Squirrels Heath Junior School

We have spent time this week being Botanists. We have visited the biodome to sketch our current crops and even planted our own seeds! We look forward to seeing them grow over the coming weeks! 

 Year 6 have had a great start back to school after the Easter holidays. I’m sure they’ve all been very tired every evening as they’ve been working super hard! In Science this week, we started our new topic of ‘Light Theory’.  We began by investigating how light travels and what better way to learn then by having a go!  Children got the torches and mirrors out and looked at how light travels and also how it reflects.  Lots of fun had!

This week we had a very special Easter visit from Father Hingley. He shared  a very important Easter message with us and even had the biggest Golden Egg we had ever seen! 

 Over the past few weeks we have been learning a life skill in the club, sewing to decorate a book mark. The children learnt how to thread a needle, how to knot the end of the thread, along with both, a running Stitch and cross Stitch. 

Some children fromYear 5 and Year 6 were invited to the Badminton Racket Pack session at Harrow Lodge Park Leisure Centre. They had great fun, while learning some key badminton skills and terminology.  The children took part in a variety of activities with the help of sport leaders.  Did you know that badminton is played with a shuttlecock and racket, on a court; which has white or yellow lines?  The bottom of a shuttlecock is called a base and the top is called a skirt, professional ones are made with feathers.