Year 5 have been exploring the solar system. They have been learning about planets and can explain how the Earth orbits the sun whilst rotating, and at the same time the moon orbits the Earth! Ask us as home how this works!
This week in PSHE, we were engaged in lots of anti-bullying activities that helped us identify different types of bullying and how we can help ourselves and others to make good choices. We role-played different scenarios involving bullying and what we could do to overcome the problem. We also looked at how we can raise money to help the most vulnerable children and wore our favourite PJ's for Children In Need.
In Year 4, we have started an investigation looking at the affect different drinks have on our teeth. We are using eggs as a substitute for our teeth as their shells will show a similar reaction to a tooth. We will be leaving the eggs submerged in the different drinks for a period of one week, checking them each day for any changes and recording our results. We have made our predictions and ensured we have a fair test. Elif, in Palm class, said she thinks coffee is the worst for your teeth because of the caffeine in it and she has seen cups stained by having coffee placed into it. While, John said that coke will be the worst because of the high sugar content. We are also conducting an investigation using toothpaste, to see if the use of toothpaste has any effect on the harmful impact that some drinks have on our teeth. Only time will tell and we can't wait to find out!
Planets In Our Solar System The Solar System consists of the Sun and the eight planets that travel around it. We use the word ‘solar’ because it means ‘related to the Sun.’ The eight planets of the Solar System in order of distance from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. In the playground, u sing cones and various size balls we made a simplified scale model of the distance the planets are from the sun.
In year 6, we became nutritionists in DT as we looked at processed food packaging. We identified the nutritional information, as well as the ingredients to determine whether there are any advantages to eating processed foods.