Year 4 have been busy making canopic jars as part of our Egyptian topic !

Year 4 Moors Valley Visit

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Year 5 Trip to the Mary Rose Museum

Year 5 had a wonderful  trip to the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth to enhance our learning as part of our Tudors topic. Viewing  the ship and the artefacts that were found with it was absolutely breath-taking.  We especially loved experiencing the raising of the Mary Rose in a special 4D cinema presentation. We plotted the course of the French and English fleets at The Battle of the Solent and rehearsing a cannon drill in teams. 

Spring Treat Day

The children really enjoyed Spring Treat Day. We learnt about what changes in Spring allow plants to grow and animals to come out of hibernation. Our Year 6 prayer buddies helped the children decorate their bonnets for our wonderful bonnet parade. We also had a special visit from the Easter Bunny!

Borrow the Moon

Between 1969 and 1972, six manned Apollo missions landed on the Moon and the astronauts collected samples to bring back to Earth to study. Most of the samples were used for scientific research and some have been preserved for educational use by NASA. We have been so excited to have secured the Borrow the Moon resource to use in school this week. It is a scheme set up by the Science and Technology Facilities Council which contains some of these lunar samples as well as meteorites and other interesting rocks. 

Every child in school from Reception up to Year 6 had the chance to experience this amazing resource this week.  Using Meteorite Hunters' kits, the children used hand lenses and magnaprobes to decide if the samples they were looking at were Earth or Space rocks and the older children used their classification skills to name some of the meteorites. The children were so excited to pick up and  handle 

the samples. A favourite was the Campo de Cielo iron meteorite which fell to Earth 4000 years ago but which scientists believe is actually 4.5 billion years old!  

It has been a thrilling week; the staff were as excited as the children and I hope you enjoy looking through some of the photos of our experience.