Pre-nursery Zoolab

Pre-nursery really enjoyed meeting all the mini-beasts, the children were able to stroke or hold the each one. 

Year 4 Orchestra Project

In November Year 4 will be going to Central Hall to perform with the Chineke! Orchestra. The Daily Echo have recently run this article on the project Daily Echo Article We can't wait to perform!

Zoolab in 6D

To kick-start our classification unit of Science work, we were lucky enough to be visited by Zoolab today. Anna brought in different creatures for us to look at, hold and classify. We learnt that there are two main types of creature: vertebrate and invertebrate. We even held a snake (well, those who dared!).

The Big Switch Off at Green Council

Today we had a a special visitor in Green Council.
Zaki from the Environment Centre came to talk to us about The Big Switch off.

He gave an introduction to energy saving in the school/home.  We now understand that some things use more power than others. Equipment on standby can be using power. We thought about what is using energy in the school, how much energy it uses and what we could do to reduce it.

We learned about the Big Switch Off, taking place in Shirley Warren on Sunday 19th November, where they are asking people to use as little energy as possible between 6-7 p.m. that evening. The amount of energy being used will be monitored on the network

We decided that we will ask our friends to try and save energy by trying to use a slow cooker, using the washing machine or other machines in the morning and putting on the dishwasher after 8pm

Here is a picture of Green Council testing the effect of a hairdryer and a lightbulb on the energy meter. With everything on, the meter reached 1,700 watts. What a lot of energy.

The Gunpowder Plot in Year 2!

We have done lots of work today all about the Gunpowder Plot and how we celebrate Bonfire night. We have had some serious fun finding out about a man called Guy Fawkes! We know that he made an unkind plan to kill King James, but before long, he got caught by the King's guards. We have done some acting, writing and all sorts of creative making and painting. We hope you like our pictures and enjoy seeing some fireworks this weekend!

 

Y2 Experiment with GERMS!!!

We had a Science day this week to finish up our topic of Animals including Humans. Over the last term we have been learning all about the life cycles of different animals and we finished our topic by talking about humans and how to be fit and healthy. We asked questions that we wanted to find the answers to during our Science day, we made predictions then we did an experiment. We wanted to find out how you could get germs and the best way to get rid of germs so that we could make sure we are super healthy! After that, we wrote about what we found out.  We found out that warm, soapy water cleans away and kills the most germs! So make sure when you sneeze, cough or have been to the toilet, you use warm soapy water to kill those germs!!!

Y2's Writing Castle

We wanted to show you our new 'Writing Castle' that our lovely Mrs King made for us. We are very excited about starting our new topic Castles and Knights next week - especially going on our trip to Portchester Castle! We are hoping we can get lots of creative writing done in this area very, very soon!

Planting beans

In 1L this week we planted beans by: filling our cup with soil, pushing our bean down into the soil, watering the soil and bean, then placing it on the window sill so it can get some sun to help it grow.

We are all excited to look after the plants, by watering them regularly, and watching them grow tall!

Fingers crossed for some sunshine...

Harvest time

Shirley Warren has celebrated Harvest with the help of Matthew Gwyn from
Southampton City Mission. The following day 3 members of the Green Council visited the Basics Bank and sorted through over 20 crates of food! What hardworking little bunch! I would like to say a big thank you to all our families who donated food to support the local community.

Runners-up in Recycling!

Yesterday, we had a visit from Becky and Hazel from Southampton City Council recycling team. They came to an assembly to present our school with 5 Mini Greenhouse Growing Kits from IKEA because our school has put the right things in the right bins.

We decided that Green Council will design a "Recycle-Off" competition to decide which classes will have the kits in their classrooms. At our next Green Council meeting on Monday we will decide the rules of the competition and at the meeting after that we will announce the winners.

We are so pleased to be recognised for our recycling. Go Team Shirley Warren!