saw some photos of our link school, Tukela, in Zambia.  They need to raise money for flushing toilets.  Maybe you can just about see "boys" on the left and "girls" on the right on the corrugated doors in the picture. Can you see any water nearby?

As we have just had Sports Relief we are going to fund raise next term but we need your ideas for interesting ways we can raise money.  Please tell your Green Council rep any ideas you have.

Mrs Williams

Metal Detecting!

A pupil in Y4H very kindly brought in some artifacts to share that she had found with her dad, when they were out metal detecting! She had old money dating back to 1884! In her collection, she also had a compass from the war, cutlery, military items and medieval buttons! Take a look at the items she found below. We have also taken a picture of the details of the items, that she wrote out for us, so we know what year they were from! Thanks for sharing ZK!!

Y4H Home-School Projects

Y4H have been busy creating home projects based on electricity. They made powerpoints and posters, based on famous electricians, how circuits work and how to be safe when using electricity. Well done to all those who had a go, you had some brilliant work!

CAUTION! Unidentified object in Year 4!

Year 4, Mrs Kemp and I returned to school today and was shocked to see what can only be described  as a silver explosion! We need your help tomorrow to try and work out where it has come from and what these unidentifiable objects could be! We will keep our distance and observe from afar, as this unexplained heap could be dangerous. 

We look forward to seeing you tomorrow morning, to help us solve this half term mystery!