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...

Thermal Imaging - Fun but important

Today Green Council had a very special visitor - Cathy from the Schools Energy Project.

She had come in before in January to talk to us during an assembly and then today she came for a follow up visit to Green Council.  She showed us where the hot and cold spaces were in our school

Can you see where the hot and cold parts are in these pictures?

We talked about turning lights off, closing windows and doors at break time.

Then we will save lots of money - and the planet!!!

Thank you Cathy for your advice!

Every child was sent home with a room thermometer. Where have you put yours?

Tessellation Painting in Year 6

In Year 6 we were making some tessellating patterns.

A tessellating pattern in shapes made into a pattern but no gaps, like bricks.
We did this in the style of Islamic Art.  We used a range of colours and we used compasses to make circles.

After we did a few circles, we could see a flower shape where some of them were overlapping, there was also a diamond and inside the diamond there was a shape like an eye.

We used the six points of the flower to make a hexagon, and with that we divided it into lots of triangles and different shapes.

By the children in Year 6

Measuring in RG

This week in RG we have started learning about our new topic - dinosaurs. We found a life size dinosaur footprint which was very exciting! We measured it with our shoes and found the dinosaur foot print was longer than 8 of our shoes! We then measured our feet with cubes and compared lengths to see who had the longest and shortest feet.