Squirrels Heath Junior School

Since last week, Year 5 have been improving their sketching skills through self portrait drawing, taking inspiration from Frida Kahlo. We learned about Frida Kahlo's life and looked at some of her famous self portraits. Last week, we focused on sketching parts of our faces in detail and this week we had a go of putting it all together. Below are some examples of our fantastic work!

 Today, in Year 4, we have been continuing to explore and learn about decimals.  Over the past weeks we have used our existing knowledge of fractions to fully understand decimals.  Our task for today consolidated our understanding of comparing decimals and then we moved onto ordering decimals.  We started off being given decimals to order but we quickly moved onto problem solving to deepen our understanding. Take a look at some of the images below of our maths work today.

To kickstart our new unit 'Blood Heart' year 6 dissected a lamb's heart this week. We identified the aorta as well as the septum and the four chambers that this amazing organ uses to pump blood around our bodies.  2018 spag 

 This week in Year 5 we have been instigating mechanisms in Science. First, we looked around the school to see what levers and pulleys we could find. We found lots in the gym equipment in the playground.  After, we used our new knowledge of mechanisms and our previous learning about Egyptian shadufs in our Pharaohs topic to create a tool using Kinex, string and a glue lid. Here are some pictures of our hard work!